Ah, for the days of my youth, when rock stars wrote songs inspired by this book: bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/the-shadow...

SISKEL & EBERT, which premiered #OTD in 1986, had a master class of an opening sequence. Thirty-five seconds, 21 shots, and a flawless establishment of the professional rivalry of two Chicago newspapermen who inspired a generation of film buffs. #FilmSky #TVSky

Whenever I my head hurts about Left and Right, the scourge of Political Violence and Who's to Blame, I am always reminded of the credo of my favorite fictional Angelino, Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch: "Everybody counts or nobody counts."

"Books are portals linking us with all that has come before and all that has ever been thought. To read a book at the drugstore is to transform the drugstore—and ourselves—into “something rich and strange.” Latest from Boze on Biblioll College: bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/how-to-rek...

Just in case it’s not already clear that ICE is a white supremacist thug army, Homeland Security is recruiting with a “defend your culture” slogan.

It's that time of the month! bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/biblioll-c...

One of my favorite thrillers, both novel and movie (the one with Edward Fox), is DAY OF THE JACKAL. RIP Mr. Forsyth. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

💙📚 An amazing literary reflection by Boze on Biblioll College: bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/the-shadow...

Brooks should get angry more often. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/o...

Rach's latest from Biblioll College: Encountering the mind of the past: reflections on first reading Aeschylus & his Oresteia #AncientBlueSky #BookSky open.substack.com/pub/biblioll...

Tree of the Day, New College, Oxford

Boze's latest on Biblioll College: bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/the-shadow...

About to see JULIUS CAESAR at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival!

Bishop Thomas John Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, slams Trump for posting an AI image of himself as the Pope: “This is deeply offensive to Catholics, especially during this sacred time that we are still mourning the death of Pope Francis…He owes an apology”

Even the AI knew to give Trump a red lightsaber.

May the 4th be with you! And given we have a wannabe Palpatine perjuring the oath he swore, to uphold the Constitution of our own little Republic, it may be time to break out those lightsabers and ring up Mon Mothma @markhamillofficial.bsky.social

Rach's beautiful post on re-reading THE ODYSSEY. #AncientBlueSky 💙📚 bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/i-am-a-par...

Yes. We keep writing headlines that assign powers to the president that he does not have.

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.

Ha, St. Philip Neri's "maxim" for the day to which I can say, "I resemble that remark": "Men are generally the carpenters of their own crosses."

Happy Friday, everyone! For today's paid post at Omnivorous I reviewed the fantastic film "The Return," which finds the deeply, searingly, and hauntingly human story within Homer's "The Odyssey." open.substack.com/pub/omnivoro...

About to see August Wilson's JITNEY, directed by Tim Bond, at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival! I ❤️ Ashland! @littleseamstress.bsky.social @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social

Up to mischief in April and May! bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/biblioll-c...

#AmReading #BookSky 💙📚 #booksky HERO - Michael Korda PORTRAIT OF MAX (Beerbohm) - S.N. Behrman SEVEN MEN - Max Beerbohm THE ILIAD - Homer

Printing my packing lists for our "sabbatical" month in Oxford! bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/dreaming-s...

Not a drill.

We head for Oxford in 2 wks. Hence this new "section" on Biblioll College: bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/dreaming-s...

"And the number of its name is 666." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Not that I'm going to try and memorize these—Frack, I'm stilly working on Ozymandias—but this is a fun way to be exposed to some new (to me) poems: #Poetry 💙📚 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Boze's latest piece on Biblioll is a fantastic resource for mystery writers and fans of Agatha Christie and Poirot! bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/every-epis...

After the first three 3ps of #ANDOR S2, & along the lines I sketched in my post below, I’ve got a Theory—not what I think they’re *going* to do, but, based on what they’ve developed so far with Mon Mothma and Luthen Rael, what *I* would do (cont'd): bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

so stoked for Andor season 2

#Andor S2 debuts to 98% on Rotten Tomatoes — based on 40 reviews 🍅

No context Andor spoilers

#Andor Day!

My latest on Biblioll College. substack.com/home/post/p-...

@sketchesbyboze.bsky.social @littleseamstress.bsky.social

Carl Sagan said when he was at university in the 1950s, “it was considered unthinkable for an aspiring physicist not to know Plato, Aristotle, Bach, Shakespeare,” and so many of our problems with today’s tech leaders are downstream of their lack of engagement with the humanities.

Ancient tree rings reveal the hidden reason Rome’s grip on Britain failed www.zmescience.com/science/hist...

My latest post on Biblioll College, and a new section (“Arts & Culture”) for our Substack: #Andor Can't wait for tonight! open.substack.com/pub/biblioll...

Film actor & artist Andy Serkis celebrates birthday, 4/20/1964! Great actor through decades, including ANDOR most recently. Also, his pioneering motion capture performances bring new levels of realism. Unironically, I would have nominated his Gollum in LOTR for Best Supporting Actor. #filmsky 📽

One of the best pieces I've ever seen on Substack. 💙📚 #AncientBlueSky bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/the-shadow...

Okay but hear me out: A book club that meets in the middle of the forest, and everyone brings a basket of freshly-baked scones.

Here’s the clip.

These two posts: * “We need to treat antifa and BLM like terrorist organizations,” said Joe Kent, Trump’s pick to lead counter-terrorism efforts. * Trump to Bukele (president of El Salvador): “Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It’s not big enough.” 1/

RIP Jean Marsh She co-created, along with friend Eileen Atkins, Upstairs, Downstairs as she wanted the lives of working class characters who served the upper class to be dramatised & empathised with. I instinctively appreciated seeing this as a child with working class parents. She was a class act.