This reminds me of the most humorous misuse of Death of the Author I personally have encountered: Someone applying it to Louisa May Alcott's very autobiographical LITTLE WOMEN

I was thinking about silent film remakes and what worked in the 1930s and 1940s flopping in the 1950s, like THE PRISONER OF ZENDA. The 1950s remakes was, to be fair, hampered by miscasting but there was more to it, the world had changed and Ruritania was pretty much abandoned to YA romance.

All other things aside, oversalted pickle miser chicken sandwich

Reset my last self-watering tower. It's just flowers on the bottom half and the top will be mini carrots, green onions, and radishes.

I still can't believe Miranda Sings was a thing, tbh. A thing with a Netflix show, yet.

Prelude to the cigarette factory fight in CARMEN (1915), which got censored in Pennsylvania and Ohio

This is in the portrait gallery in Edinburgh. Extremely rare example of an ordinary artisan, rather than an aristocrat

Professor Fate requests that you mail her offerings of tuna until her temple is completed.

I had a big lunch, so I will just get the fresh strawberry sundae and some root beer if they frost the mugs

American studios had sent teams overseas regularly prior to WWI but had been sticking close to Hollywood postwar, with notable exceptions. BEN-HUR (1925) was shot on location in Italy. Mussolini was delighted, assuming that Francis X. Bushman's Roman Messala was the hero

DICKSON'S GREETING (1891), an early experimental film meant to test out the Edison motion picture camera

(pops head up) DWARF CORN I was wanting to do a bit of corn farming but (waves arms) corn is a lot DWARF CORN 3 footers! Yes, yesssss

Renee's Garden is doing 40% off seeds. I snagged some Pixie cabbage seeds. They are about the size of a softball and are the perfect size for a dinner for 3-4

The Turkey vs Turkiye thing was already settled in 1953: It's nobody's business but the Turks www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcze...

My first time growing fuchsias but definitely not my last! 🌱

These volunteer snapdragons don’t look like anything I planted but maybe they hybridized? Anyway, pretty! 🌱

Someone knocked over my Rosa Gallery watercolors, so I am reswatching to get them back in order. It’s a Ukrainian brand and crazy cheap for the quality, $2-3 full pans. It does have trouble with gradients (as you can see) but great for loose, expressive or more opaque work

Also, double bag all liquids before packing! My friend had a Costco-size bottle of shampoo burst in her luggage once (Why, you ask? She was 15. We are all silly at 15.)

It's going to be really interesting to see how the new Avengers movie does at the box office because I think it's a do or die for the MCU (and certainly significant for superhero movies generally) It's already interesting to see how the more fanatic fans have shifted online tactics.

I will have the tongue omelette with vegetable pancake, borscht, tea and fresh fruit salad for dessert

Arthur Housman as the villain of BRAVEHEART (1925). He plays a rich boy on a college football team who resents the fact that the star player is Indigenous.

Professor Fate literally cannot convey how little the stupid feather thing on a fishing pole interests her

Theory: A teacher was saying his students sometimes do not process AI as cheating because they feel it’s just what they would have written if they had time. This false sense of ownership also means the boss thinks HE designed that ad. Of course it was right the first time!

I love vintage how-to books but there is something uniquely depressing about watercolor instruction in black and white

Omph

They usually cloak it in concern for birds and wildlife but cat haters really are the worst

Professor Fate on a stack of books showing off her teefs

Ya know, there are fewer things that annoy me more than “I have not seen this movie but I saw the GIF you posted, let me ‘splain the entire movie and correct you” Like, dude, who do you think made the GIF?

Marion Wong (left) as the villain of THE CURSE OF QUON GWON, which she wrote, directed and produced at the age of twenty-one, making her likely the earliest Chinese American feature film director.

Eva had a big day: she helped in the garden, I filled her wading pool and she watched the Beverly Hillbillies, which she loves

my take, done on ipad. the dark blue lines were my cat’s contribution 😸

At the vet for her rabies vaccine, Professor Fate saw a massive 100 lb German Shepherd walk by and was like “DAYUM!”

can't argue with this.

I will have two poached eggs, milk toast and a grapefruit with tea to drink

Yep, selling the fireworks and the fire extinguishers is the sign of an ethical company that we can trust

Welp. Another tuxedo cat in the backyard. Someone has been singing for Professor Fate, and I am guessing that it’s him (very tomcat vibe) Will try to get a picture but… hi, Cesare

Heads up, migardener.com is having a 20% off seed sale. They have good stuff and their seeds are about $2 normally, so you can snag packets for $1.60 I got beets and cabbages for my fall garden

I yielded to temptation and will attempt to grow Striped German tomatoes next year. Yellow striped tomatoes have eluded me and beefsteaks are extra challenging in my zone but I want ‘em 🌱

Grocery pickup apps need to realize that “substitute best match” is absolutely ridiculous to cat owners 😜

Over the past few days, I have been stumbling across people with “leftist” in their bios declaring the most Roderick Spodeish of opinions.

We are so terrified of being declared tacky by internet strangers that book covers take the safest route possible and we don't have any fun at all

Professor Fate is getting her Korean name this weekend (my friend in Korea doesn’t have pets but loves animals and likes to give names to my little menagerie)

The Jaune et Verte patty pan summer squash is budding, so we should have full-size squash in, oh, three or four minutes 😜

Mary Pickford and kids cross a deadly swamp in SPARROWS (1926), with the help of a little camera trickery.

Julia Faye in DON'T CHANGE YOUR HUSBAND. She came here to steal husbands and chew bubblegum and she's all out of bubblegum.

ㅤ Ancient perfume bottles— Greece, 610 - 550 bce ㅤ

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you.

Hollywood (and entertainment industries generally) are always on the hunt for something fresh, spontaneous and unexpected— so they can dissect it, bottle it and make sure it can be indefinitely replicated

Everyone's talking about how this will lead to terrible films, but let's not forget it will also lead to a lot of terrible Reddit posts.