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Traci Mosser Alai
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Writer, editor, and consumer of culture -- low, high, and pop.
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giving this beautiful essay a Christmas Eve boost
December 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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This is freaking incredible
prum.bsky.social Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 26d
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?"

Turns out, mom was right.
Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime Feb. 4, 1939 February 4, 1939, Page 1 BERLIN, Feb. 3.—Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels today ended the professional careers of five "Aryan" actors and cabaret announcers by expelling them from the Reich's Chamber of Culture on the grounds that “in their public appearances they displayed a lack of any positive attitude toward National Socialism and therewith caused grave annoyance in public and especially to party comrades.” The five include perhaps the best known German stage comedians who survived previous Chamber of Culture purges and still dared to indulge in political witticisms—namely, Werner Finck, Peter Sachse and “The Three Rulands,” represented by Helmuth Buth, Wilhelm Meissner and Manfred Dlugi. Their expulsion means that they are henceforth forbidden to appear before the public in Germany. Besides motivating this action in an official communiqué, Dr. Goebbels also publishes a long article in the Voelkischer Beobachter in which he denounces them as “brazen, impertinent, arrogant and tactless" and generally imitators and successors to Jews. Simultaneously he denounces the "society rabble that followed them with thundering applause—parasitic scum, inhabiting our luxury streets, that seems to have only the task of proving with how little brains people can get along and even acquire money and prominence." As regards the details of the "crimes" of which the five are accused, Dr. Goebbels mentions that they made political witticisms about the colonial problem, the Four-Year Plan and Chancellor Hitler's monumental building program and one of them even raised the question of whether there was any humor left in Germany today. What amused the public most, however, and presumably roiled the National Socialist authorities most—although Dr. Goebbels does not mention it—is that they deftly, but unmistakably, caricatured some gestures, poses and physical characteristics of Nat…
September 18, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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This is the lead story in the New York Times. If you're in the business of communicating, whether through journalism, commentary, or art, this is the five-alarm fire. People are going to remember who spoke up and who stayed conveniently silent or postured about "neutrality."
Trump Says Broadcasters Should Lose Licenses for Criticizing Him
September 18, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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The NYT piece about the Edelman documentary from last fall. What could have been. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/08/m...
The Prince We Never Knew
A revealing new documentary could redefine our understanding of the pop icon. But you will probably never get to see it.
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Everyone knows my tied-for-first favorite YouTuber is a Boho French-Canadian emotional & tender about fragrance; anyway, he had emergency surgery this week & smelled a perfume late that night & mused on the fragility of life & I’m a mess. A MESS.

youtu.be/5Vykk1CnCxo?...
Impressions of Bois Corsé by Diptyque & Updates
YouTube video by Sebastian Furtado
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February 7, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”

Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

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December 11, 2024 at 2:39 PM
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I made a starter pack.

You’re welcome. You looked like you needed a win.
November 13, 2024 at 11:29 PM
tracimosser.bsky.social
Haven’t seen Zone of Interest yet but the astonishing and beautifully written essay mentioned here has given me a map for engaging with it.
greenwell.bsky.social Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · Mar 15
I was really surprised by how many reviewers seemed to misunderstand this! If you haven’t already read it, I really appreciated @garthgreenwell.bsky.social’s take.
An Unquiet House
Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest
garthgreenwell.substack.com
March 16, 2024 at 10:58 AM
tracimosser.bsky.social
My 8-year-old just asked me the difference between Original and Adapted Screenplay and I thought I had explained it well till she asked, “Wait, so Barbie was based on a book?!”
March 10, 2024 at 11:56 PM
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A thing that might not be obvious about why Fast Car means so much to those of us who got to see Tracy Chapman’s rise is that getting out of our small towns was *such* a life or death motivation that giving it voice felt like a little bit of hope. …
February 6, 2024 at 5:47 AM