Peter Huestis
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"Well-groomed" –Washingtonian Magazine
A lot of Chinese professionals still use extremely fake first names when contacting foreign institutions, and it's always, like, "Betty" or "Timmy". Look, if your name is Ying Yue or Chun Hua, I'm not going to run screaming and refuse service. It always makes me feel kind of sad.
Restrictions around my workplace in the week leading up to the ridiculous road rally are going to be so obnoxious (no bags or purses allowed, for instance) that I decided to take the whole week off. 😐
The Sarah Silverman Program did something very similar to this, but they knew it was an extremely tasteless joke.
Caitlin Moran@mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social · 10h agoAmerica has never been more America. Cheerleaders recreate 9/11
Detail of a Bushmiller drawing. Ben-Day dot screens? Yes! Hand-drawn patterns? Also yes!
HUGE fan of Harry Tuthill's Bungle Family, an insane serialized story of the hapless family's endless scams and get-rich-quick schemes. Here, from my collection, are four drawings for stand-alone 1932 Sunday pages, one hand-colored by the artist. Look how clean and perfect! Look at the lettering!
Tom Heintjes@hogansalley.bsky.social · yesterdayTopper Tuesday (“Short Stories,” topper to “The Bungle Family”):
OK, catching up on Reflecting Pool Season II, @eggerdc.bsky.social said something very true and perfectly succinct: "The ominous side [of the story] is heightened by the ridiculous side."
I was hoping that Reflecting Pool Season 2 Episode 2 was going to drop today, but maybe they're still writing it? Alas!
The good news: ARS redesigned its website! The bad news: They removed the widget for searching for member artists and now there's no way to know who they represent! It's been like this for over a week, LOL.
Well, this is sad, but opening an admission-fee-dependent comic art museum in the most expensive city on the West Coast was never going to work. I've seen so many of these open and then close. www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/20...
Cartoon Art Museum Closes (for Now)
The Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco will close its Beach Street space tomorrow. The museum has opted not to renew its lease. A future location is still in question.From their announcement: We make...
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This from Doug Burgum makes it obvious that he continues to be the chief scriptwriter for the vandalism storyline. He's the one who made the podcast rounds, pushed the story to reporters, and he must be the one who brought it to Trump. He should get lots of credit when awards season rolls around!
I just saw exactly this type of ad on YouTube: "Everybody knows that Ore-Ida invented Tater Tots™..."
Peter Huestis@peterhuestis.bsky.social · 2w agoThis sounds like one of those sad "Please don't use Kleenex/Band-Aid/Hoover/Frisbee as a generic term" ads they used to run in the back of Writer's Digest Magazine.
The making of Orgasm by Cromagnon, 1969: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL-g...
Orgasm - Cromagnon (1969) Full Album
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Stop Calling Me Frank@stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 5d agoYou have a month to write a 33 1/3 book about the album of your choice. Which record are you going to write about? (No previously covered albums allowed; new shit must come to light: see below.) (For all books in the series: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_1/3) (H/t @monostich.bsky.social
One fun paradox about Reflecting Pool Season 2 is that all the critics agree that supporting actor David Hearn is set to win big come awards season despite the fact that he was woefully miscast in the role!
Interior secretary Doug Burgum is one of the more comically mustache-twirling villains in the Reflecting Pool saga. Here he is blatantly, shamelessly lying to Katie Miller on July 7 when he definitely already knew all the facts about the botched restoration and the obvious lack of vandalism:
OMG, they just renewed Reflecting Pool for a second season. This is going to be so great!
Ooh, the Gardner Heist is a good one, but to keep it on an art theme, I'd say the location of the missing panel from the Ghent Altarpiece OR Leonardo's Leda and the Swan.
G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · 6d agoWhat's your personal great white whale of an unsolved mystery? The thing you desperately hope is solved before you die because you need to know the answer? Mine is the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum heist. Where the hell are the Rembrandts. I need the full story
You just KNOW they were dying to get Catcher in the Rye and the Salinger estate was, like, "Fuck off."
gregorg@greg.org · 6d agothere are 12 titles in the Jonathan Anderson Dream Library, and their cover designs are adapted across 94 separate Dior products with varying degrees of frisson, elan, and wtf greg.org/archive/2026...
You have to admire Aunt Fritzi's dedication to wearing heels.
NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER@nancycomics.bsky.social · 6d agoNancy By Ernie Bushmiller July 30,1945
It's National Lipstick Day! Etching and engraving by Laura Knight, 1925:
The Holy Trinity of 80s New Wave Dance Pop Remix Stopgap Albums!
OMG, Bari Weiss thinks Ross Douthat is going to be the new Andy Rooney.
Lisa Needham@snipy.bsky.social · last wk.What does Ross Douthat, an opinion columnist, bring to 60 Minutes?
RIP Betye Saar. What I love about her work, other than the obvious sociopolitical issues with which it deals, is the sense of mystery and the macabre. Her work is seldom simply didactic; it is elusive and difficult. Dat Ol' Black Magic, paper and plastic collage on printed cotton fabric, 1981:
It's Buffalo Soldiers Day! Soldiers Training, oil on plywood by William H. Johnson, 1942:
I have both of these albums and just listened to them, and though their quality is undeniable, so too is their pukeyness and vile corruption. Like, if you want to know why punk and new wave sprung up everywhere in the US, just listen to Rumors and The Eagles' Hotel California. That mushy sound!
It's Bagpipe Appreciation Day, and the best way to appreciate them is not to listen to them, obviously, but to look at them in Old Master prints! Here's one by Albrecht Dürer, 1514:
