“Two episodes of 1960s TV comedy At Last The 1948 Show, which starred pre-Monty Python John Cleese and Graham Chapman, have been found after almost 50 years.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
13th Grade: We Should Add An Extra Year Of High School
Several school districts in Oregon are offering a fifth year of high school. Rebecca Schuman makes the case for doing it nationwide.
Meet The People Who Keep Porn Pics And Beheadings Out Of Your Social Media Feeds
Companies like Facebook and Twitter have to deal with “the Grandma Problem” – making their services safe for wholesome regular folks who “won’t continue to log on if they find their family photos sandwiched between a gruesome Russian highway accident and a hardcore porn video.” So there’s now a small army of content moderators – many of them low-paid workers in the Philippines – zapping the nasty stuff out.
When High Fashion Sparked A Preservation Movement
“At the turn of the 19th century in the U.S. and Europe, it became wildly popular – and that’s an understatement – for ladies to wear feathers and whole taxidermied birds on their hats. … Ornithologists started to sit up and take notice. One estimated that 67 types of birds – often including all of their sub-species – were at risk for extinction.”
Why Are Scary Clowns Stalking Around Britain and France?
“From city to city, people dressed up like circus escapees have been roaming the streets, getting into mischief, and generally scaring the bejeesus out of passers-by. Apart from young children and acute coulrophobics, the spooky-clown epidemic has been taken more or less in a spirit of fun. Until last week, that is.”
“Goodfellas” Actor Sues “The Simpsons” For $250M
“Frank Sivero says that The Simpsons ripped off the Frankie Carbone character he played in 1990’s Goodfellas and he wants to be paid for it. In a lawsuit filed today, the actor says he wants to be paid a lot – $250 million and more for the Springfield Mafia’s Louie.”
All About Douchebags – Where The Epithet Came From, And Who Qualifies
“They are at least preferable to their nearest equivalent, the arsehole, who is petty and spiteful and astringent and actively gets off on other people’s misery. The douchebag just blunders around in his obnoxious pool sliders, naively wondering why nobody’s having as much fun as he is. Boris Johnson? Total douchebag.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 10.23.14
Neuberger Museum Changes Directors–Fast
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Lonnie Johnson’s Guitar
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So you want to see a show?
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2014-10-23
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“The Protest Failed Because It Relied On Falsehoods”: Alex Ross On “The Death Of Klinghoffer”
“The opera is not anti-Semitic, nor does it glorify terrorism. … The most specious arguments against Klinghoffer elide the terrorists’ bigotry with the attitudes of the creators. By the same logic, one could call Steven Spielberg an anti-Semite because the commandant in Schindler’s List compares Jewish women to a virus.”
Detroit Institute Of Arts Collection Has Been Saved (Or Just About): Report
“The [museum] has cleared its biggest remaining hurdle to secure its art collection. Last week, the city of Detroit reached a settlement with its largest holdout creditor, the Financial Guaranty Insurance Company (FGIC). As Detroit’s 16-month-long bankruptcy trial comes to a close this week, the 11th-hour deal all but guarantees that the DIA’s collection will not be sold to pay down the city’s debt.”