Winning Pascal's Wager; wearing many hats (literally/figuratively); Paddington & Caligari stan.
Cue the music...
Citizeness Kane
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Yes, I am the target demographic for this!
This is such a timely thread for me right now, because this morning my Oblique Strategies deck got mixed up with my brother's by accident, so I've had to lay out all the cards on a table to match each one into its own deck again... which might be the most Oblique Strategies thing ever.
It's Basil Rathbone's birthday, a good time to revisit one of the greatest fencing scenes ever filmed, in "The Mark of Zorro":
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Everybody knows the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows
Reminded today that I far prefer David Hockney's joyously colorful "Mulholland Drive" to that other work of the same title by someone also named David.
Nature is so unfathomably amazing ✨️
Some designer who clearly knows what I like used this classic Peggy Lee album cover as the central motif for a large velvet pillow, which now graces our sofa.
I love ripe, fresh cherries so much. Too bad the season here in Spain is so short, because they're my favorite fruit.
Citizeness Kane
Citizeness Kane
Happy Bob Dylan's 85th birthday, which I will celebrate by getting together with a bunch of friends, in a bar, to play Dylan tunes on various stringed instruments. My request: "Million Dollar Bash". Cue the music...
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Yesterday, I attended a Brian Eno talk about the nature of creativity and art based on *What Art Does*, the short book he published with Bette Adriaanse last year:
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Can you identify who the readers of Look-In magazine (1971-1994) had attempted to capture in their Star Portraits section.
Want to hear something freaky?
If a deer gets a cut on its antlers while it's still in velvet, the next year when the deer grows a completely NEW rack, it will often grow an extra branch in the exact spot of the cut.
Let's talk about TROPHIC MEMORY, the weird way cells (may) remember each other.
Repost with the Russian agent that spies on your posts
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
Alt: Majestic Deer with Huge Velvet Antlers. To be clear, this is probably a genetic event or even a breeding decision, but it illustrates the strange ways that antlers can grow. This poor buck, I'm assuming probably a white tailed deer, looks a bit overwhelmed to have a monstrous rack.
