#MoviePremiere: #DeadWivesClub...! #TheMusical

#Synopsis: A #Series of #Vignettes #Recounting #TheInterlinkedStories of #WorldPremieres and their #DeadWives... #Interpreted through #Ballet and #Opera #Starring #AmateurAssHat, #TimothéeChalamet and #MelGibson...

#Contains #ZeroPercent #RussellCrowe

🧙⚕️🤖🤖⚕️🧙 | ​🦹​🦄​​🦹 

#MoviesThatNeverHappened #BigBudget #Extravaganza #ShallowGrave

"In #Marseille 1940: The Flight of #Literature, the #German #literary critic #UweWittstock traces the anguished itineraries of more than a dozen #refugee #writers and #artists and the efforts by a group of courageous #Americans—along with many anonymous but no less courageous #French people—to rescue them. Told in a series of short, suspenseful #vignettes, it is a #sequel to his book February 1933: The Winter of Literature, which followed a group of German intellectuals in the days after #Hitler came to power. Some of those whose hasty escape from #Germany #Wittstock #narrated in the first #book reappear in the second in even more dire straits. February 1933 struck a chord by charting the shift from denial to panic when #Germans suddenly found themselves living in a #fascist country, and Marseille 1940 makes another timely intervention: as governments once again shut borders and attempt to turn us against the #foreigners in our midst..."

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/02/26/rescuing-the-refugees-marseille-1940-wittstock/

Illustration by Daniel de La Feuille, from Devises et Emblemes Anciennes & Modernes (1699).

Source: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign / Internet Archive

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/364ab41d-3c59-4007-8fb0-3c54a6744196

#animals #easels #vignettes #painting #circles #proverbs #mottos #emblems #celestial #circular #art #publicdomain

John Bingley Garland, ca. 1850–60.

Source: Harry Ransom Center

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/ca9f3df0-d196-4ca0-a89e-6fb8ad0d2c96

#collage #vignettes #crucifixion #religion #snakes #blood #crucifixes #christianity #serpents #art #publicdomain

On listening to music

When did I become too busy to spend an hour doing nothing but listen?

https://xavierroy.com/on-listening-to-music/

The Wrong Parent

Today, Max asked me to look at his descriptive writing assignment from school. He didn’t really want help. Not really. He just wanted a quick fix. A skim-and-sign-off.

*But he chose the wrong parent.*

He flopped beside me on the bed, reluctant. I scanned his draft and saw the usual: a decent attempt, a few bright spots, but mostly scaffolding, words and phrases repeating. It read like someone trying to finish a thing, not someone trying to say something. To show something.

I quipped, […]

https://xavierroy.com/the-wrong-parent/

Thoughts on Asimov’s Cal

I read Asimov’s Cal before breakfast and couldn’t stop thinking about creativity, ambition—and murder. What if your writing assistant wanted the byline? A thread on AI, authorship, and what Cal teaches us

https://xavierroy.com/thoughts-on-asimovs-cal/

Victoria Vignettes by Doug Knisely

https://tmblr.co/Z7VXvxhsX1IE0y00

#victoria #bc #street #a7riii #buildings #sony #vignettes #architecture #urban #flickr #thingsdavidlikes