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The whole idea of "faithful" or "the original" when this was kicking around as oral traditions for hundreds of years before it entered any fixed form, I mean

There's a sign just outside the courtyard of Castle Williams on Governor's Island in NYC that reads "All cyclists and UNICYCLISTS must dismount." I asked the park ranger on duty if there had been a "unicycle incident". She hung her head, took a deep breath and sighed "Yeah…"

Was having a fair-to-good day but then saw this 1961 photo of Yves Saint Laurent & realized I was, alas, doing everything wrong.

on the bright side, it's kind of awesome that so many people are talking about THE ODYSSEY, the translation the movie is based on, the translator's own thoughts in the LRB, and what a big, ambitious film can mean in a market oversaturated with movies about superheroes and nostalgia for old titles

It's strongly implied but like. Do they even kiss???

And I mean Poseidon is mad at him, or at least his men BELIEVE this, but as Mx19 rightly points out you can read this movie as if the gods exist but also as if they don’t. Might just be really bad weather (and terrible boats. OMG the boats are so bad. But historically the boats were in fact bad)

He spends a lot of time with Calypso, but it’s ok because he’s full of the amnesic drugs so he doesn’t KNOW he’s being unfaithful to Penelope, and they are described as Happy so you assume there are sexytimes but mostly she seems like his hot sad therapist

Or Antinous, whom I spent the whole movie thinking of as “evil Daniel Radcliffe”. Cartoonish but fun to hate. Contra Wilson, I do think he did something with the themes - a heavyhanded and extremely 2026 take on xenia, but quite frankly 2026 could use that. Also I like Angry Penelope.

he uses the narrative unlinearity to push that part to the end, after our feelings for Odysseus have been firmly established, and at least Odysseus feels _really bad_ about it. As long as we’re about uncomplicated men, I wanted to linger longer on Sinon’s luminously beautiful face.

His Odysseus is just relentlessly sympathetic, in ways not wholly supported by the source material (not even banging a sorceress once? As a treat?), and when the source text makes this unavoidably hard, +

Having just seen it - I didn’t dislike it like Dr. Wilson does, but I do wholly agree with her on “uncomplicated”; I think an Odyssey-teller’s first big choice is how to translate πολύτροπος ; I was looking forward to seeing what Nolan chose; and I think he doged the issue.

true patriot love in all thy sons command

Riveting TV and I'm not joking... Girardi: "What was easier for you, facing Randy Johnson or putting this tie on?" Kruk: "Oh, Randy. A lot easier than this"

I think overhauling your entire life is, in fact, a lot

Poll working, always. Doesn’t feel like even slightly enough but it is a very concrete thing I can do to uphold democracy.

Red-breasted nuthatches are returning to the yard. Hell yeah nuthaches! 😁 meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep #birds

Pancake movie 🤝 waffle movie

When my wife did chemo and radiation, she would go outside once or twice a day and shed the hair as it all fell out. Today, seven months later, we just found a nest a bird (likely a wren) made out of her hair.

Whew, I did not expect an interview with the middle grades cats lady to go so hard pca.st/episode/b775...

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