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larryhammerA 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.
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.
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Date: 5 April 2023 05:04 pm (UTC)Also, musical erotica...WOW.
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Date: 5 April 2023 06:01 pm (UTC)The story is ... not exactly erotica. Erotic situations, more. I have fond memories of getting really pissed off when I read it as a teenager. (I have no idea why my parents had it on the shelves, and I don't think they even noticed I was reading it.) The narrator is the last of the group of schoolgirls who set up a brothel (aimed at the schoolboys across the way) to service a customer, but just as I was anticipating actually getting to read a sex scene, the author pulls a fast one -- her client is a childhood friend and they both find the idea of actually being intimate too embarrassing to attempt.
Such the cheat!
I can totally see a British theater toning the content down just enough to get it by any censors, while still keeping it scandalous enough to be successful by infamy.
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Date: 5 April 2023 10:03 pm (UTC)That is completely cheating if you want to read a sex scene, but also feels plausibly adolescent.
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Date: 5 April 2023 11:19 pm (UTC)Exactly. Rereading it as an adult, I read it that second way. While still remembering my original outrage.