Kosmograd

Apr
9th

Thu

And after all, your pigs are far more intelligent than the other animals, and therefore the best qualified to run the farm - in fact, there couldn’t have been an Animal Farm at all without them: so that what was needed (someone might argue), was not more communism but more public-spirited pigs.

— TS Eliot, in his 1944 rejection letter of Animal Farm, to George Orwell, published at the Times Archive

I was watching Persona on Film4 on the day Bergman died. it started at some time in the early morning and they cut it off halfway through when the channel closed at about 4am. I am convinced this is what killed him.

— Comment by lindsaymartin123 on “Mad love for New Wave”

Apr
3rd

Fri

From Wired UK

Apr
2nd

Thu

In one issue of 2000AD Mega City One has passed a law making all pointless hobbies illegal. Judge Dredd arrests a man who has spent the last 15 years trying to headbutt an egg, dropped from an elaborate mechanism, into a bucket of sand without breaking it. It is a crime because all citizens are required to actively contribute to society and not to distract themselves with useless pleasures.

— Stuart Nolan, Citizen Players vs. Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy

Mar
23rd

Mon