Girl in a Room, Richard Diebenkorn 1958

I know the feeling, Byzantine Emperor Anastasius I Dicorus

I hadn't realised that Averil Cameron, a terrific historian, had died a few days ago:

Stirring that sesame paste

Young dude in office next door is once again enthusiastically explaining Descendents to women at nearby desks who are listening politely and probably wondering exactly how old he thinks they are

Highly recommend wearing an unzipped hoodie over pajamas while drinking coffee if you want to feel 1000 years old

Related: Alma Thomas, Snoopy Sees Earth Wrapped in Sunset, 1970

I do enjoy that when Emily Moales says she was deeply influenced by Kate Bush she includes the early stuff, love an arty soft rock queen

My brother and sister-in-law practice dishwasher chaos and I just cannot even

Leo XIV: Much like our Lord at Gethsemane, a proper hot dog must be "dragged through the garden" in order for us to achieve salvation,

Linda Infante Lyons, Isuwig, Guardian of the Sea, 2025, oil on canvas

Sir, a second bird is at the feeder

Can it reliably perform basic functions? No. But can it be trusted to do more difficult tasks thoroughly? Also no

one of the great camera movements in live music history. RIP to an all-timer

Rose memory: de Kooning (and Burden)

Grid time

Some excellent spolia.

When Tammi sings “My love is alive, way down in my heart/Although we are miles apart” >>>>>>>>>>

“Asked by his friend, the painter William T. Williams, about his role as a role model to young artists, he once said this was his advice: ‘Just be one. And if possible, be an old one.’”

Rain on a Window Paraskeva Clark 1963

"'God is collective action,' [Rieber] said. 'And you bring God into the world by doing these things.'"

Thread: Luciano Pavarotti summer mood board

when Ezra Klein writes something for the 38 year olds on this website to choose to read indoors and get mad about on a beautiful sunny day

Spring cookie sale at the Ukrainian church

I think about this at work every time someone has a truly terrible idea that no one wants to criticize

Cathedrals are neat but mosques are where it's at

An excellent question

renewed free link as.ft.com/r/80c4d3b5-d...

Dazzle-Ships in Drydock at Liverpool, 1919 by Edward Wadsworth

Pop Leo asked if he should put on gloves to turn pages in the gorgeous Renaissance Bible and the librarian explained why it’s better to do so with bare hands. Glorious reaction. Every rare books librarian & archivist feeling very seen, I gather. www.instagram.com/reel/DUcpEBY... #BookHistory

not to be a hater but I think if jrr tolkien decided to cut something, it probably should stay cut, have you SEEN the shit he left in?

One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost and Found—complete in its hatbox-shaped container—is one of the best purchases I’ve ever made

Thinking of the epochal glut of single-artist CD box sets from the peak-CD era: Led Zep (1990), Robert Johnson (90), Clash On Broadway (90), Spector Back to Mono (91), Marley Songs of Freedom (93) Citizen Steely Dan (93), VU Peel Slowly (95), Police Message In A Box (93) the best of them all (91):

Happy Opening Day, baseball freaks! For @texasmonthly.bsky.social, I dug into the 50-year history of ballpark nachos, which are now just as associated with the game as peanuts and Cracker Jacks because who doesn't love a helmet full of spicy cheese and chips?! www.texasmonthly.com/food/fifty-y...

“The difficulty is that narrative management works only when it remains tethered to operational reality.” Yes, that is a pickle

don quixote is the first known story about a guy getting cooked by content overexposure

I been saying!!!

Loved this little angel by Raphael in the Met Museum show.

“Cinnamon is not a flavor for aesthetes. It is a flavor for dopamine chasers and chronic smokers—for people inured to subtlety, who need to be jostled just to feel.“ I wrote about (and ranked) the spicy holdouts in a dying confectionery field.

You wish us to tell you "the nicest ways to earn your own living" Alas! We know of no "nice ways" - all are difficult.

You and me both, Nick, you and me both

Enough with the Gramsci quote (you know the one)

“If the horse kept the carrot in mass production, the cow kept the parsnip” for which we are all grateful

Last day for zeppole from the dairy farm

Galla Placidia has perhaps the most metal 🤘 meander mosaic ever to exist. If I could make one wallpaper for my office or personal tomb, it would be this (Ravenna, 450 CE).

this statistic seems compelling but like all Gen X stats it doesn’t stand up to scrutiny once fifty guys all reply to defensively talk about themselves

“AI is compelling to tech billionaires and their minions because it offers the fantasy of total control. They have found a way to conquer their phobia of humanity, which is by turning it into a malleable simulacrum.”