Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Erik Highter

burgleyourturts @burgleyourturts.bsky.social · 2h

Real book enjoyers know that reading books and having books are separate pursuits and that far from tragedy, a pristine unread book is a battery, a drawn bow creaking for release.

1 1 11

Erik Highter @highter.bsky.social · 14h

Shuffling fiction into dozens of discrete genres allows it to survive economically but it turns the authors and audience into inbred closed systems feeding only on themselves.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

1 12 42

Erik Highter @highter.bsky.social · 1d

Chef Boyardee

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

2

Erik Highter @highter.bsky.social · 1d

I think it does exactly what it wants and if you click with it you’ll enjoy it. I didn’t click and found it infuriating all the way through

1

Erik Highter @highter.bsky.social · 1d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand:

Mushrooms
Werckmeister Harmonies
Paradise By The Dashboard Light

Paul @mondosalvo.com · 1d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand:

Hard-boiled eggs and their evil twin deviled eggs.

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World - this plays on a loop in hell.

American Pie by Don McLean - absolutely 1000% nope.

Arron Wright @nonoxcol.bsky.social · 1d

“Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand”

Rice pudding - turned stomach since childhood

Forrest Gump - as an American History MA it makes my brain puke

Breakfast At Tiffany's by Deep Blue Something, obviously!

1 3

Erik Highter @highter.bsky.social · 1d

The Dallas tapes everyone wants are from the SRV rehearsals

2

Erik Highter @highter.bsky.social · 1d

You gotta do Bilbo Bogans

Reposted by Erik Highter

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 1d

People never believe this fresco is real, but it is!

Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 1d

Top funny thing from @adapalmer.bsky.social ‘s INVENTING THE RENAISSANCE: “Filippino Lippi’s Saint Thomas Aquinas Interrupts the Annunciation to Introduce the Virgin Mary to Cardinal Carafa who paid for the painting, while patient Archangel Gabriel just has to wait.”

www.wga.hu/support/view...

4 27 140

Erik Highter @highter.bsky.social · 1d

That fucking ending with those DOA Captain Planet wannabes. That payoff still pisses me off because the manhunter stuff was neat.

2

Erik Highter @highter.bsky.social · 2d

These goofballs had a sincere streak under all the silly jokes. The Dead Milkmen helped me find a way to be a teddy bear of a wiseass as a teen (though, like them, I didn't always get the balance right). Thanks guys!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhcO...

The Guitar Song

YouTube video by The Dead Milkmen - Topic

www.youtube.com

5

Erik Highter @highter.bsky.social · 2d

The fans acted like that towards Living Colour on the Steel Wheels tour. It was shameful.

3

Erik Highter @highter.bsky.social · 2d

First time he’s happy to hear someone tell him to go fuck himself

3

Erik Highter @highter.bsky.social · 2d

Leto plays both main roles

1 2

Erik Highter @highter.bsky.social · 2d

I feel ya. I was down a long time. All I can say is you’re not alone. Also try to notice the little things that bring you joy. It’s easy to dismiss the minor things as not worth bothering with when it’s rough but they accumulate.

3

Erik Highter @highter.bsky.social · 2d

The Peneid

1 2

Erik Highter @highter.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks!

Reposted by Erik Highter

Joshy McBoo! @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 3d

Happy news! I got in contact with someone who had digital versions of the newsletter of Kay Woollard's smial which ran from 84 to 87, which gave me access to some more of her art.

She did a series of comic strips about a hobbit child called Wilmot who has a catch phrase "I'VE THUNK"

1 15 57

Erik Highter @highter.bsky.social · 3d

Interesting! I love all the history and the culture around the book but I don’t feel the hook of the book itself. I think a lot of that is my poor latin and poetic choices are hard to translate.

1 1

Erik Highter @highter.bsky.social · 3d

From what I remember of the latin I hacked at back then, Virgil’s verse is special. His alliteration, his images, his choices have kept it known. Thousands of years of study and commentary and pleasure. The 2nd most read book after the bible.
Aeneas still a cardboard placeholder of a person.

1 2

Erik Highter @highter.bsky.social · 3d

Reading the Aeneid for the first time since high school. Aeneas is just empty duty; his lack of character is why I haven’t revisited it in decades while I read the Homeric epics every few years. The only person in the Aeneid is Dido, one of the greatest characters in ancient epic but it’s not enough

2 3

Erik Highter @highter.bsky.social · 4d

I’m mad we skipped 8-tracks

1

Erik Highter @highter.bsky.social · 4d

I know that wasn’t your intent. It’s a bit of a trope inside the community so it gets my hackles up. Didn’t mean to go full rant :)

1 1

Erik Highter @highter.bsky.social · 4d

You wouldn’t make this joke about how everyone is a little queer. Don’t mock what you don’t understand.

1

Erik Highter @highter.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, you technically are on a spectrum but it has a specific use that you’re flippantly dismissing. It is for people who are neurodiverse. There is a spectrum for something like autism, with very different issues and presentation. And it’s not a line you “fall off.” This isn’t for your yucks.

2 1

Erik Highter @highter.bsky.social · 4d

Linda Ronstadt has many career highlights and Mas Canciones is one of them. That amazing voice shines on those songs, like here with her brothers on closer "El Sueno"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxD3...

El Sueno (2016 Remaster)

YouTube video by Linda Ronstadt - Topic

www.youtube.com

4