So today I was in the criminal court building in downtown Manhattan and there were European tourists yukking it up in the elevator. (They were having too good a time to be witnesses.) @hudsonette.bsky.social
LauraEH/Opheliacat
@lauraeh.bsky.social
NYC by way of Chicago. Editor, design historian and educational consultant, now having fun telling people where to go (as a museum volunteer).
Textes from Sisyphus: UGH You are not goinge to BELIEVE what just happenid AGAYNE 🪨
Heatwaves reaching the upper thermal limits of mammals Poor lions, poor residents of Tokyo And yes, we should be worried and yes we know what to collectively do
Sanho Tree@sanho.bsky.social · 2d ago“Three female lions died of suspected heatstroke at Tokyo's Tama Zoo, the first heat-related deaths among the facility's lion population in its 62-year history. The lions, aged 3, 11 and 15 and all born in the zoo, showed signs of severe dehydration and multiple organ failure in post-mortem exams”
Finding beauty in everyday life: Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699-1779), French painter of tranquil, luminous still-life & genre scenes, admired by Manet, Cézanne, Matisse and Proust. La Fille de Cuisine 1738, NGADC | Panier de Pêches, avec noix, couteau, verre de vin 1768, Musée du Louvre
This blows my mind. The Odyssey is required reading for all undergraduate students at Columbia, and I'm still traumatized by having to read it in a week that I don't want to see the film.
Nolan’s film could make The Odyssey the most sought-after book in the US
The nearly 2,700-year-old epic poem is flying off shelves at bookstores and libraries after the blockbuster film came out
theguardian.com
CARTOON OF THE DAY (if you know who made this let us know)
I know they’re puffing up to be intimidating but also they just look like they’re spectacular and they know it
San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance @sandiegozoo.bsky.social · 2d agoFeathered phenom 🐦 Kagus suddenly splay their head crests and wings to make themselves look larger, scaring away predators and defending their territory. Known as the "Ghost of the Forest" for their pale plumage and eerie calls, these flightless birds are actually quite gentle and docile.
There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.
Can confirm. "Yeah, just hook your claws under the door frame and whole camper just opens up like a sardine can."
@halltline.bsky.social · 2w agoI saw an interview with a park ranger who was asked "Why can't they build bear proof dumpsters?" His reply was perfect: "There's a considerable overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest people."
Reposting this for tonight's #hatm...
Dan Sheehan@dansheehan.memyon.org · last yr.Michel Legrand wrote the music for many Hollywood films, but his first Oscar win was not for a score: it was for Best Song, 1968's "The Windmills of your Mind" from his music for THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR (lyrics: Alan and Marilyn Bergman, vocal: Noel Harrison). 6/ #filmsky #musicsky #botd #moviesky
I’m really late with this reaction but David Jonsson joining the new Black Panther movie is once again proof Mammoth Screen picks actors on their way up and drops them off ready for mainstream success: www.wgbh.org/tv-shows/dra...
BritBox’s newest Agatha Christie adaptation Murder Is Easy reexamines the canon
Agatha Christie’s mystery novels and short stories have never fallen out of favor with mystery fans. Her novels and short stories have influenced generations of authors and screenwriters to adapt her ...
wgbh.org
*Urgent Foster Needed!* For Animals, Inc. in Queens, NY, is looking for an urgent foster for a dog whose owner is being deported. Link to their foster application is: www.shelterluv.com/matchme/fost...
Both a dog and a cat have spotted you from inside Samuel van Hoogstraten's amazing View Down a Corridor, 1662. Not to mention the parrot in its cage! But the people are oblivious.
A special viewing of ONE HUNDRED AND ONE DALMATIANS in the 7th floor screening room of the Chicago Theatre in 1961.
keeping an eye out for the magic as night falls art by Maggie Vandewalle
For a disease as spectacularly scary as smallpox, its history is remarkably mysterious. Here is my look at what ancient DNA from the viruses is revealing. Gift link: nyti.ms/4vTU11D
‘This Is Very Strange’: Ancient Smallpox May Have Been Less Deadly (Gift Article)
Scientists have found smallpox viruses in the remains of people in Chile from around 500 years ago, revealing how the virus may have evolved into a global killer.
nyti.ms
Britain braces for fourth heatwave of year as fire chiefs issue public appeal... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Britain braces for fourth heatwave of year as fire chiefs issue public appeal
Temperatures up to 35C forecast, triggering heat health alerts and pleas to take care in parched parks and rural areas
theguardian.com
And coming this fall, the 50th anniversary edition of OF GRAMMATOLOGY. (You need a fourth copy, @seeshespeak.bsky.social!) @hopkinspress.bsky.social
Happy birthday to a true Chicago icon and a blues legend heard around the world, Buddy Guy!
I spent a splendid afternoon exploring the reopened #18thcentury galleries in the #ArtoftheAmericas Wing at the @mfaboston.bsky.social. It was exiting to be immersed once again in the world I’ve been writing about from afar for so many months.
It‘s quite possible that with this move, @harvard.edu could become the only Ivy League university without a writing center. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
Harvard College Lays Off Writing Center Director, Consolidates Center | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Harvard College Writing Center will no longer operate as a standalone unit after its director was laid off and its functions were consolidated as part of a restructuring in the Faculty of Arts and...
thecrimson.com
How does one even recreate a pope’s mitre, let alone find a company to manufacture more than 40,000 of them?
The story behind the White Sox pope hat
chicagotribune.com
🏺 Obsessed with the face on this wooden hippo figure from Egypt, now at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. 📜 www.mbam.qc.ca/en/works/245...
