Pages from "Little Bear" by Else Holmemund Minarik, illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Little Bear is clinging to his mother's skirts and she is holding a Platonically ideal birthday cake
I recall making a similar request for this cake, from Else Holmemund Minarik's "Little Bear", as a very small child
I'm terribly sorry. Holding you all in the light
Ach, I'm sorry to hear this! Wishing you an easy and speedy recovery <3
I have an acquaintance who has personal beef with Markwayne Mullin from years ago and is very excited for his confirmation hearing because, in her words, he is "dumb as rock" and she's excited for his humiliation (god willing) in front of the entire country
Literally so many people have said this to me, I'm sorry but also not
no one else is saying Cymbeline wtf
I think my real all-time favourite is probably Winter's Tale tho
idk about favourite, but Cymbeline is extremely underrated imho
how can such terrifying times produce such boring discourse
Not going to pretend I'm not part of the problem but also I'm noticing this because I keep finding myself, like, one of 6 men in a group of 30 union organisers at a training, etc. Not sure what to do other than keep at it and try to encourage more men to put the work in?
This is not a novel observation at all but I have been struck this year, this month, this week, by the hugely disproportionate preponderance of women/femmes organising my department and union, and the overwhelming preponderance of queer men and/or men of colour among those men who are organising
Coffee is always healthy sorry
yes hahaha yesss
Also, it was only in the past few months, after a lifetime of loving chard and beets both, that I learnt they're the same species? Just different parts emphasised? Like I've cooked with beet greens and chard all my life thinking they were different??
Many happy returns!
Roasted with other roots, boiled and slivered and served on fancy toasts, shredded and made into borsht, I had a beet and kvass cocktail last year that I think about every day (but you see, I like dirt, so)
/3 Prompted to reread Bill’s recent book by Stewart Motha who shared this interview with me this morning. For those who would like to hear Bill’s voice and brilliance again, here is the link:
there's also something truly sick and decadent about how absolutely impossible, just utterly outside the Overton Window, it is for even mainstream progressive American politicians to simply say: "the US does not have the right to attack any country it doesn't like and the US military should go home"
illustration on a brown background. It says "all of us deserve a thriving world" in black and "end US imperialism" in pink, with pink wildflowers, stars, and constellations in the roots of the flowers breaking up a bomb
Another one by Olly:
ollycostello.com/portfolio
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He was unusually clear-eyed about the direness of our straits, between the Scylla and Charibdis of fascism and ecocide. The way forward, he said, was the "improbable necessity" of a general strike. I hope to honour his life and memory by making this improbable necessity a reality in the world
He embodied the best of scholarship—rigour, curiosity, generosity, humility—and was a bulwark against the worst tendencies of academia. I owe both the direction of my scholarship and the good relationships in my workplace to him
LRT: While I continue to hesitate talking about specific professional relationships on here, I would like to mark that losing Bill two days ago has been extraordinarily difficult, even as someone who only had the privilege to know him for the last two years
Bill Connolly died yesterday and he was one of the good ones. It kills me that he was taken while our politics are like this. He deserved to outlive the bastards. I guess we’ll have to take it from here. But let me say: for depth of understanding, empathy & moral clarity, this man had few rivals /1
YES
I'm half joking but if I do it...this is the guy
Yes, I just need a target
Solidarity from afar 💚
I am overcome by an urge to send someone a threatening telegram. How much could it cost, 35 dollars?
Saw a comment on a Yiddish song on IG that was like "why does this sound Slavic" and, what, you think we spent all those centuries in Eastern Europe and just didn't talk to anyone else the whole time?
Permanently imprinted with the sense-memory of wet cat food :( But tell me about your fruit, I love fruit
Winslow Homer
The Gulf Stream
1899; reworked by 1906
