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Music

November 24, 2023

Ferrante & Teicher Brazilian Sleigh Bells

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Asia

November 23, 2023

China’s Junk Aircraft Carrier Fears to Sail? A Big Joke Due to Copycat Failure – China Observer

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North America Satire and Humor

November 23, 2023

H/t: Instapundit

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Cancel Culture

November 22, 2023

Nolte: Nolan, del Toro Urge Americans to Purchase Physical Media — ‘Almost a Fahrenheit 451’ | John Nolte (Breitbart.com)

Nolan encouraged people to purchase his upcoming Blu-ray release of Oppenheimer so that ”no evil streaming service can come steal it from you.”

In a follow-up interview with the Incredible Shrinking Far-Left Washington Post, Nolan explained, “There is a danger, these days, that if things only exist in the streaming version, they do get taken down, they come and go.”

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It’s not only movies… People who love books should preserve books. The jihad against the classics like To Kill a Mockingbird, Gone with the Wind, and Huckleberry Finn is no secret. The Sensitivity Gestapo is actively rewriting Ian Fleming and Roald Dahl. This was unimaginable 20 years ago…

Dr. Seuss too, IIRC.

H/t: JosiahRises

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Asia

November 22, 2023

BUSTED!! – Illegal Chinese Covid Bio Lab in California | China Fact Chasers

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Crowdfunding (How-To)

November 12, 2023

How to have a successful Kickstarter for your comic book! – Godhood Comics

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South America

November 22, 2023

Venezuelan Dictator Maduro: Argentine President-Elect Javier Milei a ‘Neo-Nazi’ – Breitbart

I do not think Maduro knows what that word means:

…Milei has unapologetically expressed his support for Israel and expressed his interest in converting to Judaism. Milei has also announced his plans to move the Argentine embassy in Israel from its current location in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Milei said on Monday that he would carry out a “spiritual” visit to the United States and Israel before his inauguration on December 10.
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Genre Criticism

November 20, 2023

Bishop Robert Barron outlines three basic temptations (the desire for sensual pleasure, the desire for glory, and the desire for power) via various characters in HBO’s Rome:

Bishop Barron on the HBO Series “Rome” – Bishop Robert Barron

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Genre Criticism Quotes

November 19, 2029

As Tolkien, Lovecraft wrote to satisfy his own aesthetic standards. In his estimation, few people possessed the intellectual and imaginative facilities to appreciate what he tried to achieve in his writing:

“The opinions of the masses are of no interest to me, for praise can truly gratify only when it comes from a mind sharing the author’s perspective. There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression. I could not write about ‘ordinary people’ because I am not in the least interested in them. Without interest there can be no art. Man’s relations to man do not captivate my fancy. It is man’s relation to the cosmos—to the unknown—which alone arouses in me the spark of creative imagination. The humanocentric pose is impossible to me, for I cannot acquire the primitive myopia which magnifies the earth and ignores the background. Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the remote in the immediate; the eternal in the ephemeral; the past in the present; the infinite in the finite; these are to me the springs of delight and beauty. Like the late Mr. [Oscar] Wilde, ‘I live in terror of not being misunderstood’” (3).
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Asia

November 19, 2023

China’s Dystopian Nightmare Gets Even More Orwellian! – China Fact Chasers