summer detour

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notions… prescriptions of limited use.. collected, not curated Divert yourself into the much larger world of the recent past. Drive by the encamped Republiguts at the ShakeShack. Snap the band instead of taking a drag off that drivel forum.

books are time travellers, links are not.

and, never open a post with weather.

“Paths,” Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893)

“Borges and I,” Jorge Luis Borges (August 24, 1899)

10 Villanelles by Modern and Contemporary Poets

https://www.ndbooks.com/book/visions-and-temptations/

—No Erotica is published by the New York based modeling and talent management agency, No Agency founded by Alexander Tsebelis. Issue No. 5 is a limited to 811 copies with a cover of Hari Nef photographed by Marilyn Minter. Edited by Chloe Mackey and designed by Eden Taff, with cover story titles and front sticker design by Harold Bennett. The fiction and non-fiction was edited by Criss Moon.

From the past — died 2023 … https://www.thewittliffcollections.txst.edu/exhibitions/past/jim-bones.html [ more, another post Texas Obit ]

“Architecture is the learned, correct, and magnificent game of volumes assembled beneath the light.” Le Corbusier, in Vers une architecture (1923)

“flavors of a pencil—cedar, No. 2 graphite, rubber eraser”

much further https://youtu.be/YGLNyHd2w10

https://bookshop.org/p/books/in-the-absence-of-the-ordinary-soul-work-for-times-of-crisis-essays-on-grief-change-and-sacred-transitions-francis-weller/22041171?ean=9798889842613&next=t

from Mack : https://www.mackbooks.us/products/photography-against-the-grain-essays-and-photo-works-1973-1983-br-allan-sekula

Picasso’s working phases: the Blue Period (1901-1904), the Rose Period (1905-1907), the African-influenced Period (1908-1909) and Cubism (1909-1919).

” I started painting in blue when I learned of Casagemas’s death”, -Picasso … not based upon the cost of paint; a matter of other choices

““Showing up to everything you can is the first step… talk to the galleries who show work that you like, ask them questions about their program, and learn what they’re interested in. It’s really about continuous engagement with people and building relationships, which doesn’t happen overnight. But, the more you focus on it, the more you start to see those results.”

Hyperphotrio

Posted on Posted in overnight notes, the fora, warriors

Dog Whistles woven into the fabric. UA == a clothing store for the Ubermensch. Uber Alles and a salute from the Right Hand of Idaho. In other words, for those at the back of the bus: the wild right wears a hat as safe, silent signal of membership.

[…now viewed as Nazi propaganda and offensive to modern-day Germans.

Germans have drawn parallels between their national anthem and the motto of President Trump. “From this day forward, it’s going to be only America first,” Trump said during his Inauguration, invoking a phrase that has troubling roots in nineteen-forties nativism and anti-Semitism. About a week later, Konstantin von Notz, a Green Party parliamentarian in the German Bundestag, tweeted, “America First is an update of _Deutschland, Deutschland über alles _. . .’]

under armour smelling a lot like koch
trump and the pompous ceremony in a land built on pomp and ceremony.
vacation play battle rattle
under armour: girdles for men over 40, 
under armour: girdles for men afraid of women
no sperm left behind law


Florida passed the 30 hour limit on abortions. It is called the dry sperm act.

president Pence has proposed the no sperm left behind law

Under Armour has acquired Trojan in support of the no sperm left behind law

Ref Notes: Plank, for his part, only hinted at the recent white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. Frazier departed following Trump’s apparent unwillingness over the weekend to single out white supremacists.

“I love our country and our company and will continue to focus my efforts on inspiring every person that they can do anything through the power of sport which promotes unity, diversity and inclusion,” Plank said in a statement.

“He wants to build things. He wants to make bold decisions and be really decisive,” Plank said, alluding to Trump’s desire to bolster American manufacturing and his plans to build a wall along the US-Mexico border and pass a large infrastructure improvement bill.

“I’m a big fan of people that operate in the world of ‘publish and iterate’ versus ‘think, think, think, think, think,'” Plank said. “So there’s a lot that I respect there.” ..


Plank went on to essentially apologize, saying that in today’s political climate, a company has to take a firm stance. No longer can messaging be middle-of-the-road in order to “make everyone happy. People want to know where you stand and what issues you stand for,” he observed.

The Roast as prompt. “It is when diversity itself is made the prime purpose of the work – whether diversity of subject or of creators – that the work falters. I want to see the best possible work, and when we do, diversity is emergent rather than a concious intent glued onto the work.–“

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