is this about the supposed ship demolition?
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is this about the supposed ship demolition?
OK, this is more promising. In the video she looks distinctly underwhelmed.
Philip Johnson said that guests tried the (then novel) Barcelona chairs in the Glass House, he would get one of two responses: "These are beautiful -- and so comfortable too!" or "These are hideous, and they're not even comfortable!"
Definitely not endorsing (should have made clear). It just fell off the shelves of the foul rag and bone shop of the memory.
"There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall." (Cyril Connolly, 1938 -- and I don't imagine he was talking about particularly equitable child-care practices) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemies...
True in the Bay Area, though non-fancy pizza places like Blondie's sell by the slice.
"a world leader"
Appears to be made of pipe cleaners
I hope “pules” is a typo!
How about gloom and despair? Hmm, those don’t seem to be working either
Slightly hesitate to ask, but — was it free?
*My* struggle, not yours, it’s right there in the title!
‘The Overton Window is a piece that tries to describe through “the Overton Window” metaphor how society struggles to become closer to good ideas and evolve as a society.’ I…would not say that’s what the metaphor is about
How do you propose to transfer it?
Chances they knew “romanticism” has multiple meanings in this context?
That the people made responsible for diversity programs were often members of minorities, and the programs have become an excuse for firing them, is a catch as grim as Catch-22.
"Hegel remarks somewhere...."
@dieworkwear.bsky.social posted this image and then deleted it, but I think it deserves to be seen. His point was the elegance of Jasper Johns, but mine is the je-m'en-foutisme of Morton Feldman, already well advanced in 1960. Check the clashing plaids, and the bulging jacket pocket....
No permission required!
A sort of gender reveal
It was too early. Where do we file our complaint?
Today I learned that the texts of "Das Lied von der Erde" were translated by Hans Bethge, not from the Chinese of Li Bai etc., but from the French of Judith Gautier (maybe also other European translations)
Bummer to wake up dead, man
Single tickets are now on sale for Madison Opera's world premiere production of "Everlasting Faint"!!! Come see this huge, intense, beautiful opera that Sandra Flores-Strand and I have been working on for 4 years or so! Let's sell this theatre OUT, woooooooo!!! www.overture.org/tickets-even...
The man with glasses and clashing plaids in the third picture is Morton Feldman
I would accept $7 to drink a mimosa
Complaining about the Spelling Bee is a national pastime, so I misjudged
A poet I’ve been impressed and baffled by — an intensely self-undermining cleverness and resistance to poetic qualities like music
Apparently this is the Jack Spicer centennial! www.smallpresstraffic.org/event/poetry...
This isn’t *so* capricious, being obscene
INSECT
This is Pumpkin, my mother’s cat, who passed this summer. Here she’s sleeping face down for some reason.
I hope you read them carefully!
I flagged this at the beginning of Bunny -- she refers to a character as the Lion, and describes him as "maned". Perhaps the literal "leonine" will come later
As you read this, make sure to glance back at the question to check if it's being answered (or even clarified)
Drop an old person you're going to turn into in the future
I think the sleight of hand is in saying “our democracy *will be* better” rather than “is” or “has been”.
Would it be gauche to post a guess?
Somehow I doubt one would learn “exactly what happens at the Supreme Court” from this event
You turn around and suddenly Memorial Day is three months ago
(Retiring, I mean.)
There’s only one word for it
It implies (not wrongly!) “Thank you for resigning.”
Vernacular name for Rayleigh scattering
He’s a professor of “strategic management”…physician heal thyself
Names evidently chosen for quaintness
“Similar to: Whipple, Eye of the Goat”
Hope you hadn’t been keeping it in the fridge
I wouldn’t include that either — “convoke” is the typical verb
Reconstructions of prehistory will lean on probability and plausibility where documented reality is free to be weirder than we can handle
Also Hayes is very good. I think I just learned about him recently (perhaps from you?)
Very cool. This one at least seems to be made up of whole measures, grouped in twos and fours
“In the 1990s the Hove borough council used the slogan ‘Hove, actually’ to promote the town for tourism.”
TIL “slip jig”. Are there other constraints/regularities, e.g. anacruses?
I grew up in LA, but was away in college from 1982. So I missed the whole McMartin Preschool atrocity. (And, I realize more clearly than ever, I dropped out of following the news during that time.)
Lime juice works as a dressing, but it’s pretty austere. No way I would call it fat-free anything — it’s a different beast
Like how Arturo Márquez wrote only one Danzón, called #2
Relative cultural predominance of certain strains of Protestantism?
Elgar remains unmocked (though I think there was mockery in his calling some friend “Nimrod”, so it’s not that clear-cut)
Commenting is a skill you have to learn, by experience and “culture”, i.e. peer expectations. “Imagine someone is reading this for the first time” has to be drilled into people
A certain mad-scientist vibe, as if you’re unleashing something
I guess I thought Christians had a patent on the smarmy elision of accountability to people vs. repentance in one’s personal relationship to god (but no)
Yeah, the god-given-talent discourse leads in several bad directions (while including more than a grain of truth)
And for some reason the commas just struck me. There are two, making caesuras in the second line of each stanza.
So can you draw out the connection to the linked article? What I see is the sorta-novel claim that he has property/profit rights in the music even though he has ceded the “talent” argument entirely
AOC!
I’m not quite three times his age when he painted that, so I think it’s within dating-app standards of veracity
Certainly what my pfp is intended to convey!
Knowledge is cheating!
My thought too (like Western Reserve). It’s not even in the middle west of its state!
Adult ADHD diagnosis here — makes sense, but has not led to clear positive or negative results.
Lilypond
Wonder what was under that! Fisk … West Point
Didion weather
Nah, on consideration, the photos are more striking. www.moma.org/collection/w... And that's really saying something. She starred in silent movies, and was active enough in the Comintern that her biographer had to argue that she was *probably* not involved in the murder of Trotsky.
No, I don't think so. Canonical fame like this is so sparse. I think Christina Rossetti is more read now than her brother, but (AFAIK) "Rossetti" is still him
With modern technology they could have texted each other: - Final agonies over here - Same, death rattle incoming Related to two-phase locking
But do we need another gyro?
That’s great. I guess “neither knew of the other’s death” would have been pedantic
(I hereby acknowledge that this is beside the point of your post)
You and I may travel in slightly different circles — at a composer shindig recently, I called Domenico by the surname alone and was not misunderstood
Chances this was written by a human?
You've certainly made me curious about your John Adams opera (which I expect isn't what that sounds like)!
I'm sure this has been posted often before (probably by me!) but it remains a classic. It's worth counting the syllables in each line.... #smallpoemsunday
**3 weeks!!** wtf
I thought it was “between the end of the _Chatterley_ ban….”
No idea what this is about, but if you’re doing four-part harmony exercises, please be careful about doubling the third
Yeah, “sane” not the right word, for several reasons. Straight shooter, experienced…this is not that
Thought he was one of the sane ones
How do they know the “intentions” of Meta?
If a puppy could speak, we would understand him easily
Okay, I’ll bite: how is it providing free publicity? ;-)
"Langhorne"
OK, this unlocked a memory from high school -- we were taking turns reading passages from Hamlet, and I mispronounced "whore".
"tribal people"
Have women been supporting Cal better? Puzzling
Usually this is me. But at my company, everyone says “tem-POR-al” for an internal feature name; and in John Wick 3, everyone pronounces “parley” like “parlay”
![Four-panel Calvin and Hobbes strip (Jan. 13, 1987, I think), all with Susie Derkins talking to herself. [wiping a tear] *sniff* That stupid Calvin. Why does he call me names for no reason? It's just mean. [crossing her arms and looking down her nose haughtily]: I wish I had a hundred friends. THEN I wouldn't care. I'd say,](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:m2rgb2e3ejvmcri2enpdm7gw/bafkreiezgsz4x45imoblqw6m3kveltdfng63ejviutcuimrwnbvoilglt4@jpeg "Click to view full size")