December 2008
18 posts
Ai Weiwei's "Bubble" installation looks lovely →
I don’t see a lot of mind-melting artistic merit here, but that’s some SWEET lawn furniture.
December 28, 2008: Bernard Lewis on the penitence... →
“Why, then, did the peoples of Europe embark on this vast expansion and, by means of conquest, conversion, and colonization, attempt to create a Eurocentric world? Was it, as some believe, because…
December 18: Santa Maria on the power of language →
“Since the royal power is today Castilian, and since the excellent king and queen who rule us have chosen to make the realm of Castile the base and seat of their states, I have decided to write this…
Yulia Brodskaya : Papergraphic illustrations →
Good NIGHT these are beautiful illustrations. Oh, and allow me to drop a little craft-world knowledge on you: this medium/process is called ‘quilling,’ and it is nearly always used to make the most…
“I made him just and right, Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.”
from Paradise Lost
“If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission.”
from Samson Agonistes
“I would not taste thy treasonous offer; none But such as are good men can give good things; And that which is not good, is not delicious To a well-governed and wise appetite.”
from Comus
Everybody knows what today is, right? Yep, it’s my buddy John’s 400th birthday. Do something weird and literary to celebrate Mr. Milton today. And tomorrow, on to fresh woods, and pastures new.
Grizzly Bear covers Paul Simon’s Graceland.
December 4, 2008: Gumilev on Paul's introduction... →
“On the other hand, Paul’s mission, addressed to educated heathens, found many converts. The Hellenes were particularly startled by the idea, then strange to them, of the existence of evil, and they…
www.toastermuseum.com - TOASTER COLLECTION... →
I did not know toasters used to look so … mechanical. Neat!
Via Blewis, of course.
