my.back.pages
@elshahan.bsky.social
Novelist. Sports fan. Foodie. Into books, movies, and music.
Pinned
It's hard to watch Season 2 of #WolfHall in our current climate, knowing what's coming for Thomas Cromwell, servant of a king who is cunning, capricious, and ready to lop off a head over the smallest slight, even if he learns later that the information given him was malicious. Oops, too late now.
April 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
It's hard to watch Season 2 of #WolfHall in our current climate, knowing what's coming for Thomas Cromwell, servant of a king who is cunning, capricious, and ready to lop off a head over the smallest slight, even if he learns later that the information given him was malicious. Oops, too late now.
#MyBrilliantFriend may be my all-time favorite tv series, with each season based on its own fully fleshed novel. (Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet.) I expected to resist the recasting of Season 4 but adjusted to the new faces almost immediately. Lila and Nino especially. Bellissimo.
January 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
#MyBrilliantFriend may be my all-time favorite tv series, with each season based on its own fully fleshed novel. (Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet.) I expected to resist the recasting of Season 4 but adjusted to the new faces almost immediately. Lila and Nino especially. Bellissimo.
Sadly, I've reached my interceptions-per-game limit.
January 12, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Sadly, I've reached my interceptions-per-game limit.
How about if Congress makes it a crime for a local, state or federal official or staff to lie to the American people or misrepresent the facts by any means.
January 10, 2025 at 12:13 AM
How about if Congress makes it a crime for a local, state or federal official or staff to lie to the American people or misrepresent the facts by any means.
Twenty years ago the Santa Ana winds came up each September and we called it "fire season." It was very rare that a single structure was lost to wildfires then, but climate change has turned fire season into a year-round phenomenon and the sheer force of the winds into a raging inferno.
#LAFires
#LAFires
January 9, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Twenty years ago the Santa Ana winds came up each September and we called it "fire season." It was very rare that a single structure was lost to wildfires then, but climate change has turned fire season into a year-round phenomenon and the sheer force of the winds into a raging inferno.
#LAFires
#LAFires
The floods, the fires, the lies, Trump. What an exhausting time to be alive.
January 9, 2025 at 4:16 AM
The floods, the fires, the lies, Trump. What an exhausting time to be alive.
Vice President Kamala Harris Tribute to President Jimmy Carter
YouTube video by C-SPAN
www.youtube.com
January 8, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I guess you all heard what happened over at #Threads today. I actually had a lot of fun there, and the downside seemed nonexistent until today.
What will we call this miserable epoch? The Bro Age?
What will we call this miserable epoch? The Bro Age?
January 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I guess you all heard what happened over at #Threads today. I actually had a lot of fun there, and the downside seemed nonexistent until today.
What will we call this miserable epoch? The Bro Age?
What will we call this miserable epoch? The Bro Age?
We need a peacetime national anthem that people can actually sing. It shouldn't be this painful.
January 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
We need a peacetime national anthem that people can actually sing. It shouldn't be this painful.
A woman in Cork City, Ireland clocks an intruder over the head with a religious statuette and accidentally kills him. Instead of reporting this to the police, who would probably have understood that she was only defending herself, she goes a different way, and from this one decision all the
December 11, 2024 at 6:38 PM
A woman in Cork City, Ireland clocks an intruder over the head with a religious statuette and accidentally kills him. Instead of reporting this to the police, who would probably have understood that she was only defending herself, she goes a different way, and from this one decision all the
I personally nominate Josh O'Connor for Best Supporting Actor in Challengers. And The Crown. And The Durrells in Corfu. He's brilliant in everything he does.
#GoldenGlobes2024
#GoldenGlobes2024
December 9, 2024 at 7:21 PM
I personally nominate Josh O'Connor for Best Supporting Actor in Challengers. And The Crown. And The Durrells in Corfu. He's brilliant in everything he does.
#GoldenGlobes2024
#GoldenGlobes2024
December 7, 2024 at 9:18 PM
December 7, 2024 at 7:25 PM
December 6, 2024 at 5:10 AM
I think it's obscene that so many Americans have to resort to Go-Fund-Me's to cover their health care costs. And even then it's not enough.
QUESTION: What are your thoughts on the US healthcare system?
December 6, 2024 at 1:01 AM
I think it's obscene that so many Americans have to resort to Go-Fund-Me's to cover their health care costs. And even then it's not enough.
Am currently listening to Brideshead Revisited, narrated by Jeremy Irons. Last night I searched for it on Britbox and there it was, all 11 episodes, beautifully and faithfully rendered. Subscribing to Britbox was one of the “coping strategies” I instigated post-election, and so far it’s paying off.
December 3, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Am currently listening to Brideshead Revisited, narrated by Jeremy Irons. Last night I searched for it on Britbox and there it was, all 11 episodes, beautifully and faithfully rendered. Subscribing to Britbox was one of the “coping strategies” I instigated post-election, and so far it’s paying off.
This #ArizonaState football team is really fun to watch. Love the play calling!
#Big12 #FBS #KennyDillingham #CamSkattebo
#Big12 #FBS #KennyDillingham #CamSkattebo
November 30, 2024 at 9:25 PM
This #ArizonaState football team is really fun to watch. Love the play calling!
#Big12 #FBS #KennyDillingham #CamSkattebo
#Big12 #FBS #KennyDillingham #CamSkattebo
Seriously.
Cummings was a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration when Musk attacked her for her criticisms of Tesla. Maybe its not a great idea to put him in charge government agencies.
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
November 30, 2024 at 4:11 PM
Seriously.
I said this last week, and I'll say it again: If you don't have time for #NFLfootball, just watch the last two minutes of any #Chiefs game, and you'll be good.
November 29, 2024 at 11:22 PM
I said this last week, and I'll say it again: If you don't have time for #NFLfootball, just watch the last two minutes of any #Chiefs game, and you'll be good.