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LOL, I'm in Singapore as well right now.

I you haven't done it yet: getting dinner on top of the Marina Bay Sands is highly recommended

Meanwhile, on a frozen island in Maine, the tufted titmice are living their best lives

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

I'm going with the most obscure name (to me): Medwick

And, uh..... 4?

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Mordecai

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A tufted titmouse in my BirdBuddy feeder on Peaks Island, Maine, during today's blizzard

This tufted titmouse doesn't mind the blizzard at all

Curling is the baseball of winter olympic sports

Tufted titmouse posing for the camera of my Birdbuddy on Peaks Island, Maine. It's holding a sunflower seed that is bigger than its beak

My wife got a Bird Buddy for Christmas, and I have to admit: this thing is pretty cool

Here's a tufted titmouse trying to eat a sunflower seed that is bigger than its beak

Part of the review: For a while there, Robbie Williams was pretty damn insistent that he would just rock all night, DJ. But artistic geniuses cannot live on rock alone, and the former boyband superstar has been looking for other ways to satisfy his pangs of creative hunger. And judging by the awkward, anxious paintings and sculptures here at Moco – London’s newest “museum” – it’s art that he’s decided to stuff his face with. The big printed canvases of computerised line drawings on the walls are filled with therapy speak, greeting card banter and patronising, meaningless affirmations. An aeroplane flying across a blue sky pulls a banner that reads: “Yes you are self centred, but what a marvellous self to be centred on.” And my stomach starts turning. The words “roses are red, violets are blue, everyone’s a dickhead except you” are written across a cassette tape, while bubble font spells out: “I’m sorry about being incredibly charasmatic [sic] I tried to not be but there was nothing I could do about it.” Fortunately, he’s provided an “introvert chair” where you can “take a moment to ground yourself and breathe” if all of this powerful, insightful personal philosophy gets too much for you. Exactly what every introvert wants, a single armchair in the middle of an art gallery. And somehow, somehow, that’s still not the worst thing in Radical Honesty, as the show is called. No, the worst thing is an image of a signpost with “you and your limiting self beliefs” to the left and “the life you still could have” to the right. A fork in the road – with every direction leading to a hell where the guy from Take That is giving you life advice.

The Guardian had a 1 star review of Robbie William's MOCO exhibition: ‘Tone deaf, self-important, incredibly bad art... Can this really be presented as art?'

I get it, but I liked it. You don't see many international pop stars talking about imposter syndrome

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Banksy's Girl with balloon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_with_Balloon

Love is in the Air is a quintessential Banksy painting. The image of a masked militant poised to hurl a bouquet of flowers has become synonymous with the artist's indelible graphic style. One of Banksy’s most coveted works on canvas, it is an archetypal example of the artist’s use of dark humour, satire, and his perceptive, stimulating commentaries on contemporary political and social events. The work shares its title with the 1978 hit song by John Paul Young, emblematic of Banksy’s wit and expressive of the positive message of the work. The iconic flower thrower has become a powerful message expressing the absurdity of war and the artist’s vocal advocacy for peace. https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/the-absurdity-of-war-banksys-love-is-in-the-air

They also had artwork by Banksy

Andy Warhol and Nico dressed up as Batman and Robin, 1966 Martin Schneider Seriously, the wealth of batty–pun intended–images from the 1960s never ceases to amaze me. Here we have the foremost pop artist of the era and the foremost German avant garde chanteuse of the era posing as Robin and Batman for Esquire magazine in 1966. The Batman TV series had taken to the airwaves in the start of 1966. Before the year was out, it would spawn a feature movie. Almost certainly the caped crusader was on everyone’s lips that year; as we all know, the show is simply a supreme example of kid-friendly absurdism that even something like Pee-wee’s Playhouse can’t quite touch. Warhol was interested in Batman as a subject of pop art. In addition to the image above, there was also his 1964 movie Batman Dracula, which is said to be the first camp treatment of Batman. The photographer who took the pics was Frank Bez. One of the images was used in an interesting little feature called “Remember the Sixties?” It seems likely that this was the introductory page for a series of photographs. The point of the feature was how incredibly much of note had been squeezed into just six years of our nation’s history, which is the exact thing that we all think when we think about that era. The really strange thing is that from our perspective, they were just getting going, the next five years or so would be incredibly active on the cultural front. Full article: https://dangerousminds.net/comments/andy_warhol_and_nico_dressed_up_as_batman_and_robin_1966/

This is the original first printing of the Museo Dell'Automobile Torino (Italy) Batman, Andy Warhol. 'Viaggio in Italia'. This poster features the artwork for Warhol’s unauthorised 1964 film “Batman Dracula”. Excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity. Printed in Italy. The exhibition poster was for Nov. 30, 1996 - March 9, 1997. Source: https://www.thevintageposter.com/poster-detail/?inv=23061A

Warhol first painted her portrait in 1963 when she was at the height of her career. Yet she was also severely ill with pneumonia. This highlights Warhol’s fascination with celebrity and death that began with his painting of Marilyn Monroe following her suicide in 1962 and continued throughout his oeuvre. In this portrait Warhol used a publicity photograph for Taylor’s film ‘Butterfly 8’ as the basis for the screenprint. It is typical of his 1960s Pop style with vibrant, flat blocks of colour. This poster was made for an exhibition held in 1965, the same year Warhol famously announced that he was ‘retiring’ from painting. Source: https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/93269

Coming up for air after fleeing London last night to get home before snowmaggedon shut down Logan Airport

I visited MOCO in while I was in London

Nico and Andy Warhol dressed as Batman and Robin: right in my veins

www.mocomuseum.com/london/

Photo showing Drake May in the snow, taken after the Patriots beat the Denver Broncos in the AFC championship game

Patriots win!! We're going to the show!

Who are you rooting for in the Super Bowl, @khaxan.bsky.social

Wait, let me guess: anybody but the Patriots

I guess we're even on bad kicks

Yeah, I know

Patriots coach Mike Vrabel being interviewed at the start of half time in the Patriots/Denver AFC championship game

Tied at the half @khaxan.bsky.social

Let's go Patriots!

A photo taken from the Casco Bay Line car ferry, showing a snowy scene arriving at the Peaks Island ferry terminal

My original flight from London to Boston was scheduled to land at 2:00PM today. That got cancelled due to snowmaggedon, but I managed to snag a late flight out of Heathrow last night.

It's good to be home. Up to two feet of snow is forecasted

Now that I'm home: bring it on!

What is Pack Night? A highlight of this year's Hot Stove Weekend in Cooperstown is Pack Night. From 6-10 PM, we’ll all get together for pizza and beer and Pack Night.So, what is Pack Night?Good question.Created by a grou...

Some helpful info on Pack Night: www.friendsofdoubleday.org/post/what-is...

You blocked <hateful spammer>. Future messages from this sender will be sent to Spam. Unblock sender

Oh, and blocked spam senders are now beamed directly into my inbox with this helpful message

(my regrets over choosing a simple first initial, last name gmail address back in the gmail beta days grows day by day)

gmail apparently decided that today was a good day to disable spam blocking. Holy shit, this is bad.

It's also happening on my paid Google Mail business account

My guess is this that is an AI "improvement" that made everything worse for everyone

Same, all sent to my discord-only email

Post old memes to confuse the younger people.

Photo of the Canadian Rockies taken near Banff, Alberta, Canada. There are snow-covered pine trees in front of a frozen lake, with snowy mountains behind

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate

I'm spending the Holidays with my family in Alberta, Canada

I can't think of a better place to be right now

Brady and Belichick are long gone. What's up with the Patriot hate?

Stay mad, BTW

Now we're fighting. Again.