I guess I just like patterns

Pauline Simon, art outsider

 

I don't like to be this jealous!

I do love to see how other girls draw their girls.

Baya!!!  

1931-1998 timeline....Active in late 1940s to early 50s and then again in early 60s til her death.

I want to see that red dress one behind her up close

Thought jar

Eagle-eyed inquiry

during decades apart re-watch

of 1987's Baby Boom

the timeline IS hilarious

Improbable

the baby is the same age

The yuppy is in Vermont

for less than a year

Yet she acquires orchards 

And has set ablaze a new industry

in gourmet baby food

Big food wants to buy

And yet

I now also have a dream

to be typecast

as a nervous wreck

and I still enjoyed the movie
because I love fixer-uppers

Harvest Gold

I’m on a Mexican UFO

 I’m on a Mexican 

Whoa-Oh

UFO 

Mexican Zoom Call

But we talkin bout practice

  Wages stagnated from 1973 to 2013, rising only 9.2% even as productivity grew by 74.4%.

Ever-so-quickly

The artist Jeff Koons reproduced two Frangelico advertisements, "Stay in Tonight" and "Find a Quiet Table", in his 1986 Luxury & Degradation series of paintings and sculptures based on the role of alcohol in culture. According to Koons he used the Frangelico ads to "defin[e] a $45,000 and up income", in contrast to other works in the series which correspond to lower income levels.  --Wiki, of course.

Found this excerpt...again..did I already do a post on this?

..when I was researching aperitifs/digestifs awhile back...
Chou chou income starting at $45,000 caught my eye.

I need:

Chartreuse

Benedictine

Vermouths

Frangelico

Maybe, Fernet, Pimms and one of the Lillets

Amuck Time

...Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) could potentially collapse within three years... 

What is the AMOC? It is a complex system of currents responsible for keeping our climate relatively stable and transporting carbon and nutrients. As warm water near the ocean surface gets pushed northwards, it warms Europe on its way to the North Pole, where it forms sea ice. The salt gets left in the ocean, and, due to its salinity, it becomes dense and then drops to the ocean floor, where it moves south before being pulled back up to the surface to warm up again. This cycle can take around 1,000 years to complete, yet research in 2021 warned that the AMOC “could be close to a critical transition to its weak circulation mode,” where it will slow even further.

Read Simon Whalley's article in Alternet.

[Don't Worry] If there's a hell below, we're all gonna go

---Curtis Mayfield

Thanks to the commenter of this article for the song quote.

When come time to do, Everybody's laying

They say don't worry

They say don't worry

They say don't worry

...[C]limate systems all around the world will be altered irreversibly. Research in Nature Climate Change found that surface cooling will begin over the North Atlantic and expand Arctic sea ice before moving into the North Pacific and spreading south toward the tropics. This would result in the Pacific Ocean entering into a permanent La Niña phase, which could cause disastrous monsoons and flooding in the South Pacific and increased drought and heat in North America.

...Europe is projected to witness more frequent winter storms and see more summer heat brought up from the south, with Southern Europe becoming even drier—meaning more wildfires and intense heat waves. As Southern Europe bakes, Northern Europe will see increased precipitation, although it has been found that much of the U.K.’s arable land will rapidly become unproductive. South Asia will experience a weakening of monsoon circulation, and rainfall in Asia and Africa will be affected. (Whalley)

And everybody saying don't worry

They say don't worry

They say don't worry

They say don't worry

This article says people power can do something by not eating meat....I don't want to be apathetic, but I just don't see how people are going to get together enough to make a dent.  I'm still weirdly hopeful or I still have hope inside me.  Maybe because I'm a parent.

Our people power is supposed to be the government, but it's so damn divided it's hard to make a move.  A consumer strike would be interesting, but I guess it's too far in the future..three years..to be proactive.  

We are a reactive species.

And damn it, I just want to think about ETs and UFOs!

Tell me what we gonna do

If everything I say is true

This ain't no way it ought to be

If only all the mass could see

But they keep talkin' 'bout don't worry

 

Luv U Sinead

 

Fleur Flair

Journey into the Desert 
with Fleur Cowles
and Donovan
and Cary Grant
and Salvador Dali
and Queen Elizabeth 
and nearly everyone who was a big someone,
at one time--
Marilyn Monroe
Fleur made friends and kept them, as her memoir states.

I have to document my periodical curiosity with Fleur Cowles--I will love her style always,
but my focus has once again waned....like Robert Mitchum and Slavs.
I wonder what's next!  So exciting!

Desert Journey by Cowles, Donovan album cover

Picnic on the floor with Cary

Her study, my wish

Love the cig table setting

Her portrait, my wish

Fleur's extravagant magazine, Flair

For the jet set

For the art set

For the fox hunting set

For the New York set

For the sun set

Known for cool cut-outs in the cover

Inside the July 1950 issue

Cut-out by Dali for the Annual issue...

...Flair only lasted one year

But Fleur Cowles lasted 101!

"I have an idea a minute...I'm a born idea myself."  -Fleur Cowles

Look her up, it was fun!

Back to Mitchum

I'm watching Robert Mitchum interviews--Dick Cavett-1971 and Cinema Showcase 1978 
I haven't figured out my curiosity about him, but it's at least a temporary focus.  

I watched the end of The Yakuza while back and it was very good. Of course a bummer with all the death and unnecessary (to me) finger chops, but the interiors and look of the time is exquisite.  Was cool to see the actor who played the Japanese cop from Black Rain young.

I'm sort of curious about one of Mitchum's biographies, Baby, I don't care.  The title is awesome.  Of course I had to read the reviews...there are a lot of informative ones on there--I still don't know if I want to read about what an awful drunk he was, but this review cracked me up--

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly satisfied

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 18, 2022

Verified Purchase First of all I used the book for personal reasons.
The book it’s supposed to be used and I was amazed at
the excellent condition it came.
It looked as if it came out of the mill.
I was very impressed.

I'm confused

Does our shopping help or not?

Why bail out banks easily, but have to send student loan bail outs all the way to morally bankrupt SCOTUS?  

Of course, the money addled, right wing supreme court won't allow the people loan forgiveness.  
They don't even have to beg for ethical forgiveness

But they are probably right.
We would probably just spend the money on booze and women...

Booze and women just don't get the economy moving enough

Doesn't satisfy that money jizz

So our big duty when our nation was attacked in 2001, was to shop.  This is what we offer to our nation, our world.

I can't afford it, fuck-o

But that's okay because banks are more important than people?

How does scotus have a right to make these decisions when they are bought and paid for themselves?

tricky shit

Authored by me (I wish)

 

I love this idea.  I love the name, The Opal.  I'm weirdly jealous.

Copied from Wikipedia: 

The Opal (1851–1860) is a ten volume journal written, edited and printed by the patients of the Utica State Lunatic Asylum, circa 1851. On its more than 3,000 pages, writers talked of their experiences and world views, giving great insight to the environment of New York's premiere state-operated Asylum, in Utica, New York. Themes that continuously arose in the poetry, prose, political commentary, and articles about insanity include issues concerning medication, restraint, seclusion, human rights, liberty, overcoming oppression, and support.

Influenced by Dr. Amariah Brigham's belief of "the curative value of mental occupation," his successor, Dr. Nathan Benedict, launched this publication by the patients of the asylum.

This article, referenced on the Wikipedia page, is interesting, touched a nerve.  If I ever open a hobo house, it will have a periodical.

It would be great if these volumes were digitized.  I'd love to spend time with The Opal!

This time that I spent with The Opal (1851-1860) was precious to me. I laughed. I cried. I became enraged and then inspired. --Lauren J. Tenney (author of the linked article, Who fancies to have a Revolution here?)

lightning bug report 2023

 First sighting of the season tonight. Not in neighborhood, from the car. Greenish light, nike swoosh trail. 

Vintage aliens

 

Observation #46789

 First cicada song of the summer!!!

Shit my tea says

 Settling is not an option

Ochtung baby

The infinite!!!!

I'm like, wha?  Wha?!

This is all happening!

So fast!

Nothing lasts.

That's okay.  It's really okay.

I can't believe the forever snake of eight

so many hearts brown eyes

Boing!

Intergalactic laxative

 

Will get you from here to Mars!

Are you gathering up the tears?

Have you had enough of mine?

 

Boyo Boyo Boyo!

I don't know what to think

It's more than I can imagine

Life is flying!!

You will like this age, boyo

A warm Irish wink to you

Boyo, come back!

Animalcules in my tooth do funny things to me

And in 1683, Anton Van Leeuwenhoek wrote of tooth plaque-

with great wonder, that in the said matter there were many very little living animalcules, very prettily a-moving

When they're inside me, where it's dark
I walk around like Noah's ark

Gosh oh gee well I have fun swallowing animalcules one by one!

miniscule stache!

Poor Tintoretto!

Little is known of Tintoretto's childhood or training. According to his early biographers Carlo Ridolfi (1642) and Marco Boschini (1660), his only formal apprenticeship was in the studio of Titian, who angrily dismissed him after only a few days—either out of jealousy of so promising a student (in Ridolfi's account) or because of a personality clash (in Boschini's version).^[6] From this time forward the relationship between the two artists remained rancorous, despite Tintoretto's continued admiration for Titian. For his part, Titian actively disparaged Tintoretto, as did his adherents.  -per Wikipedia

Origin of the Milky Way (1575)

Remind yourself

 "...I am a living, breathing manifestation of my ancestors’ wildest dream."   
-Anya Dillard

Anya Dillard
from a blog post on The Conversationalist

More greed

 Why is socialism a bad thing?

"So I point out the fact that David Zaslav, the CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, which is the parent company of the network I'm talking to you on right now, was paid $250 million last year. A quarter of a billion dollars!” Conover exclaimed.

"That's about the same level as what ten thousand writers are asking him to pay all of us collectively, alright? So I would say if you’re being paid $250 million — Ted Sarandos made about $50 million last year — these companies are making enormous amounts of money. Their profits are going up. It's ridiculous for them to plead poverty when the writers who are making their shows, some of them are not able to pay their rent or their mortgages," Conover continued. "I literally know writers who have had to go on assistance because they have not been able to make their year. If you look at these companies, they’re making more money than ever. It's the people who make the shows for them that are making less."

-from this article.

And also, why can't all kids have free lunch?  Can't some wealthy person throw a charity party for us sponges?

Or pay taxes?

So now what?

 MOHELA is Missouri's state-created higher education loan authority, and the supposed financial harms it would suffer under the student debt cancellation plan are critical to the right-wing officials' case. If the Republican plaintiffs can't prove that MOHELA—which is not itself a plaintiff in Biden v. Nebraska—would suffer concrete harm from student debt cancellation, their case falls apart.

According to the new report by the Roosevelt Institute and the Debt Collective, not only would MOHELA not be harmed by the Biden administration's student debt relief plan—it would actually see its direct loan revenue rise if the plan is enacted.

"Our new research examining this claim suggests that MOHELA's year-over-year revenue from direct loans will actually increase substantially, even after debt relief," the report states. "Assuming President Biden's proposed cancellation goes through, we estimate that MOHELA will service more than twice the number of accounts it serviced at the beginning of the Covid payment pause. It will also earn nearly twice as much revenue servicing federal direct loans as it has in any year prior to cancellation."

The groups said their findings were bolstered by internal MOHELA documents that they obtained through a public records request. MOHELA's "own internal impact analysis," the report notes, "shows it would make more revenue the first year after cancellation is processed than it did in 2022 or any prior year."

"The entire premise of the lawsuit against student debt relief rests on the idea that 43 million student debtors shouldn't get relief for which they were already approved because one of the corporations contracted by the government to collect student debt, and thus the state of Missouri, will be financially harmed in the process," the report concludes. "Our analysis reveals this assertion to be false. In contrast, MOHELA will earn higher revenue than ever before, even after cancellation is administered—contradicting the plaintiffs' argument and calling into question their claims to standing."

--from this article.

Myrrhbearers

 

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)

Mesmerizing

106 yr old tattoo artist

 

Centenarians so hot right now

wearing white

 

This suit, I may say, is the uniform of the Ancient and Honorable Order of Purity and Perfection, of which organization I am president, secretary, treasurer and sole member. I may add that I don't know of any one else who is eligible.You see, when a man gets to be 71, as I am, the world begins to look somber and dark. I believe we should do all we can to brighten things up and make ourselves look cheerful. You can't do that by wearing black, funereal clothes.And why shouldn't a man wear white? It betokens purity and innocence. I'm in favor of peek-a-boo waists and décolleté costumes. The most beautiful costume is the human skin, but since it isn't conventional or polite to appear in public in that garb along, I believe in wearing white.I don't know anything more hideous or disgusting in men's attire than the black clawhammer coat. A group of men thus adorned remind me more of a flock of crows than anything else. About the most becoming get up I ever saw in my life was out in the Sandwich Islands thirty years ago, where a native who wanted to appear at this best usually appeared in a pair of eyeglasses.

- quoted in Chicago Daily Tribune, 8 December 1906