June 17, 2022
"The phrase 'Not S&P Approved' has been approved by S&P"
As part of celebrating the 10 year anniversary of the show, Gravity Falls creator Alex Hirsch revealed several of the revision notes he got from Disney Broadcast Standards and Practices. (SLTwitter) [more inside]
Mostly Anarchists, as It Turns Out
Margaret Killjoy after a rousing appearance on Behind the Bastards (previously) has begun her own podcast: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff. [more inside]
Without doubt one of the most moving film sequences of the past 20 years
Pixar’s Up was inspired by a single image: a house with balloons tied to its roof floating into the sky, far away from the burden of daily life. “It seemed freeing and aspirational"...But the makers of Up knew that even feel-good stories need pathos...
The opening of Up, however, is more than just a narrative device. The movie-within-a-movie is as emotionally heavy as Carl’s helium-lifted house is buoyant.
Aztec Gods
Striking artifacts from Ancient Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia Online is an immersive exploration of Mesopotamian art objects. The exhibition Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins was on view in 2021 at the Getty Villa. It was organized by the Musée du Louvre, Paris, and the J. Paul Getty Museum,
Lusitano's Moment Has Come
"The Western classical music canon is notoriously white and male – so you might assume that a black Renaissance composer would be a figure of significant interest, much-performed and studied. In fact, the story of the first known published black composer – Vicente Lusitano – is only now being heard, alongside a revival of interest in his long-neglected choral music." from The great 16th-Century black composer erased from history [BBC] [more inside]
The time Mick Jagger wrote M.C. Escher and received a response
The McMahon family drama, except it's real.
After claims of misconduct and alleged affair with a coworker, Vince McMahon has "stepped back" as Chair and CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment. McMahon's hiatus comes after a week of revelations. The WWE board of directors discovered a US $3 million hush payment from McMahon's personal funds to a former employee, a paralegal, from an anonymous tip from "a friend" of the former employee. The unnamed employee allegedly had an affair with McMahon and (WWE Manager of Talent Relations) John Laurinaitis.
McMahon's daughter, Stephanie McMahon, has returned from family leave to serve as the Interim CEO and Interim Chair. She was on a break from her existing role of Chief Brand Officer, after leaving in May to "focus on her family." [more inside]
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