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George Catlin, Floyd’s Grave, Where Lewis & Clark Buried Sergeant Floyd in 1804, 1932, oil on canvas, 11 1/4 x 14 3/8 in., collection SAAM Had a fascinating conversation with a scholar working on early 19th century American painting, and...
Just a list for today... [ in progress... ]
My weeks have been exhausting lately. Work has been a lot, I've been putting in some terribly long hours, and I spend most nights wishing I had the energy to do something creative, but failing utterly. Instead, I sit in a kind of numb...
The Sound of Thinking: A Listener’s Companion to Conceptual Music, a new book by Craig Dworkin, has a chapter “Ut Pictura Musica” about art and music that led me to some great music that is related to my Listening to Art project (now a...
I've always gotten a kick out of the fact that William Shakespeare's wife was named Anne Hathaway. I imagine young Bill hanging out with his friends and saying: "Anne hath a way about her, dothn't she?" ...before awkwardly walking over...
Spoilers ahead! finished: guy montgomery's guy-mont spelling bee s2 roselia bloom of the rose (season 1 story 1) roselia neo-aspect (season 1 story 2) ok somehow i didn't realise i should've probably read a couple of event stories that...
StarringJeremy Allen White, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Ayo Edebiri, Lionel Boyce, and Abby ElliottOverviewBack for seconds.Carmy, a young fine-dining chef, comes home to Chicago to run his family sandwich shop. As he fights to transform the...
This is my entry for July’s IndieWeb Carnival. True to form, it was written right at the eleventh hour (dictated, in this case.) I’m trying something new: drafting while I go on my morning walk. It’s awkward ‘speaking’ a post instead of...
I didn’t mean it, but last month I ended up participating in JulyReply. Here are my replies: #1. re: You’re Born to F*cking Create. A simple cure for burnout. #2. My Favorite Seth’s Riffs. Seth Godin published his best lines. I wrote my...
How today's no-spend day went: I spent money. Unfortunately. But I'm not gonna give myself a hard time over it. I'm trying to get my spending under control anyway, it's not gonna be perfect and it's a bad coping mechanism that I've...
A 2-day Munich travel guide covering the old town walking tour, English Garden river surfing, and the historic Hofbräuhaus beer hall.Day 1 Start your day with a walking tour of the old town. munich-city-center-1.jpg Afterward, check out...
July saw the FIFA World Cup finally draw to a close, and as the games dried up, more time became available for reading, which is always good. The weather has also taken a turn for the colder down in my part of the southern hemisphere,...
One of the items from The Ordinary that’s been forever on my wish since it was launched is their lip balm. I may have had a few disappointments from the brand but most of the products I’ve tried from them seem to do their job well. Now,...
At one point in this movie, Kati Outinen—the star of some of Kaurismäki's early films back in the late eighties, including the incredible and incredibly depressing Match Factory Girl—shows up for a brief cameo playing a glowering cashier...
The Vaqueros, from left: Steve Corona, Tom Corona, Larry Weld and David Heath The Vaqueros had the first release on the Audition Recording label out of Rochester, New York, “Echo” / “Desert Wind”. It hit local charts in early June, 1964...