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“The Birth of the Blues” on FS’s Birthday
Note what he does with the word "weird" — DL
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Met Percent: Week Twelve [by Alec Bernstein]
“mow tall, mow often.” Met floor plan: Yellow highlighted galleries have been viewed, 11/22/19 I have visited 43 times and viewed all galleries up to 399 (~300 out of ~900) – one-third complete. “The…
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Calliope [by Mitch Sisskind]
When she used the word bullnose to describeThe blunt corner of a marble kitchen counter —From that moment I was in love with Calliope, As I inferred a knowledge of carpentry which,Although I had…
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“Gentleman’s Agreement” (1947): The Trailer
Highbrows have long condescended to this Academy Award-winning movie. They are wrong. Gregory Peck is great; do you remember the foul-mouthed comedian in "Mad Men" who tells Don Draper "I loved you in Gentleman's…
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Quote of the Day: Prima Ballerina Tanaquil “Tanny” Let Clercq
“Souffles fall and so do dancers, and both survive: The main thing is to forget it.” from The Ballet Cook Book by Tanaquil “Tanny” Le Clercq — sdl
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The Philosopher in the Brown Shirt [Adam Kirsch on Heidegger]
<<< Nazis burn books; philosophers write them. But Heidegger did both. — Adam Kirsch >>> Excellent piece by Adam Kirsch (in Tablet) on Heidegger's "metaphysical" anti-Semitism and on attempts to reconcile what is valuable…
