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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

@thesofiya.bsky.social thought you should know I still think of this routinely.

an old tw**t from 2012 by @TheSofiya that I still remember and laugh about that goes like this: "which is the Beyonce song where it's like we're independent but also you should marry us but like we're super-strong but also pay our bills"

Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I saw this picture of (a younger) #WalterBenjamin for the first time today, and now my longstanding intellectual crush on him has turned into... something else.

a black and white photo portrait of Walter Benjamin as a young man. I don't know the date.

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I walked 20km this ANZAC holiday weekend! Here are the highlights. The video shows photos, video clips, and maps of three walks I took around Kohimarama, St Heliers, and Glen Innes on 25, 26, and 27 April. Highlights were Churchill Park, Glover Park, and the bike path from St Johns to Merton Road.

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I want the kind of food that makes a therapist nervous and all I’ve got is coleslaw and pears. 🍽️ 🍐

On my desk at work, a bowl of coleslaw and two small piqa pears

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Oh, life is bigger It's bigger than you, and you are not me The lengths that I will go to The distance in your eyes Oh no, I've said too much…

Pope Leo, surrounded by his handlers, croons into the mic about faith, anomie, and loss…

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

3. Weapons (2025). Another entry in the "vanishing children" genre of horror. It's been a great year for horror, and Weapons is one jewel in the 2025 crown. The mystery intrigues, the villain Aunt Gladys is an instant camp icon, Julia Garner and Josh Brolin are great, and the ending is perfect!

Poster image for the 2025 horror film "Weapons" depicting elementary school children running off through a suburban neighborhood and vanishing into the night with arms outstretched in the shape of an inverted-V.

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

2. Abadi Nan Jaya (The Elixir) (2025). There are many bonkers Indonesian horror films but I think this is a first attempt in the modern zombie genre. Relentless action, good effects, fun shocks! A dysfunctional family business goes awry, and a village in Sleman pays the price with a zombie outbreak.

Film poster for the Netflix film "Abadi Nan Jaya" ("The Elixir"), an Indonesian zombie film. Poster depicts a zombie hand reaching for a spilled bottle of the "elixir," which is a failed product from a traditional medicine family-run corporation that is trying to develop a youth regeneration medicine. Under pressure to escape buyout from a national big pharma company, the company rushes out their new "elixir" product, and it turns everyone into zombies, and they can infect through bites, etc. It's currently the number 1 film on Netflix Indonesia! It's relentless and fun.

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I enjoyed 3 terrific spooky season movies this past long weekend. 1. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975). Inchoate but barely suppresed white settler Victorian anxieties in Australia. Plot and soundtrack presage The Virgin Suicides, with clear affinities between the two films. #PicnicAtHangingRock (1/3)

Poster art for Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975). Tag line reads: "On St. Valentine's Day in 1900 a party of schoolgirls sets out to picnic at Hanging Rock. ... Some were never to return." Drawn art depicts the white private school girls in white dresses as they set off to explore Hanging Rock where they encounter unexplained mysteries and some disappear. Fair use: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8185613

Although it is not technically canon in the original novel and film, I chose to "interpret" an underexplored and unrealized sexual tension between the two main male characters Michael Fitzhubert (who looks like Robert Irwin to me) and Albert Crundall.

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Two skeets within minutes, each quoting #Andor, including one from the governor of Illinois. And that's just from today's brief scroll. Maybe it's cheesy, or tainted because its provenance is Disney, but I'm OK with the Andor screenplays serving as the sacred texts for our *hashtag* resistance.

Dave Itzkoff quote-skeets from Nemik's manifesto on Andor (“Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.”) above a skeet by Aaron Rupar quoting the president who complained: "These are the two things I got from the United Nations: a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter."

The governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, quotes from Nemik's manifesto on Andor as follows, "Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.” And places this quote above a headline from variety.com announcing Jimmy Kimmel's return to ABC networks on Tuesday.

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

🌱🇳🇿 Ok now that I’m smitten with rhubarb after a decade+ long forgetfulness of its astonishing flavor, I discovered that it’s growing in the weed patch next to my house all these six years I’ve lived here and had no idea! #gardensky friends, can you confirm?

I think this is rhubarb growing in the weeds next to my house. If you are an expert on identifying rhubarb, can you please confirm? Four pictures here of the same patch, but from different angles.

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Aid as a weapon: the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

CORRESPONDENCEOnline firstAugust 29, 2025
Aid as a weapon: the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
Oqab Jabalia oqab.jabali@najah.edu ∙ Saqer Jabalib ∙ Dwight Haasec

As conditions in Gaza grow increasingly dire, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has stepped in to replace rights-based aid with a model of distribution that is privatised, militarised, and politicised.1 The result for Palestinians is that finding food has become a life-threatening ordeal. GHF distribution centres are frequently described as death traps, characterised by gunfire, overcrowding, stampedes, and chaos, compounding the suffering of a population already burdened by protracted siege and displacement.2
First-hand testimonies, official reports, and investigative findings reveal a deeply layered humanitarian crisis across physical, psychological, and societal dimensions that has only worsened since GHF began operations.3 This crisis includes starvation, physiological collapse, psychological trauma, gender-based violence, the breakdown of identity, and psychic fragmentation.4
Rather than being a collateral consequence of war, this situation reflects a deliberate system of control for the purposes of forced displacement and collective punishment. The nature of GHF's distribution, which aid seekers have likened to the Hunger Games,5 evokes Michel Foucault's concept of public torture: performative violence inflicted upon an individual's body as a form of retribution and a display of state power.6 Except now the punishment is inflicted on an entire population.
Since May 27, 2025, 859 people have died and thousands more have been wounded while seeking food at GHF sites.7 Doctors treating people wounded at GHF sites have noted patterns in the gunshot wounds, focused on the head one day, the torso the next, then the genitals another day. According to one doctor, “It almost feels like there is a quota for the number of people that need to be killed on a given day”.8
Over 165 charities and…

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I made a humble apple-rhubarb crumble last night, and the sublime rhubarb flavor sent me on a reverie, so I looked up paintings to celebrate. “Rhubarb” (1928) by Nikolai Astrup “Cabbage and Rhubarb” (1929) by Mark Gertler 🍽️ 🍎 🥧

“Rhubarb” (1928) by Nikolai Astrup
A striking oil painting depicting a garden scene with a figure harvesting rhubarb. Astrup infuses the composition with lush Scandinavian flora and precise botanical detail.

“Cabbage and Rhubarb” (1929) by Mark Gertler
A still-life that pairs cabbage and rhubarb together in bold colors.

my humble apple-rhubarb crumble as it came out of the oven last night. The fruit mixture also includes orange zest and the juice from half the orange. On the edges of the pan are the boiling juices, bubbling up above the streusel crumble topping I made.

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I mean, it has always been thus! tHeY mAdE sUpErMaN WoKe In 1 9 4 9! #Superman

a vintage Superman poster in which the comic book hero talks to children about the importance of respecting diversity. Image of Superman that appears to be by noted Superman comic book artist Wayne Boring showing Superman standing with group of children, text balloon reading "... And Remember, Boys And Girls, Your School — Like Our Country — Is Made Up Of Americans Of Many Different Races, Religions And National Origins. So ..." and continues underneath "... If YOU Hear Anybody Talk Against A Schoolmate Or Anyone Else Because Of His Religion, Race Or National Origin &Amdahl; Don't Wait: Tell Him THAT KIND OF TALK IS UN-AMERICAN. HELP KEEP YOUR SCHOOL ALL-AMERICAN!"

According to Snopes investigation, "this is a genuine piece of comic book art that was originally released in 1949." (I found this on Snopes: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/superman-1950-poster-diversity/ )

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

My awful senator @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social getting ratio-ed over on Threads is one example of why I haven’t deleted the app from my phone yet. 🍿 Apologize publicly. #ratio #ZohranMamdani #SenatorGillibrand #racist #islamophobic #aipac #NYC

Senator Gillibrand getting ratioed hard in the replies to her senate vote against tax cuts for billionaires after she endorsed Cuomo for the NYC mayors race, after making extraordinary Islamophobic comments about Zohran Mamdani, and after getting Al Franken to resign for sexual assault but still endorsing Cuomo who has done far worse. The replies are giving popcorn entertainment!

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Congratulations to our former Development Studies student Sarah Albom (@thekiwisarah.bsky.social). With perseverance and patience, Sarah met the challenge of turning her BA Hons paper into her first peer-reviewed article for The Journal of Human Development and Capabilities. doi.org/10.1080/1945...

Screen capture of the title and abstract for the following newly published article in the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities:

Research Article
Title: A Comparative Analysis of Disability Policies in Aotearoa New Zealand and the United Kingdom Through the Lens of the Capability Approach
Authors: Sarah Albom &Jesse Hession Grayman
Published online: 09 May 2025

ABSTRACT
Disability policy intersects many policy domains, requiring cross-governmental responses. How policy understands and responds to disability affects capabilities for millions of people. Applying Amartya Sen’s capability approach (CA) positioned in the social model of disability, this research conducts a comparative thematic analysis to evaluate how Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) and the United Kingdom’s (UK) national disability strategies may shape opportunities for disabled people to live in ways they value. No CA research currently exists on these countries’ strategies. We find both countries’ strategies perceive disability as a social issue needing government action to expand disabled people’s capabilities at the individual, community and national levels. Our framework can evaluate agency by whether policy-makers engage with disabled people (lived experts of their experiences) to create disability policy. While both strategies state the importance of including disabled people in designing policy, only NZ’s strategy consistently demonstrates disabled people drive its focus. Both strategies are limited in how they acknowledge or target the economic deprivation of disabled people as a significant barrier to those experiencing disability, and have insufficient mechanisms around monitoring implementation to ensure accountability from government agencies.

KEYWORDS:
Disability public policy; capability approach; Aotearoa New Zealand; United Kingdom

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Me, Dez, and our hotel at golden hour in Russell.

The Duke of Marlborough at golden hour in Russell NZ

Me (right) and Dez (left) standing on the dock at sunset in Russell NZ

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Dez and I have safely arrived in Russell after a long drive from Auckland. Here we are enjoying the sights already.

A kind of oversized postcard greeting that says “welcome to Russell, NZ” depicting two young women on a beach, wearing old-fashioned, full body, bathing suits, and bathing caps, and in the background on the open sea, there’s a huge waka with dozens of Māori paddlers. This image is hanging in our bathroom at the Duke of Marlborough Hotel.

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Yesterday I harvested my cayenne chili peppers and prepped them for the fermentation jar (pic1). Today I harvested my chocolate ghost (bhut jolokia) chili peppers and did the same (pics2,3,&4). These will ferment for at least three weeks (probably much longer) before I make hot sauces with them. 🌱🇳🇿

Cayenne chili peppers in various stages of chopping preparation for the fermentation jar

A close up picture of a clump of at least six chocolate ghost (bhut jolokia) chili peppers hanging from the bush ready for harvest.

Chocolate ghost (bhut jolokia) chili peppers in various stages of chopping preparation for the fermentation jar. The background shows the food processor I used to roughly chop them up after I removed all the stems.

Two liter-sized (I think) jars with fermentation lids on them. Inside are the chopped chocolate ghost (bhut jolokia) chili peppers with some shallot and garlic in a 3% brine, in mesh bags (to prevent floating bits), and held down under the brine with glass weights.

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

We had storms for two days straight but I think this was the worst casualty in my garden…a few knocked over branches on my Tabasco chilies, and this one snapped off. 🌶️🌌🪐

A broken branch from one of my potted Tabasco chili plants. I put it in a vase near the window in front of my kitchen sink. It’s full of unripe chilies so it’s probably a loss. But these were late bloomers and with the cool autumn coming in, I’m not sure these would have fully ripened anyway.

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Don’t get it twisted: “As a Palestinian student, I believe that the liberation of the Palestinian people and the Jewish people are intertwined and go hand-by-hand and you cannot achieve one without the other.” — Mahmoud Khalil edition.cnn.com/2025/03/11/u...

A quote from Mahmoud Khalil next to an image of him, circulated by Bend the Arc Jewish Action. The quote reads: “As a Palestinian student, I believe that the liberation of the Palestinian people and the Jewish people are intertwined and go hand-by-hand and you cannot achieve one without the other.”

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

My anthro colleagues and I went on a tour of the new Mormon temple in S Auckland this afternoon. No photos allowed inside the temple but it featured stunning bling architecture and gorgeous integrated Kiwiana throughout. The tour was tightly choreographed with a medium level of proselytizing.

Photography was not allowed in the temple but the tour began in a side buildings. Here we are waiting in church pews, in a chapel hall, for our tour group to be called up. From front to back: Jesse (me), Judith, Heather, Caitlin, Seline, and Callie. Judith joked that we were “Jesse and his harem.” 🤭

Here we are standing outside the temple after the tour. From L to R: Caitlin, Judith, Heather, Callie, Seline, and Jesse

Here we are standing outside the temple after the tour. Going for a more artsy image, standing on the step, and a photographer below us looking up at us and capturing the steeple behind us. With a beautiful blue sky and white cloud behind us. From front to back: Heather, Caitlin, Seline, Callie, Judith, and Jesse

A selfie of myself holding the cellcam low and pointing up to capture me and the soaring temple steeple behind me, plus gorgeous blue sky and white cloud.

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Highly recommend the Sly Lives! documentary. This is right at the midpoint when the highs of a genius run of music start taking a darker inward turn. Here is Dick Cavett being, well, a dick to Sly Stone. And Sly’s response properly shames him…and all of us. #SlyStone #SlyLives #BlackGenius

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

10 yrs ago today, Dezant and I arrived in Auckland sight unseen to start our lives here. A few hours later, we were checking out the Chinese lantern festival across the street from our hotel in Albert Park and watching fireworks from the Sky Needle. This is our first selfie in Aotearoa: 1 Mar 2015.

Jesse (left) and Dezant (right, who took the selfie of us) sitting against a tree in Albert Park, Auckland, at the Chinese lantern festival, on our very first night when we moved to Aotearoa New Zealand. Photo caption: “Ten years ago today, Dezant and I arrived in Auckland sight unseen to start our lives here. A few hours later, we were checking out the Chinese lantern festival across the street from our hotel in Albert Park and to watch the Chinese New Year fireworks from the Sky Tower. This is our first selfie in Aotearoa: 1 March 2015.”

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Aji Lemon Drop chilies have started to ripen. First time growing these. Any tips? #chilies #GalaksiHotSauces #AjiLemon #AjiLimon #LemonDrop #AjiLemonDrop 🌶️🌌🪐 🌱🇳🇿

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Celebrating the arrival of Flashes with a new profile pic. This selfie was taken at Sandfly Bay on Otago Peninsula, just outside of Dunedin on 9 December 2024. It was such a perfect day!

It’s a selfie of me (pākehā male of Irish descent, short brown hair, wearing sunglasses) that I took at Sandfly Bay on Otago Peninsula, just outside of Dunedin on 9 December 2024. I’m standing on the flat beach with blue-green waves and white surf behind me, along with some rocks standing in the water offshore. There is a BlueSky behind and above me, just like this app, and it was such a perfect day!

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

(my first Flashes post!) My feta pasta dinner with tomatoes and basil from the garden. I probably have enough tomatoes on the dying vines for one more dinner like this, but it’s been a great season overall! 🍅🌱🇳🇿 #TāmakaiMakaurau #gardensky #Flashes

A plate of feta pasta. Penne shaped. Sauce is feta baked with two varieties of cherry tomato, plus garlic and chili and Italian spices, then after baking, a bunch of chopped fresh basil mixed in. Tomatoes, chilies, and basil all from garden!

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Celebrating the first ripening cabe rawit in this year’s cabe rawit section of my chili garden. #cabe #cabai #caberawit #cabairawit #chili #chilli #garden #CabeRawitSetan #kebun #KebunCabe #CabeCabean #Auckland #TāmakaiMakaurau 🌶️🌱🇳🇿

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

We made a caprese salad with fresh basil from the garden as well! But yes it’s enough to just eat them without anything else. 🌱

Caprese salad using the sliced Cherokee purple tomatoes shown in the previous skeet.

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Cherokee Purple tomatoes from North Carolina, grown in Auckland. These could probably have ripened even further (brought them in before the birds got to them), and they are already so sweet! 🍅🍅🍅 🌱

Three Cherokee purple tomatoes on a cutting board, one of them cut into slices for a caprese salad.

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

After my morning swim in Lake Laut Tawar yesterday, this young #WaterBuffalo / #kerbau really took a liking to me. She was curious, kind, and… thirsty. #Bintang #Takengon #AcehTengah #Aceh #DanauLautTawar #LutTawar #LakeLautTawar #LautTawar #LautTawarLake #Aceh #Indonesia

A selfie, cool album cover style, of me (on the left) and young curious water buffalo (on the right) looking down at the camera in my hand, snapping the moment. I’m all wet in t-shirt as I just finished swimming in Lake Laut Tawar in Central Aceh Gayo Highlands, Indonesia.

A selfie from above of me (on the right) and a young curious water buffalo (on the left, below me) licking my arm. I’m all wet in t-shirt as I just finished swimming in Lake Laut Tawar in Central Aceh Gayo Highlands, Indonesia.

A view of the early morning calm waters of Lake Laut Tawar in the Central Aceh Gayo Highlands. Low hanging clouds cover the tops of the hills surrounding the lake, as it is rainy season, and the dark moody morning view shows the spot where I just completed a half hour of open water laps.

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Cherokee Purple tomatoes (from my brother Sam in NC) set perfectly on the vine, now patience while they ripen. 🌱

Close-up image of a bunch of still-green medium sized tomatoes growing on a tomato vine that is tied to a bamboo stake. Cherokee Purple is an heirloom cultivar from North Carolina.

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

No cheating: your last saved pic of a celebrity is your therapist.

Allyson Hannigan and Sarah Michelle Gellar in their roles as Willow Rosenberg and Buffy Summers from the TV show Buffy the Vampire slayer. Willow is dressed as (I think) Joan of Arc and Buffy is dressed as Little Red Riding Hood. I think this is from one of the BTVS Halloween episodes. But the caption of this photo says “I love Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter.”

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Anyway, I was so impressed and annoyed (simultaneously) with #TheSubstance that I wrote a little review. Then I discovered it got a bunch of golden globe nominations!

Here is the review I submitted for The Substance on IMDb: So much homage here: The Shining, Carrie, Requiem for a Dream, Mulholland Drive, and most especially every single David Cronenberg film ever! I was too busy being reminded of these and other great movies to fully appreciate this one's also greatness. The cartoonish approach-it had a Looney Toons meets Twilight Zone quality-really took me out though. I loved and hated this movie simultaneously, but the fact that it *goes* *there* makes it worth watching. Superb cast. Over the top cinematography and script choices. If you like body horror, this is must watch! For those debating the ending, I come down on the side of loving it!

Summary: Too much homage in this body horror to be a classic of its own

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

The movie ended. Dez and I both agreed it was bad, because there was too much difficult watching, bad characters treating each other awfully, and yet here I am still thinking about it. The sci-fi and surreal qualities were entrancing. Lars von Trier: it’s hard to like you! It has always been!

One of the surreal opening tableaux images from the “overture”-like montage intro in the film Melancholia (2011). On the lawn of a fancy estate, three of the main characters stand spread apart, at night, with three mysterious heavenly bodies hanging in the sky behind them, casting an ominous backlight upon the three figures.

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

Received my author-signed copy in the mail today (Philip is a dear friend) and ordered it for our university library. I'm proud to speak at the book launch event at Vic in Wellington next month. 🇳🇿📚 www.mqup.ca/service-of-f...

the book cover with bright yellow and orange shapes on it for "The Service of Faith: An Ethnography of Mennonites and Development" by Philip Fountain.

author-signed title page for "The Service of Faith: An Ethnography of Mennonites and Development" by Philip Fountain.

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,405,260!

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 31/07/2024

American Ethnologist Call For Papers: "Sexual and Reproductive Rights & the Law" Looking for ethnographically-driven commentaries, research articles addressing int'l issues relating to sexual & repro. rights & contemp. legal regimes. 3000-11,000 words / due Oct 1 2024 Submission info in alt text!

Please submit your contribution using the AE submission portal (https://americanethnologist.org/journal/submit/). When submitting, select the forum name: SRR&L.

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 15/07/2024

Book booty from my recent visit to Indonesia. Includes new short story collections and novels from Aceh, and an Abdullah Harahap starter pack! 🇳🇿📚🇮🇩 #booksky

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 19/20 #booksky 🇳🇿📚

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 18/20 #booksky 🇳🇿📚

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

In March I heard about library music from the Middle East (I think Lebanon), composed by Charif Megarbane. This collection titled "Marzipan" was released last year by Habibi Funk, and is sooooo good. It inspired me to re-explore this mid-late 20th century genre, and led me to the KPM 1000 series.

album cover of middle eastern library music composed by Charif Megarbane, titled "Marzipan" and released by Habibi Funk in 2023.

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

Back in 1996, when I (briefly) lived in San Francisco, this album of library music was all the rage at the Litter Box, the best queer nightclub at the time. "Black Rite" by Mandingo was the problematic fave that brought everyone out to the dance floor.

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

They all have these green album covers. Lots of composers but Alan Harkshaw and Keith Mansfield were already familiar to me.

an assemblage of KPM 1000 series of library music compilation album covers. Nearly all green. This collection is served up by Apple Music streaming service.

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 17/20 #booksky 🇳🇿📚

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 11/06/2024

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 16/20 #booksky 🇳🇿📚

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