Aliki Chapple

Hello theatre pals, and everyone. It’s nice to see you here. I live in Athens now, and I’ve been taking a lot of pictures, relearning my way around the old place. pixelfed.social/i/web/profil...

For such questions were social media platforms created. I reckon they pump them back and forth.

Barn Owl #Photography #Birds #BirdPhotography

Ruins of Athens: Good Bones. #Athens #UrbanPhotography #architecture

'Greece at the Turning Point' is now available for purchase. www.routledge.com/Greece-at-th...

I will ignore this analysis until Matthew names which bits of Kent he'd have given to Hitler in 1940.

Rustic Food #Athens #UrbanPhotography

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

Yikes. This is just offloading the important bits of your life. It's not even the cognitive bit (which I think is probably quite bad) that's the issue in this case. This is just giving up an opportunity to do love. That's... well, gosh, I guess it's dystopian.

I don’t think any of Sarnath Banerjee’s work is published outside of India. Outrageous!

This cat was sleeping in the 1650s. #catcontent

Break the oligarchical control of the media. Everywhere.

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και στα δικά μας, πήγα να πω, και κοίταξα την Ελληνική αριστερά…με έπιασε ένα γέλιο υστερικό και δεν είπα τίποτα.

Rustic Food #Athens #UrbanPhotography

Of course a win for non-authoritarian leaders or movements does not automatically mean all problems are solved or that authoritarian forces can't come back in future. But it is worth maintaining hope and optimism, because if people succumb to nihilism and apathy then democracy cannot survive.

Turnout in Brazil was 81 percent today, up from 79 percent in the 2022 election.

Lol. Fascist losers are poor losers.

“It’s not left versus right anymore. It’s democracy against backsliding,” said Mariana. “It’s something bigger, it’s not for the left, it’s a movement for Brazil,” Regina added. “And once you’re awake, it’s difficult to go back to sleep.” www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/liv...

Minimal. #Athens #UrbanPhotography #DoorsOfAthens #Architecture

It’s a two blog post week, you lucky sods. Today’s venue isn’t really a theatre, but I saw a show there, so I’m including it anyway. alikichapple.net/posts/the-ka...

'Beehives (Winter)' Ink Drawing www.ianrpearsall.co.uk/gallery I haven't seen the bees of late when I've walked past their hives. I know that a colony from one hive left mid-Summer, but the others must now be keeping their precious Queen warm and protected, along with their reserves of honey.

Minimal. #Athens #UrbanPhotography #DoorsOfAthens #Architecture

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

Grim but necessary reading.

Way up in the Arthouse #StunDay #Staircase #Achitecture #Cottbus #Museum #Brandenburg #EastCoastKin #ECK #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBlueSky #Photography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #ClassicMono #FotoVorschlag 'Von unten nach oben'

It’s a two blog post week, you lucky sods. Today’s venue isn’t really a theatre, but I saw a show there, so I’m including it anyway. alikichapple.net/posts/the-ka...

For a few years now I’ve been floating the idea that theatre is the art form of the future because sharing physical space with people is increasingly precious. Here’s a new reason: there’s no generated slop on the stage. #TheatreIsHuman

Well, that sucks.

An art historical gloss: for those who don't know, Guernica was held by MoMA in NYC for more than 40 years, as Picasso stipulated the painting should not return to Spain while Franco was still in power. It was finally unstretched, rolled up & sent back to Spain in 1981, as shown in this video

Voyager 21 travelled on through the cold depths of space, crossing the outer reaches of the solar system, onwards into unknown regions. It carried within its hold four dead bodies, all of them carefully preserved, but slowly decaying. Our final message, our final poem.

So good to talk to Charlie, who is brilliantly doing his part to puncture the AI bubble (both its financial and marketing/mythological manifestations)

Ο ίδιος μετέφρασε κι αυτό. Το ορτά ογιουνού, παιχνίδι της πλατείας σα να λέμε, είναι ένα λαϊκό οθωμανικό θέατρο, κάπως σαν κομέντια ντελ'άρτε, σαν καραγκιόζης με ηθοποιούς.

There are so very many things! But let’s get personal. The whole class of medications that keeps my autoimmune symptoms at bay was only invented about 25 years ago, and the particular one I take is less than ten years old.

While I’m at it, I’ve also added a contact form. Like the blog, it is made by the nice people at @goodenough.us, and it’s flexible enough that I can post it anywhere. Here, for example. Want to send me a message? letterbird.co/alikichapple

Dudes would literally invent a globally ecocidal machine to tell them how awesome they are all day rather than respect women and go to therapy.

New on the blog: Continuing my haphazard catalogue of the theatres of Athens with one called ‘the theatre of Athens’. alikichapple.net/posts/theatr...

New MAGA manifesto just dropped.

The most crucial event to be ritually enacted prior to the...construction of [Bangkok] was the installation of the [city pillar], which coincided with the establishment of a new dynastic horoscope...Linked with the Indic linga cult associated with...Shiva as well as...Tai cults of tutelary deities

Got what is hopefully the final proof copy of Alani: Citadel of Swords! More than 200 pages of s&s goodness! Swords! Weird sorcery! Wuxia stuff! Intrigue! Monsters! Lizard chariot races!