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Sunday, October 23, 2022

Even Toxic Spicy Characters

Graffiti of note: “Build the churches and they will sin.”


13 moons 28 days …. turtle wisdom


Toxic workplaces can harm your physical and mental health

A Forgotten 1920s Magazine Gives a Glimpse of the Paris Jazz Age in the Flesh


This musician retired after making $170 million in the stock market. Now he’s sharing his secrets.


DON’T WORK TOO HARD:  Something Toxic Flourishes in Your Brain After Too Much Hard Work.


Weirdly modern looking Roman mosaic of women exercising with free weights. 1700 years old.



Pinup’s Colorful, Unseen Past



NYC’s TikTok Zoomers Want You to Meet Them in West Village

"I just heard of this like a month ago, that East Village is actually the East Village, and only locals get it.


When it comes to delineating right and wrong, to the sociopath, what is right is simply what is in their own best interest. If it serves them well, they believe their actions are completely justified.  This means that sociopaths feel zero remorse, no matter who is hurt or harmed in the process, and they move with little anxiety because they live without fear of disconnection.


Spicy Characters


Hip-Hop Don’t Stop

How to deal with endless choice without being overwhelmed by amount of new music / unsurprising revelation: crop circles cost farmers money. Who knew they were still a thing? / sober, still interiors by Susan Bennerstrom / Lines and Colors on the etchings of Eugène Bléry / We’re Flying to The Moon!, a Ukranian children’s book from 1971 / Model Villages of the Nottinghamshire Coalfield / the story of Anaheim’s Spadrom Estates, a 1950s housing development (at Invisible Theme Park) / A man of his time, the secret life and imaginary worlds of Gerald O’Brien / from the archives: the story of the rabbit proof fence. Related, ‘Australia’s rabbit invasion traced back to single importation of 24 animals in 1859, study finds‘.


America's oldest book


Meme wars 


SCOTUS and art


What counts as a bestseller


Men are falling behind


In search of lost toast


Hotels for bookworms


Against algebra


Annie Ernaux, Nobelist


Amazon and literature


Lucky Kushner


Early McCarthy interviews


Tolkien and environmentalism


Dinner with Julia Child


Art of menus


Eating books


Wanted: book stylist


Danger of politicizing science


Life of Berkeley


Big lie v. big joke


What happens to banned books


WaPo's blues


Joyce Carol Oates


Corrections of taste


Art and the queen


Hoardiculture


Jean-Luc Godard


Life of Art Buchwald


WaPo v. NYT


Paradox of public scholarship


Math effects


On purring


Inventing the alphabet


Why chili peppers?


Bayard Rustin


Radical Rachmaninoff?


Barbara Ehrenreich, R.I.P.


On personal-finance books


Black king of songs


Diva Dickens


Music to die for