Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Miss Cellania's Links

In 1948, a Soviet delegate to the UN explained that the reason Soviet women were not allowed to leave the country with foreign husbands was because that in the West wives became kitchen slaves and developed dishpan hands. (via Nag on the Lake)

U.K. cartoonist Rebecca Burke on her ICE detainment: ‘No one should be here.’ (via Metafilter)

Homestar Runner is a website again.

Andor: How the 'gangster' years of the young Joseph Stalin inspired the gritty Star Wars series. (via Boing Boing)

There’s Still More to Learn About Anne Frank. A new biography considers the young diarist as inspiration and as a person in her own right. (via Strange Company)

A Brief History of the Jonestown Massacre.

The Baseball Team That Would Literally Die If They Lost.

The Movie Mistake Mystery from Revenge of the Sith. It's been solved! (via kottke)

Angela Lansbury in famous works of art. (via Metafilter)

2 comments:

Debra She Who Seeks said...

Andor/Stalin -- yikes!

Anonymous said...

Boy that Homestar Runner video hits home.