Put together a presentation on codicology for my fragmentology class and got reminded that I was absolutely taken away by the display of the Springmount bog tablets at the Words on the Wave exhibition. Whole other level than the CLA image (CLA S 1684) www.museum.ie/collections/...

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If Laughton lived longer I bet he would've put Mitchum in some Brecht. That's what THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER is, the best Western example of what Brecht taught. Mitchum was most of the way there. His famous note to himself - NAR, 'no acting required.' A great film actor knows when to do nothing. But -

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My first time getting a red-bellied woodpecker in flight. #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

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My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet

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Brief, powirful, unforgettable - plese repost & share: "Do we acknowledge the necessity of the Humanities—history, art, literature, and all those things that make us human—or, do we fall prey to their erasure by those who benefit the most from them?" rolandbetancourt.substack.com/p/humanities...

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