“He held in spite of all his learning/That if a man’s belief is bad/It won’t be improved by burning”

A joke from janni:

Q: What do you get when you cross a monkey with a squid?

A: An immediate cessation of funding and a stern rebuke from the ethics committee.

In honor of which, some vaguely related links for you:

Neon is five minutes of freestyle skateboarding aka punk ballet from Andy Anderson, Isamu Yamamoto, and Kilian Martin. (via)

I had known that the 1962 erotic school story The Passion Flower Hotel by Rosalind Erskine (pen name of Roger Erskine Longrigg) had been loosely adapted into a 1978 movie, starring a young Nastassja Kinski. I vaguely knew it had been adapted for stage in 1965. I hadn’t known this latter was a musical, and had a soundtrack album (free to listen on archive.org). Wild.

Watch the first film in Babylonian ever made, enacting a story found on a 2700 y.o. clay tablet from Sultantepe. (via)

---L.

Subject quote from The Vicar, Winthrop Mackworth Praed.