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Our dear friend @davidjalmond has written Sue's obituary for The Guardian, and it's beautiful. The memorial he mentions will take place at University Hall, Shakespeare Street, Nottingham on the afternoon of November 5th. Details to follow. All welcome. theguardian.com/books/2023/j…
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I want to create/coin the word “paraletheia” to describe the feeling you get when you meet online friends in-person for the first time. Social media, starting a new job remotely, dating apps, etc.—This is a uniquely 21st century phenomenon.
Para = beyond/alongside
Aletheia = disclosure of what’s real and true
So paraletheia would mean something like “that which is parallel to yet beyond what you already know is real [about a person].”
You can learn about someone (exhaustively) just through their socials and by chatting virtually, but there’s nothing that imitates the feeling of being inches away from their face irl. That’s why even when you feel like you know everything about someone you befriended online, things FEEL different when you meet them for the first time. Their scents, body language, height, fidgets, etc. all contribute to your overall impression of who they really are.
@MerriamWebster how do I coin a word?
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For those that didn't watch the press conference, one of the AMPTP's "reasonable" and "historic" offers was to be able to pay actors once to be scanned as background then owned to be used indefinitely, on any number of projects, as a digital asset, for no further pay.
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Lost in the wilds of the Eastern Townships of Quebec, I discovered Brasserie 11 Comtés, a microbrewery in Cookshire-Eaton. All the ingredients are from Quebec. Ordered a very delicious wild-yeast beer fermented in wood: Horizon des Événements. What an unexpected treat!
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"The first foreign firefighters to reach Quebec amid Canada’s worst wildfire season on record said that some of the blazes were 100 times bigger than any they had ever seen." nytimes.com/2023/06/17/world…
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The motion designer on this either didn’t speak ANY English, or was really, REALLY, fed up with the client.
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Yes, this is real. 😍
In the "Beyond Walls" series, artist Saype creates temporary land art using completely biodegradable paint.
The piece will disappear over the next few days. So if you want to see it, the time is now.
📍 Mount Royal Park
🎨+📷@saype_artiste @MURALfestival
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i for one love to be talked to like a child who's just learned their family pet has been sent to a farm
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As a Lost fan - and human - this excerpt (from @moryan’s upcoming book) is sad & damning. I’ve heard about the actor compensation drama from sources (at least one actor I know of should feel lucky Ryan didn’t name their name) but this is next level toxic. vanityfair.com/hollywood/202…
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me: millennials have not become the central hub of culture yet. the long tail of the boomer shadow coupled with decades of economic strife and political chasms have changed the logic of generational transitions
internet: cast of succession singing weezer
me: nm i'm wrong
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“This system is set up to divide people from each other and make them feel as if they have no power, even though they do.” — I interviewed the one and only James Cromwell about Succession and a lot more. vulture.com/article/james-cr…
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We’re hiring interns! The application deadline for our Fall–Winter internship is June 1. Pay is $20/hour, 35 hours a week, with the option to enroll in health insurance. Apply here: theparisreview.org/about/opp…
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There’s a common thread linking the decline in humanities majors, Hollywood paying its writers pennies and the tech world wanting all writers and painters to be replaced by machines. We’ve entirely forgotten how essential the arts and literature are to a healthy society.
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“It’s high time we acknowledged that many of the people (most definitely certain columnists) who openly disdain Montreal don’t hate the city, they hate its politics.” My latest for @CultMTL
Stop trash-talking Montreal
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