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fall of rome
80 years ago President Roosevelt delivered a speech: "..."Last night, when I spoke to you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation. It has come to pass with success thus far."
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s D-Day Prayer
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"Machinery will tend to lose its sensational glamour and appear in its true subsidiary order in human life as use and continual poetical allusion subdue its novelty. For, contrary to general prejudice, the wonderment experienced in watching nose dives is of less immediate creative promise to poetry than the familiar gesture of a motorist in the modest act of shifting gears."
'Hart Crane and the Machine Age'. 1933.
'Notes Torwards A Supreme Fiction'
"In the life of a poet, of course, there is no Election Day to distinguish the visionaries from the also-rans. So Stevens’s response, when it came, trickled down in dribs and drabs. Scholars argue over this: some see him as returning, defensively, to conservatism, particularly since in a 1940 letter he declared that “Communism is just the new romanticism,” and referred to “my rightism.”"
'What Mitt Romney Might Learn From Wallace Stevens' [archive link]
Virgil.
'The Bill Mitchell era'
Bill Mitchell was "responsible for creating or influencing the design of over 72.5 million automobiles produced by GM, Mitchell spent the entirety of his 42-year career in automobile design at General Motors". Bill Mitchell’s Silver Arrow I. In 1957, coming back from the Turin Auto Show Mitchell faced "Automobile Manufacturers Association (AMA) had forbidden American automakers from participating in any performance or motorsports activities—which included the building, selling, or advertising of performance-oriented products."
Studio X: The Story of Bill Mitchell's Secret Styling Studio at General Motors.
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Gm•(t)-p3-itn
Originally published in 1979, 'The Akhenaten Temple Project and Karnak Excavations' is a nice shapshot of the projects overview. "Akhenaten built the Gem-pa-Aten in the third year of his reign to celebrate his jubilee festival (the heb-sed). By year six of his reign, however, Akhenaten had moved the court and royal palace to a new city in Middle Egypt, modern Tell el-Amarna. The extent to which the Gem-pa-Aten and the other structures dedicated to the Aten at Thebes functioned during the king’s hiatus is unknown." from Digital Karnak, A nice index for the history and archeology in Karnak. (Digital Karnak previously)
Good Shepherd
'Freckle'
stop motion cooking
Pie
"You better not throw like that in a mud ball fight kid!"
"The invention of the dunk tank clown shows just how far the line of what is considered appropriate for a society has moved over the decades."
'The Last of the Dunk Tank Clowns.'. (archiveorg) "This attraction is now virtually obsolete. Outdoor Amusement Business Association president Greg Chiecko was quoted as claiming he polled his members about dunk tank clowns and that “most say they don’t know of any that still exist today.” (medium) 'Chicago’s Riverview Park and the Racist Dunk Tank'. {CW: Racism. Clowns.}
"Is that you John wayne, is this me"
'I’ve never seen ...The Searchers.'
"I’ve always imagined John Wayne as the epitome of gun-toting American racism. And I didn’t expect this white-supremacy parable to change my mind …" "(John) Ford is likely the best American historian when it comes to narrative filmmaking 'Printing the Legend: 'The Searchers and a journey into the heart of America’s darkness.' " Scores of film students and enthusiasts have wondered and wrote about what does this last scene of the film mean." Cinemas Greatest Scenes: The Searchers Doorway Scene. { CW: racism in film.}
The Moon is (not) made of Cheese.
“I don’t ask questions. I answer them.”
Who was Jack Lord. "When Jack Lord died, he left 40 million dollars to charities in Hawaii. There is Jack Lord's Special Memory of Elvis.' 'Stoney Burke' fan? Jack Lord has a collection of selected works. "This is a critical lesson for any young writer. We want our characters to be “real.” We want our heroes to be “relatable.” But characters are not real and heroes are not normal. They can’t be. If they were, they wouldn’t be heroes." 'The Jack Lord Rule'
"Making things with light bright"
'Metaperson'
"When the academic reviews of The New Science of the Enchanted Universe began to appear, following its publication a year after Sahlins’s death, I noticed a strange phenomenon: For a genre conventionally prosaic, the scholarly critics kept having encounters with the metaperson of Sahlins himself. When Katherine Pratt Ewing, a professor of Islam at Columbia University, sat down to write her review at her dining table on a Sunday morning, she suddenly found herself slipping into “an almost hypnagogic state in which Marshall was a felt presence,” she recalled in HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. “It wasn’t a matter of belief about whether this was possible—it just was.”
'The enchanted worlds of Marshall Sahlins'
(via A&L Daily)
Detroit Coney
"While no one place can definitively claim to be the birthplace of the Coney dog, Michigan, by sheer volume and duration of its Coney restaurants, makes a strong bid. Detroit’s famous Coney dog restaurants, American Coney Island and Lafayette Coney Island, followed Todoroff’s Original Coney Island in Jackson, Michigan, which dates its beginning to 1914."
'The Cult of the Detroit Coney Dog, Explained.'
touchdown
'U.S. lands unmanned Odysseus spacecraft on moon'.
Space.com:"Update for 6:45pm ET: Touchdown! Intuitive Machines that its IM-1 lander Odysseus has landed on the moon and is transmitting a faint, but definite, signal. The exact health of the craft is unclear, but it has landed, Intuitive Machines reports."
After some still unconfirmed problems, "The Odysseus lander is "not dead yet"
'Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lander is aiming for a crater near the moon's south pole. Here's why'
Mise-en-scène
'Kid Auto Races at Venice' is a 1914 silent film with Charlie Chaplin appearing for the first time as 'The Little Tramp.' Here is a colorized version. (slyt. 6:51) Previous megathread
'Ut Sementem Feceris, Ita Metes'
Overlooked No More: Voltairine de Cleyre, America’s ‘Greatest Woman Anarchist’ (NYT-archive link) de Cleyre was a poet of merit as told by Elizabeth King's essay on her poetry, 'Pearl of Anarchy. Voltairine de Cleyre’s radical poetry is more timely than ever.' The anarchist library has a collection of her poetry on-line
45 Years.
"The composition of Opening dates back to 1979, where Glass was commissioned by the Alberta Piano Institute to write a set of varying piano pieces for educational use. It was originally published for solo piano as part of his 'Solo Piano' album in 1989, and since then has been re-recorded and re-arranged in numerous other forms. Opening was also re-contextualised in 1996 as part of the album ‘The Essential Philip Glass’ and was even re-arranged again in 2010 as an orchestral score."
Phillip Glass - 'Opening' ( offical version) [slyt. 7:17]
Hey now.
"Some honeybees in Italy regularly steal pollen off the backs of bumblebees... Pollen stealing has been seen before, in the United States. But now, researchers in Italy have also observed honeybees snatching pollen off the backs of bumblebees. The observations, published December 21 in Apidologie, are among the most extensive documentation of bee-on-bee larceny to date."
previously
Howard Johnson.
"nothing beside remains"
"Something is happening in our world."
Dr. King's "I have been to the mountaintop speech." 'The Journey Of A Civil Rights Icon: Rare Photos Of Martin Luther King Jr.'
10¢
2x⏩🤔
My DvD player will, say 3x times a month, just start fast forwarding by itself, why?
2023
Thomas Lynch' poem 'Par Rum Pum Pum Pum. 'I Don’t Know . . . But I Live in Hope': A Conversation with Poet, Undertaker, Essayist Thomas Lynch. PBS 'Frontline' did a great job on 'The Undertaking' (full documentary, slyt.) 'Refusing at Fifty-Two to Write Sonnets'.
"Acting for me is not that quid pro quo."
'Superfools'
Aretha Franklin/ Black Sabbath mashup. 'supernaut/'chain of fools' (slyt) and toss in a dash of Randy Rhodes.
Steele makin' it real reviews.
截金
"The only artist in the world to embed gold leaves in glass, Kirikane."
Yamamoto Akane: 'Making Beauty'.
(slyt) [via The British museum]
...a dialogue with yourself under two names in the published literature.
"The aim of writing under the name of this nonexistent philosopher was, in Rorty’s words, ‘intellectual empathy’, understood as the attempt to enter into the mind of another thinker, a kind of exercise. This thinker, who does not exist, nevertheless takes up a particular perspective on the world, a perspective that rests on a different set of assumptions and preoccupations from the author’s."
'Forging Philosophy' [via: Arts & Letters Daily.]
"you have meddled with the primal forces of nature"
"I'm not going to let anybody see you"
"what makes me choose a motif are... the lines"
"official helmets and t-shirts were issued"
Gathering Paradise:
Grace.
Rosalynn Carter, mental health activist, humanitarian and former first lady, dies at 96. Before her passing, "At the (Carter) Center, she leads a program to diminish stigma against mental illness and to promote greater access to mental health care. She also is a partner with the ex-president in projects to resolve conflict, promote human rights, improve global health, and build democracy in some 65 countries.
Badoraito o itadakimasu.
"When the elevator dings open on the ninth floor of a high-rise in drab West Shinjuku, Tokyo, I don’t know quite what to expect. As the doors to the lift shut behind me, I find myself standing on a rickety outdoor staircase—solo—in the pitch black, fumbling for the handle to a heavy, lacquered wooden door. If this were a fairy tale, I think, I’d be in trouble." Modern Alchemy at Tokyo’s Most Radical Bar. Meet Hiroyasu Kayama bartender extraordinaire of Ben Fiddich in Tokyo.
His 'Award-winning alchemical delights' are simply amazing. Take a look. (slyt)
"The only reason for the existence of a print is its intrinsic beauty."
Artist David Bull creates wonderful things. A Canadian wood block carver and printer based in Japan
writes in an introduction page: "The prints you see around me in this photograph are from my 'Hyakunin Isshu' series - a set of 100 prints depicting poets of old Japan. The delightful. 'Easter eggs in Japanese woodblock prints' (yt) Previous post on Bull details his journal. Bulls YouTube channel is worth a gander.
"Be Aware of Your "Giveaways"
Trick-Or-Treat The CIA Way: Tips For A Halloween Spent Undercover. Come explore 'Spooky Stories for Halloween.' Or, or, 'Explore the aftermath of the CIA’s infamous “Halloween Massacre”. In recent news, 'CIA publicly acknowledges 1953 coup it backed in Iran was undemocratic as it revisits ‘Argo' rescue'
CW: links to CIA site.
"claw-claw..."
"Protecting cats has been a Roman tradition since the days of the ancient Roman Republic. They were considered sacred to the goddess Diana and were kept not only as companions, but as a way to control the pest population as the city grew. Cats were granted legal protections under Roman law as early as the first century CE .
The Roman Cat. pt.1, pt. 2, pt. 3.
previously.
Wægn lêod æfterweard wægn [Kirk] max.
"Ike's Train Car of Terror"
"At one time this Pullman railroad car was the apex of luxury -- at least according to Stagecoach Stop USA, which in 1978 parked the car on the attraction's front lawn and opened it as the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Railroad Car Museum. Supposedly used by President Eisenhower in the 1950s-..."
or was it?
ផែនដី ខ្យល់ និងភ្លើង។
"curiosity"
He stumbles on like a rumour of war..."
'The War Horse', by Eavan Boland.
"When studying Boland’s poetry, the students rightfully began to discuss their own struggles—and, remembering Yeats’s “I, being poor, have only my dreams”—were better able to resist the oppressive forces in their lives, to understand the strength needed to overcome provincial societal norms, to rally against antiquated ideas and histories that demand women conduct themselves in ways antithetical to a free-thinking person." from, “Shadows in the Story”: An Interview with Eavan Boland.