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@GailSimone One of my favorite bits from Morrison’s JLA run was Luthor trying to use corporate takeover tactics against the league, not knowing that he was up against someone who was just as good at it as he was!

@GailSimone One of my favorite bits from Morrison’s JLA run was Luthor trying to use corporate takeover tactics against the league, not knowing that he was up against someone who was just as good at it as he was!

Parody Account

Social media is a place we try to present an idealized image of ourselves. Even when it’s authentic, it’s edited out of necessity.

So if you think about it, aren’t we all just impersonating ourselves on here?

Guess I’d better mark my account as a parody before I get kicked out.

Who Are Les Miserables?

A response to @matthewjmandel asking my thoughts on A Comparative Book / Movie Review of LES MISÉRABLES

It’s interesting. I agree with a lot of the comments about losing complexity, but I don’t have as much of a problem with the character changes (partly because I’m used to the stage version, where Gavroche is less political & the the Thenardiers are funny, but still dangerous)

Eponine’s probably the biggest change that isn’t just a simplification, but I think her role in the story still works, even if the details have been changed.

I do have a problem with the finale, because it’s *not* Jean Valjean’s heaven by any stretch of the imagination. It works better on stage, where it’s more like a curtain call for all the characters who have died.

The main place I disagree with the post, though, is about the theme and title. Listening to @readlesmispod talking about how the word is perceived in French makes it clear that *all* of the main characters are “miserables” and Hugo is linking the sympathetic wretched like Valjean and Fantine with the clearly evil wretched like the Thenardiers because, as far as society is concerned, they’re the same. Society looks at Fantine and thinks she’s just as depraved as Thenardier.

And Hugo is arguing that they *all* deserve compassion, that they *all* should have a better life, that society should treat them *all* better, whether they turn to evil when they fall or not.

So the musical is less of a complete inversion of the theme and (once again) more of a simplification.

Fiction can’t *prove* a point about about reality, but it can make you *think*…

Something I wrote after my third time through #LesMiserables:

Fiction can’t *prove* a point about about reality, but it can make you *think* about it, and consider connections or perspectives that you might not have considered before. And that’s a very valuable thing.

https://hyperborea.org/les-mis/about/third-time-through/

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Thanks, Trending Topics, for yet another example of a prominent conservative shouting about persecution when he discovers he’s subject to the same rules and economic consequences as everyone else. Like all the other comics canceled by the same conglomerate.

Thanks, Trending Topics, for yet another example of a prominent conservative shouting about persecution when he discovers he’s subject to the same rules and economic consequences as everyone else. Like all the other comics canceled by the same conglomerate.

Following up on the puzzle metaphor: You look for more pieces, you figure out where they fit, you set aside the ones that turn out to be from a different puzzle, and you get a better idea of what the picture is as you go along.

Following up on the puzzle metaphor: You look for more pieces, you figure out where they fit, you set aside the ones that turn out to be from a different puzzle, and you get a better idea of what the picture is as you go along.

Two crows chased a squirrel across the lawn at a park…

Two crows chased a squirrel across the lawn at a park, one of them swooping down and possibly making contact with its claws (I couldn't quite tell) until it ran up this tree.Then they perched on a nearby fence and waited. When it tried to run down the trunk, they flew at it again and it went back up. One crow perched on another branch of the tree and waited, while the other flew off.

#nature #birds #squirrel #crows

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Squirrel on iNaturalist
Crow on iNaturalist