Robbie Moore

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Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Tasmania. "Hotel Modernity: Corporate Space in Literature and Film" from Edinburgh UP. He/him.

Headline: Christopher Nolan couldn't escape 'despair'. So he made 'The Odyssey.'
Cover of Matt King’s A History of Goblins
The term "krautrock" was popularised by British music journalists as a pejorative umbrella-label for the diverse German scene, 18) and although many such artists disliked the term, it subsequently fell into standard usage.
Alabaster DePlume - Come With Fierce Grace Valerie June - Under Cover Caetano Veloso - Caetano Veloso
Subtitle for a scene in a tv show that says "dark, inexorable music"
Freud writes: "Why hats and cloaks are used in the same way (ie. as sexual symbols), is certainly difficult to divine, but their symbolic meaning is certainly unquestionable." Later, in his New Introductory Lectures (5), Freud was able to add some explanatory details regarding the symbolism of cloaks, but was still, apparently, unable to cast further light on the symbolism of hats.
"Say the line, Bart" meme, in which the younger Simpson is cajoled into repeating his TV catchphrase for his classmates, who cheer. But this time Bart is Marc Augé and his catchphrase is "That's a non-place". It's a witty piece of contemporary commentary.
Homer Simpson in bed with his endearing little reading glasses
THIS AINT NO LOONEY TOONS
ngram showing the rise of the word "liminal" since 1950 and some wild speculations about why that might be
LP of Sonny Rollins’ Way Out West (1957) with Rollins in full cowboy regalia out in the badlands
Mighty Boosh: “I knew I should have gone for the Gothic three-way”
Rachel Maddow pointing to her catchphrase "watch what they do, not what they say"
IMJ Bayesian Analysis Of Blood Transfusion In Dracula M O'Connor, N Dunbar Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, USA
It is hardly an exaggeration to say that the tip of the radicle thus endowed, and having the power of directing the movements of the adjoining parts, acts like the brain of one of the lower animals; the brain being seated within the anterior end of the body, receiving impressions from the sense-organs, and directing the several movements.
† figurative and in figurative context. to hit the master-vein (slang): to make a sexual conquest. Obsolete. 1592 My faire daughter was hit on the master vaine and gotten with childe. R. Greene, Disputation Conny-catcher 1614 I know a lad Can hit the maister-vaine. W. Browne, Shepheards Pipe ii.
Sepia portrait from 1866. Gentleman lounging side-saddle on a chair with knee-high boots, cane, cravat, cocked hat.
Beaky 70s leisurewear Joffrey child being sassy to John Cleese
The Guardian Oil price falls and markets rally after Trump says Iran war over in ‘two to three weeks’ | US-Israel war on Iran
Clark Gable inspecting Carole Lombard's gams in No Man of Her Own (1932)
Conductor Johan Svendsen at his farewell performance at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, May 31, 1902.
tippi hedren not coping
A lot of birds from The Birds (1963)
Buckley as Marian Halcombe looking wry with her beach horse
It is something of a cliché that amateurs talk strategy while professionals do logistics. The fungibility of commercial and military transport – and especially maritime shipping – and commercial logistics’ borrowings from the military are welltrodden terrains of study. 99 On battlefields around the world, when the fighting recedes, the material and places of war-making are expediently transformed into sites of logistics and commerce. Military airfields become airports; landing sites for warships become ports; the detention centre at Camp Bucca in Iraq becomes Basra Logistics City; and the bases at Subic Bay and Clark in the Philippines become air-sea hubs. 100 But just as easily as military bases become emporia of trade, they can be reconverted into military outposts. Quartermasters of capital are so often indistinguishable from the masters of trade.
Sting, Bryan Adams and Rod Stewart in a promo for All for Love
A troubling poster for Disney's Snow Dogs with a smiling sunglasses-wearing dog
Sometimes I lifted my gaze to some huge old dwelling-house on which the shutters had not been closed and in which amphibious men and women floated slowly to and fro in the rich liquid that after nightfall rose incessantly from the wells of the lamps to fill the rooms to the very brink of the outer walls of stone and glass, the movement of their bodies sending through it long unctuous golden ripples.
for the first time to gaze at my leisure at that plump cheek, that arched neck, that tapering eyebrow (veiled from me hitherto by the swiftness of her passage, the bewilderment of my impressions, the imperfection of memory);
jet shot out of sky in kuwait
Cover of Evelyn Araluen's newest collection The Rot
Title page for The Monk of Udolpho by T. J. Horsley Curties, Esq. 1807.
reading should be “active, an act of attention, of absorbed alertness — not all that different from hunting, in fact, or from gathering. To read a story well is to follow it, to act it, to feel it, to become it — … reading is actual collaboration with the writer’s mind.” Le Guin, Ursula K. "Staying Awake: Notes on the Alleged Decline of Reading." Harper’s, Feb. 2008.
How I Accidentally Helped Spark The Pepys ‘Cancellation’ Furore By Guy de la Bédoyère 30 January 2026
Audio player playing C.L.R. James's The Black Jacobins
Headline: Ozempic and Mounjaro lead to explosion in cases of old school pirates disease Image is a black and white illustration of absolute drunken shirtless pandemonium on a pirate ship
Guardian headline Film Meet the unlikely star of the bodice-ripping Wuthering Heights: Martin Clunes
So I come finally to my principal point here, that this latest mutation in space-postmodern hyperspace—has finally succeeded in transcending the capacities of the individual human body to locate itself, to organize its immediate surroundings perceptually, and cognitively to map its position in a mappable external world. It may now be suggested that this alarming disjunction point between the body and its built environment-which is to the initial bewilderment of the older modernism as the velocities of spacecraft to those of the automobile— can itself stand as the symbol and analogon of that even sharper dilemma which is the incapacity of our minds, at least at present, to map the great global multinational and decentered communicational network in which we find ourselves caught as individual subjects.
they are down to a couple. But the real cuts have been to the once fine literary section, where the book reviews have shrunk from seven pages to between two and four under the literary editor, Caroline Overington. A spokesperson for The Australian said the masthead was "modernising and expanding its culture, arts, and entertainment coverage through a new multi-platform Culture vertical led by Milanda Rout, investing in video, newsletters, and fresh voices".
Opinion Blair: Why Sydney must ban protest marches permanently Protest organisers are exploiting borderline-unemployable university students, elderly Greens voters, consanguineous immigrant communities and other probable NDIS candidates, writes Tim Blair. 236 Comments
Poster for Under Milk Wood. Linocut illustration of a seabird, ocean and green hills.
Text message Today 9:29 am What about this Luciano "Bad News" Berio
LP cover of Ann Peebles' I Can't Stand the Rain
The Woke Right Stands At the Door Whence comes this uncanniest of all guests? JONATHAN RAUCH AUG 07, 2025
A bewhiskered man with a timber wheelbarrow selling rolled horse meat on sticks
The street musicians, for instance, are said to number 1,000, and the old clothesmen the same. There are supposed to be at the least 500 sellers of water-cresses; 200 coffee-stalls; 300 cats-meat men; 250 ballad-singers; 200 play-bill sellers; from 800 to 1,000 bone-grubbers and mud-larks; 1,000 crossing-sweepers; another thousand chimney-sweeps, and the same number of turncocks and lamp-lighters; all of whom, together with the street-performers and showmen, tinkers, chair, umbrella, and clock-menders, sellers of bonnet-boxes, toys, stationery, songs, last dying-speeches, tubs, pails, mats, crockery, blacking, lucifers, corn-salves, clothes-pegs, brooms, sweetmeats, razors, dog-collars, dogs, birds, coals, sand,—scavengers, dustmen, and others, make up, it may be fairly assumed, full thirty thousand adults, so that, reckoning men, women, and children, we may truly say that there are upwards of fifty thousand individuals, or about a fortieth-part of the entire population of the metropolis getting their living in the streets.
Example of string quartet reviews seen by clicking through
Expressionist painting of yellow wind spiralling through a grove of trees
A suited gentleman with a big grey lion’s quiff and his finger resting on a keyword in a book as he looks wryly at the camera. Depressing high-sheen old world scholarly digs. Suit guy might comment on his suit.
The dead-eyed robot politician from Parks and Rec, in power saving mode