Notices by Noam writes (noam@libranet.de)

@liztai Any recommendations for Kdramas or Cdramas on Netflix for a complete beginner?

I'm fine with drama, romance, adventure, fantasy. But not too much violence, it just reminds me of the real world.

@liztai I lived in a haunted house for a couple of years. But the ghost, or whatever it was, wasn't evil. It actually helped me out once.

I remember a month or two after moving in, asking my housemates if they thought there was a presence in the house. I was afraid if sounding silly. But they said definitely yes. They'd even considered investigating if anyone had died there.

@liztai @jfslicer es Same here. Liberal didn't used to mean left at all in Europe, although now it's used to mean that sometimes. It's imported from the US.

To me left is tied to people power, socialism, democracy - something like the origin of the phrase from France. Much of the current progressive politics isn't 'left' by these standards.

@liztai I agree with one of the links in your blog: an artist doesn't control what the audience sees in their art. So even if the intention was referencing a different painting, millions of people saw this as the Last Supper, simply because it's the most famous painting of that type.

Something else puzzles me: May I ask why you take referencing the painting of the Last Supper as blasphemous?

Olympic record broken, then lovingly mended.

#SixWordStories
#2024Olympics

#MythologyMonday - big cats

Samson challenges his wedding guests to answer the riddle

This is a reference to Samson's earlier adventures killing a lion, and later passing the same way and finding honeybees and honey in the corpse.

The wedding guests extort the answer from Delilah, Samson's wife. As Samson lost the wager, he has to give his 30 guests a good suit each. He acquires them by killing thirty men. Ain't the Old Testament grand?

@liztai Trying to summarise my experiences, hopefully not too cynical.

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@liztai Needs a better headline, something like:

Hell of a Ride!

To Hell and Back!

Infer(no) the Ride of Your Life!

@liztai Thanks for your piece! I don't watch Chinese dramas, and had no idea this anti-China thing was a thing.

Also thanks for the link! I grew up in Israel but have lived in the UK for over 20 years. The UK's wholesale adoption of American culture wars is something I have regular rants about.

OK, so a mini-series about a #gay couple who want to #adopt a kid is amazing. And they're lovely and imperfect, and it's so moving.

But... Andy's death. I'm so fucking tired of shows where gay men are killed by #violence. Cucumber did it too. Gay writers, move on from this please. That ruined it for me, even though the last episode was still very good.

Rant over. As you were.

#lostboysandfairies #queer #lgbt+

... And through the tunnel and back in the UK. No spoilers for Lost Boys and Faeries, please.

Or for Dr Who, for that matter.

I had one of the greatest #autocorrect moments a few days ago, when a friend invited me to see the #film Dunelm 2.

#Dune2 was very good, BTW.

(Dunelm is a chain of home furnishing stores.)

@liztai An interesting one. Both companies have bad reps in leftist circles. Starbucks both for bad treatment of coffee growers and for using sheer corporate power to put local cafés out of business. McD for poor treatment of employees including antiunion stuff, and a big lawsuit against those who dared say it wasn't healthy food.

So I don't feel sorry for the companies, or large corporations in general, when they lose money. The question of employees losing out is a difficult one, though. When corporations take over from local businesses, it's a complicated one.

@fedpagan

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