H. Austin Whitver
@majikmouse
Senior Instructor in English Lit at the University of Alabama. PhD in Early Modern Drama. Author of Tombs in Shakespearean Drama; Monumental Theater. Views are very much my own. I instablock any account that posts AI art. He / Him.
Thor: Dark World is unfairly maligned as a film. It is a solid early Marvel film that could have been brilliant with better editing and a reshoot or two. Cut all Malekith POV scenes; make him an inscrutable cosmic horror. Add more Loki / Frigga to anchor and more Darcy / Selvig to humanize. Done
Last date is with John Weever, someone who loved and appreciated tombs almost as much as me.
Further adventures in fun folio pagination. Apparently “To Penshurst” put everyone to sleep.
On to the non-Shakes part of the afternoon, starting with Jonson and the First First Folio. Will do my best to follow your advice, BJ.
Folio pagination looking a little surprised to see Old Hamlet’s ghost. O o.
Nothing in my research ever required accessing original printings and I always felt too much imposter syndrome to ask for one. This is my first time touching OG Shakes. I am trying so hard not to cry on them. Thank you Newberry.
First time at the Newberry Library. Just here for one day but super stoked.
Bringing the classics to younger generations tonight. So refreshing how pro-immigration / pro-diversity this film is. When people say films / shows were not political when they were younger (Star Trek!), it just means they were not wise enough to see it at the time and have become no wiser since.
The end of "Pump Up the Volume" perfectly illustrates the central failing of Gen-X. Having established a vibrant, supportive, town-wide community, everyone retreats to their basement to form their own with them in the center. A generation of talkers with no listeners. In this essay I will...
Look, this is small potatoes compared to the horrors and the crimes and the grifts of this administration, but it is hard to find a better example of the rhetorical question "If they were actively trying to weaken our country, what would they be doing differently?"
Rewatched this tonight with a friend and I would like to reiterate my original position. There are those who think this film is brilliant and there are those who are wrong.
Not a horror person, so I had steered clear of this one, but Sara really wanted to see it so I sat close and used their shoulder to hide my eyes when it got too intense.
Just found this abandonware classic online and introduced it to O. 1. It still holds up. 2. I just squeaked out a win.
Thank you students for sharing your music with me and keeping me young (at least in the aggregate):
Rewatching this. Nolan needs to remake this exactly the same but with Eliot now. Have a bunch of small dudes and Tom Hardy looming over them all. It changes very little other than making one moment into the twink kiss it always was.
Them: Electric scooters make it easier to get around campus. Me, trying to walk to my office:
Nearly 40 years now of thinking Penny’s computer book from Inspector Gadget is the pinnacle of tech and desperately wanting one.