He’s always wanted approval from the Manhattan elite who prize culture. He doesn’t understand it, doesn’t care about it but he wants to be part of that elite. Never going to happen and so he either tries to ape it or destroy it.

I love Mary Steenburgen. That's the skeet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpX9...

Trump, who, despite wealth and easy access, has lived a long life utterly vacant from the arts, is obsessed with the Kennedy Center. It's curious. Or maybe it isn't curious and it's at one with his other despotic delusions, such as the alleged ballroom, arch, etc.

Word processor with a Salad Shooter attachment

in my gold fish era (forgetting everything after 30 seconds)

(19) Bach Sonata for Cello and Harpsichord BWV 1027, Fournier / Růžičková - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeGf...

Perry Archangelo Bamonte, longtime guitarist and keyboardist for the influential goth band The Cure, has died at age 65.

'Think ten times, play once.' Franz Liszt

Taking a break from being offended by Stephen Miller's malignant character to be offended by his blinding ignorance of American history with that Sinatra and Martin comment of his.

Side note: Sinatra’s mom Natalina “Dolly” Garaventa, a midwife by trade, ran an underground free abortion clinic, chained herself to a fence to fight for women’s suffrage and was an extremely influential organizer for the Democratic Party www.irishtimes.com/opinion/eamo...

Deux ou trois moments de notre existence Rachel Boillot

I always thought Plato was pretty pollyannaish on this point, but this is decent evidence for the view that a man of bad character will therefore be unhappy even with every external trapping of success and good fortune.

A beautiful beast, esp. mm 9-12. I'm at the edge of my abilities. But like everything with Bobby Schumann, it's enormously fulfilling despite the challenge. Feels like I'm taking music theory intravenously too as a result of the struggle?

Silurian Border Morris

Friday Finnish!! Väinö Kamppuri ( 1891 - 1972 ) Finnish painter "Winter Landscape in Elimäki" oil on canvas 48,5 x 43 cm, 1937

We lost the "Ivory Queen of Soul" 15 years ago today 🕊 Remembering Teena Marie (March 5, 1956 – December 26, 2010) 💙 🗣I'm talking square biz

Remembering Teena Marie (March 5, 1956 – December 26, 2010) 💙🕊 #15Years 🗣I just want to rock your world

Merry Merry to all of y'all who, despite now being a decade into this foul and abnormal era of shamelessness, refuse to normalize it in your daily lives. You are strong. Respect!

Today isn't just Boxing Day, it is also St. Stephen's Day in places like Newfoundland and Labrador! Who was St. Stephan and why is Dec. 26 a day dedicated to him? This is the story! 🧵 1/8

The light here is so narrative. It’s golden now, calling out one by one all the gentle folds in the hills.

When your masculinity is so fragile that you have to AI create a pic of you beating up Santa Claus to feel powerful… maybe log off & call a therapist, not a graphics generator.

the day after christmas

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baby it's cold outside baby there's a stiff wind doing everything it can to lean on that "feels like" temperature outside

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‘Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.’ ~ Richard Adams, Watership Down. This week’s #BookWormSat will wrap up warm against the cold and icy glittering world of winter literature! Do join us. ❄️ 🖼️ Mildred Anne Butler, 1893.

Elze van den Ban #Dutch urban planner chief engineer of Rijkswaterstaat (Dept of Public Works) @ Zuiderzee Works. Introduced curvatures rather than straight lines into urban planning process. 1st woman from Netherlands to graduate as civil engineer in Delft. d. #OTD 25 Dec 1973 bit.ly/3WYS1Vu

Relief with a Tauroctony scene and a dedicated inscription to Sol Invictus. Emperor Aurelian dedicated a temple in Rome to Sol Invictus, the unconquered Sun, #OnThisDay in AD 274. Sol Invictus became an increasingly important deity, with his festival day occurring on the 25th of December.

Beeple

To the stanch Dust To the stanch Dust We safe commit thee — Tongue if it hath, Inviolate to thee — Silence — denote — And Sanctity — enforce thee — Passenger — of Infinity —

But when I came to read it, it is so silly an abuse of the Presbyter Knight going to the warrs, that I am ashamed of it; and by and by meeting at Mr. Townsend’s at dinner, I sold it to him for 18d.

Carlos Cruz-Diez

We now enter MERRINEUM - that vague numberless stretch between Christmas and New Year measured by naps, novels, cricket & leftovers

Nazaré, Portugal, 1956 Edouard Boubat

Expressions of Christmas so often feel like the artist's opportunity to celebrate the beauty of motherhood.

Bottomless corruption.

Thinking of you tonight, the very sad. I like to stand outside & shiver a little until my mind empties itself. Maybe you have your own thing. Here’s hoping you have access to it.

fellow introverts, the recharge sequence will now commence

Moore Good Times Virginia, IL

Step outside in New England right now if you’d like to know what “brick” feels like.

I know there's a new one afoot by the always interesting Alice Sara Ott, but I do love this recording of Field's Nocturnes by Elizabeth Joy Roe. #piano app.idagio.com/albums/field...

Stately, plump Santa Claus came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

An old favourite for Christmas Eve and #WyrdWednesday. According to a little practised Flemish superstition, you'll have the power to recognise witches if you go to an intersection on Christmas Eve with a black chicken on your head. 🎨Heather Murray

Christmas moose!

Dec. 25, 1925: William Austin, a star player on the Harvard hockey team, saves two boys from drowning after they break through the ice of Leverett Pond in Boston. Despite his own injuries he then drives the 8- and 12- year-old brothers to a hospital.

Hampstead Heath, December 1938. Photograph by Frederick G Roper

Christmas is Over (If You Want It)

Ronald Searle’s splendid seasonal cover for Christmas Day 1971’s The New Yorker.