The grotesque.
Procrustes.
The grotesque.
The grotesque.
sea mines, eh
I wrote about the brilliant performance artist Tehching Hsieh and his current retrospective at Dia Beacon for @booksandthearts.bsky.social. This was some of the hardest thinking I've done in a while—Hsieh's work is so challenging, in the best way!
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
The grotesque.
The grotesque.
what is this horseshit
Babylon.
also!
It's giving Procrustes
Interviewer presses Bolton on the school hit and he runs through the classic sequence
- we have no evidence
- the US or Israel would never do that
- it was in an IRCG compound anyway
- well if they did they'll surely make amends for it
- well Hamas killed Israeli civilians
John Bolton on Al-Jazeera, showing that his animus against Trump won't outweigh his appetite for war crimes
Christo & Jeanne-Claude, "Wall of Oil Barrels—The Iron Curtain" (1961–62), an installation of stacked oil barrels that completely blocked the historic rue Visconti, one of the narrowest streets in Paris, and slowed traffic through the city's Left Bank
so great
"His stage name wryly reflected the fact that Stalin was sometimes referred to as 'Country Joe' because of his rural background. The word 'Fish' was taken from Mao Zedong, who wrote that revolutionaries 'must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.'"
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/a...
The grotesque.
The grotesque.
Rocky Myers, a Black man from Decatur, Alabama, is still locked up for a crime he didn’t commit. His lawyer, former corporate counsel for the United Klans of America, told me if he had to do it all over again, he’d seat an all-white jury this time. Please take a moment with this story.
"Say this for the ancien régime, it knows how to have lunch."
An instant classic Lunch with the FT
www.ft.com/content/ab4d...
Homiletics !
Endless night of the living dead
SOMEWHAT AGREE
19th-century textile mill working conditions join the list of anti-American topics that must not be brought up
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/06/o...
