и звезду Полынь поведут по миру

а когда Господь отодвинет лиру,
ты услышишь хлопанье всех дверей,
и звезду Полынь поведут по миру
семь её печальных поводырей,

и на небе маленькая прореха
разойдётся, воздух вбирая весь,
ибо кончилось время для человека,
для всего, чем был он и что он есть…

-- Сергей Шестаков

Это русская армия

«Мирные есть? Это русская армия».

депортация с Земли

- Говорили от прививок нет последствий, а посмотрите, как все ебанулись...
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- Российскому кино может помочь только депортация с Земли.
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- Третья мировая газорублёвая.
--
- Сегодня был отличный день - всего два раза хотелось удавиться.
--
- Путин подписал указ о переводе стран Евросоюза на "зеленую энергетику" с 31 марта.

© народ

creepy correlation

There's a creepy correlation between Ukraine flags, vaccine fascism, and pronouns. @SeattleIndepen1

in the comments Why Are the Vaccinated Much More Likely to Want America to Go to War With Russia?

more evil

@JMichaelWaller

Sholem Aleichem’s Curse

His gnashing of teeth over the poor, noble-hearted Jews being sent to their deaths are as manipulative as anything in Schindler’s List.

-- Sholem Aleichem’s Curse: Anti-Russian Themes in Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate

это про Гроссмана Жизнь и судьба

статья довольно дурацкая, автор всерьез разбирает писания Гроссмана:

Yet when Grossman forgets his Jewishness and gives us the nuts-and-bolts narrative of how the Soviets emerged victorious at Stalingrad, he’s first rate. He presents a splendid array of characters...

от себя добавлю: splendid array cardboard characters

вот от переводчика - точное замечание:

And as translator Robert Chandler admits in the novel’s introduction, this makes Grossman a liar since the Russian pushback against Jewish dominance didn’t occur until the late 1940s and early 1950s—not as early as 1942 as Grossman depicts.

в общем если коротко - бездарная рецензия на бездарную книгу

Kamala Harris As The Joker

Warner Bros Casts Kamala Harris As The Joker

refrained from a critical reaction

France and Britain refrained from a critical reaction to the Soviet invasion and annexation of Eastern Poland since neither country expected or wanted a confrontation with the Soviet Union at that time. Under the terms of the Polish-British Common Defence Pact of 25 August 1939, Britain had promised assistance if a European power attacked Poland. A secret protocol of the pact, however, specified that the European power referred to Germany. - это Wiki

просто Wikipedia nothing more

а secret protocol no shit

divided Hollywood

The Slap Echoes the Morning After the Oscars, Raising Questions: When Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Academy Awards for telling a joke about his wife, it divided Hollywood, sparking denunciations, defenses and debates.

два негра подрались на Оскаре - нет чтобы белому по морде врезать. читать статью я не стал, хотя там, уверен, немало забавных деталей.

“Welp…I said it wouldn’t be boring #Oscars,” Will Packer, one of the show’s producers, tweeted after the show.

в BabylonBee полно всего на эту тему, конечно. вот Amy Schumer Horrified To Learn You Can Now Get Slapped For Bad Jokes

I can’t help but notice that they only gave Will Smith his Oscar *after* he physically assaulted a black man.

He was rewarded for enacting whiteness. @TitaniaMcGrath

was considered Russian

Harp Concerto Op 74 by Reinhold Gliere, a composer of the Ukrainian, Polish and German ancestry, who was considered Russian and later Soviet. - wqxr

Беглец

End of the Movies

The ideal Oscar nominee is a high-middlebrow movie, aspiring to real artistry and sometimes achieving it... - We Aren’t Just Watching the Decline of the Oscars. We’re Watching the End of the Movies.

это тот же пиздобол Ross Douthat, что про Lyme Disease пургу нес. вот мне очень нравится это high-middlebrow

очередной фукуяминг my ass

Sure, non-superhero-movie box office totals will bounce back in 2022, and next year’s best picture nominees will probably earn a little more in theaters.

you wish! a little more is more appropriate.

...despite its snobbish detractors - это он про Титаник

и largely pitched to teenage tastes - собственно, на этом можно поставить жирную точку.

но это был бы не Ross Douthat, если бы не писал глупостей: There are things “The Sopranos” did across its running time, with character development and psychology, that no movie could achieve. и буквально через строчку But “The Godfather” is still the more perfect work of art.

иногда он чувствует, что говорит глупости:

Second, an emphasis on making the encounter with great cinema a part of a liberal arts education. Since the liberal arts are themselves in crisis, this may sound a bit like suggesting that we add a wing to a burning house.

из комментариев:

-- I will always question the choice of "Forrest Gump" in a year that had far better films to offer.
-- Which suggests not just the fall of the Oscars, but of civilization itself.
-- They're loud and frenzied, aimed at children, long on special effects and short on acting.

есть хорошие комментарии

Ослепительный март

Сергей Смирнов «Москва. Ослепительный март» 2001 год

я там был в 2000-м как раз в ослепительном марте

The Death of Authority

If our children believe they live in a thoroughly racist-sexist-classist-ableist society that is on the brink of collapse because of rising global temperatures, it is probably because they have seen thousands upon thousands of algorithmically cued-up videos, all attesting to various incarnations of imminent doom.

Adults wonder why young people are so cynical. We wonder why they speak in memes. We wonder why they are so miserable and depressed and friendless and bereft of meaning in their lives. ... We let them abandon Shakespeare for the macabre world of YA fiction.

We did this ... by telling young people they should become more independent, more autonomous, less tethered to the ideas and expectations of those who came before. It is why colleges encourage students to “design their own major” or why it is fashionable to insist that students “see themselves” in the books they read, as if the point of literature is affirmation instead of inspiration.

Instead of explaining what we know and how we know it, we merely capitulated to the desire to be liked. This is why our children are so susceptible to every moral, intellectual, or spiritual fad that appears on their screens. We let them believe that truth is artificial, love and friendship are power constructs, all religion is a mental phantom, and history is pure narrative.

What excuse do we have for high-school counselors and college deans who plead with teachers and professors to exercise “extreme empathy,” who argue any negative consequence is punitive and therefore harmful to the student in error? This is how we justify bad behavior on campus—the non-stop cursing, the TikTok challenges, the drug use, the defiance, the resistance to deadlines.

-- The Death of Authority in the American Classroom by Jeremy S. Adams

не имеют претензий

Лидеры стран G7 заявили, что не имеют претензий к народу России

от себя добавлю: народ России облегченно вздохнул.

кабинет Саакашвили

Сцена изображает тбилисский кабинет Михаила Саакашвили. Он говорит по прямому проводу с президентом США Джорджем Бушем.

СААКАШВИЛИ: Георгий? Это я, Саакашвили!
Я вас прошу начать обстрел Москвы!
БУШ (не понимая): Обстрел чего?
СААКАШВИЛИ: Ну, мы же все решили!
Что типа если мы… то сразу вы!

-- далее

Belfast

35:00

- Но ведь правильный ответ лишь один.
- Будь это правда, дружок, в городе сейчас бы никто ничего не взрывал.

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- But there's only one right answer.
- If that were true, people wouldn't be blowing each other up.

Belfast (film)

играют все отлично, но Caitríona Balfe... несравненна.

фильм немного прямолинейный и сентиментальный, но такой уж материал

Antiracist Baby

Antiracist Baby Picture Book

see also Why Mummy Swears

no workaround

Claus Vistesen, chief eurozone economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said the action means that every time a Western country buys a barrel of oil it would be “propping up his domestic currency.”

“If you’re invoiced in rubles, you’ve got to go out and buy rubles,” he said. “I don’t know if there is workaround.”

-- Putin says ‘unfriendly countries’ must buy Russian oil and gas in rubles.

ну и еще хорошие новости:

NATO Accuses China Of Backing Russia With "Blatant Lies"

"China has provided Russia with political support, including by spreading blatant lies and misinformation, and allies are concerned that China could provide material support for the Russian invasion," Stoltenberg said.

и Madeleine Albright dead at 84 - I was taught that you shouldn’t speak of the dead unless you have something good to say. Therefore, I will only say this, ‘She’s dead at last, good!’ - This quip has been attributed to Bette Davis who supposedly was commenting on the demise of Joan Crawford.

Тут к месту будет цитатка из давней статьи покойницы Олбрайт (земля ей стекловатой): «Нас обвиняют в применении двойных стандартов, но это неверно, поскольку стандарт один: национальные интересы Соединённых Штатов». - seann

вот в fb хороший скандал из-за покойной. и фото там что надо.

Johann Gottlieb Janitsch

Johann Gottlieb Janitsch
Overture Grosso in G Major

а потом

Clara Schumann
Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 17

wqxr