Epitaph to a bag with a face.
Category: Uncategorized
Who needs categories when you’ve got tags?
Pythagoras and Hepatia
Pythagoras vs. beans and Hepatia vs oyster shells.
Weeklinks – Edition 3
This week’s links on creativity, social media, distractions, tips on writing and drawing, art, Lady Lilith, and Max Ernst. PLUS! Unusual inspiration for unusual times.
The Sunday Showcase, not to be confused with “The Sunday Scaries”, literally zooms in on a piece of artwork and shares videos and/or quotes from the artist.
Happy Birthday Lou Doillon
Life is a very challenging project.
11 new words, brought to you by Merriam-Webster
Harvest
It’s harvest and I ask for more time without pressure.
Vespers (End of August)
And some things have the nerve to be getting started…
This is the first “interview” (it’s very short, only a few quotes from each conversation) with friends and family members who are Deaf. My 25 year-old brother, Yordi, is using photography as a way to escape from his three other roommates, not counting the kitten and the Dalmatian, all of which are Deaf, except for […]
What I love is blue
What I love about you is blue.
Weather to vaccinate, or not.
Whether the weather weathers the whether.
Between scientific conferences, universities, and the homes of colleagues all over the world.
Van Morrison’s Into the Mystic
Now hear the sailors cry
The Temptation of St. Anthony (detail), 1946 Oil on Canvas, 89.5 x 119.5 cm (35 1/4 x 47 in.) Brussels, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique
Indescribably magnificent
What Charles Bukowski didn’t say
Charles Bukowski didn’t say you should find what you love and let it kill you.
Categorize to save yourself.
If you inherently long
Become it first.
All of Life is Practice
All of life is practice.
A data pitstop on the way to China.
Don Draper’s Brand
Change the conversation and you control the brand.
Fear and Circumstance in Las Vegas
I came home to a cat, her white paws delicately dancing past the typewriter, mine. Tucked inside the typewriter was a sheet, long dead, with the words I wrote by hand: “Place yourself in circumstances of want, and ask yourself, “is this what I fear?”
Cuba announces increase in wages as part of economic reform by Associated Press Thursday, June 27th 2019 The beginning: “Every Cuban has the right to a salary increase,” said Dariel Tejeda, a 28-year-old tour guide. “The country and all the state workers have needed this for a long time.” and the end: Ending the dual-currency […]
The Gallery Inn
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
You were on your own.
You’re never at the beginning of some event.
What to eat after giving birth. Oh, and also your calcium intake.
I’m alright. Sometimes I’m wrong.
Why didn’t I learn this number, earlier? Why do I still know nothing about anything?
Nuclear incidents in the 1950s
Excerpts below from the Nuclear Files Org. 13 February 1950U.S.A., Pacific Ocean- A B-36 which developed serious mechanical difficulties on a simulated combat mission, dropped a nuclear weapon from 8,000 ft. over the Pacific Ocean before crashing. Luckily only the weapon’s explosive material detonated. Nothing is known of attempts to recover the nuclear weapon and […]
Soviet Spy Klaus Fuchs
…not until 1949 that decrypted cables from the United States Army Signal Intelligence Service (SIS)’s “Venona” project revealed Fuchs was a Soviet spy.
озёрск / Ozersk
Those in paradise were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.
It’s called modelling.
“I make a sketch of the person” said Mr. K., “and make sure that one comes to resemble the other.”
Another month ends. All targets met. All systems working. All customers satisfied. All staff eagerly enthusiastic. All pigs fed and ready to fly. Currently reading: http://masterrussian.net/f17/shape-tongue-correctly-pronounce-russian-sounds-22855/
bruises, broyses, spelled бройсес
Музыка
A Child’s Curiosity
Babies are not blobs, but true scientists.
On the up and down
Life is a condition.
Barely learned
Forget about forgetting.
A reality-tunnel is kind of silly
Bigger, funnier, sexier
Learning Russian for Russia’s women
LAD, my child.
Hot, sunny, coolness in the shade
“A new background created without hope or joy, without feeling of permanence or without a conviction of its rightness. But inevitably beautiful.” June 1936, Anais Nin
Senior and junior Morales
Un padre con su hijo.
Lie back and think of pleasure
Start drinking. Daydream about your death.
A tragedy about a cat
how are we supposed to do anything now that we have that cat??
A body of work
Nobody’s poem
Sharing is caring.
Consume a creator
I had consumed and then I created, or rather, I had chewed something up and spat it out.
A student’s email on gender
I thought about what you said regarding the men/being women thing.