Feeling an intense desire to find my way to the alternate universe where Zardoz and not Star Wars was the franchise-building, culturally-omnipresent sci-fi blockbuster of the 1970s.
It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2 https://t.co/6AGmFrB7x4
@LexG_III Starting to think that, much like women, ol' Monty doesn't really like music as much as he claims. A whole universe of classical and jazz out there to explore, and he'd rather listen to, say, some clippity-clop music from some third-rate oater from the '50s.
Robert Fripp & Debbie Harry in screen test photos for Amos Poe's abandoned remake of Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville, circa 1978–1980. Photos by Chris Stein.
Noonan's writer/director debut “What Happened Was...” is one of the great underseen masterpieces. This monologue, man. Destroys me more and more as the years go on. Too fucking real.
R.I.P. Tom Noonan
Archaeologists have made a stunning discovery inside a 1,600-year-old Egyptian mummy — a fragment of Homer's Iliad.
The papyrus was found tucked inside the gut of a mummy unearthed in Tomb 65 at Oxyrhynchus, an ancient city located 118 miles south of Cairo.
The excavation was carried out between November and December 2025 by a team including researchers from the University of Barcelona and the Institute of Ancient Near East Studies.
This marks the first time a Greek literary text has been found incorporated into the mummification process.
Previous discoveries at Oxyrhynchus had turned up Greek papyri used in burials, but their contents were always magical or ritualistic in nature.
The fragment found within the mummy belongs to Book II of the Iliad, a section known as the Catalogue of Ships, which lists the Greek forces that sailed to Troy.
The Iliad, composed around 800 BC, is widely considered the cornerstone of Western literature and centers on the Trojan War and the fate of the warrior Achilles.
Researchers are still unsure why this particular literary passage was chosen for the embalming ritual.
The funerary complex also yielded other remarkable finds, including mummies adorned with gold tongues and fingernails, heart scarabs, and amulets depicting gods such as Horus, Thoth, and Isis.
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