Lemurmancer

On short commute home (daily "Springfield, MO, are you ...*OK*?" experience), I saw sitting at the base of a public sculpture (t-rex riding a unicycle on South St) a man with disheveled white beard, clad in a lime green, fur-lined parka and rainbow colored-tights playing an accordion (competently).

We made a thing!

A detail from a 1591 German pamphlet about "Ketzerei", heresy. You see a man standing, carrying 7 cats. This detail is part of a title page: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/details/bsb00086437

Meet the 1591 cat man. I am counting 7 cats on and near him. #catcontent

the civil rights movement did not win by awakening the secret virtue of Southern whites by appealing to their better nature. it won by producing a demonstration of their brutality Northerners could not ignore

Happy Bowiemas to all who observe. Bowienalia, the day of his Divine Apotheosis, on Saturday, of course. Ten years in the wilderness.

What's the estimated weight?

Weather prediction: Sunday high of 70F, Monday low of 15F.

SWMO WTF

I wonder what I clicked that that signed me up for a Krishnamurti-related list serve? I mean, cool, and I'm not *not* interested, but, what?

Two gray cats.

Moggies.

English language complaint: the word "sanction" meaning two almost opposite things. I have to get two paragraphs into a news article to figure out what's going on. "Oh, the government sanctioned them! That's good. . . oh, wait. . ." So, "Did you sanction this?" "Um... I don't know. . ."

The alphabet in four different sans stuff fonts-- calibri, Arial, helvetica, aptos.

While we're talking about fonts and readability (caveat: not a graphic designer), praise for Aptos. It has the lovely tittles (a real word) for i and j, and the good g, but ALSO the excellent differentiation of the low case l and panache to upper case Q.

Leafless Maple tree in front of blue, purple and pink sunset

Good sunset this evening.

Gray cat with green eyes reclining in a cat bed.

Silly cat in a catio.

But what's its name?!

He's so slightly weird. Have fun!

Walmart sells whippets?! (puts on socks and shoes)

I think the pattern of stupid videos that stop my scrolling in its tracks and send me into a fugue state indicate some longing for order or resolution (twee Japanese wood joinery, cake frosting, power-washing Persian carpets, logs being milled).

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

Do it!

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

Baudrillard’s 4 stages of simulacra applied to pumpkin spice Stage one (next to picture of pumpkin): Initially the sign (image or representation) is a reflection of basic reality Stage two (next to picture of pumpkin pie): the sign masks a basic reality. The image becomes a distortion of reality Stage three (next to Starbucks pumpkin spice latte): the sign marks the absence of basic reality. The image calls into question what the reality is and if it even exists Stage four (next to jug of pumpkin spice flavored coffee mate): the sign bears no relation to any reality whatsoever; it is it’s own pure simulacrum

Don’t know who made this but thank you

Once again, Ubisoft has failed to call me to put me on retainer, and yet another Assassins Creed franchise offering with painful architectural anachronisms (set in 9th-century Baghdad but with *so much* Ilkhanid- and Timurid-era styling--the horror!). Will they never learn?

There was a Memling portraits show in Italy fairly recently.

Hans Memling, famed for his angelic beauties, could also do an A+ devil when appropriate. Just so you know. It’s his day.

Pax vobis, Hans. You were really great.

Gender war detente: I'm going to accept and embrace Rush, but not Steely Dan. Deal? I've made my choice.

Leonardo da Vinci's cats (and dragon) for #InternationalCatDay