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Displaced Twit. I'm no one special, I'm not insightful, you have literally no reason to follow me. Writer and editor for a couple of educational magazines. British migrant in Prague. Middle-aged parent. Anti-conservative, anti-fascist. Somewhat queer but so social phobic it's no longer relevant. Learning to set cryptic crosswords (shared occasionally on MyCrossword as HairApparent).
Via @weirdmedieval in the other place, this gorgeous 15th century doggy crawling through a manuscript.
(It's one of the accounts keeping me from quitting that place. Obviously many folx here don't cross to the dark side, but @weirdmedieval has a new podcast called Weird Medieval Guys - get it wherever you get your pods. They're on Substack too if that's your bag. So if this captures your cupidity, looks them up!)
MS source: Kraków, MNK 3025 I, p. 469-470
Boris Johnson's brother-in-law (Rachel's hubby) doesn't publicly comment often, but he's not a fan... Family gatherings must be awkward
There are songs from Svejk, too, with some very period collages to illustrate them.
Not all is bleak! There's a profile of Sona Stenova, "the first Czechoslovakian stripper"... And the news from around the world features Brigitte Bardot in a leopard mask and Jimi Hendrix's release of Hey, Joe.
In the same bundle as the Respekts (earlier toot) were a bunch of other random finds, such as a Mlady Svet from 1968 reporting on the Russian invasion.
Was taking out the recycling and found someone had thrown away a complete run of the first three years of Respekt, a Czech liberal/leftish magazine, plus a handful of issues of Informacni Servis, the Samizdat magazine that preceded it. It's a beautiful collection, but is it something that needs to be preserved? Until we realised it was so complete, my art-student son was very excited about the possibilities for collages and suchlike. I've no idea if everyone collected it or if it's special.
Long interview with Elliot Page in the Guardian today (and with a big front-page splash, too). It's a puff piece to promote Page's new autobiography but a decent read and quite wide-ranging. (I know the Guardian has a reputation for trans hostility and some won't touch it under any circumstances, but there's not even a whiff of that in this interview.) https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jun/10/elliot-page-juno-hollywoods-dark-side-coming-out-twice
Elliot Page on Juno, Hollywood’s dark side and coming out twice: ‘Living my life was more important than being in movies’
When the feelgood movie made him an Oscar-nominated star, the strain of hiding who he was almost forced him to quit acting. He explains how opening up about being gay, then trans, saved his life