It’s a new day in my neighbourhood ☀️ Good morning - for no particular reason - to this street in Berlin-Friedenau 🇩🇪 (Disappointingly it’s named after a property owner rather than a 70s porn star) 😁

Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads.

August Achtenhagen (German, 1865-1938). "Nude in a Landscape".

Ink and watercolour art inspired by the absolutely brilliant #DeadBoyDetectives fic Entechely by zilia. archiveofourown.org/works/694499... #SaveDeadBoyDetectives

#ClassicsAdventCalendar - 1 December 🏺 The Dionysus Kylix - A beautiful Black-Figure kylix, signed by the exquisite potter/painter Exekias (ΕΧΣΕΚΙΑΣ ΕΠΟΕΣΕ), ca. 530 BC. Image: Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich (KM3179); Beazley 310403

Campaign slogans like “Make America Great Again” work because they implicitly point back to an idealized mid‑century moment without naming it, letting different voters fill in their own 1950s‑style memories of order and unity.

In My Craft or Sullen Art by Dylan Thomas "Not for the proud man apart From the raging moon I write On these spindrift pages Nor for the towering dead With their nightingales and psalms But for the lovers, their arms Round the griefs of the ages, Who pay no praise or wages Nor heed my craft or art."

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111AD - 130AD Deified upon his premature death by a devasted Hadrian, who also founded an organiszed cult devoted to his worship that spread throughout the Empire. Picture taken of the Antinous Farnese in November 2025 at Naples Archeological Museum.

"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

Point Reyes Books is among my very favorite bookstores in the world. Every time I go, I find books I have never seen in another shop. It’s lovey and distinctive and suited to its clientele. Totally worth a trip if you are anywhere near.

SCANDALOUS! Victorian critics found William Blake Richmond’s “The Bowlers” (1870) overtly homoerotic and boldly sensual. The physical closeness, soft gazes, and affectionate poses made the scene feel intimate rather than heroic or moral, far too daring for its era. #gay #art #lgbtq #history #nude

Posted this because I liked it and my freshman college year Russian still leaves me with the origin of this word. "почему", meaning "why". Making it a remembrance of the refrain of 'why' from my youngest step daughter......repeatedly. Grin.

Borrowed because of self victimization............

Nothing like it.....................iconic.

My imagination tells me he may have been a Selkie.......a beautiful changeling. Though German, perhaps he swam from Ireland and ended up in the Rhine River and switched in his cradle. When you watch his work you know he was a changeling. Sylph.

Cannot wait to see what Josh O'Conner and Paul Mescal do with these characters. Hermanus directed "Moffie" brilliantly and brutally so I've high hopes for the film. Remembering that Brokeback Mountain was also 'merely' a short story.

@royalblood1.bsky.social If you've not read it, get a copy of The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck. A phrase that is deceptively simple. "I don’t think I’ve ever been happier——in the plain, dull way that resists any further articulation." About his brief love affair in his youth. Never surpassed.

Simple and brilliant writing that blew me away.

Yes.

This is brilliant and heart rending writing. Do not miss it.

"My grandfather once said that happiness isn’t just a story. So there isn’t much to say about those first weeks." and "I don’t think I’ve ever been happier——in the plain, dull way that resists any further articulation." I wept out loud. .

First exposed to Reggae while creating costumes for a part of the Opera Falstaff at the Opera Company of Boston long ago. The Set department where I was concocting party costumes played the music and I was mesmerized and totally carried away. So this is another sad milestone ...............

Beautifully played

We heard by word of mouth iat school he'd been shot. Went to class (Santa Ana Valley High School). Teacher didn't lecture. We heard the classroom phones ring down the long hallway, one by one. Ours rang. Told he'd been killed. School was cancelled; we were sent home. The world changed.........

Yeah…!!!

So this scrolled onto my screen elsewhere and is a bit of an antidote to the nasty life so often tosses at us all

Heard tonight with a Korean series I'm watching which poses questions about tough medical & moral issues. Simple song with feeling. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J94L...

Lived in Rhode Island for 30+ yrs and I have to say one of the most apt and honest blurbs is the one for RI.

From "Writers write"

Selma Lagerlof, "The Wonderful Adventures of Nils", from the Swedish, Translated by Velma Swanston Howard, Illustrated by Mary Hamilton Frye, 1907, p 154. caption "Seals! Seals! Seals! cried Akka"

Blue lemons. My print shop is now open for the next 72 hours with 3 limited edition prints. I only open my print shop once a year. #oilpainting #art

Today fettuccine Alfredo with sweet sausage & mushrooms. Fettuccine was the fresh kind so it cooked easily &quickly. As I poured the sauce over pasta a lump came in my throat because I believe food is love & I’d no one to share this with.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRfH.... Because .........Stellenbosch.

Sometimes a poem resonates though you wish it were not so....

Think about it, MAGA. Take all the time you need.

Borrowed because...........

🪷 #Niankhkhnum & #Khnumhotep are saints of #Antinous for history's earliest depiction of a true-life same-sex mortal couple (not divine or mythological) kissing & sharing an Egyptian tomb for eternity. Their tomb was discovered 11 Nov 1964. Full tribute: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/11/nian... 🪷

my morning guffaw..........

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Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery. ~ Hart Crane

This evening's overly dramatic sunset..............

'The Rowers.' (1924) Manuel Losada is one of the key names in the modern Basque painting of the early 20thC - his work was praised by both Gauguin and Degas, and one can argue, there is a certain Degas-like expression of movement in this picture.