Image of the Gaza journalist Anas Al-Sharif, with his two young children in Jan 2025, posed against a background of ruins and rubble.

Rest in power Anas Al-Sharif.

#Gaza
#GazaCity
#Anas
#AlJazeera

Every damn day, Ishmael. Every day.

"Russign culture and Russian history is sort of baked into Alaska," said Brandon Boylan, a professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks who has researched Alaska's role in U.S.-Russia relations. "There's a lot of remnants of the Russian American legacy."

The faculty have been waiting decades to get this quote into the Times.

Have had to put in an appeal to get the labels removed re this rather modest painting.

The Calumny of Apelles, by Maarten de Vos (1532 - 1603).

“On the right, sitting on a throne is King Midas with donkey-ears. Midas is surrounded by Ignorance and Suspicion.”

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Flower bunches hanging above a stone fireplace

This weekend in flower drying: gomphrena, zinnia, sun ball, ammobium, statice, amaranth, nigella, echinops, celosia, strawflower, marigold, salvia, bupleurum, joe pye, ironweed, pearly everlasting, highlander grass, hare’s tale grass, limelight millet. For dried floral wreaths this winter 🌱 #flowers

Zohran for NYC Zohran Mamdani is running for Mayor to lower the cost of living for working class New Yorkers.

If you like petty bullying, obviously Cuomo is your candidate.

If you like affordable housing, support @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

www.zohranfornyc.com

"Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened."

– Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany, 1945

Given beets. Making borscht.

Outrageously talented, and with a talent for outrage. Joe Orton RIP.

YouTube video by Sesame Street Sesame Street: Song: The Subway!

Another banger I think about on a regular basis. From 1975. Love these FORD TO CITY-era anthems.

Over 1,000 for Bernie in Wheeling, West Virginia and the program doesn’t start for another hour

Lots of red bandanas - this is West Virginia

Hah, Andrew “Vote for Cuomo not the homo” Cuomo suddenly espousing concern for the LGTBQIA+ community in Uganda, and faulting Mamdani for living in a modestly priced by NY standards apartment in Queens. Always-go-low Cuomo as usual.

Actually, am quite fond of this 1930s apartment building, It's standard in design, but has acquired some basic but enjoyable decorative flourishes over the years, including a knight's helmet that's perfect for a Broadway Manor. All those aspirational names across the city ...

Interesting — have to do some digging.

Gone at last — the faded John Ciafone ads on 21st Street!!!! A small pleasure in dark times.
@newyorkshitty.bsky.social

“From the unique terroir of Schuyler’s early life emerged his version of what Gerard Manley Hopkins called “that taste of myself … more distinctive than the smell of walnut-leaf or camphor.”

How the Poet James Schuyler Wrung Sense from Sensibility Schuyler once told a friend that “life had been after him with a sledgehammer.” But the poet’s work was sharp and humane, a marvel of twentieth-century literature.

Poet James Schuyler once told a friend that “life had been after him with a sledgehammer.” But the poet’s work was sharp and humane, a marvel of twentieth-century literature.

Nathan Kernan's A DAY LIKE ANY OTHER is a the long-awaited biography of the brilliant poet.

youtu.be/vEdtlx0AYhI?...

Eddie Palmieri, a trailblazer in Latin music, has died at age 88 The bandleader and pianist was one of the leading Latin musicians of his generation. He won multiple Grammys and was recognized as an NEA Jazz Master.

www.npr.org/2025/08/06/1...

12th Street

Portfolio "The Emperor’s New Clothes", The Fairy Tale by Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by Karl Lagerfeld, 1992.

"But he hasn't got anything on," a little child said.”

Way out of touch with The Archers dramas these days — only listen occasionally — but was a flatmate of a future Archers scriptwriter in the 1970s. Even then could have guessed he’d be perfect for the job.

In 'Big Bad Wolf,' Sculptor Kendra Haste Contends with Conservation and Rewilding Using a simple material, British sculptor Kendra Haste brings us face-to-face with striking sculptures of wild animals.

Amazing that the the artist, Kendra Haste, can create such lifelike forms out of chicken wire fencing.

www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/06/kend...

In 2014 there was a tailor, bakery, florist, grocery, shoe-shine stand, & sushi joint there. Wish we still had more businesses in subway stations. All those spaces at Fourth & 9th STILL empty.

Clark Street has had more than its fair share of woes. Like that station a lot, but haven’t been there in a few years. What happened to all the retail businesses that used to be there? Are any of them still around?

YouTube video by TheSpecialsOfficVEVO The Specials - Nelson Mandela (Official Music Video) [HD Remaster]

Song in my head in the middle of the night.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ6k...

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Really came down in the world.

You’re right. Whole process untrustworthy & built on bullying. Best to you all from NYC — always a friend of Canada.