Permission2BFancy
@permission2bfancy.bsky.social
Non-vintage champagne for all but me. I write about the weird and the beautiful at https://lacachette.substack.com/
You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.
Good morning especially to the girl I met on the train last week who was reading Tokyo Express.
Fascinating review - I want to read all of these!
London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 2d ago‘A 2024 survey by the IMO indicated that only 1 per cent of the nearly two million seafarers plying the waves are women, and most of them work on cruise ships or passenger ferries.’ @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on female sailors, past and present. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
I am wide open to sub-optimal Hollywood adaptations of anything I’ve written
On being bad at ballet and tarot cards at the Morgan! lacachette.substack.com/p/so-youre-s...
“So you’re saying there are some advantages to living in New York?”
The Morgan Library, Kalustyan's, and an attempt to be graceful
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What’s your drink of the summer? Mine’s a cup of cynicism ft.trib.al/65Jeyxg | opinion
What’s your drink of the summer? Mine’s a cup of cynicism
Working out the difference between what we like and what we are told to like is becoming a harder task
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The NYRB Author’s Closet, a series of videos of the least camera-ready people in society mumbling inaudibly about Vasily Grossman.
Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 2w agoNYRB should do their own version of the Criterion Closet for their book publishing arm imo
My old and increasingly irregular new books column for @plough.bsky.social is back, with notes on Helen DeWitt, Francesca Wade/Gertrude Stein, and Namwali Serpell/Toni Morrison
Dori Moody@dorimoody.bsky.social · 2w ago"These days, I feel a kind of paranoid protectiveness about reading, as though it were a pleasure that powerful interests wanted to deny me." @philipchristman.bsky.social www.plough.com/articles/boo...
This is why I love THE GREEN KNIGHT, that motherfucker didn't explain shit
cultural work is work the culture industries were integral to C20 growth of the middle class deindustrialization of culture is integral to C21 eviction of the middle class "an industry managing decline. for many of us, it was a good, upper-middle-class life." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/o...
Opinion | I’m a Screenwriter. Hollywood Is in Trouble.
A scriptwriter’s lament about Hollywood’s decline
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I just keep thinking that Maurine Bowra would be so happy, and so mad, at the Homer discourse. He’d probably write a terrible poem about it.
I want a TV miniseries adaptation of the Táin that is incredibly faithful to its structure, e.g. there is an entire episode where Cú Chulainn rests and recovers in the shade of a tree while messengers run to and from a nearby battle to give him updates
Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨@ciaraioch.bsky.social · 3w agoKinda do want to see a film adaptation of some Irish mythology after The Odyssey but with someone to flesh out the women characters properly and a Reddit thread complaining that the actors' heads aren't big and Irish enough, locked after 38299 responses
Ballet costume for a seahorse designed around 1916 for the Ballets Russes by Natalia Goncharova (National Gallery of Australia) 🗃️
sue townsend had no right publishing that poor kid's diaries it's so effed up
The Bayeux Tapestry arrived at the British Museum in London early Friday after a secretive nighttime operation involving multiple police forces — the first time the fragile embroidery has left France in several hundred years.
Bayeux Tapestry Arrives in U.K. After Maximum-Security Operation
The 11th-century tapestry will go on display at the British Museum in September. Tickets for the exhibition have already been selling rapidly.
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It was the biggest debt swap in history, a brilliant transaction that transformed Britain. But it also led to one of the biggest financial crises ever, ruining the likes of Isaac Newton. Yep, The Story of Money is finally tackling the South Sea Bubble. 🥳 www.youtube.com/watch?v=tecr...
How Britain’s debt crisis created the South Sea Bubble | The Story of Money
YouTube video by The Story of Money Podcast | Financial Times
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‘Once you acknowledge that most of the Americas were inhabited long before 1492, everything changes, starting with the idea that nature in its ideal state is what they used to call virgin wilderness, in which people don’t belong.’ @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Rebecca Solnit · Before 1776
In 1848, the US seized the northern half of Mexico, from California to New Mexico, and imposed American law and the...
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You want a Netflix series that would rock? Follow Paine, from strikes in England to the American and French Revolutions to almost being guillotined to being saved by James Monroe to getting pissed at Adams and Washington and them abandoning him. Hamilton pales by comparison plot-wise.
A fantastic recipe for a Deep Blue Sea cocktail from my dear friend Wil in commemoration of the Fourth and in celebration of all those sharks in the Rockaways included in this week's newsletter.
"More is More and Less is a Bore"
Crafts, Coolness, Cocktails
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The part where he talks about the sandwiches his mother would wrap up and throw to him down on the street so he could stay out with his friends, and how hitting the pavement made the tomatoes mush into the bread and taste even better.
Jen A. Miller@byjenamiller.bsky.social · last mo.His memoir is one of the best I’ve ever read - get the audiobook version. He reads it.
