In music history 8 December stands alone. Forty five years have passed since the world lost John Lennon, a voice and spirit who reshaped modern culture. And on this same date we mark the birthday of Jim Morrison, the magnetic force at the heart of The Doors. Two extraordinary artists joined for ever by a single day on the calendar.
#music #lennon #thedoors #morrison #history #thebeatles #thelizardking
Open Humanities Press has published Tom Cohen's #book Ecocide and Inscription vol. 1: Black Ops. Petrolepathy, Escaped Slaves, Cinemacide – A Tele-mnemonics for the After-Times.
Examining works by #Faulkner, #Morrison and #Hitchcock among others, Tom Cohen traces a ‘hyper-blackness’ that exceeds racial binaries and links to the viscous materiality of #oil. He argues that this #blackness before face or figuration offers a way to rupture the ‘Anthropocene’ spell and its attendant anaesthesias. By tracking inscriptions that melt back into a prefigural domain, Cohen outlines a literary structure of #climatechange itself, one that undoes conventional notions of meaning, reference, and #human exceptionalism.
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I’ve tooted before about #Morrison ‘s (#Scotty from Marketing) JRG brainfart of an idea to force Student to opt for cheaper degrees… as if…. It looks like it is left to the crossbench to move on this ignoble interference in educational choices.
“Past time for action on Job-Ready Graduates
[By] Alice Grundy
Research Manager [The Australian Institute]
The Greens’ Higher Education Support Amendment (Reverse Job-Ready Graduates Fee Hikes and End 50k Arts Degrees) Bill is a proposed remedy to the Morrison government’s massive university fee increases.
Job-Ready Graduates is a scheme that was designed to push students out of Arts degrees and into studying other subjects such as Maths or Agriculture by significantly raising the price of some degrees. “
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Not content with having blown up net zero, the Nationals are now wagging the dog over legislation decisions, pushing for the Liberals to delay passing the mining friendly environment legislation. Meanwhile the senate is still working out how to deal with Pauline Hanson's latest Islamophobic stunt. All the day's events, with fact checks, as it happens.
#morrison #marvel Marvel e DC: Amore Cosmico tra Eroi Rivali
https://www.notizie.buzz/articles/2025/11/21/marvel-e-dc-amore-cosmico-tra-eroi-rivali.html
Upscale steakhouse coming soon to Morrison’s main street | Archives
When Evergreen restaurateurs Tiffani and Rand Packer first visited what had been Morrison’s Café Prague, they immediately felt its pull. “We sat in …
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Italiancafefood #cafefood #cafeprague #evergreen #evoke1923 #Italia #Italian #italiano #italy #laroccarossa #morrison #randpacker #tiffanipacker
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2382689/upscale-steakhouse-coming-soon-to-morrisons-main-street-archives/
#Paris launches #lottery for #burial plots near #Piaf, #Morrison or #Chopin
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251106-dead-famous-paris-puts-heritage-graves-up-for-grabs

The French capital has launched a lottery offering residents a chance to be buried in abandoned heritage graves at the iconic Père-Lachaise, Montmartre and Montparnasse cemeteries – provided they agree to pay for their renovation first.