Cinema · Observations · Humour

David Fincher in 1992 and Rex Whistler in 1934

To be perfectly honest, one always felt sorry for the poor Alien, especially in the instalment where he took Ellen Ripley for his mother, and she flew off without him in a spaceship

Two bright graffiti-style paintings on a white gallery wall: a cartoon girl with a blue bow and a portrait of a blonde woman.

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Adrien Brody makes his debut as a painter at an exhibition in New York

Paintings from Adrien Brody's debut exhibition in New York as proof that a man cannot be equally bad at two different things. And Brody the painter is even worse than Brody the actor

Archive · Cinema · Pop Culture · Humour

When you feel like a happy walrus

Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, 1962

Nature · Humour

The Execution of Prometheus, Had It Been Filmed in Present-Day Hollywood

Angela Merkel at the Marlow Bird Park during a visit to her former constituency of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

NB! · Moscow · Humour

We would have been the perfect couple, but I am at Chistye Prudy in Moscow, and you are on the outskirts of Inman, South Carolina

Close-up of the lunar surface in warm tones, with small craters, rugged lit terrain at the bottom and a dark area at the foot of the frame.

NB! · Observations · Science · Nature · Humour

Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has published a new photograph of the Moon

The American astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has shared a new picture of the Moon. She is, in principle, a beauty in our own skies too, only not quite so cheerful

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The Young Napoleon on the Bridge at Arcole Looks More Like the Musician Rod Stewart Than Like Himself in the Later Portraits

Books · Observations · Humour

“The yearling fillies pretend to be grown up and staid, and only rarely do they skip about or join the merry companies

“The yearling fillies pretend to be grown up and staid, and only rarely do they skip about or join the merry companies. They graze decorously, arching their swan-like, close-cropped necks, and, as though they too had tails, they flick their little brooms. Just like the grown-up ones,

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If Death in a shroud appears in the sky with a coffin under his arm, expect overcast weather

If the Pope, the king, the cardinals and the gentry are in the jaws of the beast, it will be hot, with an orange weather warning. If both at once, traffic jams of 9 points out of 10.

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A Brief Summary of Any Masterpiece of World Literature

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Alexander the Great Watches His Beloved Roxana from a Special Bubble-Shaped Device for Underwater Travel

Alexander the Great watches his beloved Roxana from a special bubble-shaped device for underwater travel. The technology of the future in the service of the ancient world

Cinema · Paris · Humour

French serial “Les Vampires” of 1915 about a criminal association in Paris

The first vampire serial appeared as early as 1915, although Les Vampires, shot in France, was in general one of the first serials in history. In essence, though, the vampires figure in it not as supernatural beings but as the name of a criminal society spreading terror in Paris. The