Zelensky's "Servant of The People"

    By artappraiser on Sun, 09/29/2019 - 8:27pm |

    Lit Reading: Best of 21st Century

    By PeraclesPlease on Sat, 09/21/2019 - 2:59pm |

    20 Years in, how much have you read - and how well's the end of writing as we know it holding up?

    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/21/best-books-of-the-21st-cen...

     

     

    Best evah Halloween costume

    By artappraiser on Fri, 09/20/2019 - 7:48pm |

    Electronica

    By artappraiser on Fri, 09/13/2019 - 3:43am |

     

     

    The Provocations of Camille Paglia

    By artappraiser on Thu, 08/22/2019 - 2:43pm |

    Terrific profile of the iconoclast Camille Paglia by my friend @EmEsfahaniSmith. Worth a read. https://t.co/tgWqRIdFvD

    SimONE or Mrs. Sartre?

    By PeraclesPlease on Tue, 08/20/2019 - 4:14pm |

    How come our knowledge of Simone de Beauvoir is so limited? It's not like she wrote only 1 book.

    Cattle call? pas d'tout, Moroccan roll

    By PeraclesPlease on Thu, 08/01/2019 - 10:37am |

    Kinda remind me of 60's bands before they learned performance, or late folk era - something very earnest.

    https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/aug/01/fatou-seidi-ghali-the-worl...

    Petula Clark's Endless Career

    By PeraclesPlease on Wed, 07/31/2019 - 2:41am |

    Still remember one holiday to Texas and the beach in '65, where Downtown was everywhere.
    And a summer 1967 at the pool with the somehow stirring "Don't Sleep in the Subway Darling"
    And then Petula Clark's tribute on some Bob Hope special '72 singing Penny Lane/Eleanor Rigby feeling a bit dated

    Tears in the Rain - RIP Rutger

    By PeraclesPlease on Wed, 07/24/2019 - 3:32pm |

    Realized I'd seen Hauer in 2 movies long ago, Turkish Delight & Spetters from his Dutch movie days.
    But his brilliant presence in Blade Runner remains unforgettable, including the mesmerizing final soliloquy he penned, knowing he needed something special, something more - the replicant with a soul, with vigor, with yearning.
    Somewhat like his take-no-prisoners approach to life - he lived what he felt, pushed the edges - "now you've seen some of my world", he cautioned a shaken journalist he'd just taken on a gonzo 200+ km/h motorcycle ride, "now you can interview me".

    The New York Times does its best to address the big perplexing cultural issues

    By artappraiser on Fri, 07/12/2019 - 4:26pm |

    When gay Harlem met queer Britain

    By artappraiser on Sun, 06/30/2019 - 1:04am |

    Geisha Kim Creative

    By artappraiser on Thu, 06/27/2019 - 2:46pm |

    Regrets: how Dagblog used to be

    By PeraclesPlease on Mon, 06/24/2019 - 1:47am |

    An intellectual sewing circle? Diversity of opinion with interesting respectful perspective? Something to re-aspire to?

     

    http://dagblog.com/personal/questions-regrets-edition-part-ii-820

    GoT Milk? Emilia Clarke means business

    By PeraclesPlease on Sun, 06/23/2019 - 4:28am |

    Not just a medieval character anymore, ready to do business - and take us with her on that journey.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZuzudfcsek

    Joy Harjo Named U.S. Poet Laureate

    By artappraiser on Wed, 06/19/2019 - 6:47pm |

    @ Poets & Writers, June 19

    Today the Library of Congress announced that Joy Harjo will be the next U.S. poet laureate. Harjo, who is a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, is the first Native American poet to serve as laureate. She will begin her term on September 19, succeeding poet Tracy K. Smith.

    Cammock: why women aren't artists?

    By PeraclesPlease on Wed, 06/19/2019 - 2:01am |

    An alternative path to creativity - with much less room for acknowledgment sans self-primotion.

    https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jun/18/helen-cammock-turne...

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