When dinner is late

Star Moles at no. 8 and way more interesting imo than any of the records above it that I’ve heard (which is most of them)

Snuffbox: Jackson, Van Buren, Webster, and Clay

Un aperçu en photos de la belle exposition sur Matisse à voir au Grand Palais

A Sèvres-style gilt porcelain coffee cup and saucer with painted floral decoration between gilt bands along the upper perimeter of both, and with gilt stars, dots and leaves in rows beneath. Made at the Comte d'Artois factory, circa 1800. The flower decoration is nice though a little intense.

William Nicholson June: Cricket, 1895 Color lithograph transferred from original woodblocks Worcester Art Museum

It’s cloudy, a little wet, and perhaps the last day under 70 for months, and still I left her, heartless

1/8. I’ve been to few exhibitions that have felt as revelatory as the National Gallery’s Zurbarán I1598-1664) retrospective. Here are some things I particularly loved. You feel as if you can run your fingers through the fleece of the Agnus Dei and know how it will feel.

We live in an age of wonders

“Tumble dry low,” yeah sure right buddy

Sonny Rollins and Gertrude Abercrombie at Gertrude's house (5728 Dorchester).

Some more pics from Tate Britain’s excellent WHISTLER exhibition. Haunting, hazy and ethereal all spring to mind… #Art #ArtSky

. . . How much of my life have I squandered? . . .

tylenol with codeine ⛑️

Wednesday did a great cover of “She’s Actin’ Single (I’m Drinkin’ Doubles)” on ‘Mowing The Leaves Instead Of Piling ‘Em Up,’ and Karly sent us this video to accompany her essay stereogum.com/2499858/karl...

Sometimes Pippa thinks about her life choices and how things might have been different

Jane Fonda collage by Eve Babitz for Los Angeles Times' West Magazine, 1971

Because they were there

Being a bigger person and not commenting on my brother’s purchase of hot dog buns that are not New England-style

The muqarnas ceiling at the Shah Mosque in Isfahan, Iran.

Look i don’t give a shit unless he’s dead

There’s worse things a 59-year-old man could consume but I wouldn’t have predicted that my brother would inherit our mother’s MSNBC habit

Friday night Mills

Note from Roberta Flack to Romare Bearden, 1986

Late-breaking grid

some guys with their cats (Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, Sartre)

Love to spend time with some little guys

Public exhibition opening tonight but, you know

new garfunkel just dropped

Middle-aged man in an ill-fitting sports jacket is really a timeless look when you think about it

Cameron Winter sang “I have work in the morning” and I really felt that

Urban bird's nest downtown, three stories up

let’s get this dread

This feels like it was made for 1990s me

On what would have been Pierre Balmain’s birthday, a bouquet of a dress. The embroidery crowds the sculpted strapless bodice but peters out as the skirt descends. Mid #1950s and lovely #NewfieldsToday #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Doing this to cars full of high people is a betrayal of Taco Bell’s social contract with our nation

Wild girl

West Covina, California Pop: 105,101 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Covina,_California Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=146049100 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=125547334 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=103132484

Today would be a great day to hear news about that job application I submitted

Tonight’s bus driver is not a wartime consiglieri

Let me tell you it can also speed it up. www.npr.org/2026/05/12/n...

End of the semester

I’ve known some corn dog artists as well

On radical Kant in the 1960s: "It's hard to conjure these leftwing students’ fascination with the arch-bourgeois Prussian philosopher except to say that theirs was no ordinary Kant, but the Frankfurt School’s Kant—a Kant mired in contradictions, whose unpacking promised to disclose something true"

"Don't forget me." "Don't worry, Homer. You'll always be a part of me."

“Weeknight recipes that are fast and easy without sacrificing a little excitement…”

Sculpture too, one might add