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[Original post removed to avoid argument rather than discussion or debate.]
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Lovecraft Country is the name for the trope of a New England horror setting in which "evil and corruption is mostly supernatural (and racial) in origin". There's also a good article about how it figures into this book specifically at Boing Boing.
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Just started Marvel Comics' Civil War and the Age of Terror: Critical Essays on the Comic Saga. "This collection of new essays explores the Civil War series and its many tie-in titles from the perspectives of history, political science, sociology, psychology, literary criticism, philosophy, law, and education. The contributors provide a close reading of the series’ main theme—the appropriate balance between freedom and security—and discuss how that balance affects citizenship, race, gender and identity construction in 21st-century America." I love academic press books about pop culture, so I bought this and Assembling the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Essays on the Social, Cultural and Geopolitical Domains. The second one has a website with a bunch of links to relevant articles, plus info about the book itself.
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That Story About Irish Babies Buried in a Septic Tank Was Shocking. It Also Wasn't Entirely True.
"The truth is not entirely clear, but we know this: 796 babies are buried somewhere on the site of the old Bon Secours sisters’ home, which operated between 1925 and 1961. The records clearly show that." This probably belongs in the Small Talk thread, but I wanted to put more information where the misunderstanding appears.
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The word for "comrade" as in communism is Genosse but the word in a military sense is Kamerad. I'm pretty sure I heard the communist version...
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These are the ones of mine that aren't / weren't intended to be mini-series like Gormenghast or Band of Brothers. Some might have only had one season, but more was intended.
- Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
- Afterlife
- Bedlam
- Black Mirror (all that’s available to own so far)
- The Borgias
- Century City [bootleg because no legit version exists]
- Comic Strip Presents
- Dark Matters: Twisted by True
- Deutschland 83
- Dollhouse
- Father Ted
- Frank's Place [bootleg because no legit version exists]
- Hannibal
- Haunted
- Homicide: Life on the Street
- Invader ZIM
- The Lone Gunmen
- Maison Close
- Max Headroom
- Millennium
- Monty Python's Flying Circus
- Neverwhere
- Oz
- The Palace
- Penny Dreadful
- Profit
- Sam & Max: Freelance Police
- Spaced
- Takin’ Over the Asylum
- The Tick (animated)
- Vengeance Unlimited [bootleg because no legit version exists]
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For someone that is a profiler he should know that Kemper wouldn't kill or hurt him. Obviously it doesn't fit the profile. Not in terms of victim OR place.
Sometimes reality is unrealistic.
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And then there's his Othello...
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It started with a troll Instagram page, according to this article on the BET website.
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The BBC version was 59 minutes with no commercials and the narrator was Keeley Hawes (Lady Agnes in the most recent Upstairs, Downstairs).
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I recommend the book The Crown: The Official Companion, Volume 1: Elizabeth II, Winston Churchill, and the Making of a Young Queen (1947-1955) by Robert Lacey. It's very devoted to making clear what is fact and what is dramatic reworking in the first season.
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Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease by Carolyn Day. I'm enjoying it as a companion book to Fashion Victims: The Dangers of Dress Past and Present by Alison Matthews David.
The first one is about how some of the effects of tuberculosis (emaciation and pallor with fevered flush of the cheeks) were seen as beautiful in the Victorian era and to be emulated. The second is about the dangers of clothing past and present (mercury in hats, arsenic in dresses, the combustibility of crinoline, the dangers in modern clothing manufacture, etc).
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11 hours ago, Sharpie66 said:
If you haven’t read it yet, I highly recommend The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum.
I really liked this and I want to second the recommendation. There's also a companion film of the same name, via the PBS series "American Experience".
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Titfer comes from rhyming slang: tit-for-tat = hat.
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How realistic is that Call the Midwife Christmas stillborn storyline?
“We would never do anything that we didn’t have the complete 100% backing of our midwife,” Heidi Thomas explained at a press event in London. “It is based on a true story – and we had a midwife and a paediatrician on set at all times.” She added: “Most of our stories are sparked by a true story that happened to somebody, somewhere, at some point.
“And then we investigate them with our medical personnel and look at all the corners of it, we build it up from the ground and we film it with absolute veracity.”
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Just finished The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris. It's an accessible and entertaining book about the advent of germ theory, and it reminds me a bit of watching The Knick.
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I was glad to be watching alone, what with all the crying, but I definitely look forward to the next season and the arrival of new cast member Leonie Elliott as Lucille, yay!
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On 12/19/2017 at 10:23 PM, Mackey said:
Who was the burning man at the end? I couldn’t see well enough to tell. Thank you.
It is assumed to be Dennis Rader, aka the BTK Killer.
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The one I just finished is "Brolliology: A History of the Umbrella in Life and Literature" by Marion Rankine, purchase as a companion to a book I already owned called "Rain: A Natural and Cultural History" by Cynthia Barnett. I picked it the rain book because I am a Seattle native and wanted to see how much of a mention we received, as we have an undeserved rep for having more rain than a human should have to deal with. I accidentally opened it to the chapter on petrichor (the word for a pleasant smell that frequently accompanies the first rain after a long period of warm, dry weather) and I started reading. I have a custom that if I am in a bookstore and I read more than ten pages of something, I have to buy it because clearly I am that engaged. Anyway, Barnett also talks about umbrellas and it was interesting.
Coincidentally, I follow the Twitter account for the publisher Melville House, Twitter-famed for having had an amusing online altercation with Penguin Random House a couple of years ago. They started tweeting about their new book about umbrellas. I thought it sounded funny and probably English, since my life with pop culture has taught me to associate umbrellas with England, much the same way I think about tea. When it came out, I picked it up, and... ten page rule. Rankine (a Londoner) talks about not just the technological development of the umbrella over centuries and cultures, she talks about the use of umbrellas in fiction, and the real-life gender / class / social distinctions on display through the kind of umbrella one carries. (My primary one is a black pagoda-style because goth.) The weaponized umbrella as assassination tool comes up as well, which was a fun bit. To sum up, if you like this sort of thing, this is a thing you will like.
Caveat: I strongly recommend you purchase the ebook version of Brolliology, if you can. The hardcover is afflicted with a really weird typo problem involving hyphens that makes the book harder to read.
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I think it's Douglas who came up with bed wetting, petty arson, small animal killing
No, that was the Macdonald Triad, developed in 1963 in a paper called "The Threat to Kill". There's a good article about this at the Medical Daily site, "The Macdonald Triad: Do Three Common Childhood Behaviors Predict a Serial Killer?"
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I highly recommend the non-fiction book "The List" by Chet Dettlinger and Jeff Prugh. It's a detailed examination of the Atlanta Child Murders investigation and the surrounding political culture at the time and it will give you some insight into why there are people who think that Williams didn't do it. It's not a conspiracy-theory book or anything, it's contemporary investigation and reportage about the parts of the case that don't fit the profile.
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Is this assumed to be a continuing series? Because that's the only way I can justify all the BTK vignettes that never connected to our main characters.
Is Holden actually dying, because of something Thickglasses did when he hugged him? Or is Holden just having a severe attack of My-Theories-Are-All-Wrongitis?
It was originally conceived as having five seasons. Season Two's main case is the Atlanta Child Murders (1979 - 1981). BTK wasn't caught until 2005.
Probably a panic attack because he got bear-hugged by his new pal Ed, a giant serial murderer who could have easily killed him just then with little to no repercussions.
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The certain chilling real-life event was that:
SpoilerKemper said, "If I went in apeshit in here, you'd be in a lot of trouble, wouldn't you? I could screw your head off and place it on the table to greet the guard."
According to Ressler, he tried to reason with Kemper, assuring that there would be trouble if anything untoward happened. Kemper replied, "What would they do? Cut off my TV privileges?"
Ressler began hinting that he might be armed, telling Kemper that FBI men might be given special privileges for carrying weapons into a prison. When asked what the weapon might be, Ressler hedged, saying, "I'm not going to give away what I might have or where I might have it on me." Kemper pressed the issue, and finally asked, "[Is it] martial arts then? Karate? Got your black belt? Think you can take me?" The mood had shifted, and Ressler took this as an opportunity to begin a conversation about martial arts.
Finally, a guard appeared to allow Ressler to leave and return Kemper to his cell. As he was exiting the room, Kemper touched Ressler's shoulder and said, "You know I was just kidding, don't you?"
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Anticipation: It's Getting Scary Out There
in Lovecraft Country
· Edited by Violet Impulse
Formatting.
Marrying Sonia meant nothing with regards to his feelings on Jews; he outright told her that she no longer belonged to 'these mongrels' because she was assimilated and with him. "You are now Mrs H. P. Lovecraft of 598 Angell St., Providence, Rhode Island!" She recounted that "whenever he would meet crowds of people—in the subway, or at the noon hours, at the sidewalks of Broadway or crowds, whoever he happened to find them, and these were usually the workers of the minority races—he would become livid with anger and rage. He seemed almost to lose his mind." Sometimes, he would insist that they walk down the center of a street so that he wouldn't have to share a sidewalk with "mongerels." That's not merely racist, that's pathological.
"The organic things—Italo-Semitico-Mongoloid—inhabiting that awful cesspool could not by any stretch of the imagination be call’d human. They were monstrous and nebulous adumbrations of the pithecanthropoid and amoebal; vaguely moulded from some stinking viscous slime of earth’s corruption, and slithering and oozing in and on the filthy streets or in and out of doorways in a fashion suggestive of nothing but infesting worms or deep-sea unnamabilities." That's not about his monsters, that's about people living in the Lower East Side of New York. Other white people called him out on this at the time and he just dug down further.
"[Hitler’s] vision . . . is romantic and immature," he stated after Hitler became chancellor of Germany. "I know he’s a clown but god I like the boy!"
And of course, there's his poem "On the Creation of Ni**ers". That one's easy to find online.
If he was driven to froth this much, virulent is a perfectly fine word to describe him. None of which means that we shouldn't read, analyze, critique, and—in some cases—enjoy his work.