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Category Archives: Animals
“Wild France”
Paleo Retiree writes: Six short episodes, which my wife and I watched on Netflix. The show’s writer/producer/host, Roy Mears, is smart, articulate and enthusiastic in a goofy-naturalist kind of way, picking up rocks and smelling tree branches and saying “Wonderful, … Continue reading
Art Du Jour (Anzac Day 2016 Edition)
Eddie Pensier writes: Horace Moore-Jones, Simpson And His Donkey (1918) Related Previous ANZAC-themed AdJ here, and here.
Notes on “White God”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Artists have used animals to comment on the human condition since Homer. There’s often something to be gained in recognizing that animals experience the world through alien eyes — that their existence isn’t necessarily contingent on … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Movies
Tagged dogs, Film, Hungary, Kornél Mundruczó, movies, White God
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Sean Connery With A Cat Du Jour
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A Magnificence Suitable to a People Who Styled Themselves the Masters of the World
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: The only merit of the administration of Carinus that history could record, or poetry celebrate, was the uncommon splendor with which, in his own and his brother’s name, he exhibited the Roman games of the theatre, … Continue reading
Notes on “That’s My Man”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: This late Frank Borzage picture is about a compulsive gambler (Don Ameche) whose mojo is all bound up with the fate of a thoroughbred that he raises from a colt. Borzage and screenwriters Steve Fisher and Bradley … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Movies
Tagged Catherine McLeod, Don Ameche, Film, Frank Borzage, movies, That's My Man
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Quote Du Jour
Blowhard, Esq. writes: If a horse or other cattle is elf-shot, take docks seed and Scottish wax and let a man sing twelve masses over them and put holy water on the horse or cattle. Have the herbs always with you. … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Philosophy and Religion
Tagged Anglo-Saxons, Bald's Leechbook, elf-shot, medieval history
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