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Weekend Listening Post
Oct. 24th, 2020 07:40 pmWell, where I am not making progress READING many things, I have at least been powering through both music and podcasts.
I am enormously enamoured of this sea shanty, for instance (as well as somewhat of the singer, Alex Sturbaum)
Podcasts:
I am now about eight episodes into Series Two of the Magnus Archives, and am intruiged by the new, paranoid Jon, and the voice acting appearance of Gertrude Robinson. I did not hate the finale of s1 as much as I thought I might, given all the WORMS.
I also listened to, and really enjoyed, the Knight School podcast episode on Race in Medieval Romances with Sierra Lomuto. I had passed over Knight School, a by-students-for-students medieval studies podcasts, because the title lead me to think it would be rather chivalric-idealisation stuff, but no! I am extremely happy to have been wrong.
Plus I listened to Jonathan Fruoco's talk Chaucer et la france: une rapide tour de l'horizon, which is not about Chaucer the man's relationship with France, but results from surveys he did in preparation for his big French translation project, regarding how much if anything Francophones know about Chaucer. TL:DR many people know the Canterbury Tales, few can name the author - inverse of most Anglophone countries, although I would be very interested to run such a survey on Australians in comparison to Brits and Americans.
Some links of note:
Matthew Salesses (Longreads), To grieve is to carry another time
CJ Lynch (Neuroclastic, own blog), 'It's a spectrum' doesn't mean what you think. I found the visuals on this really helpful in laying out something I technically know but couldn't easily visualise.
BlackGirlLostKeys (Own blog), Vertical Heterophoria: the ADHD related eye condition you've never heard of.
John Fabian Witt (NYT), Republicans are quietly upending public health laws. I'm actually kind of impressed to hear US courts USED to rule in favour of public health measures.
Patrick Blanchfield (The New Republic), The town that went feral - review of the fabulously named book 'A Libertarian Walks Into A Bear'.
Theodore McCombs, interview with Carmen Maria Machado (Electric Lit), A perfectly normal interview with Carmen Maria Machado Where Everything Is Fine. I can't tell where lit crit and acting diverge here, but I guess that's the point.
Kalhari Jayaweera (Kill Your Darlings, 2019), Tom Holland's 'Umbrella', Womanhood, And Me.
Riley Black (Slate), We finally know what a dinosaur's butthole looked like.
Kalhari Jayaweera (Kill Your Darlings), What happened to Bend It Like Beckham's Post-Racial Utopia?. What indeed.
Good grief. I have finally caught up on unposted links. Not, alas, on unread tabs.
I am enormously enamoured of this sea shanty, for instance (as well as somewhat of the singer, Alex Sturbaum)
Podcasts:
I am now about eight episodes into Series Two of the Magnus Archives, and am intruiged by the new, paranoid Jon, and the voice acting appearance of Gertrude Robinson. I did not hate the finale of s1 as much as I thought I might, given all the WORMS.
I also listened to, and really enjoyed, the Knight School podcast episode on Race in Medieval Romances with Sierra Lomuto. I had passed over Knight School, a by-students-for-students medieval studies podcasts, because the title lead me to think it would be rather chivalric-idealisation stuff, but no! I am extremely happy to have been wrong.
Plus I listened to Jonathan Fruoco's talk Chaucer et la france: une rapide tour de l'horizon, which is not about Chaucer the man's relationship with France, but results from surveys he did in preparation for his big French translation project, regarding how much if anything Francophones know about Chaucer. TL:DR many people know the Canterbury Tales, few can name the author - inverse of most Anglophone countries, although I would be very interested to run such a survey on Australians in comparison to Brits and Americans.
Some links of note:
Good grief. I have finally caught up on unposted links. Not, alas, on unread tabs.