Popculch
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Not sure how I found this yesterday, but Kotaku has a very interesting photo of Japanese popstar Kyary Pamyu Pamyu: For fans of the ‘holding one’s hair to vomit’ look (which we’ve discussed in a Classical context as well), check this out: Both photos via the fine folks at Kotaku …
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Tip o’ the pileus to Terrence Lockyer for alerting us to a feature in the Guardian which seems to be hype for a documentary of some sort: Ray Harryhausen: the father of fantasy film-making (Guardian)
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Tip o’ the pileus to Phoebe Acheson on twitter who alerted us to an article in the New York Times Magazine about rappers using twitter hashtags for inspiration and which also included this excerpt: There has been some debate among musicians and critics about whether such hip-hop rhymes constitute cheating. But these critiques are absurd.…
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In case you’re wondering what Mary Beard has been up to lately …. from the Independent: The much-loved classicist Mary Beard continues to conquer the airwaves, this time as an advisor on Plebs, a new sitcom set in Ancient Rome. “She’s given us a few pointers,” says Tom Basden, co-writer of the show, with Sam…
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Interesting opEd by Natalie Haynes in the Independent: Fall of a Roman emperor: how the conviction of Silvio Berlusconi repeats the pattern of history
rogue classicism 