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Sending you all good wishes, take care and I hope the treatment is as swift and successful as possible

It’s Bandcamp Friday, the day I regret signing up to receive emails from so many bands on Bandcamp

Excellent fourth beer record

Plan to Close DePaul Art Museum Faces Community Backlash Over 2,000 faculty and students have called on the Chicago school to reverse its decision, which came after budgetary concerns and layoffs in December.

DePaul University’s decision to close its campus art museum has sparked outrage in Chicago, including an open letter that criticized the move as “short-sighted, wrong-headed, and grounded in some deeply disappointing principles of prioritization.”

It was odd but not crazy, he was at Rolling Stone then, before he joined MTV

I remember reading the liner notes Kurt Loder wrote for all the Velvet Underground reissues in the 80s with my friends and lingering over his description of Lou Reed as a guitarist “of raw protean power.” Finally someone offered, “I guess that means he only knows barre chords”

Happy to see that Kurt didn’t embarrass himself by anything more than still being on the everything app

Pretty fitting given the people in charge of things that basically every attempted official justification for what the US was going for in Iran and why they hadn't foreseen any of the extremely foreseeable consequences is basically at the level of something you'd hear during a field sobriety stop.

Persian miniature painting of children in school with their teacher engaging in normal school activities of their day and time like kids do everyday. The painting illustrates the site where Laila and Majnun fall in love

Persian, made in Shiraz, Iran
Laila and Majnun at School, ca. 1570
From a copy of the manuscript Khamsa (Quintet) by the poet Nizami (1141-1209)
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Right? I am also very pleased that Seven Sundays, a small Minnesota company that makes what I consider the best muesli on the market, has committed to them. If all goes as planned, that means I’ll be having their oats for breakfast in a matter of months

(And by grain salad, I mean whole oats)

I’ve got a grain salad with bok choy, peppers, snap peas, and peanuts in a sesame ginger dressing that I made early this morning to have all week 💪

The Unexpected Rise of the Oat Mafia Oat farming has declined in the U.S. in recent decades — but a growing group of more than 100 Midwestern farmers is trying to bring it back.

This thing of ours

We are still a few weeks and a lot of snow melt away from anything growing but seeing the light increase as the sun gets higher has been keeping me going

You got time and I got money, by Smerz from the album Big city life

The whole lp is a top contender for “record I’m getting really into a year after it came out” but also this track in particular must have made Haim jealous

This is the way

Happy birthday!!! 🎂🎉🎁🎊🎈

A white and black duck floating on water

Theodorus van Hoytema
White and Black Ducks (1907 Calendar: March)
Color lithograph, proof
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Ralph Weld Gray
The Home Camp in March, 1931
Watercolor on paper
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

A side by side image of a sleeveless 1920s flapper style evening dress consisting of a sage green sequin background with black and gold sequinned floral motifs

The slick, wet look sequins used in the creation of this mid #1920s evening dress are made from cellophane. For over 30 years, sisters Anna & Laura Tirocchi brought European style over America in their Providence RI shop. This is one of their choices #RISDMuseum #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Bernadette Peters outside the Pulitzer Award-winning production of "Sunday in the Park with George" (with Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine) - BOTD

Girl has always known how to look after herself

She likes a little taste

Millie says she’s in

Designed by Narcissa Niblack Thorne American, 1882-1966, A11: Rhode Island Parlor, c. 1820, Miniature scale model of a large, furnished white-walled room with ornamental moulding, wooden flooring, upholstered wooden chairs, and a large decorative carpet in the floor's center.

A11: Rhode Island Parlor, c. 1820, by Designed by Narcissa Niblack Thorne
American, 1882-1966
c. 1940

More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/45345

A view of the bodice of a purple and red striped gown with a high crossover treatment at the neck, sleeves above the elbow and a line of ball style buttons that fasten at the side of the waist

Full length view of the purple and red striped 1950s dinner dress by Claire McCardell showing how the fitted crossover bodice radiates out onto a long, full skirt

Amongst the many reasons that I love the garments designed by Claire McCardell is her fastenings. They are always unexpected, rejecting the convenience of a zip for a neat row of buttons. This is a mid #1950s dinner dress with the most chic of bodices #museumatFIT #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

I imagine that Silver Spring is a difficult street to plow under better circumstances—narrow, often a lot of vehicles that people don’t move—but it seemed like solid ice. Hopefully the weather today and tomorrow will help it and similar roads

I took a spill on black ice heading to the bus stop this morning and as painful as that was, I was shocked at how much worse conditions were almost as soon as we crossed the line from Pawtucket into Providence

A museum gallery with no lights on. A bench is jn the foreground with a wall of photographs to the left. At right hangs a dark canvas. Other artworks are in the distance on the walls and under vitrines

Museum in the dark