Week of June 23, 2024
I was featured in one of my favorite newsletters last week, What’s In My Now?
What Does It Take to Stand Up to Tyranny? Plus, Why a Professor of Fascism Left the US: ‘The lesson of 1933 is – you get out’
What was Going on When I was Born? See headlines from your birthday.
The origin of the photo seen at the end of The Shining has at last been rediscovered. Speaking of movies, It’s True: The JAWS Shark is Public Domain - a fascinating story.
Two fun new videos, Archbishop Harold Holmes by Jack White, with a video featuring John C. Riley and a new Talking Heads’ video of Psycho Killer, starring Saoirse Ronan and directed by Mike Mills. Plus, the best Stand By Me cover you’ll ever hear. I hesitate to even call it a cover; it’s more like a reinvention.