Sunday, March 06, 2022

Art Is No Excuse for Boring People'

Looming ships, turning tides, 3-degree seas, a 28-degree body temperature. Australian marathon swimmer Chloë McCardel has battled hell and high water to become Queen of the English Channel. And she’s not stopping there.

Jellyfish, sharks, ships: our greatest open-water swimmer’s horror days at the office


Human emotions point to a human mystery, and each human being is a profound mystery: the works I tend to respond to most keenly are those that confront me with that sense of mystery.

That Sense of Mystery'  - visit a blog, Argumentative Old Git


“Give me a doctor partridge-plump,

Short in the leg and broad in the rump,

An endomorph with gentle hands

Who'll never make absurd demands

That I abandon all my vices

Nor pull a long face in a crisis,

But with a twinkle in his eye

Will tell me that I have to die.”  

'Tell Me That I Have to Die'


Do Birds Have Language? Smithsonian. Some would say yes.


'Art Is No Excuse for Boring People'

One sort of interesting writer is an amateur with professional standards. He is an amateur in the etymological sense, writing out of love, a...




I Just Love Mid-Century-Modern Furniture: A Cautionary Tale



Articles of Note

The American library has — both literally and metaphorically — moved books to the basement. What is a library where books are secondary? Books 📚  


New Books

To understand 21st-century male ennui, should we try to understand “the manosphere”? Perhaps Not 


Essays & Opinions

Eros commits crimes of passion because, first and foremost an intellectual monster, Eros commits crimes of  thought 


Why Subsuming The Australia Council Is A Bad Idea

The proposal to replace the Australia Council is evidence of why it is not– or at least, not yet – up to the task of leading the sector as a whole. - ArtsHub


 


What Is It That Makes A Group Of Neighboring Venues Into An “Arts District”?

For a start, there should be multiple art forms available and multiple points of entry, both physical and metaphorical. - ArtsHub (Australia)


       At SupChina Jin Zhao reports on how Danmei, a genre of Chinese erotic fiction, goes global -- with a trio of Mò Xiāng Tóng titles recently making The New York Times bestseller list.
       I haven't seen any of these (and don't really see myself getting to them) -- but, hey, The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System is certainly a ... catchy title; get your copy at Amazon.comBookshop.org or Amazon.co.uk
       See also the Seven Seas Mo Xiang Tong Xiu page