Bruce Hodges

Wow, no kidding, what a lineup!

Of those, haven't seen two: 'Tokyo Drifter' (def on the list) and the Tarkovsky, which has been on my mind since 'Stalker' — my first Tarkovsky encounter two years ago and astounding. Friends suggested 'Rublev' next.

Oooh, what a great choice.

Graph of award probability of R35 and R01 from NIH factbook as a function of review rank percentile. As is apparent, 2025 is a significant departure, with lower award probabilities at all scores <40 and significant departures from norm, where even being in the top 10% is no longer a nearly certain indicator of success. Data source: https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/302

The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted.

What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards.

Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.

Aleksandra Ekster
Costume Design

James Mason by Lisette Model, 1948. Source: npg.

Needing To Get His Ass Kicked is a terrible affliction that strikes millions of Americans every year. Here we see a victim of this syndrome in the late stages of Needing to Get His Ass Kicked. There is no known cure, save one.

Sondergard leads the Minnesota Orchestra in Bruckner's Symphony No. 8 On Friday, March 6, Thomas Søndergård leads the Minnesota Orchestra in a program featuring Anton Bruckner’s iconic Symphony No. 8. Listen to the live broadcast with host Melissa Ousley at 8 p.m. Frida...

Tonight at 8 (Central), live on Minnesota Public Radio, Thomas Søndergård and the Minnesota Orchestra (@minnesotaorchestra.org) in Bruckner's Eighth Symphony

My fave of all of them

I know people have strong opinions about Mahler, but I don't think you will be disappointed.

Among many high points: *eleven* horns

If they do it on Sunday afternoon here, that would work. If it's on Monday evening, might be a "get up in the middle of the night and make a cup of tea" kind of evening 😃

The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert Join us on Sunday afternoons and Monday evenings to hear The Philadelphia Orchestra, led by Music and Artistic Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, in concerts from Marian Anderson Hall at the Kimmel Center...

Right?

Two more performances: tomorrow at 8 and Sunday at 2.

WRTI will almost certainly be broadcasting it in the near future on their regular Philadelphia Orchestra program. Not sure how far ahead they announce the schedule, but the basic info is below

young intense man, behind him is eye=i

Orson Welles
Louise Dahl-Wolfe, 1938

Wide-angle photograph from Marion Anderson Hall in Philadelphia, of the curtain call after Mahler's Symphony No. 2. In front of the large orchestra are Joe Miller, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Ying Fang, and Joyce DiDonato. In the seats above the stage are 80 members of the Philadelphia Symphonic Choir

From this afternoon at Marion Anderson Hall in Philadelphia, the curtain call after Mahler's Symphony No. 2 with @philorch.bsky.social

Front, from left: Joe Miller, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Ying Fang, and Joyce DiDonato, and above the orchestra, 80 members of the Philadelphia Symphonic Choir

Glorious

Sondergard leads the Minnesota Orchestra in Bruckner's Symphony No. 8 On Friday, March 6, Thomas Søndergård leads the Minnesota Orchestra in a program featuring Anton Bruckner’s iconic Symphony No. 8. Listen to the live broadcast with host Melissa Ousley at 8 p.m. Frida...

Tonight at 8 (Central), live on Minnesota Public Radio, Thomas Søndergård and the Minnesota Orchestra (@minnesotaorchestra.org) in Bruckner's Eighth Symphony

My fave of all of them

Part of a great Pew thread on what makes people "proud of their country"

Salvador Dalí
Spring Explosive, 1965

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?