Recently: 8 July
8 July 2023
Links
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Joan Westenberg on missing the old internet. I feel this deeply.
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I also feel this: “I just want to go a concert.”
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Local historian Robert Loerzel is writing a fantastic series about the history of Chicago’s Green Mill on his website and the most recent chapter covers the intersecting history of Chicago silent film. Highly recommended.
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The “Insane Pirate” drifter and the double killing at the Fourplex.
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An investigation: women who write while lying on their stomachs.
Reading/Watching/Listening
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When I get around to a book that has a something of a legendary status, the results are either ultimate disappointment or immediate awe. Now I’m reading Patrick Süskind’s Perfume: The Story of a Murderer and it is very much the latter case.
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Film, the Living Record of Our Memory is a terrific documentary on film history, preservation, and archiving that touches on every culture and overlooked genre of film imaginable. Streaming on Hoopla.
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Also streaming on Hoopla is Code of the Freaks, a documentary with more of a video essay feel that takes a good look at the history of disability representation in film.
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Hey, I liked that Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny movie. For what it’s worth.
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I also liked the third season of The Great. A little uneven but finished strong. I haven’t heard word about a following season, but if that’s all we get it will have wrapped up decently.
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New Lydia Loveless incoming.