British politics

worth reading

Finally, a small number seem utter pasquils, mere ribald libels on Humanity: these too, however, are at times worth reading. - Thomas Carlyle

Bolton out

@realDonaldTrump


я не против. вернее - за. good riddance.

Trump adds: “John is known as a tough guy. He’s so tough he got us into Iraq.” - @ColumbiaBugle

С курьерским поездом

Сидевший близ нее и спавший пассажир

Качался так смешно, с осанкой генерала,

Что, глядя на него и на его мундир,

Бог знает отчего, она захохотала.

...

Она же думала, тревогу затая:

"Как было хорошо, когда в вагоне я

Смеялась от души над пассажиром спящим!"

- А.Н. Апухтин, С курьерским поездом

via kirovtanin

интересно сравнить с На разъезде Куприна. рассказ кончается "на самом интересном месте": Она не сказала ни слова и спрятала свое лицо у него на груди. а вот что было дальше, через неделю-другую, через месяц/через год - вот вопрос. это касается всех историй про unconsummated love: О любви и Brief Encounter. дальше - Мадам Бовари и Анна Каренина.

интересно, что перевода на русский "unconsummated love" в сети нет. жж

дамочка из Миссури

Samantha Fish grew up in Kansas City, Missouri.



это называется earworm

вот еще No Angels и Road Runner, штобы ясно было

intellectuals

Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who “speak truth to power” but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power. - @ThomasSowell

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Энергичные и общительные чаще других добиваются успеха в жизни.
Угрюмые и молчаливые чаще всего за них работают. - народ

after 60

After 60, it's just patch, patch, patch.

Mary Martin

(1913 – 1990) American actress

I am pushing sixty… that is enough exercise for me.

Mark Twain

Food For Thot

хорошее название

картинка тоже толковая. поразительно, текст нигде почему-то не найти. what a shame!

это из альбома Creole Moon, из всего альбома текст можно найти только одной песни, Imitation of Love.

вот тут короткая рецензия: Dr. John’s Creole Moon

еще замечательная композиция B.B. King – All Over Again, текст очень даже есть:

I've got a good mind to give up living, and go shopping instead
I say, I've got a good mind to give up living, and go
                                        shopping instead
To pick up me a tombstone, and be pronounced dead

Тhen I read your letter this morning, that was in your place in bed
I read your letter this morning, that was in your place in bed
That's when I decided, that I would be better off dead

It read, there is no use you looking, or ever hoping to get me back
Oh, there's no use you looking, or ever hoping to get me back
Yes, because it's all over now, and you can bet on that

sex drive

Across the newlywed years, husbands generally sustain sexual desire, whereas wives exhibit a decline in desire over time (despite starting from a lower baseline). - @EliJFinkel



в комментариях там Security 'bad news for sex drive' и Monogamy May Be Even More Difficult For Women Than it Is For Men

how very interesting

see also @reddit.com Scientists have identified a food that completely kills sex drive in women. It's called "wedding cake."

Talent vs Luck

Talent vs Luck: the role of randomness in success and failure - познавательная статья.

...those with earlier surname initials are significantly more likely to receive tenure at top departments ... middle name initials enhance evaluations of intellectual performance ... people with easy-to-pronounce names are judged more positively than those with difficult-to-pronounce names ... that individuals with noble-sounding surnames are found to work more often as managers than as employees ...

там еще много, со ссылками на обширную литературу.

обсуждение

может быть не очень кстати, но вот вспомнилось New Study Destroys Malcolm Gladwell's 10,000 Hour Rule

Koko Taylor

I'm a woman, I'm a ball of fire
I'm a woman, I can make love to a crocodile
I'm a woman, I can sing the blues
I'm a woman, I can change old to new

- I'm a Woman

power of the mind

Williamson deletes tweet saying 'power of the mind' can turn away Hurricane Dorian:

Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson on Wednesday deleted a tweet saying that the "power of the mind" resulted in "millions of us seeing Dorian turn away from land."

I was born and raised in Texas so I’ve seen it. Millions of people today are praying that Dorian turn away from land, and treating those people with mockery or condescension because they believe it could help is part of how the overly secularized Left has lost lots of voters. - @marwilliamson

см. также шли дебаты

Бедные люди

...Вот вылезаю, как зверь, из берлоги я,
В холод Парижа, сутулый, больной...
«Бедные люди» — пример тавтологии,
Кем это сказано? Может быть, мной.

- Георгий Иванов

тут уместно вспомнить

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. - Henry David Thoreau

и не поленюсь повторить: Достоевскому за одно только название "Бедные люди" положено бессмертие. а Иванову - за пример тавтологии

см. также идиоты из Сан Франциско и Wildlife

да, и "По поводу мокрого снега" - это название обогнало свое время на сто лет. или навсегда.

и Чехов

canine-american

canine-american - The politically correct term for a dog

Jewish Eugenics

Библиотечка пионера-активиста:

. Jewish Self-Hatred: Anti-Semitism and the Hidden Language of the Jews by Sander L. Gilman
. On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred
. The Believer: Confronting Jewish Self-Hatred

и еще

. A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America
. The Jewish American Princess and other Myths: The Many Faces of Self-Hatred

how very interesting. this is from Jewish Eugenics, pg 45:

The waters become even more muddied. The astonishingly prolific Gilman promotes his book Jewish Self-Hatred by placing on the back cover a quote from the London Review of Books: “Jews are not the invention of the anti-semite – or vice versa. It is a reciprocal relationship..."

этот Gilman и правда astonishingly prolific

Out of the Furnace

Out of the Furnace - 2013 American drama film. ну такая драма, шекспировская, когда не всех убили. в отличие от трагедии, это когда убили всех.

среди прочих жутких чудовищ играет Woody Harrelson. американская жизнь как вам это понравится. снято в Pittsburgh metropolitan area, очень живописно. опять же съемки на сталелитейном заводе - социалистический реализм. трудовые будни.

Town officials from Mahwah, New Jersey, urged a boycott of the film due to negative depictions of the Ramapough Mountain Indians, an indigenous people living around the Ramapo Mountains.

познавательное кино. напоминает The Deer Hunter, и не одному мне: With close resemblance in location and tone to the Oscar-winning classic “The Deer Hunter,” “Out of the Furnace,” written and directed by Scott Cooper (“Crazy Heart”) begins as an exploration of hardships... - это из ‘Out of the Furnace’ review

"deer hunter" "Out of the Furnace" - About 21,500 results

good question

Probably the most remarkable difference of all between the two is their different ways of picturing God. It is not just that they call the deity by different names. J pictures a deity who can regret things that he has done (6:6,7), which raises interesting theological questions, such as whether an all-powerful, all-knowing being would ever regret past actions. - Who wrote the Bible?

I speak my truth

Following a disastrous year, Calvin Klein has embraced a new trend of body positivity. It's a sharp turn away from the waif style that defined the brand for years. - Calvin Klein is using plus-size models to reinvent its brand

see also Cosmopolitan UK

Pastoral

Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 15 in D Major, Op. 28, "Pastoral"
Murray Perahia, piano

wqxr

Summertime

Summertime, 1943 by Edward Hopper