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I've heard this conversation a dozen times this month.
Person 1: You notice how The Grinch is everywhere this year?
Person 2: Yeah, there must be another movie coming out.
There isn't. The last Grinch media was the NBC musical in 2020. No reason other than the oldest reason in marketing: sex sells
Person 1: You notice how The Grinch is everywhere this year?
Person 2: Yeah, there must be another movie coming out.
There isn't. The last Grinch media was the NBC musical in 2020. No reason other than the oldest reason in marketing: sex sells
December 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I've heard this conversation a dozen times this month.
Person 1: You notice how The Grinch is everywhere this year?
Person 2: Yeah, there must be another movie coming out.
There isn't. The last Grinch media was the NBC musical in 2020. No reason other than the oldest reason in marketing: sex sells
Person 1: You notice how The Grinch is everywhere this year?
Person 2: Yeah, there must be another movie coming out.
There isn't. The last Grinch media was the NBC musical in 2020. No reason other than the oldest reason in marketing: sex sells
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insanely good thing to say when you enter a room
December 13, 2025 at 9:04 AM
insanely good thing to say when you enter a room
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the aesthetic signifiers i love are IN for 2026! and the aesthetic signifiers i loathe? baby you better believe they’re OUT!
December 15, 2025 at 5:43 PM
the aesthetic signifiers i love are IN for 2026! and the aesthetic signifiers i loathe? baby you better believe they’re OUT!
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British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line
On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
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Give it up, Sub-Subs!
December 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Give it up, Sub-Subs!
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Annunciation, in a charming Flemish domestic-ecclesiastical interior, 1480. By Aelbrecht Bouts, whose day is today.
December 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Annunciation, in a charming Flemish domestic-ecclesiastical interior, 1480. By Aelbrecht Bouts, whose day is today.
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I PULL UP TO THE GIG READY TO DIE
December 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I PULL UP TO THE GIG READY TO DIE
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One of the most colorful figures in the black market for ancient art has died. For @lrb.co.uk, I wrote about Jonathan Tokeley-Parry - a smuggler who made fake fakes to defeat border inspections to get Egyptian artifacts to the UK and US, whose downfall both changed and didn’t change the market.
‘By his own estimate, Jonathan Tokeley-Parry smuggled three thousand antiquities out of Egypt in 65 trips over six years. His success was down to his skill as a “fabricator”.’
Erin L. Thompson (@artcrimeprof.bsky.social) on the blog:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Erin L. Thompson (@artcrimeprof.bsky.social) on the blog:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Erin L. Thompson | Fake it till you make it
Jonathan Tokeley-Parry, who died last month, had a business card in the early 1990s that described him as ‘Jonty “...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
One of the most colorful figures in the black market for ancient art has died. For @lrb.co.uk, I wrote about Jonathan Tokeley-Parry - a smuggler who made fake fakes to defeat border inspections to get Egyptian artifacts to the UK and US, whose downfall both changed and didn’t change the market.
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Small dour boy in all black feeds biscuit to evil goat in 1655. No good ending forecast for this lad! By Anthonie Palamedesz, whose day is today.
November 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Small dour boy in all black feeds biscuit to evil goat in 1655. No good ending forecast for this lad! By Anthonie Palamedesz, whose day is today.
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in retrospect the metoo movement did not go too far and in fact should have been given spanish inquisition levels of power and authority
November 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
in retrospect the metoo movement did not go too far and in fact should have been given spanish inquisition levels of power and authority
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Music is basically a detective novel where the musicians are the suspects/criminals, the listener is the detective and of course the music is the crime. The listener tries to determine what happened and what was the motivation, while the musicians try to obscure this, so they can get away with it.
November 13, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Music is basically a detective novel where the musicians are the suspects/criminals, the listener is the detective and of course the music is the crime. The listener tries to determine what happened and what was the motivation, while the musicians try to obscure this, so they can get away with it.
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The Marl Pit in four parts
digital painting
digital painting
November 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The Marl Pit in four parts
digital painting
digital painting
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What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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salt marsh
A tribute to a small patch of vegetation on a local beach that has driven everyone completely insane
A tribute to a small patch of vegetation on a local beach that has driven everyone completely insane
November 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
salt marsh
A tribute to a small patch of vegetation on a local beach that has driven everyone completely insane
A tribute to a small patch of vegetation on a local beach that has driven everyone completely insane
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Woodcut print by Eline Brontsema, Blue Swimming Hall , Fincknsteinallee 2024. Size 67.8 x 51 cm.
October 29, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Woodcut print by Eline Brontsema, Blue Swimming Hall , Fincknsteinallee 2024. Size 67.8 x 51 cm.
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Just keep this in mind and every day is easier.
October 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Just keep this in mind and every day is easier.
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‘There is no getting around the weirdness. We don’t really know what it is or what it was for.’
@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on the Pearl Manuscript, which includes the only copy of ‘Gawain and the Green Knight’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on the Pearl Manuscript, which includes the only copy of ‘Gawain and the Green Knight’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tom Johnson · Supereffable: Mysteries of the Pearl Manuscript
Any book made by hand is unique, but the Pearl Manuscript’s claim to uniqueness is unparalleled: the manuscript...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 8:03 AM
‘There is no getting around the weirdness. We don’t really know what it is or what it was for.’
@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on the Pearl Manuscript, which includes the only copy of ‘Gawain and the Green Knight’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on the Pearl Manuscript, which includes the only copy of ‘Gawain and the Green Knight’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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This essay, by an Egyptian-American former New Yorker staff fact-checker, is an incredible read
And incredibly damning
Huge recommendation
And incredibly damning
Huge recommendation
House Arab
I was working at the magazine as a fact-checker and my parents no longer considered me a failure, not because they read or admired it, but because when they said its name to friends and relatives it s...
bidoun.org
September 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
This essay, by an Egyptian-American former New Yorker staff fact-checker, is an incredible read
And incredibly damning
Huge recommendation
And incredibly damning
Huge recommendation