I need everyone to know that Anne Rice and guy who started Popeyes (the fried chicken place not the cartoon) hated each other and once spent weeks/monthes taking out page length ads against each other in New Orleans newspapers because the Popeyes guy opened a tacky restaurant where Lestat was supposed to have died, or something like that
why am i not at all surprised to read of Anne Rice being litigious about petty bullshit
It gets even better when you realize that, before the restaurant opened, it was an abandoned used car lot. She was literally complaining about an abandoned property being bought and actually USED for something. Because in Lestat’s final scene he walked by the car lot and looked at his reflection in one of the car windows.
I have never enjoyed anything more as I have enjoyed imagining Lestat’s reaction to learning that his final resting place is a restaurant owned by a fast food executive.
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The Poor Man of Nippur is a short film produced by the Assyriology Department of the University of Cambridge. Based on the text of an almost 3000-year-old tablet, it tells the story of Gimil-Ninurta, a poor man who takes revenge on the city mayor after said mayor cheated him.
The special part? The film isn’t a translation. It’s entirely in the Akkadian language.
While the budget is evidently small, the result is fantastic and I highly encourage anyone interested in ancient history to watch it. It’s through efforts like these that the languages and cultures of Mesopotamia are brought to life – or rather, that the world at large is reminded they are far from dead. From The Poor Man of Nippur,to Ancient Text Modern Tablet’s replicas of cuneiform texts for sale, to @mostlydeadlanguages‘s translations, to my own recordings of ancient prayers and poetry, Mesopotamia lives on and is as approachable, thought-provoking, and often funny as ever.
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