Say Goodbye to Hollywood: John Schlesinger’s The Day of the Locust (1975)

By Jeremy Carr. There has never been a self-referential Hollywood feature quite like 1975’s The Day of the Locust, a twisting and twisted tale of sullied lives, desperation, and, ultimately, sheer madness." Hollywood has always been rather good at building itself up, generating films that flaunt the glamour of Tinseltown, the glory of sun-kissed stardom, and the charm of movie magic. At the same time, and particularly in the hands of more iconoclastic filmmakers, Hollywood has a...

Tardigrades

Conversation with wavelength.ai on Tardigrades: Wavelength.ai on the discovery of the tardigrade: Johann August Ephraim Goeze's discovery of tardigrades in 1773 generated interest and curiosity within the scientific community. While there isn't a specific quote available from Goeze on the matter, his findings were published in a scientific journal called "Der Naturforscher" (The Naturalist) in 1774. This publication helped introduce tardigrades to the scientific community and sparked furthe...

Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania - Andrew Robertson - 18180

"It's okay. Relentlessly okay. Non-stop, wall-to-wall okay." Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania is bookended by two montages of Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) wandering through San Francisco to John Sebastian's Welcome Back. You might recognise John as the lead singer of The Lovin' Spoonful, and the song as the theme for late Seventies sitcom 'Welcome Back Kotter'. The show was originally going to be called 'Kotter', but they changed the name to reflect the theme s...

Story idea from Dream Log - 17 Aug 2000

Just an idea: make this into a real fiction story? Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Dream Log: August 17, 2000 (thing) See all of Dream Log: August 17, 2000, there are 3 more in this node. (thing) by abiessu Thu Aug 17 2000 at 13:42:15 This dream was about coffee (thanks, knifegirl! no, I'm not mad about it, it was an interesting dream . . . [this reference is from a chatterbox conversation earlier in which knifegirl mentioned coffee in some way tha...

Flies Like Us

We may detest flies, but our relationships with them are extraordinarily complex and often intimate. As well as vexing us, biting us, and making us sick, flies help feed us, remove our waste, and control our pests. They also consume us when we die—and many don’t even wait that long. Some indication of the fear, […]

THE SPIDER AND THE BEE (review) by Glowing Fish - Everything2.com

THE SPIDER AND THE BEE (review) See all of THE SPIDER AND THE BEE, no other writeups in this node. THE SPIDER AND THE BEE is a film by David Lynch, released in July of 2020 on his YouTube channel. The name is very descriptive: this is a 12 minute long video where a cobweb spider kills a bee in its web, and then wraps it in silk. This short movie was shot with what looks to be a normal smartphone camera, a few inches away from the action. The camera shifts angles by a few inches, ...

The United Fruit Company

The United Fruit Company By Pablo Neruda When the trumpet sounded, it was all prepared on the earth, the Jehovah parcelled out the earth to Coca Cola, Inc., Anaconda, Ford Motors, and other entities: The Fruit Company, Inc. reserved for itself the most succulent, the central coast of my own land, the delicate waist of America. It rechristened its territories as the ‘Banana Republics’ and over the sleeping dead, over the restless heroes who brought about the greatness, the liberty an...

De-Loused In The Comatorium

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 De-Loused In The Comatorium (thing) See all of De-Loused In The Comatorium, there is 1 more in this node. (thing) by BSP Sat Sep 27 2003 at 20:58:38 So, The Mars Volta's debut LP. From the ashes of El Paso emo/punk outfit At The Drive-In, Omar Rodriguez and Cedric Bixler (guitars and vocals) respectively, the duo have gone out of their way to make the album that they want, and have broken free from the pretty straightforward punk ...

Parasite and the Plurality of Empire | Public Books

"Parasite" and the Plurality of Empire 6.23.2020 Bong Joon-ho, the director of the Oscar-winning film Parasite, has said that "the film talks about two opposing families, about the rich versus the poor, and that is a universal theme, because we all live in the same country now: that of capitalism." Indeed, the film’s plot is set in motion whe...

SimpC - Rebecca Bees

"Rebecca" Bees http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2020/09/rebecca-bees/ Created September 9, 2020 at 08:54PM Eight and a half years ago Variety‘s Jeff Sneider reported that DreamWorks and Working Title Films had agreed to pool forces on a remake of Alfred Hitchcock‘s Rebecca (’40). The plan was for Nikolaj Arcel to direct and Eastern Promises scribe Steven Knight to write the script, but that fell by the wayside along with Universal’s participation. The project eventually wound up at Netflix ...

Ichneumon (definition) by Webster 1913 - Everything2.com

Ichneumon (definition) See all of Ichneumon, no other writeups in this node. by Webster 1913 CC (unvotable) Tue Dec 21 1999 at 16:16:40 Ich*neu"mon (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. , lit., the tracker; so called because it hunts out the eggs of the crocodile, fr. to track or hunt after, fr. track, footstep.] 1. Zool. Any carnivorous mammal of the genus Herpestes, and family Viverridae. Numerous species are found in Asia and Africa. The Egyptian species(H. ichneumon), which ranges to Spai...

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Bug (thing) by Jargon - Everything2.com

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Bug (thing) See all of Bug, there are 6 more in this node. (thing) by Jargon Fri Apr 28 2000 at 9:46:58 buffer overflow = B = bug-compatible bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp. one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature. Examples: "There's a bug in the editor: it writes things out backwards." "The system crashed because of a hardware ...

CDC - DPDx - Fleas

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How Does a Caterpillar Turn into a Butterfly? - Scientific American

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Insect Jewelry of the Victorian Era | JSTOR Daily

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The Flies

By Horacio Quiroga. "Las moscas" (The Flies) from Más allá y otros cuentos (Further Still and Other Stories)by Horacio Quiroga (Ediciones de la Sociedad Amigos del Libro Rioplatense, Buenos Aires, 1935), original translation by Elisa Taber. * While clearing the forest, the men felled this tree last year; the entire extent of its trunk lies crushed against the ground. Its companions have lost most of their bark to the clearing fire, but this one’s is nearly intact. The slight carb...