compliments of the season: Poseidon’s Underworld reviews 1973 British anthology series Orson Welles’ Great Mysteries
hagiography: breathtaking hidden murals in the Cathedral of Angers depicting the life of local saint called Maurille, who fled due to embarrassment for failure to perform a miracle, unveiled for the first time
wmw: a list of endangered historic and cultural sites for 2025, around the world and beyond
infinite nonsense honeypot: a lure for AI scrapers
run the bricks: a mother in New Zealand completes a hundred metre sprint barefoot over a track of Legos—setting a Guinness Record—via Metafilter
but is it like the old playboy magazine—do you have essays there by the modern day equivalent of gore vidal and william f buckley jr: US supreme court justice Samuel Alito asks if people visit PornHub (previously) for the articles—via Super Punch
cozy rewatch recommendation: the 2003 New Wave film The Dreamers (Innocents) that follows the exploits and adventures of an American university student in Paris during the 1968 riots—via Messy Nessy Chic
๐ธ๐ฉ๐๐: a paranoid ruler’s illiteracy and a torched library behind a glimpse of everyday life in the Assyrian Empire
celebrity is a broad church: BBC1’s 1985 entertainment magazine Friday People
synchronoptica
one year ago: artist Monica Sjรถรถ (with synchronoptica), generational perceptions, an ethnographic study of bathroom graffiti, another banger from ABBA plus words for lighthouse
seven years ago: laser-cut note pads, Madrid reinstates direct rule on Catalonia plus free-floating exoplanets
eight years ago: theatres protest the inauguration of Trump
nine years ago: a slipper-shaped wedding chapel
ten years ago: misattributed quotations plus McDonald’s new slogan
