@chowleen
@chowleen most elsewhere; my old tweets reappear here at odd times. Duke prof, APSI Dir+DGS, Duke Story Lab founder. DUP Sinotheory, LAReviewOfBooks board. Shewo Institute 舍我紀念館 Director, Biographical Lit 傳記文學 publisher 周成蔭 #everynightapoem
An original Nashville sit-in member, along with Diane Nash, James Bevel, and John Lewis. Trained in non-violence by James Lawson. At age 21, he signed a will before the Freedom Rides, knowing he could die.
May his soul be at peace, and may we all have such courage in the face of oppression.
Oil and charcoal on canvas, abstract cubist bodies piled together. Description from MOMA site: "With its varying degrees of finish—you can see traces of charcoal and sections of blank canvas—and vast network of undulating lines and geometric shapes, Picasso seems to have obscured legibility in favor of generating a rhythmic abstraction. As if questioning the ability of painting to represent war, he created a shifting, spectral vision."
Picasso's depiction of a fascist massacre, a murdered family unceremoniously tangled together under a dining table.
[Pablo Picasso, The Charnel House, 1944-45]
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Results: Progressives win all four of these primaries, ousting incumbents Cunningham, Willingham, and Majeed, while Pierce held off Wray’s comeback.
extraordinary night for state progressives in North Carolina
via boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
JUST IN: North Carolina's Dem lawmaker Carla Cunningham gave the GOP the decisive vote to pass a law forcing police to comply with ICE. She said "all cultures are not equal."
She just lost reelection BIG in the Dem primary to a progressive pastor & activist, Rodney Sadler. 70% to 22%!
Context:
#NCVoter
American publishing regularly punishes women in their 50s by simply not interviewing them for new jobs in the way @saribotton.bsky.social describes here. So it’s great revenge that she launched Oldster magazine on her own, now with 70k subscribers.
(She also reminded me to “lay low and don’t fly anywhere because everyone hates Americans right now”)
A bowl of tangyuan - glutinous rice balls with filling - in sweet soup
My mom just sent a photo to remind me to have tangyuan #元宵節
Oil and charcoal on canvas, abstract cubist bodies piled together. Description from MOMA site: "With its varying degrees of finish—you can see traces of charcoal and sections of blank canvas—and vast network of undulating lines and geometric shapes, Picasso seems to have obscured legibility in favor of generating a rhythmic abstraction. As if questioning the ability of painting to represent war, he created a shifting, spectral vision."
Picasso's depiction of a fascist massacre, a murdered family unceremoniously tangled together under a dining table.
[Pablo Picasso, The Charnel House, 1944-45]
(219) Natalia Gutman & Sviatoslav Richter play Chopin Cello Sonata - video 1985 - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQTR...
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my heart is so heavy
Big protest at the Lincoln Monument. Seven D.C. high schools walked out to come here.
Teresa de Lauretis has passed. What a GIANT she was, and what a legacy she leaves. Her book Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema was essential in the 1980s and 1990s for anyone in film and feminism.
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I know it’s difficult right now, but I insist that you seek and enjoy beautiful things, even if it seems frivolous or irresponsible in the face of overwhelming horror. I want you to feed yourself artistically, spiritually, and literally, because you can’t Do The Work when you’re starving.
However angry you are, you're not angry enough.
A blind Rohingya man survived a genocide in Burma, escaped to the United States, and then died because immigration officers treated him with such callousness. This story is a tragedy www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...
"Ils ont donné mon chapeau rouge à l'âne !"
Pretty much how I feel about Iris Murdoch
Child asking me about photographs in my office…
”…is this one your mother, or your teacher?”
“That is Iris Murdoch, my favorite novelist and philosopher”
“Is this one your mother?”
“…that is also Iris Murdoch.”
This morning there's snow everywhere. We remark on it. You tell me you didn't sleep well. I say I didn't either. You had a terrible night. 'Me too.' We're extraordinarily calm and tender with each other as if sensing the other's rickety state of mind. As if we knew what the other was feeling. We don't, of course. We never do. No matter. It's the tenderness I care about. That's the gift this morning that moves and holds me. Same as every morning. -Raymond Carver, from "The Gift"
This morning there’s snow everywhere.
——
As if we knew what the other was feeling. We don’t,
of course. We never do. No matter.
It’s the tenderness I care about.
-Raymond Carver, from "The Gift"
#everynightapoem #thismorning
Oranges with red lunar new year auspicious characters stickers
How about some auspicious oranges from Taipei? Happy new year!
ICE activity continues to interrupt daily life for students, staff and families, despite the announced end of the two-month surge of federal immigration agents. Students attend school remotely, staff monitor arrival and dismissal, and leaders wonder when they can resume normal school operations.
Oranges with red lunar new year auspicious characters stickers
How about some auspicious oranges from Taipei? Happy new year!
This shot is incredible: nearly two minutes long, no cuts, tons of camera moves and dialogue.
Economically shot, but stylish as hell.
#RideThePinkHorse #FilmNoirClub
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A Guardian of the Kingdom' from Qazwini’s “The marvels of creation and the oddities of existence” 1500-50 CE
