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Sunday, June 21, 2020

Rare Regal Bei Bei: Art for Arts Sake


Rare 'ring of fire' solar eclipse to dim Africa, Asia

Sunday's eclipse arrives on the summer solstice, the northern hemisphere's longest day of the year.








Linguistic confusion
At The Spectator
Christo, R.I.P.
History of band names
Lolita at 65
Me, myself and I
History of the codpiece
Baldwin v. Buckley
Regarding Isaac Asimov
Bottom line about bidets
Not Dalí!
Mahler and sexual creativity
History of chair design
Kafka, Kafka everywhere
Foucault, power thinker
On Hilary Putnam
An audiobook narrator
Interview with Richard Ford
Vivian Gornick and political writing
MILF literature
Language of infectious disease
Joy of writing about sex
Why boxing?
Letter to Gabo
Frida Kahlo's affair
Prime factorization as verse
"Credibility bookcase"
Romance of Communism
Scruton v. Oakeshott
In praise of skateboarding
Pandemic book-buying
Sitting still for art
Anne Frank, Vlogger
"Apropos of Nothing"
On Richard Feynman
Loud music
Will comic books survive?
Art of phone conversation
What humans could be
To be an artist
Remembering Freeman Dyson
Who is Greta Thunberg?
Hopper and our time
Rise of the lurker
A gratuitous assault
Intellectuals of the US right
Art of inactivity
Myth of the 60s
Are books essential?
T. S. Eliot's cruelty
Orwell and women
Apocalyptic novels
Coptalk
Classical music in dificult times
Literature for the lockdown
Hemingway and bullfighting
Hitchens, anti-identitarian
Books written in isolation
How to be lonely
Freud and the T.P. panic



European Cities Experience Life Without Tourists. And They Start Wondering…

“We want to make sure the [tourism] industry has a more positive impact on a broader group of locals, not just a few big companies, to improve environmentally friendly mobility and consumption and long-term economic investment. We want a sustainable visitor economy that doesn’t harm the liveability of our city.” – Huffington Post

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