President Obama and his family Serving Thanksgiving Meals to Veterans today. #PresidentObama #MichelleObama.💙

Finishing the pies to the strains of the only appropriate Thanksgiving soundtrack

One thing that every David Lynch film has in common is that he loved really dense sound design. If you don't have big speakers, it's worth watching any of them with good headphones. There is a *lot* of detail to be heard.

Grateful for those who refuse to give up.

Clare Price.

Betty White and Lorne Greene hosting the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in New York City in 1965.

Roy Lichtenstein, Turkey, 1961

Family cookbooks, filled with handwritten notes, sometimes held together with rubber bands, tell the story of generations of homemakers. They are irreplaceable treasures. 🦃 Celebrate the cultural & family histories on their worn & stained pages ➡️ blog.archive.org/2024/09/30/v... #Thanksgiving

Needed music about cities to play to a class this morning. Having 30 six year olds singing 'Downtown' with Petula was the highlight of my day. #petulaclark #primaryteaching #musicteaching

If you're looking for some distraction this weekend, you could do a lot worse than this mild hallucinogen from 1943. Without giving anything away, let's just say that you will never look at bananas the same way again — unless you looked at them a certain way in the first place, of course

But do check out the whole thread #HappyBirthdayRoz

A Gen Z-led advocacy group announced a boycott campaign targeting major corporations “that enable, profit from, or directly collaborate with ICE.” Beyond the Ballot launched “Not With My Dollars: ICE Out of My Wallet” just days before Black Friday kicks off.

My dad, Don Seybold, has died. Made jazz radio across six decades; jazz presenter & agent; at 60, started teaching jazz history. So charismatic, he excelled at sales, politics, seduction, storytelling. He used it to promote other people’s art. Life tested his ethics many times. He always passed.

The CDC has turned off its vaccine search tool. The vaccines.gov site now gives an error when you enter a valid zip code. They also removed text saying “Vaccines can help you stay healthy” and added a banner saying the site is being updated.

First light 6:28

Understanding, stairway to reality 🖤 #shotoniphone #mobilephotography #blackandwhite

Lucille Corcos Preparing The Thanksgiving Feast, 1953 Ballantine Beer Advertisement Tempera on illustration board (17 x 24.5 in.)

Foiled. And I can't tell if I'm annoyed or proud: The kids quickly recognized me as a shared foe trying to grab the surplus for myself. They unionized and refused to bid against each other. Organized labor negotiated a settlement that better served their collective interests.

USA 🇺🇸 New York City au temps de TAXI DRIVER devant le Flatiron Building, (circa 1976).…

#Photography #Monochrome #JohnVachon

Dusty Springfield – Where Am I Going (1967) youtu.be/KPTcECmpRrg?...

“It’s going to be a reverent sacred site. ... We hope to include as many voices in that process on how to take something where something so awful took place and turn it into a place with high reverence," says Emmett Till Interpretive Center Executive Director Patrick Weems.

Bela De Kristo (1920-2006), The Big Ship (oil and paper laid down on canvas)

🟤 🟤🤎🟤 ➖ 🟫🟫 ➖ 🟫🟫 👟 👟 My abstract nude for Vanity Fair

Dalton Trumbo writing in the bath. Dalton Trumbo was an American screenwriter who scripted many award-winning films, including Roman Holiday (1953), Exodus (1960), Spartacus (1960), and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944).

One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.

Take pride in our fellow American, Sen. Mark Kelly, vigorously standing up for the Constitution and against a violence-inciting White House occupant who is failing to intimidate this good man and honorable public servant.

"Silver and Lace with Eggs" (2022) Susan Paterson (born in 1958) by Canadian artist Oil on panel 97 x 46 cm #art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

Jed Jackson (American Artist, born 1954 "Charlie Parker", 1979. Oil on Canvas, 180.5 × 149.9 cm. Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York. #art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

Tim Burton wearing a halloween costume made by his mother in 1967.

Not that you asked, but here's a thread of intriguing (real!) food facts to amuse/bore your friends and family. Great for gatherings when you need to change the subject!

Gosta Adrian-Nilsson Composition with musical instruments

SEN. KELLY : “They informed me of this in a tweet because this is not about the law. This is about the media cycle, and intimidation… We basically repeated the uniform code of military justice, and they're saying that's in violation of it. It's absurd. Comical.”

This might be really helpful for many folks out there. Remember, when it comes to riding bikes for transportation in the winter, “there’s no bad weather, just bad clothes.” (And bad infrastructure and maintenance decisions from city hall)

Nadezhda Danilova

Mid-Atlantic mushroom foragers are collecting 160 species across the region, turning their finds into food, medicine, art and scientific contributions. A mycologist explains how this practice connects people to the forest. buff.ly/fWXp8zc

Incredible tribute to someone who did so much for music in this country

Artist: Louise Camille Fenne (Danish, born 1972) Title: "Mirror No. 2" (2017) Medium: oil on canvas (60 x 60 cm) Private collection. #art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

À la vitesse de la pensée Henri Wessel

papering over bad news

Strictly speaking, it's not a façade that's cracking up at 432 Park Ave. in NYC; it's a "load-bearing, concrete exoskeleton." This makes the problem much harder to fix. The engineers called it back in 2012, but hubris and vanity overruled them. lloydalter.substack.com/p/schadenfre...

Goodnight from Chicago, home to excellent Art Deco industrial infrastructure.

Udo Kier, 1983 Udo Kier (14 October 1944 – 23 November 2025) © Robert Mapplethorpe #UdoKier #RIP 😢

On Sunday afternoon, a friend heard Mahler 7 with the Kansas City Symphony and Matthias Pintscher, so in empathy I cued up this gem. No idea how it compares with what he heard, but #WhoCaresItsMahler7

Mstislav Dobuzhinsky (Russian-Lithuanian1875-1957), New York. By the River, 1946. Charcoal, ink and wash, heightened with white, on cardboard, #art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground

i wonder how much of Americans' views on driving vs. transit would change if they had to pay for gas/insurance/etc every time they turned on the engine "i'm not paying $5 to take the train to work twice a day when i can just drive" is a genuine opinion held by so many people