You all know what I think of the political hijacking of the march, especially of the procession of the Internation rulers...but there's still humour to find in any outrageous stuff *For instance there's that pigeon who decided to defecate on François Hollande while he was greeting the survivors from Charlie Hebdo, causing some of them to laugh a ( Read more... )

Such violence, so many dead people already.

As if the situation weren't stressful enough, I just read that, apparently many people (especially Americans) are spreading lies about Charlie Hebdo on the Internet, either on tumblr or twitter, calling it a racist newspaper that "had it coming", not understanding at all what a satirical magazine is ( Read more... )

OpenCulture mentioned a 1982 BBC production of Brecht’s Baal, starring...David Bowie in the title role!


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Following a previous entry of mine on rereading La Recherche du temps perdu, and thanks to herself_nyc, who found this via tumblr, I believe, here is the translation into English of an interview with the lovely Daniel Mendelsohn about Proust!

Also OpenCulture provides links to free art catalogues from the Metropolitan Museum. There are actually 397 out-of- ( Read more... )

Bayeux Tapestry-style!!! It was made by par Rea S. Irvin, New Yorker magazine (15/07/44).


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I'm out of Marking Hell until next Wednesday, but I will be super busy in the next days because I have a 40 minute presentation to do on Tuesday at La Sorbonne, about my thesis, so I must work on it. Tomorrow is a hollyday, but I still have class to teach on Friday and Monday.

So tv reviews will come later. Some final thoughts on The Americans, ( Read more... )

Since it's International Women Day and since the killer in latest Hannibal's episode was called a "muralist", I guess it's fitting to post this footage showing Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and the Trotskys (Lev and his wife Natalia), in 1938 ( Read more... )

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Hello little cousin!


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Can't sleep. Watching the Nasa news on Curiosity Cam.

( Curiosity's shadow and Mount Sharp )