Rachel McAdams in a gold-beaded Valentino dress with lines from Dante’s Divine Comedy. —US Magazine, May 2, 2016
Contributed by Donatella Stocchi-Perucchio
“Nel Mezzo”
Nel Mezzo: A Little Trip through Dante’s Inferno
Contributed by Bryce Livingston
Nathan Sawaya, Lego sowers of discord?
See The Guardian and Nathan Sawaya
Weezer, “L.A. Girlz” (2016)
“L.A. girls, please act your age
You treat me like I have the plague
It’s the Gyre and Gimble in the wabe
L.A. girls, please act your age
Sweeten up your lemonade
And meet me down at tower twenty-eight
So would you mind if I was pregnant?
I’ll sleep on the edge of your bed
Like Dante and Beatrice
We’ll light up our candles
But how is this going to end?
The kids are asleep
We’re haunting their dreams
And some women swear it’s more painful than labor
To die with your sins on your head” — Weezer, “L.A. Girlz,” The White Album (2016)
Watch the video for the song on YouTube.
Contributed by Megan Alvarado (University of Texas at Austin, ’18)
Jessica Jones and Hell
In the 10th episode of Marvel’s “Jessica Jones”, the supervillain Kilgrave (The Purple Man) holds a young woman named Hope hostage and quotes, “Abandon Hope, all ye who enter here. That’s the words written on the doorway to Hell.”
Contributed by Stephanie Hotz, University of Texas – Austin
