Ascendant Eye

Art challenge part 2: Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you — one per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just sculptures. #blueskyartchallenge #art #sculpture 1/20 Constantin Brâncuși, Mademoiselle Pogani I, 1912

Didn’t get the title of this one as it was closing time, but more prog rock vibage

Best burn of the year

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

Hang on, when did reading become so performative?

man ray eva barcinska with double accordion 1932/34 mor: mymodernmet.com/man-ray-phot... #art #artsky #arthistory #dada #surrealism #photography #avantgarde #superimposition

A list of little gestures to carry against life changing forever

It’s ironic to resign over editing a bunch of lies to reflect the truth.

The French original of this astonishing Samuel Beckett (I much prefer the French original) Je Suis et vivrai le temps d'une porte qui s'ouvre et se referme

Cried my eyes out watching a film (Clint Eastwood’s “Sully” with an expectedly convincing Tom Hanks), but watched with only mild emotional involvement how a neighbour(whom I know and am on talking terms with) was taken away by an ambulance in what clearly was an emergency. Human nature is…weird?

"Mouse dear! Do come back again, and we won’t talk about cats or dogs either, if you don’t like them!"

Bill Evans Trio - Sunday at the Village Vanguard (Full Album) www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ_r...

Day of the Iron Crown

Born a rich kid, this parasite doesn’t make anything himself. He’s a lucky, greedy, self-obsessed player in capitalism’s casino. A care nurse does more for humanity in an hour than he’s achieved in a lifetime. And he uses his wealth for racist, classist, anti-trans causes. Capitalism’s values stink

"doughy fear-harvester" has to be the greatest description of the Muskrat yet coined.

16 words that have been recently added to the Oxford English Dictionary. This is why society is falling apart.

I still remember my anthropology professor’s favorite joke from college: “What did Watson and Crick discover?” “Rosalind Franklin’s notes.”

Dall'Abaco: Capriccio No 1 for solo cello, Romana Šimbera #ClassicalMusic music.youtube.com/watch?v=rCsE...

‘We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial - I believe we are lost. ‘ 📚E.M.Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929 🎬 directed by E.Berger, 2022 #BookWormSat #War

‘Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying, and the same agony.’ 📚E.M.Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929 🎬 directed by D.Mann, 1979 #BookWormSat #War

‘But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand grenades, of your bayonets, of your rifle; now I see your wife, and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade.’ 📚E.M.Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front 🎬 directed by L.Milestone, 1930 #BookWormSat #War

Meanings of the word for November in various languages ▪️ Leaf fall (Czech) ▪️ Freezing moon (Ojibwe) ▪️ Dark period month (Inari Sami) ▪️ Wind slender (Navajo) ▪️ Month of goats (ChiShona) ▪️ Month of slaughter (Welsh) ▪️ Time of drumming (Yup'ik) ▪️ Arrival of the scorpion (Thai) ▪️ Death month (Finnish)

They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; They threatened its life with a railway-share; They charmed it with smiles and soap.

Each thought he was thinking of nothing but "Snark" And the glorious work of the day; And each tried to pretend that he did not remark That the other was going that way.

pretty much one of the best things I read this year (it's a reissue, it was originally published in 1979)

We are a bit of Being peeled from the universe

Here’s the center of the moment

'I walk into what light there is' Mark Strand

Me when reading yeah NY congrats and all but what has that got to do with me

A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

Cormorant has found himself a stick. 🪶

CT. 11/2/2025

Day of the Five Riders

#JustWatched #filmsky Seemed appropriate today (spoiler: it’s NOT about burials, at least not mainly) Watchable

“No, it’ll never do to ask: perhaps I shall see it written up somewhere.” Down, down, down. There was nothing else to do, so Alice soon began talking again. “Dinah’ll miss me very much to-night, I should think!” (Dinah was the cat.)

‘The corpses to the woman said: You will be like us when you’re dead! The woman to the corpses said: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! ‘ 📚Alvin Schwartz, In The Graveyard, illustrated by Dirk Zimmer #BookWormSat #Death

‘Death will be the end of fear and the fear of dying …………. fear where water turns into steel ………….. fear as the sun ignites in my lap fear as night can’t be shut off ………….’ ✍️ Anne Sexton, The Death King 📷 own, The Scream #BookWormSat #Death #poetry

2/ Arms, hands and a bit of body, but the heads are gone from a double portrait.

Day of the Last Across

I saw a white middle-aged guy in a business suit. I told him wow that's a scary Halloween costume. He was not amused.

‘…”for it might end, you know,” said Alice, “in my going out like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then?” ‘ 📕 Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 🎬 Jonathan Miller, Alice in Wonderland #BookWormSat #Death

‘ In a sense, we all are crashing to our death from the top story of our birth to the flat stones of the churchyard and wondering with an immortal Alice in Wonderland at the patterns of the passing wall.’ 📚 V.Nabokov, Lectures on Lit. 📷 own, still from J. Miller’s Alice in Wonderland #BookWormSat

‘…… To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil……’ 🎭 W. Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, Scene I 🩰Martha Graham, Lamentation #BookWormSat #Death

#PhotoOfTheDay #Monochrome Trunks

A lot of folks who follow my work on here don't necessarily know that I've also created animated shorts for nearly two decades. Here's a link to a selection of special HALLOWEEN cartoons I've made: youtu.be/F2VzydQoAls?... #grickledoodle #horror #animation #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese (1760-1849), The Ghost of Oiwa, c. 1831-32, woodblock print, 26.3 x 18.9 cm, vertical chūban, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Meditation on the Flaw