Pink month, pink eye

The designation of Arcturus as α Boötis (Latinised to Alpha Boötis) was made by Johann Bayer in 1603. (wikipedia)

You know, Johann Bayer.
The German lawyer and uranographer. 
He has a crater on the moon?
Ring any bells?

Entering year 4 with the pandemic. 
What were the Spanish flu people doing in year four?

Per wiki: 
The winter of 1921–1922 was the first major reappearance of the disease in the Northern Hemisphere, in many parts its most significant occurrence since the main pandemic in late 1918.

hmmm..mmmmunch

Self-portrait with the Spanish flu, 1919, Munch

Self-portrait with wine (1906)

Self-portrait in hell (1903)

Into November

The second snow of the year was yesterday, veteran's day.  I think there should be more veteran's days.
I guess the name Paisley is trending for baby names this year and possibly 2020.  I saw that it was Scottish which made me curious.  I found this on wikipedia-

"[S]ilk fell out of fashion in 1790.^[6] The mills switched to the imitation Kashmir (cashmere) shawls called "Paisley". Under the leadership of Thomas Coats (1809-1893), Paisley became the world centre for thread making. The high-status skilled weavers mobilised themselves in radical protests after 1790, culminating in the failed "Radical War" of 1820. Overproduction, the collapse of the shawl market and a general depression in the textile industry led to technical changes that reduced the importance of weavers. Politically the mill owners remained in control of the town.^[7]By the mid-19th century weaving had become the town's principal industry. The Paisley weavers' most famous products were the shawls, which bore the Paisley Pattern made fashionable after being worn by a young Queen Victoria. Despite being of a Kashmiri design and manufactured in other parts of Europe, the teardrop-like pattern soon became known by Paisley's name across the western world.^[8][9] Although the shawls dropped out of fashion in the 1870s, the Paisley pattern remains an important symbol of the town: the Paisley Museum maintains a significant collection of the original shawls in this design, and it has been used, for example, in the modern logo of Renfrewshire Council, the local authority."

I wonder how the shawl market is doing nowadays.  Also for November, I decided that Bjork's Homogenic is a perfect album for this month.  Starting with Hunter...on vinyl, toasty.

Indebted

On 5 May 2014 Russian President Vladimir Putin ratified an agreement to write off 90% of North Korea’s debts after the State Duma passed the law on 18 April 2014 and the Federation Council approved it on 29 April 2014.

In November 2015, the head of the Russian delegation to Pyongyang, Colonel General Nikolay Bogdanovsky, and the Vice Chief of the Korean People’s Army O Kum-chol signed an agreement on preventing dangerous military activities.

-via wikipedia

nice mix

Here I am again bringing you another curiosity courtesy of wikipedia. I looked these two men up around the same time. I think it's a nice mix. You decide.

Henry Darger is called an outsider artist. After he died, his landlords discovered his secret life as an artist and protector of children.
Woody Brown was a surfer and the inventor of the modern catamaran. After his wife died, he had a mental breakdown and moved to Hawai'i, leaving his son and step-daughter behind.
One man stayed in his home for many years, one man roamed as far away from home as possible. One came from poverty, one came from money. Both troubled and interesting.