LotR but classic 🇯🇵 actors
Gandalf: Shimura Takashi
Frodo: Nakadai Tatsuya
Sam: Katō Daisuke
Aragorn: Mifune Toshirō
Gimli: Katsu Shintarō
Leg.: Kimura Isao
Bor.: Okada Eiji
M&P: Tsuchiya Yoshio & ピーター
Galadriel: Hara Setsuko
Arwen: Yamaguchi Yoshiko
Gollum: Hidari Bokuzen
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David A. Conrad, Ph.D. #GunControlNow
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NTT historian in Texas. Tweeting about parenting toddlers, film, Japan. Author of AKIRA KUROSAWA AND MODERN JAPAN (2022) amazon.com/dp/1476686742/
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Martha Stewart's Cookies round 4! These are basically just brownies, but of course brownies are great so that's fine. I'm ready to try something a bit more offbeat, but it's not up to me! Difficulty with toddlers: 2/5, taste: 4/5
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Facebook moderation is also in the toilet.
Good candidate or bad candidate, if your political signs aren't down two days after the election, I think you should have to eat them all. In public, on stage, like Werner Herzog eating his shoe.
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The biggest mystery about Texas food culture is why horchata isn't as ubiquitous as the breakfast taco. We should be drinking horchatas every morning. I just had one with lunch after several months without coming across one, and it was like I hadn't been living in the interim.
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Today is my birthday. One thing I'd love is if teachers (high school, college, law, grad school, etc.) took advantage of our offer to send free copies of my book Usual Cruelty to your students. Send me a DM if you have students who want to learn more about the punishment system.
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Weird, though, that they named their kid after "the bravest men I ever knew... Dracula Renfield Harker."
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Congrats to my fellow #DraculaDaily readers! This was my first read, and I found the book interesting as a window on the late Victorian era and for the paths it lays out that most adaptations haven't taken. It's often a goofy book, but that epilogue is surprisingly moving.
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What's fun about the last few days of #DraculaDaily is that our Scooby Gang is divided into three groups: The Brains (Van Helsing and Mina), the Muscle (Seward and Morris), and the... well, the helpless sadsacks who broke their boat (Jonathan and Arthur.)
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Probably a good thing they didn't finish the one on the building.
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The early voting line on campus is at least as long as I've ever seen it. It was very long in 2016 too. The suburban library where I live and vote had a line the day I went, which is a first. Just anecdotes, but TX turnout and engagement feel high. Don't get your hopes up though.
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Martha Stewart's Cookies round 3! I was skeptical of these, because they seemed a lot like the first ones we made, which I didn't like, but these turned out great, even after substituting sprinkles for sanding sugar. Difficulty with toddlers: 2/5 (at most!); taste: 4/5
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Last year I memorized "Monster Mash," and this year I memorized "Purple People Eater." They're the only two songs 1yo lets me sing to her at night.
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Source for above astronomy facts: October 2022 SKY & TELESCOPE
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This thread was supposed to just be a one-off cool, scary fact about black holes, things that destroy all in their reach, but somehow it segued very naturally to the handiwork of a malevolent billionaire. Weird.
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And it's not just astronomical tools being affected, it's your health and that of many animals affected by nocturnal rhythms. Satellites and debris have increased skyglow by 10%, and that will keep increasing. Bright sats would happen without Elon, but he's uniquely apathetic.
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Apropos, did you know that Elon Musk is polluting the night sky? His SpaceX satellites are too bright and can mess up astronomical tools. He made them a little dimmer at the request of international astronomers org, then walked that back and is planning potentially brighter ones.
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One random one has recently been detected (probably) about 5000 light years away, which seems too close for me.
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Today's frightening astronomy fact: there are an estimated 100 million black holes *in our galaxy* that are undetected (we don't know where they are.) It's not just the big central one. There are at least 100 billion stars, so odds of them being far from ours are good, but still!
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So funny, so cute, so pleasingly repetitive. I could try to explain it in a non-spoiler way, but as a character says, it's easier to just see it.
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You remember 20 years ago when every German language class was watching RUN, LOLA, RUN? Japanese classes need to be doing that right now with BEYOND THE INFINITE TWO MINUTES (Dorosute no hate de bokura, 2020). (Title refers to Droste effect, picture-within-picture.) *Delightful.*
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I'm frustrated that it's fallen into the hands of a destructive, bad-faith actor, and I expect that to hasten the end of its positive usefulness, in this regard and others. I just hope it can be replicated (and improved, because again, curation is very hard) somewhere else.
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Twitter is really hard to curate, but following the right ppl and topics has exposed me to a lot of published and not-yet-widely-published research that I used in my book. It's expanded and sometimes substantially changed my thinking and is a way better tool than journal reviews.
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And it's not even one of those fatalist social dramas I love. Well, OK, it is, but it's not LIKE one of those fatalist social dramas I love. Light sci-fi/supernatural/mind-bendy, but very matter-of-fact and grounded in its generation-spanning sort-of-murder-mystery story.
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Ever watched a Laotian movie? Want to see a really good one that's streaming free on Tubi and Roku? Check out THE LONG WALK (2019).
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He was treated for mental illness. The family called police when he started acting out. The school locked the doors.
None of it stopped this.
Why? Because Missouri has some of the loosest gun laws in the nation.
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I'll participate in the harmless J-studies pile-on. :)
10 Japanese concepts that will improve your life:
1. Tachigui soba
2. New Year's soba
3. Zaru soba
4. Don't be allergic to soba
5. I don't care for sobacha
6. Soba would be good rn
7. I like soba
8. S
9. O
10. BA
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There are absurdly unqualified, unethical people getting elected to school boards *because* people believe this.
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One of the oldest fascist tricks is making up a fake problem in order to attack real people. It's not just celebrity clowns like Ron Johnson; lots of supposedly "regular" people around here believe this myth.
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GOP Senator Ron Johnson says he’s “well aware” of kids using litter boxes in schools lgbtq.to/3N9WSPo
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I think someone's RPG character is trying to sell me insurance.
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Went through my biannual tradition of voting for a bunch of people who will lose statewide office. Next month we will observe the biannual tradition of consoling ourselves with the pleasing myth that Texas is purple and a flip is coming. Whatever we need to tell ourselves!🤷
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Just look at how the American right reacted to the recent official trip to Taiwan - a trip that would have been considered totally normal during most of the last 70 years. Given the choice between normality and crisis, they strongly prefer crisis.
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If you think liberal democracy - let alone progressive commitments to the planet and its people - are on thin ice now, just wait until the liberal bloc breaks, its pieces realign, and everyone starts prepping for the big one. Everywhere's far right is ready to capitalize on that.
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(I know The Telegraph sucks, but this is a real concern)
US commitment to holding the international status quo has been decreasing for years. We also can't do for an island what we've done for Ukraine. Japanese armament (forget the "re-") will increase exponentially.
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We will not. The dog (harmless but curious) is obsessing over the nest and I think the adult has prudently abandoned it (without ever having babies there.)
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I want my price to come down, but the publisher sells mainly to libraries and libraries usually pay that without batting an eye, so...
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