“The woman, called Dai Dali, first learned to pole dance at a gym four years ago and is now able to pull of moves that most people half her age couldn’t accomplish.”
Tag: 08.24.15
Target Shooters Are Destroying Ancient Petroglyphs In Utah Parks
“Spattered paint and bullet holes are erasing an archaeological record dating back thousands of years on public lands south of this growing enclave of subdivisions in Utah County.”
Frustrated: Editor Blasts Critics Complaining About Lack of Diversity And Transparency at Writers Conference
Editor Kate Gale took aim at the charges in a blog post at Huffington Post in a plea for members to stop questioning (attacking) the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP).
Duke Freshmen Refuse To Read ‘Fun Home’ Because It’s ‘Pornographic’
Said one of the scandalized young fellas, “the nature of Fun Home means that content that I might have consented to read in print now violates my conscience due to its pornographic nature.” Explained another, “I would [also] not have read the book if the pictures were of heterosexual intercourse.”
The Cat Video And The Essence Of Art
“Cats have purposiveness without a knowable purpose (Immanuel Kant’s much-cited criterion for true art). Cats are mysteries; their agendas, beyond food and sleep and sunlight, may constitute a kind of knowledge endlessly deferred. (They are born aesthetes, but also born deconstructionists.)”
US Airways Loses, Then Finds, Eight Violins – And No One Knows How
“The eight instruments were packaged in a shipping truck and checked in as oversized baggage at Barcelona on 19 August. However the truck failed to appear at its destination and airline staff were unable to inform Kulosa of its whereabouts.” The instruments were returned on August 23, even as some airline reps continued to insist they knew nothing about them.
Universal Pictures Sets Record For Most Lucrative Year Ever: $3.78 Billion
“Internationally, the studio has four of the top five highest-grossing films of the year: Fast & Furious 7 (No. 1 with $1.162 billion), Jurassic World (No. 2 with $983.5 million), Minions (No. 4 with $670.2 million) and Fifty Shades of Grey (No. 5 with $404.1 million).”
22 Essential Women Writers To Read In Translation
“Given that August is Women in Translation Month (or WITMO2015), we decided to put together a starter list of essential women writers in translation. Certainly it’s an incomplete list, but we did our best to take the long view” – all the way back to the 10th century.
Why Cinema Came of Age In 1915
“In the first of a new series on early cinema, we celebrate the landmark year … when the industry as we know it was born. Plus, five films from 1915 to watch (which aren’t Birth of a Nation).” (includes video clips, of course)
Why Did Ray Bradbury Have An FBI File? Because Science Fiction Was A Communist Plot To Undermine American Values, That’s Why
As one document said, “The general aim of these science fiction writers is to frighten the people into a state of paralysis or psychological incompetence bordering on hysteria.”