Rotisserie chicken is the new avocado toast that prevents home ownership.

What the heck? This is a big airspace closure in New Mexico for no known reason. It doesn’t help that the guy answering the provided FAA phone number for questions is telling the press (from the article) that he has no idea what’s going on. elpasomatters.org/2026/02/11/u...

The worlds most hopeful dog (Yes it’s closed)

I love this for them.

Breaking News: The FAA halted all flights to and from the El Paso airport in Texas for 10 days, citing unspecified security reasons.

Portrait of the Sister of Mrs. Renée Kisling (1919) by Moïse Kisling

You with the sad eyes Don't be discouraged Oh I realise It's hard to take courage In a world full of people You can lose sight of it all Cyndi Lauper, 20th century #Photography #Poetry #SpéirGhorm #SpeirGorm #StreetPhotography #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

Taming the Tiger (self-portrait) 1991-97 by Joni Mitchell

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I know spondaic fifth feet in hexameter verse are actually not too strange to encounter, but that still doesn't stop me from getting the heebie-jeebies when they happen.

Doing some listening at Hill House 😌 Swing !!!!

It's summer, somewhere. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bACK...

I'm glad you asked! March 25, 2025 March 27, 2024 March 30, 2023 March 21, 2022

Women are too emotional to be president, I was told. (Also, Switzerland has no prime minister.)

This beautiful deer and a few of her friends stopped by today.

[resets number of minutes since this Presidency has humiliated the nation to zero]

The old Alberta homestead for someone long gone.

Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.

80 years ago.... The lovely Rachel Robinson is still with us...103 years old ❤️

Happy Birthday Yuja Wang 🎉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMxm...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP-a... #Rach2

Yeah about that? actually it's completely illegal to arrest people en masse and figure out later if you have probable cause. And YMMV, but to my mind for people entrusted with upholding the law to break the law in the name of enforcing the law is definitely evil.

American Optimism Slumps to Record Low. (Gallup) More, via Opinion Today: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/260210-top...

I went to Etsy, where I also sell, to support small fabric shops, but have yet to find the products I used to find so easily at JoAnn’s.

I am once again asking you, because they are AMAZING, to check out the little known #Beethoven Etudes of Robert #Schumann, which riff off of the 2nd mvmt of the 7th symphony. #piano #classicalmusic app.idagio.com/albums/schum...

Intolerable violent assault on a US citizen --a *child*-- by our own government.

Oh, you mean arts and culture pays back more to the economy than it costs? Evidence is a truly wonderful thing - it makes living possible! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

"O Patria mia" from Leontyne Price's farewell performance at the Met. Not only the beautiful rendition, but the audience response, and her great dignity in receiving it, are a sorely needed moment of beauty and grace. Happy 99th Birthday to our beloved American diva. youtu.be/L_56dQteAIY?...

Genuinely upset to learn this. He has given so much joy to millions for centuries and doubtless for centuries to come. It's not right.

Please watch the whole thing. It gives a glimpse of a road-map of what actual accountability could look like if the GOP loses their majority.

Today I visited the Shoah memorial at the Pinkas Synagogue in Prague. One of the most affecting collections features art of children in one of the camps. It listed their age and period of internment. Some survived; most were killed by the Nazis. Then I came home to see @propublica.org’s piece:

I feel seen!

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.” hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

"I'm a co-ekwal branch of gobbermint!"

My column today on Washington Classical Review: Independence must be restored to the Kennedy Center in order to save it - washingtonclassicalreview.com/2026/02/10/i...

Kayo Yamaguchi (1960s)

I woke up before the sun came up today & couldn’t stop thinking about Javier Abreu-Vasquez, the recipient of a kidney transplant who was grabbed by ICE without the medicine he needs to keep his body from rejecting the kidney. He was going through legal immigration processes & has no criminal record

Irving Amen

A Writer (1955) by Lucian Freud

The Lady at The Piano (1913) by Kazimir Malevich

"Apollo ΝΟMΟΣ", assemblage, Charlayn von Solms #BlueSkyArtShow #sunlight

"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to."

Stanisław Szukalski Krak at the Confessional Oak (1943)

© Felice Casorati - Girl on a Red Carpet, 1920

“Listen, because I dived into the abyss I started to love the abyss of which I am made.” — Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

Konstantin Kalynovych

Constance Keene was born 105 years ago on February 9, 1921. She knew a number of legendary pianists and was highly esteemed by her colleagues (she taught Rubinstein's children). An anthology of various recordings & two superb sets of Rachmaninoff works are linked in the comments!

Photographer Roman Robroek specialises in recording frescoes and paintings in abandoned or unoccupied buildings in Italy. I’m admiring the astonishingly effective trompe l’oeil illusion of depth in this room at Sammezzano Castle, Tuscany romanrobroek.nl/breathtaking...