The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    Les McCann moves on

    By PeraclesPlease on Tue, 01/02/2024 - 12:27pm |

    his song was critical for college studies... (and light &fun. Any other jazz tracks to glide along & carry you 20mins w/o forcing yourself to get all serious?)

    Shane MacGowan kicks off

    By PeraclesPlease on Fri, 12/01/2023 - 3:24pm |

    Likable possibly not. Annoying? Good evidence.

    Transformative? undoubtedly. I'd have a drink for him, but he drank up all the booze.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/obituaries/2023/11/30/shane-macgowan-obituary...

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ym-Oz0TMSb0&list=RDEMJuPOc6M-hfPoRBP7Pdryc...

    Sometimes art's a real pisser

    By PeraclesPlease on Tue, 10/17/2023 - 7:17pm |

    Not sure if "taking the piss out of someone" applies, guess gets down to a piss terminology.

    Mr. T trending on Twitter (It's not over)

    By artappraiser on Thu, 09/28/2023 - 8:31pm |

    Hello! Speaking truth to power: it's just frigging entertainment

    By artappraiser on Sun, 06/18/2023 - 7:03pm |

    SNL on straight guys

    By artappraiser on Sun, 03/05/2023 - 4:04pm |

    Teddy Roosevelt's excruciatingly bad day

    By PeraclesPlease on Wed, 02/15/2023 - 3:03am |
    Lost his wife and mother in 1 day, makes me think of the parallels to today, wealthy but still vulnerable to the crowding conditions and pandemics that don't spare the rich. Was there a huge surge in rejection for typhoid quarantines, outbursts that personal freedom was more important, or it still wasn't that much of a concept at that time? In any case, it likely had a big impact on Teddy's later renowned efforts that made him larger than life.

    Raindrops keep falling...

    By PeraclesPlease on Fri, 02/10/2023 - 1:30am |

    A beautiful tribute to himself - just keep trying if it's what you love...

    'F' is for Fascism

    By PeraclesPlease on Sat, 01/07/2023 - 3:39pm |

    Fashion icon Vivienne Westwood gone

    By PeraclesPlease on Sat, 12/31/2022 - 5:14am |

    Lost amidst the football clips...

    (feel free to add better links)

    That 70s show (the other ones)

    By PeraclesPlease on Mon, 12/05/2022 - 4:57am |

    When TV & standup & actual plays intersected...
    and occasional non-laughter intervened
    Arthur Miller? James Baldwin? Tennessee Williams?
    https://twitter.com/JamesL1927/status/1599403920824090625

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    Holding Hands

    By barefooted on Sat, 11/05/2022 - 11:36pm |

    Dag always seems like a place out of nowhere; a spot that has its own heartbeat, its own rhythm. There's a drummer over there, a guitar in the corner and a weird symphony that you can't shake loose once you hear it.  But it doesn't really exist.  Then again it does ... every time you look away there's a ghost swaying slowly ... making you move with the violin as the flute confuses you because it's not the jazz you expected at all.  It's Dag.

    Dag personal health PSA day

    By PeraclesPlease on Sat, 11/05/2022 - 3:09am |

    Altai Mountain Neanderthals

    By PeraclesPlease on Sat, 10/22/2022 - 11:59pm |

    New gene tracing gives new Neanderthal snapshot

    https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/19/europe/neanderthal-first-family-dna-s...

    Also Bubonic Plague survival (only 1 of 2 in Europe?) complicates current autoimmune self-policing behavior

    https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/19/world/black-death-plague-immune-syste...

    African development as art

    By PeraclesPlease on Thu, 10/13/2022 - 1:02am |

    Aerial photography of a continent's development as art exhibition

    https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25634060-800-striking-photos-show...

    (also the idea of covering the Sahara with solar panels is intriguing)

    'The Woman King' tells the story of the Agojie

    By artappraiser on Thu, 09/29/2022 - 12:36pm |

    But in real life, the fierce women warriors played a controversial role in the translatlantic slave trade.

    As the Worlds Turn

    By PeraclesPlease on Sun, 09/18/2022 - 12:58pm |

    Ok, you survived this long not knowing this, but you're gonna see it anyway.

    Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle Trash Talk Will Smith at UK Comedy Show

    By artappraiser on Sun, 09/04/2022 - 1:07am |

    Watching water boil - better

    By PeraclesPlease on Wed, 07/20/2022 - 2:39am |

    Yes, even boiling water doesn't have to take so long.
    The actual tradeoffs are interesting (& not too technical)
    MIT engineers design surfaces that make water boil more efficiently | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Khanate history in Russian lands

    By PeraclesPlease on Tue, 07/05/2022 - 1:19am |

    Fascinating, how liberal were the perceived tyrannical Khans?

    Also reflects the Polish-Litguanian treatment.

    Read the unroll, not the thread.

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