JL
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I remember visiting the house where this painting, featured in the exhibition and review, hung before it was donated to where I worked: late 60s modernist place in a suburban college town, flat roof, dark rooms, lots of windows looking out onto wet woods, faintly dank. In other words, perfect
December 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I remember visiting the house where this painting, featured in the exhibition and review, hung before it was donated to where I worked: late 60s modernist place in a suburban college town, flat roof, dark rooms, lots of windows looking out onto wet woods, faintly dank. In other words, perfect
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Me, panicking at my job on a regular Tuesday for no reason: [IDONTWANNADOTHISIDONTWANNADOTHISIDONTWANNADOTHISIDONTWANNADOTHISIDONTWANNADOTHIS]
Also me: Sure thing!!
Also me: Sure thing!!
December 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Me, panicking at my job on a regular Tuesday for no reason: [IDONTWANNADOTHISIDONTWANNADOTHISIDONTWANNADOTHISIDONTWANNADOTHISIDONTWANNADOTHIS]
Also me: Sure thing!!
Also me: Sure thing!!
When browning butter, as with so much of life, it is important to have the courage of your convictions
December 14, 2025 at 10:11 PM
When browning butter, as with so much of life, it is important to have the courage of your convictions
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Sunday zen: Pawtuxet River falls at Pawtuxet Village
December 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Sunday zen: Pawtuxet River falls at Pawtuxet Village
“To Colleges and Schools ye Youths Repair
Improve each precious Moment while you're there”
Nabby Martin
Sampler, 1786
Linen plain weave with silk and metallic-wrapped yarn embroidery
Providence, Rhode Island
Improve each precious Moment while you're there”
Nabby Martin
Sampler, 1786
Linen plain weave with silk and metallic-wrapped yarn embroidery
Providence, Rhode Island
December 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“To Colleges and Schools ye Youths Repair
Improve each precious Moment while you're there”
Nabby Martin
Sampler, 1786
Linen plain weave with silk and metallic-wrapped yarn embroidery
Providence, Rhode Island
Improve each precious Moment while you're there”
Nabby Martin
Sampler, 1786
Linen plain weave with silk and metallic-wrapped yarn embroidery
Providence, Rhode Island
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It's a Brave New Small World After All.
December 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
It's a Brave New Small World After All.
I feel about this revised and expanded edition like I imagine some people feel about an boxed set of their favorite band’s best record, complete with outtakes and alternate versions. Absolutely life-changing book
In ‘Taste and the Antique’, Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny tried to construct a lost world in which sculptures such as the Apollo Belvedere appeared as ‘the only bulwarks of absolute values in a world governed by capricious and frequently changing tastes’. The result is a modern classic
A modern classic about ancient sculpture
Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny’s landmark history of the afterlife of classical sculpture has been refreshed to give it even greater longevity
buff.ly
December 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I feel about this revised and expanded edition like I imagine some people feel about an boxed set of their favorite band’s best record, complete with outtakes and alternate versions. Absolutely life-changing book
This may be going too far
Paul Thomas Anderson films Cameron Winter’s sold out Carnegie Hall performance
December 12, 2025 at 9:23 AM
This may be going too far
I don’t think you’re looking hard enough
December 11, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I don’t think you’re looking hard enough
The sense of relief upon opening a newsletter email to find only the first paragraph and the rest for paying subscribers only
December 11, 2025 at 10:41 AM
The sense of relief upon opening a newsletter email to find only the first paragraph and the rest for paying subscribers only
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omg- this Salman Toor portrait of a teenage Zohran Mamdani, painted in 2009, is just so stupendous on so many different levels www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/a...
December 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
omg- this Salman Toor portrait of a teenage Zohran Mamdani, painted in 2009, is just so stupendous on so many different levels www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/a...
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Winter Landscape by Lovell Birge Harrison (1854-1929)
Circa 1905
Circa 1905
December 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Winter Landscape by Lovell Birge Harrison (1854-1929)
Circa 1905
Circa 1905
As if I would ever
Don't disregard thyme in your cooking because this herb has numerous benefits, like anti-inflammatory properties, a substitute for salt, and relief from colds.
12 Unexpected Benefits Of Cooking With Thyme - The Takeout
www.thetakeout.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:16 AM
As if I would ever
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f. gilbane, inc., pawtucket, rhode island, 1978
December 6, 2025 at 8:36 AM
f. gilbane, inc., pawtucket, rhode island, 1978
Hey buddy!
Still Life with Lemons, 1914
https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/16021
https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/16021
December 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Hey buddy!
“It is reductive to say that the central fantasy of contemporary conservatism is Punching The Teacher, but it is not really wrong.”
The Conservative Grievance Business Is Always Hiring | Defector
Given his age when he first came to the world’s attention and assuming continued good health in the intervening decade and change, Marine Todd would be in his late 30s today. That would be if he was a...
defector.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
“It is reductive to say that the central fantasy of contemporary conservatism is Punching The Teacher, but it is not really wrong.”
For some reason we are making an apple galette
November 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM
For some reason we are making an apple galette
Released a year ago today and the record I’ve listened to the most since. Apart from everything else that could be said about it, it’s one of the best cold weather records ever, chilled and sparkling
midwinter swimmers, by the innocence mission
11 track album
theinnocencemission.bandcamp.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Released a year ago today and the record I’ve listened to the most since. Apart from everything else that could be said about it, it’s one of the best cold weather records ever, chilled and sparkling
🎶 Hello Pippa in the sun (hello Pippa in the sun) 🎶
November 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
🎶 Hello Pippa in the sun (hello Pippa in the sun) 🎶
The turkey craver has entered the chat
November 27, 2025 at 11:03 PM
The turkey craver has entered the chat
We all knew it would come to this
November 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
We all knew it would come to this
Muttering “I been a little busy, OKAY” at every article that mentions it was in storage for 18 years
A new Talking Heads compilation will include the demo from David Byrne and Chris Frantz's first band the Artistics, discovered in the RISD archives
Talking Heads To Release Artistics Demo Discovered In RISD Archives
Before Talking Heads were Talking Heads, they were the Artistics. Rhode Island School Of Design students David Byrne and Chris Frantz formed the Artistics in 1973, and they made a kind of music that w...
stereogum.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Muttering “I been a little busy, OKAY” at every article that mentions it was in storage for 18 years