Juste parce que? Mais oui… elle (@antara) me manques and it hasn’t even been a week.
Category: Freedom of the Press
Killing time… second by second.
I think I want to buy a lottery ticket just so I can run this exercise myself —
an evening’s entertainment, to be sure.
https://crookedtimber.org/2024/05/06/run-bezos-run/
Run, Jeff, run.
(Here’s a photo to distract you while you’re counting your hundreds)
Not Unprecedented
…and ultimately, not “presidented”.
Rishi might want to reconsider his choice of imagery, what with elections looming. It didn’t work for Michael Dukakis.
Bold move there, Mike.
Badass RISH! At least he didn’t wear a helmet.
© June/July 1950
Henceforth, any and all my creative endeavors shall be considered copyright and created as of June-July, 1950. Why? Because I was born the first week of April, 1951. And I’m in such great company in maintaining this stance:
“Dates attributed to artworks are widely understood to refer to the year they were completed. However, in response to questions from the Guardian, Hirst’s company Science Ltd said the date that the artist assigns to his formaldehyde works does not represent the date they were made.
It said: “Formaldehyde works are conceptual artworks and the date Damien Hirst assigns to them is the date of the conception of the work. He has been clear over the years when asked what is important in conceptual art; it is not the physical making of the object or the renewal of its parts, but rather the intention and the idea behind the artwork.”[emphasis mine].”
Apparently, the important thing to remember in making art (or music or any other creative endeavor is the date of conception, so June/July 1950 it is.
The Hirst story has some legs; press continues to be given in the Guardian the past few days with more details about this. “Damien Hirst shark that sold for about $8m is fourth 2017 work dated to 1990s” reads the headline in the latest article on, what feels to me at a minimum of being disingenous, if not dishonest.
Oh, wait. Would that make a person a “fabulist?” It’s enough to make you stop making art/music and take up teaching English…
Copyright ©June/July 1950 by Dennis “He Started This, Not Me” Moser
“… my head in the cool, cool North[West].”
Or: “The Pacific Northwest/Olympic Peninsula Anarchist Foundations on Frank Herbert Jr,’s “Dune” Series”
I simply had no idea, but I do love the neighborhood.
https://thetransmetropolitanreview.wordpress.com/2024/03/21/an-anarchists-guide-to-dune/
I’ve not seen the latest two films, just the David Lynch version. Despite the changes that Lynch made to get the film done I still enjoyed it. I’ll have to see if I can figure out how to see the newest two.
The linked article is long, as is all of the Dune series, so pace yourself.
One of THOSE days…
You know, the kind that end in “-day”.
https://youtu.be/fobdPu10DAI?si=Flm4GT1MPerMOGhL
Friday, 8 March 2024
International Women’s Day, 2024.
Guillotière Gabriel Péri, Lyon, La belle France.
“I might be movin’ to Montana soon… “
Well, no… not me PERSONALLY, but this WordPress blog might be moving elsewhere. The greed that is driving the mass move to allow sites to be grazed for training needs to stop.
If the move happens, I’m hoping to make it seamless such that you, Dear Reader, will never see difference. My Tumblr site will probably disappear, as well.
TODAY’S Theme Song, courtesy of Mr. Zappa and The Mothers of Invention —
(True story: I was fortunate to see him and the group — the second time I’ve been lucky to see them, both times in Texas — perform this tune at the Armadillo World Headquarters. Years after the event, my older brother, who was working in radio at the time, sent me a copy of the album that had been recorded of said performance not knowing I had been there when they recorded it)
https://youtu.be/DO_bKdRqkuQ?si=DfPEcE8uLUrcZkjk
Consider this a heads-up… I’ll post more definite details over here and here:
https://dennismoser.fr/index.html
or
https://dennis-moser.eu/
In any case, you’ll know when it happens. Let’s roll!
Ten years on…
… and nothing to show for it.
The question “Why?” is almost meaningless, given the deep dysfunction that continues to emerge and manifest in Royaume-Uni. Can’t even blame Brexit for this.
I know I complain a lot to, and with, my German students about the level of digitization in Germany and draw comparisons to France and the US, but there is no way I would ever hold up the UK as an example of “how to get it done.” I can understand and appreciate the differences I find in the US, France, and Germany, but I repeatedly find myself wondering just what the heck is the problem with the UK.
Details about this rant here:
“Millions wasted on attempt to create nationwide UK library website…“
Meanwhile, here’s some fresh digitizing for you. Fresh from le Peuple Foy et le Passage St. Catherine, voila!
To speak freely…
“We do not protest the war on Gaza because we have an abstract right to do so; we protest it because it is one of the great moral atrocities of our lifetimes and because the widespread refusal to admit this in America is an atrocity in its own right. We are not just speaking; we are fighting with words. And we are fighting to win.” ~~ Andrea Long Chu
[emphasis mine]
"At Half Past France... " 
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