Those are great.
I don't know if this is art, but it will make you laugh. https://twitter.com/hamlinton_/status/1247393770464858114?s=21
Cintra Wilson, Rabih Alameddine, and Proscilla Page all have intermittent visual art appreciation storms on twitter.
https://twitter.com/xintra/status/1246396547496939520/photo/1
Cintra Wilson just published a very nice piece about 70's film fashion
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6882-feast-your-eyes-a-tour-of-the-sartorial-70s
lw
Ear candy. The link to the actual recordings is buried in the article, which is a useful explanatory, but if you want to skip it, go here.
Free Texas Monthly archive access for the rest of the year.
Fun thread about duplicats -- https://twitter.com/JimMFelton/status/1247631838211985409
my desk at home (v successful ikea hack for a small space, ask for deets if that would be of interest to anyone) looks out onto the monkey puzzle tree in the small, foggy and neglected back garden, and i strongly suspect there is a hummingbird nest in it based on observed activity during conference calls. this is the only successful birding i have managed in my entire life lol. hummingbirds are v humorous when just perching, something so self important about their chests.
The nesting cardinals outside my window are all I have. But that's the kitchen window, not my office.
Sometimes, I take Buzzfeed quizzes to remind myself that I'm old.
Neo-Futurists highlight reel of their first couple weeks of remote shows.
My son is making us play D&D. It's really tedious.
If it's classic rules D&D it's probably tedious. There's a branch called Pathfinder where they forked the rulebook around 10 years ago to make it somewhat less tedious.
I had a hummingbird nest out the kitchen window two kitchens ago. Most delightful: the babies' beaks grow long quite early so the nest looks like a pincushion from the side, those slender needles waving around. Their poor little stiff necks!
Some of these Escheresque paintings are pretty cool.
13: clew that is *the best* ever ever ever!
Here are some poems that worked for me today:
Good Bones
Questions to ask yourself before giving up
Newbie worry: I wonder if i did the links right...?
Some creative paper snow flakes https://www.flickr.com/photos/viciousbits/albums/72157603278449802 I'm thinking of trying the bird one (of course) but I don't think I have suitable scissors.
Painting rainbows and messages in windows is really popular here (as is the return of Christmas lights) so I'm also thinking about putting tissue paper patterns on the windows for some color. My first plan is merimekko-style flowers but skinny horizontal stripes is also tempting.
I made Easter eggs for the first time in 30? years yesterday. Way easier than I remembered and got a great omelette out of it (blown out eggs not hard boiled).
Hello raster! Someone should send you a fruit basket but I don't know if any slots are available right now.
Can't say I love the balloons, but otherwise. The ones of his wife-as-tree-and/or-cloud are great but I don't see them online. Older.
Saw this comedy sketch yesterday (thanks to a commenter's twitter):
Cute House: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC6xjO1JoR8
Which reminds me of this sketch:
Cha Cha Slide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC6xjO1JoR8
Which makes me wonder if there's a new humor genre arising, of (SPOILER) otherwise unremarkable men being unexpectedly socially and emotionally skilled. I hope so, because I love it. I guess it shouldn't be funny, but it still is.
Sorry.
Cute House: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yXaBunkh4o&t=6s
Rabih Alameddine has already come up in this thread - I enjoyed his essay, "-How to Bartend" - https://lithub.com/how-to-bartend/
And if you haven't already read Fran Lebowitz's New Yorker interview - https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/fran-lebowitz-is-never-leaving-new-york
I haven't written a pome in quite a while, but here's an oldie that I don't remember sharing before:
Jean-Paul Gaultier
Is a clothier
As his clothes get haute-ier
He gets goatier.
If the world is getting too exciting, can I suggest älgvandringen, the annual Swedish TV livestream of migrating elk?
The have cameras set up in the forest all along a traditional migration route from winter to summer pastures and film whatever happens, live. Most of the time, nothing happens.
But right now I am watching a group of rather melancholy reindeer plodding across a frozen lake. Highlight reels, on youtube, involve things like a party of elk splashing across a partially frozen river. It's all rather soothing, even if you can't smell the forests.
Altogether elsewhere, small
Groups of reindeer slowly slog
Through endless miles of Nordic bog.
And online you can watch it all.
Fantastic grow the evening gowns;
Caesar's daily press brief flaunts
A shallow pool of lies and taunts.
It's going badly. Fuck you, clown.
Unendowed with wealth or pity
Tweeting birds with rancid feeds,
Sating psychopathic needs,
Mock each flu-infected city.
Cerebrotonic Cato hacks
Defend the wealth of the elite:
On the empty locked down street
Wild dogs rove in starving packs.
The piers are battered by the waves;
Offshore prison enterprise
Cedes its space for exercise
To the digging of mass graves.
Funny little video and enjoyable thread. Easter-topical! https://twitter.com/DavidVidecette/status/1246785553900724224
Just like the shitty Easter candy I bought for the kids, because I didn't want to be tempted into eating it, and apparently they're old enough to complain about shitty candy.
Sorry. 29 was relevant and then I couldn't stop myself from continuing.
(Not they aren't good. They are.)
People getting killed in medieval art and giving 0 fucks.