Due to popular demand, film critic Clementine DuCinema has added a Soviet-era children’s matinee to the upcoming WLBOTT film festival. Plow Now, Red Cow Plow Now, Red Cow is exactly the kind of film that leaves children teary-eyed, confused, and deeply committed to collectivist agriculture. Elder G 
Children’s Matinee Feature Plow Now, Red Cow […]
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WLBOTT film critic Clemetine DuCinema, starting just yesterday, has already made a big impact on the film world. She has announced the first WLBOTT Annual Film Festival. This year’s theme: Boy Meets Tractor – A Celebration of Soviet Cinema. The Program Steel Hearts and Sunflowers (1954) He swore allegiance to the state… but also to […]
Clementine DuCinema received her MFA and PhD in filmology from the University of Petrochemical Fumes and Fine Arts in Baytown, Texas. She specialized in Soviet-era cinema, and her dissertation was titled “Boy Meets Tractor: Boy meets tractor. Boy falls in love with tractor. Tractor represents collective hope.” Today, she brings her razor-sharp wit and velvet-gloved […]
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The Weight, Part II
Yesterday we looked at the 1968 song The Weight, by The Band. We learned that the song’s author, Robbie Robertson, was influenced by surrealist director Luis Buñuel. Luis Buñuel’s best know film is L’Age d’Or (Age of Gold, or Golden Age), released in 1930. L’Age d’Or (French: L’Âge d’Or, pronounced [lɑʒ dɔʁ]), commonly translated as […]
As one of the favorite songs by several of the Elders, we will explore “The Weight”, the 1968 song by The Band. The Weightby Robbie Robertson / The Band [Verse 1]I pulled in to NazarethWas feeling ’bout half past deadI just need someplaceWhere I can lay my head“Hey, mister, can you tell meWhere a man […]
We were inspired by a fascinating article in the Guardian. James Bailey set out to recreate an experiment from 1932 – write to a bunch of random, and not so random people. Ask them what they thought was the meaning of life, and compile the answers. There’s more to James’ backstory, which you can read […]
Following yesterday’s detasseling BLOTT, we would be remiss if we failed to relay the tassel confusion that occurred at Texas A&M University several years ago. As the official Event Coordinator for Texas A&M‘s commencement, Callahan ‘Cactus Jack’ Kleberg had one job: order tassels. Being an agricultural school, Cactus Jack thought they were corn tassels. You […]
Dear Tess, I write to you from the edge of my sanity—and the edge of our cornfield. My name is Mabel H., and I am the wife of a third-generation corn farmer here in northwest Iowa. My husband, Virgil, is a man of few words but many routines. Every summer, like clockwork, he begins what […]
From Elder JJZ: On a more serious note[1], really interesting connection between Japan and the establishment of the rice industry in Texas. We know many of the people or descendants mentioned in this article . They put up with a lot of bad stuff in the 1900’s but aren’t bitter, made a good life for […]
Today we are enjoying a poem by Elle Cordova. Brands These Daysby Elle CordovaLookOur product is delicious, nutritious, highly ambitiousSuspiciously rich and richly prodigiousMicrowavable, waste reclaimableFree of cruelty, green, sustainableOver the counter, under the tableFarm to town and barn to ladleMust be true; it’s right on the labelWe’re not a commodity; we’re a stapleWe’re plant-based, […]