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Today I delivered a eulogy for my Dad, Peter Walker, who passed away suddenly on October 4th, aged just 58. Here it is in full 🩷
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Dr. Ellen Walker
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Dr. Ellen Walker
@EllenFWalker
Digital Folklorist, PhD @RCACommResearch • she/her • Illustrator for DO YOU BELIEVE IN GHOSTS? by @danny_robins out now! 👻
Joined June 2022
- I'm struggling to understand why destroying a painting of sunflowers done by Van Gogh, an impoverished man who was marginalised in his local community due to his mental illness, is the right target to make a statement about how awful the oil industry is.
- You hate Scrappy-Doo because he's mildly irritating. I hate Scrappy-Doo because he shook hands with Ronald Reagan. We are not the same.
fuck scrappy-doo - We watched the 2012 opening ceremony whilst on holiday in Italy so we got Italian commentary. They sounded disinterested and bored throughout the whole thing until this guy came on and they both screamed "MR BEAN! MR BEAN?!?"
- I just love the character nuances in this movie. Veruca Salt clearly coming from new money because her Dad has a strong regional accent whilst she speaks the Queen's English because his nut business could afford to send her to private school.
- One of the big reasons I love Nosferatu is the sheer miraculousness of its cultural legacy. Stoker's estate won a copyright infringement lawsuit and ordered ALL copies to be destroyed yet because one copy survived, he can cameo in SpongeBob Squarepants.
- I could never hope to write any academic paper as good as this.
- Was watching the making-of documentary for Aliens and this part really made me laugh. Bill Paxton was a gem.
00:00 - One of my favourite weird art trends is that thing in 19th century Britain where landowners would flex how big their livestock was by having them painted as chonked rectangles and oblongs
- Replying to @EllenFWalkerI can concede the painting was thankfully unharmed with only minor damage to the frame. In terms of "he used oil paints" do you mean linseed oil, made from the seeds of the flax plant? The oil and gas industry was also not the amoral behemoth we know today, when Gogh was working.
- As the eulogies pour in, here's a friendly reminder that Jerry Lee Lewis was an abusive pedophile who married Myra Gale Brown, his 13-year-old cousin. When Brown filed for divorce, she stated that she had been "subject to every type of physical and mental abuse imaginable."
- Replying to @EllenFWalkerVan Gogh, on the other hand, was a man who suffered from bipolar disorder, lived in poverty, and found solace in his painting. Of all the artworks that could have been targeted to advocate for stopping fossil fuel licensing and production, The Sunflowers was not one of them.
- Let's take a moment to appreciate Phryge. No amount of mockery could make me hate this little guy. He did a damn good job. #ClosingCeremony
