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Welcome! We’re back with another issue of the Animation Obsessive newsletter. Here’s the plan: 1️⃣ Tadahito Mochinaga and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. 2️⃣ Global animation news items. 3️⃣ [UNLOCKED] A bizarre ad by Studio Ghibli. If you haven’t already, it’s free to sign up for our Sunday issues. You’ll get them in your inbox, weekly: Sign Up Let’s go! Since its premiere in 1964, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer has stayed a Christmas classic.

I’ll be uploading a lot of Blood Meridian content over the next few months, including more chapter-by-chapter annotations for McCarthy’s novel, original essays, maps, and more. In the meantime, I wanted to give you guys this very-detailed map of the Kid’s travels. ncG1vNJzZmianKS8pbnEq6CdoZGje7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZq2glWK6oryMqJ1mmpykvKV5zJ6popyZlrs%3D

I’m of two minds about Giannis: The Marvelous Journey, a new documentary about NBA star Giannis Antetokounmpo.  On the one hand, it’s an example of a trend that I’m on record as finding unsavory: It’s a mostly fawning documentary about a great modern-day athlete, in which the athlete himself seems to have had some degree of control.   Plus, the story of Giannis and his family is pretty well-known as it is, and was even already told in a streaming movie, Rise, a fictionalized treatment that arrived on Disney+ less than two years ago (Rise was more in the genre of Inspirational Sports Movie).

Bullets were whizzing over John Filo’s head during his lunch break from the student photo lab at Kent State University on May 4, 1970. He dropped his camera and stood motionless as National Guard troops suddenly opened fire on students protesting the Vietnam War. Thirteen seconds and sixty-seven shots later, four students were dead and nine wounded. “Was I shot?” Filo wondered. He lifted his camera, a borrowed Nikkormat, as fourteen-year-old Mary Ann Vecchio approached the lifeless body of Jeffrey Miller.

For more music analyses and artist spotlights, subscribe to my weekly music newsletter published every Wednesday A little while ago, I wrote about disappearing genres, and how Gen Z specifically doesn't care as much about genre when it comes to curating playlists or music festivals. While all this is true, having some sort of label can be useful in finding a certain type of music. But do we really need so many?

Hey Weekly Sitreps Readers! Hope everyone had a great weekend. This past weekend I went down to Port Aransas and did duck hunting with some friends. We got plenty of ducks and I almost got hypothermia on my feet. It was really fun, minus the incredibly cold and wet weather. For this weekly sitrep I wanted to talk about a few things. WSJ - Turn on this setting in your iphone to protect your money and photos

I saw this on the subway a few weeks ago, and it’s probably what made me start writing this newsletter. Despite the sight being really commonplace, I found it oddly moving. I will not explain myself. I’ve been thinking a lot about McDonald’s lately. Much more than I normally do. For over a year, I’ve been chasing the feeling I had when I ate the Travis Scott meal for the first time, trying to pin down what was so special about it.

Yesterday, Bakline’s McKirdy Micro Marathon, advertised by its organizers as “meant for the ‘on the cusp’ athlete looking to run the OTQ standard or faster,” was held in Rockland State Park in New York State. To qualify for the race, men needed to have run a time of “2:25 or equivalent” in their pursuit to run 2:18:00 (or faster). The results, which are unfortunately posted on the spectacularly failed Web-programming experiment known as Athlinks, indicate that 77 men finished the race, the slowest of them in 2:36:28.

The ancient world used the word translated as "name" differently than we do. Jesus uses the word in a variety of Greek phrases, all of which have different meanings. Many of these phrases are translated into the same English phrase, “in the name of,” which gets its meaning today from its Biblical use. I will use “in the name” in this article because it matches our English translations. Future articles will discuss specific phrases and the general problem with Biblical translations of people’s names, but here we start with the foundation of those articles: how the meaning of the “name” was different back then.