The world is a more dreary place today. Celebrating Marianne Faithfull (1946-2025) on the day of her passing . She wouldn't have liked "Rest in Peace". More like "Rave On in Perpetuity". www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0Nx...

Our best wishes for a happy, peaceful Holiday Season. It's time to regroup for the New Year. C.G. Jung's drawing of a Navajo mandala that evokes the solstices.

Solstice 2024_Warmth is on the way.

Land doesn’t vote. Stop pretending it does.

Film Clip of the Day...A Page of Madness _ a 1926 Japanese horror film by Teinosuke Kinugas_set in a mental institution. Let's overcome naturalistic representation!

I'd imagine there are quite a few of us who have seen the film THX 1138. Remember the confessional scenes? Well, here is reality today. www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-jesu...

Charles MIngus's manual tells you how to potty train your cat. Thanks to Daisy Fay who sent me this article from Open Culture. www.openculture.com/2024/11/how-...

R.I.P.Andy Paley.

A novel misuse of Numerology has been discovered. "Angel Numbers". www.independent.co.uk/life-style/a...

With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures.. #SunRa

A frustrating thing for me right now is the media narrative that RFK Jr is just an “anti-vaxxer” when he has said so many crazy things about other stuff over the years. We compiled 10 nutty clips on various topics, which still barely scratches the surface. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

Red Room Pictures is now on Bluesky! bsky.app/profile/redr...

New life goals: 1. Invent a time machine. 2. Flee to Ithaca, New York in 1951. 3. Become Vladimir Nabokov’s wacky next-door neighbor.

One of fascism's main tactics is to physically and mentally exhaust you. To flood the zone with outrageous bullshit, to make you bite on a dozen pump-fakes — so that when the real shot comes, you're too worn out to react. We need to pace ourselves. It's only been a week. Alert fatigue is dangerous

An AI-generated image of himself by Elon Musk in his position at the US Department of Government Efficiency. It's a spooky thing that looks like it belongs in the film Idiocracy as well as being a disgrace to the black leather jacket. Sorry. My mistake. It is in Idiocracy and so are we.

Watch a Screen Test of 21-Year-Old Orson Welles (1937) www.openculture.com/2020/05/watc...

I'm glad to have found this platform.