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Under the Blossom that Hangs on the Bough, John Willian Godward, oil on canvas, 24 x 32 in. (61 x 81 cm). Link is to file page on Wikimedia Commons, original is in a private collection. Neo-Classical Victorian painter John William...
Six months of photos, one every day. Making time to pause, breath and look.
From The Russo-Ukraine War: The Return of History, by Serhii Plokhy (W. W. Norton, 2023), Kindle pp. 18-21: The USSR began its life with massive affirmative action for the non-Russian cultures outside the Russian Federation. But cultural...
Detail of the Texan Theatre in Kilgore, Texas. The post Texan – Texan appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
Patrick Harpur, Daimonic Reality: Too much of our recent history has been soul-slaughter, imagining the past as merely primitive and, muscle-bound with technology, bulldozing the sacred places, hunting the daimonic animals with...
Tap, tap, tap. Not yet dawn. Maybe a light rain. Wake at first light. Clear skies. Tap, tap, tap. I realize it is the sound of shrimp snapping below SPARTINA.A cinnamon bun and iced tea at CRU. No rush to leave. Slack tide at Beaufort...
Things that brought me delight in June, 2026. Johanna van Veen, Bone of My BoneI enjoyed Johanna van Veen's haunting novel My Darling Dreadful Thing, but I really enjoyed Bone of My Bone. Bone of My Bone centers on a Catholic nun and a...
just realized these can be anything i want. so i'll do just that: write about anything i want! re: sims hyperfixation ⋆˚࿔june 2026 marks my return to the sims, specifically the sims 2. it consumes most of my consciousness, and i've been...
There are two different narratives I hear about AI in movies right now:“We’re moments away from uploading a script and making movies!” (This is usually followed by the person trying to get me to look at a demo of their “ground-breaking”...
This article was originally posted on the Ubuntu Discourse, and is reposted here. I welcome comments and further discussion in that thread. The development of upki has been steadily progressing over the past few months. Since my last...
The Best Record of 1989: Day 27
If there are no punishments for violating someone’s rights, they’re not really rights at all. – Hemant Mehta Size Matters The only religion which it’s actually free to practice in the US is Christianity: The Supreme Court has made it...
“In a point of time, the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred, was the first character of the Cthulhu Mythos to the make his appearance; this was in strongly Dunsanian tale, The Nameless City (1921), fashioned about the unexplainable couplet.” ‘That...
Not long after posting this supposed hyperbolic message to her MySpace page, the fifteen-year-old died from Dengue Fever contracted from a mosquito bite whilst on holiday. The teenager had been spending time with her family in the...
Such was the first and last tweet from Rik Mayall on the very day that he died of a heart-attack. Or so it would appear. Mayall was a pioneer of alternative comedy in the early 1980s. He formed a comedy partnership with Ade Edmondson,...