Karen Leathem

Less AI, more ai-yeeee!!!

UNC retired coach Roy Williams with a huge smile after beating Dook 71-68

Colorful dancing coffee pots at the Milan Olympics opening ceremonies

Dancing Moka coffee pots at the Olympics opening ceremony! Italy, I love you

As one of the very few people in the world who has written one word about the history of dentistry in New Orleans, I am obligated to repost this.

A large-scale Joan of Arc puppet passes by Jackson Square, New Orleans

A new dragon at the Joan of Arc parade

are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson

Steve Cropper, guitarist and member of Stax Records' Booker T and the M.G.'s, dies Steve Cropper, who co-wrote classics including "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay" and "In the Midnight Hour" during his years playing guitar at the legendary Stax Records in Memphis, has died. He was 84.

Steve Cropper, who co-wrote classics including "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay" and "In the Midnight Hour" during his years playing guitar at the legendary Stax Records in Memphis, has died. He was 84. n.pr/48zf0gD

"What I'm really aiming at is to become one with the song. It's not acting. In acting, aren't you conscious of being separate from whet you're doing?" — Marianne Faithfull

Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo "I didn't want to say immediately it was me," fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux said. "With this photo there is a mystery, so you have to make it last."

"I didn't want to say immediately it was me," fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux said. "With this photo there is a mystery, so you have to make it last." n.pr/3WOLsWT

Old Grapes, New Champagnes Why the “forgotten varieties” of Champagne may be part of the future.

Old Grapes, New Champagnes
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Carol Kaye Is Being Honored by the Rock Hall. She Doesn’t Care. The pioneering session musician, 90, remains a fiercely independent thinker. “I have to do things the way I see fit.”

"Kaye, clad in tan slacks and a floral print shirt, offered her reasons for turning down the Rock Hall. 'First off, I’m not a rocker, I’m a jazz musician. And I’m not a soloist. I worked in the studio as part of a team.'"

Carol Kaye Is Being Honored by the Rock Hall. She Doesn’t Care. (gift link):

YouTube video by Smurfstools Oldies Music Time Machine NEW * Elenore - The Turtles {Stereo}

RIP Mark Volman (The Turtles, Flo & Eddie)
One of my favorite turtles songs Is “Elenore.” It’s not one that always comes up, but I think it’s amazingly sophisticated pop.

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White folks are like, “The new Pope never claimed his African ancestry. Why are Black folks so happy?”

Meanwhile Black folks are like, “His mama ‘nem from New Orleans—I know Bruh Pope Leo got that FIRE gumbo recipe!”

🤣🤣🤣

Pope Leo XIV's grandparents were 7th Ward Creoles The newly elected pontiff, born in Chicago, has ancestral ties to the city’s historic Seventh Ward, according to genealogists at The Historic New Orleans Collection.

I didn’t give a wit about new pope coverage, but the first American pope being a man with Black ancestry born in Chicago by way of New Orleans by way of Haiti. Names his self after the pope who condemned slavery? In the Trump era? Oh, baebae, I am HERE for it.

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“[Richard’s] cookbook democratized access to culinary pleasure that had long been gatekept.” —Mayukh Sen in a profile on Lena Richard, the first Black woman to host her own televised cooking show in America. #FoodIssue #Issue128

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This is high art

Bywater Bakery is baking Hamentaschen cookies and donating all profits to Ukraine charities. Available March 13-17, get in touch with the Bakery to order them.

Hey, New Orleans people, this is a lovely, community way to support Ukraine fundraising. Bywater Bakery are angels.

This is how
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A picture of a tv screen showing a shot from Cooking Price-Wise. On a chess board are arranged two sets of pieces, each made of towers of cubes of different cheeses, all topped with various olives, pickles etc.

I'm just watching the Vincent Price cooking show (a gift for Christmas) and he's just made a chess set out of cheese.