Saw some people posting about Baz Luhrman's Romeo + Juliet, and I am reminded that you CAN, in fact, make PERFECT FUCKING FILMS of performed verse, YES, even while making some changes to the story, AS LONG AS YOU UNDERSTAND THE TEXT YOU'RE ADAPTING. Still, 30 years later, the definitive R+J.

Daniel Mendelsohn, who did the most recent translation in English of The Odyssey wrote an absolutely scathing review in the New York Review of Books that basically agrees with her and was published before Wilson's. (Archive link because it's paywalled) archive.today/8zn3R

THANK YOU, @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social, for saying this! It has driven me absolutely batty that for all the criticism of Nolan's film, no major academic or classicist has brought up the scuppering of the real, present, (if immortal still) incarnate gods.

It is entirely possible for an artist to base their production on a work they do not understand and still come out with a fun time at the movies. It doesn't mean you didn't miss the point!

What's your sign?

I went to a local hipster "Jewish deli" in Knoxville the other day and ordered what was listed as "Ukrainian borscht," and it had a tomato and onion base with a huge chili pepper in it, so I had to make Veselka's borscht at home today to make up for whatever monstrosity that was.

Odalisque

The major difference between his terms is that he had several Honey Huans in the 1st admin. In the 2nd, he has people feeding him the absolutely bat shit ideas, and he's so soup-brained at this point that he just signs whatever neo-feudalist, accelerationist shit they put in front of him.

OK, I actually am going to shame this person because they LITERALLY SHRUGGED AT SLAVE LABOR THAT RESULTED IN MULTIPLE DEATHS IN QATAR IN 2022, but suspending a badly called red card is dirtier? The confident ignorance is absolutely mind melting!

Obscured this person's username because I don't think they should be attacked personally, but this sentiment angers me so much because the World Cup actually has an international political history and frankly, you should learn it before you say shit like "now with fascism." NOW? NOW???

This person also doesn't know ball. Anti-Trump people who don't follow football STFU challenge, level: impossible

And this is just absolute bonkers projection. TRUMP DOESN'T CARE ABOUT SOCCER. He's not watching and saying, "Get Pepi off the pitch, he's boring me!" I feel like liberals have absolutely lost their mind on this and have created a complete fantasy land to justify their emo feelings. It's nuts!

The vibes of this piece are good-- we're all feeling the ick of the ONE FUCKING THING WE HAD that this shit stain wasn't involved in now having him involved-- but I'm sorry, the specifics are just wrong. This IS done. They did it for C. Ronaldo, FFS! www.burnsnotice.com/usmnt-fifa-t...

The Netherlands training top is god awful, just the tackiest shit I have ever seen.

Actually, I take that back, because there is something bonkers buried in this misogyny and TERF riddled dreck, and I can't believe it's taken this long for me to see this just laid out in black and white (this is Douthat speaking). This is so far from a universal experience that I am flabbergasted.

Thiago giving a whole new meaning to the phrase "dirt nap"

Ghana's away kit (the yellow one they are wearing to play Panama right now) is fantastic, but their home kit this year is so good, and looks like one of those webs woven by a spider they gave caffeine, that I am seriously considering buying a kit for a team I only casually follow every 4 years.

Woke up to Knicks in five and the hardest t-shirt I've ever seen (thanks for the HT @chekhovsgundam.bsky.social) If anyone knows where I can find one, drop a link

There's so much that's terrible about Zlatan, but he was actually WORSE about Qatar than Lalas.

Y'all know I think Platner is a scum bag, but Weiner was sexting and sending dick pics to multiple young women while married, as well as a FIFTEEN YEAR OLD CHILD. What are we doing here?

She absolutely knows that she is not supposed to sit on any tables, and yet she consistently gets on the altar table when it is not laid out for a ritual. Like, "Mother, I crave sacrifice. I will sit on the table until you bring to me offerings."

I cannot imagine more of a disconnect between the subject matter and the platform than this. You're on a platform that was specifically created by far right, accelerationist billionaires to platform far right, accelerationism and use your content to provide legitimacy. STOP PROVIDING NAZI COVER

Oh, 100%. I even think the apple pie one could be good, if way too sweet for me, because the spices in Bush's baked beans are essentially apple pie spice. But this sounds like toothpaste and orange juice.

TW: sexual violence It should come as no surprise after CNN falsely claimed just a few months ago that 2.5% of all of the men ON THE PLANET attended a rape academy that this headline in no way describes what is in the article. 2 hostages claim they heard a woman being raped in Hamas captivity. 1/2

This is exactly the kind of thing that blue MAGA needs to fucking stop. Posting about the fact that we are in a fascist state and that voting alone will not fix it does not make one a "cosplay revolutionary." I am a 45-year-old woman who has voted AND WORKED FOR democratic candidates my entire life.

This is the traditional Mediterranean sailing route. Notice that the route takes you pretty straightforwardly through the Aegean around the mainland of Greece to Ithaca.

I have a really great essay percolating about the astrology of the "62M men" hoax, but I can't use my laptop right now for cat reasons

This is so fucked up, y'all.

I would die for her