Bruce Hodges

YouTube video by National Theatre The Importance Of Being Earnest (Full Show) | Take Your Seats | National Theatre at Home

Next Thursday, March 12, National Theatre at Home will stream The Importance of Being Earnest, directed by Max Webster, and starring Ncuti Gatwa as Algernon and Sharon D. Clarke as Lady Bracknell.

The show will be available to stream FREE for a week.

NYT review:
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/t...

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.

But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

1925

It makes him look bad because it's bad.

i don't know how to teach people to be more curious but i think that's what we desperately need

illuminated sign at Whittier Park at night with the message WE LOVE WHITTIER MINNEAPOLIS YOU

♥️♥️♥️

Midnight Confetti
Nicki Ault
2026

Wednesday

Monk loved his garden. Sometimes he hated it.

Rupar might be a saint.

OK, remove "might"

"There are actresses who want to stick to one certain way, and there are actors like me who want to do a bunch of different characters. Don't fence me in! Don't lock me down! I want to do different things! I don't know who I am!"

Catherine O'Hara, born 4 March 1954.

A great find from 45 years ago

#archaeology

More patience than I have, to bear witness to all the nonsense going on

I trust when this era ends — and it will — he will take off for a well-deserved six-month vacation, perhaps in a locale with no knowledge of American politics

It’s what we all need right now.

Right?

More patience than I have, to bear witness to all the nonsense going on

I trust when this era ends — and it will — he will take off for a well-deserved six-month vacation, perhaps in a locale with no knowledge of American politics

Could turn into a gigantic thread, who knows?

Starting an animals playing bagpipes thread just because.

A 13th-century drawing of a light pinkish-tan dog walking upright, playing a light green bagpipe, with Latin text at the top (sorry, I cannot quite make out the letters)

Mood

Dog Playing Bagpipes (13th century)
from Music in the Margins: The Funeral of Reynard the Fox

Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
(via @pdimagearchive.bsky.social)

After Puno

After Puno, 1987
https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5298

A drawing from 1838 showing a musical staff with a treble clef at left and double bars at right. In the center are 8 notes going diagonally up from left to right, and to the right, a parallelogram made of 8 multicolored triangles in a similar slant from left to right

David Ramsay Hay (Scottish, 1798-1866)

Mapping of Colour onto Musical Notes (1838)
from The Laws of Harmonious Colouring

From Internet Archive/The Getty, via Public Domain Image Archive (@pdimagearchive.bsky.social)

"But, inexplicably, the principal harpist is rarely consulted on these matters."

😆

We need to fix that!

Milan Adamčiak. I° per dieci strumenti a piacere, 1971

YouTube video by Wolfgang Sawallisch - Topic Scherzo capriccioso, Op. 66, B. 131

Been a minute since I've heard a Sawallisch recording, and this version of Dvořák's Scherzo capriccioso is a reminder not to wait so long

Most welcome! And no embarrassment accepted; it's not that well-known. I had never heard of it prior to this recording, and further, don't recall ever seeing it on a concert program in the U.S.

There's just too much stuff out there to hear!

YouTube video by Philadelphia Orchestra - Topic Pamatnik Lidicim (Memorial to Lidice) , H. 296

In the mood for Martinů's Memorial to Lidice

This recording is an outstanding artifact from the Eschenbach era with The Philadelphia Orchestra

Rupar might be a saint.

OK, remove "might"

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Aerial view of gray ground with rows of tiny black graves and yellow backhoes

Graves.

165 graves.

Each for a little girl killed by the Israeli-American strike that targeted a school on the first day of the Iran War.

The Adventures of Prince Achmed, the Oldest Surviving Animated Feature Film, Is Now in the Public Domain (1926) Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed, or The Adventures of Prince Achmed, lays fair claim to being the earliest animated feature film in existence. If we do grant it that title, it beats the next contende...

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