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Housekeeping note:

So yeah, I attempted to migrate to mas.to early on and almost immediately tried to roll it back. Turns out you can KIND OF do that, but 1) your followers don't roll back with you automatically, and 2) there's a 30 day cool-down period before they let you try again.

That period is over, and this time I'm going over for keeps. My contribution to load balancing. If things go to plan, you won't see a difference, so back in a bit...

My Wednesday #music: Thinking about Tom and Dick Smothers today. As an Xer, they were a part of the Johnny Carson talk show ecosystem when I was growing up, and it's interesting to see that they're still touring into their 80s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LEfWjHCPVY

#SmothersBrothers #FolkMusic #Comedy #1960s

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Scan of the original Peanuts strip from 11/30/1953

#thisdayinhistory #Peanuts #Snoopy #CharlesSchulz #comics #comicart

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Today’s poem is called ‘There’s a Supermarket Where Once the Library Stood’.

There’s a Supermarket Where Once the Library Stood

There’s a supermarket where once the library stood.
I sometimes forget that it’s now gone for good.
I asked them last week if they had any Flaubert.
A blank look, then a shrug: ‘The cheese counter’s there.’

There’s a supermarket where once the library had been.
I’ve been reading the Dahl in ‘Indian cuisine’.
No golden tickets, giants, or witches, of course;
just chickpeas and lentils in a creamy spiced sauce.

There’s a supermarket where once the library was.
I went in to return an old Grapes of Wrath.
‘Not a chance,’ I was told. It was ‘simply too late …
they’ll be shrivelled and past their best-before-date.’

There are supermarkets where once the libraries stood;
they bulldoze their way into new neighbourhoods.
Austerity diets in towns starved of progress.
Take books off the menu and live well for less.

Brian Bilston

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An old RCA radio console in the abandoned WFBR Radio Station in Baltimore
Gallery: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/wfbr-radio
#abandoned #art #photography #history #radio

A large half-circle shaped radio console covered with gages and wires in a darkened booth

@dtgeek UFC definitely was definitely up and running in the 90s. John McCain was the highest ranking official in the first wave of opposition to it.

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The view from NASA's Artemis mission yesterday is just...words fail me.

HT @JPMajor@twitter.com and the brilliant engineers & scientists who made this happen.

#NASA #Artemis #space

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Reminder that the best way to see images in Mastodon is to go into your preferences and unclick the 16x9 cropping in post layout.

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Spent too much of my life not knowing this Paul McCartney disco song existed. The bass line, the vocoders, the flamenco guitar solo... this song has everything!

https://youtu.be/tbKjMVcB7No

#music

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Discover how newspaper strips celebrated #Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz on his 100th birthday. #Schulz100 https://www.howtolovecomics.com/2022/11/26/schulz-100-tributes/

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@TheRealBozoTClown@mstdn.social @MissingThePt The most expensive mod hammer in human history.

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#OnThisDay, 28 Nov 1967, PhD student Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers the existence of pulsars.

Not included in the 1974 Nobel prize for the discovery, Bell received a £3m prize for her work in 2018. She's using it to set up a foundation to improve diversity in STEM.

#WomenInSTEM #Histodons #ScienceHistory

Jocelyn Bell Burnell in the 1960s, in front of a radio telescope

Monday #MorningMusic:
This song is about bears. But not really, because bears are a weird metaphor about making longer days for young lovers, because...bears make the earth rotate? Okay, if you say so...

Even weirder is that it's a twist number in a society where the official culture blocked rock 'n' roll at the door. A lot of interesting choices in this one.

A Song About Bears (Песенка про медведей) - #AidaVedishcheva (#АидаВедищева)

https://youtu.be/m8zNSkerPi4

#SovietPop #music #1960s

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Please enjoy this AI-generated portrayal of Krampus and Santa Claus in a passionate, manly embrace. This is the energy we need to carry us into the holidays.

Krampus has horns! Santa has a beard! They both are secure in their masculinity!

RT @BarnaclePress@twitter.com
What ME worry?

Winsor McCay, I Should Worry!
November 27, 1912

https://twitter.com/BarnaclePress/status/1597054120027820032

#BarnaclePress #WinsorMcCay #ComicStrips #1910s

1. A man in black clothes and a top hat is roaming through thistly scrubland with a large bundle labeled "WORRY" in capital letters under one arm. His face is long and wan.

"I declare! Life is a barren waste of thistles! I believe I'll go drown my sorrows!"

2. He enters a well-stocked saloon tended by a mustachioed barkeep. His back is to us, but his body language is apprehensive.

"Say, boss! give me a good big hooker of third rail, will you?"

3. He is outside again, practically giddy. Whatever he ordered did the trick, as the WORRY bundle is small enough to balance on one hand. Everything around him is suddenly in bloom

"Ha! Now look how little my troubles look. I'm so happy!"

4. More of the same background, but now with birds and butterflies. The bundle is as small as a cigarette.

"This bundle has dwindled away to almost nothing! Now you see it...and..."

5.All the flowers are as high as an elephant's eye, and the man is absolutely giddy. The hand with the WORRY is holding empty air, as if he's pitched his tiny burden into the sky. He grins at us.

"Now you don't! It's gone! Vammoosed into thing air! Ha! Ha!!!!!"

6. A giant WORRY three times as big as him drops like a stone on his head. The background is all stones, dead trees and buzzards.

"Aw, shucks."

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A few #paintings I enjoyed from North Carolina Museum of #Art Exhibit -- A Modern Vision: European Masterworks from the Phillips Collection

Vincent van Gogh
Dutch, 1853-1890
The Road Menders
1889
Oil on canvas
The Phillips Collection, acquired 1949
Vincent van Gogh lived and worked with Paul Gauguin after his arrival at the Yellow House in Arles in October 1888; differences in their temperaments precluded a successful artistic collaboration. That month, van Gogh was admitted to a mental hospital
in Saint-Rémy. On excursions from the hospital in the fall and winter of 1889-90, van Gogh witnessed the repair of boulevard Mirabeau in Saint-Rémy, a subject that inspired this painting. On December 7,
1889, he wrote to his brother Theo, "The last study I have done is a view of the village, where they were
working under enormous plane trees repairing the pavement. So there are heaps of sand, stones and gigantic trunks-the leaves are yellowing." Almost a month later, he wrote that he had two versions
of the scene. This later, more finished example, was painted in the studio in December 1889.
Phillips purchased The Road Menders after having included it in a loan exhibition in the late 1940s and ranked it "among the best Van Goghs."

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas

French, 1834-1917

Dancers at the Barre

early 1880s-circa 1900

Oil on canvas

The Phillips Collection, acquired 1944

During the last years of his career, Degas's use of line became more expressive, and his colors grew more brilliant. In this painting, he captured dancers behind the scenes at a studio where he frequently sketched. The work is one of his last representations of a dancer with her leg

propped on the practice bar. Phillips affirmed, "In its monumentality it is unique among all his decorations celebrating the arabesques and occupational anatomy of ballet dancers." Recent conservation of the painting brought to light that Degas made studies of each individual dancer, clothed and nude, as well as several full-scale preparatory images of the two dancers

combined, revealing the artist's lifelong tendency to adjust his work. Through his numerous revisions and his use of a wide range of tools and techniques, including his fingers, Degas achieved a highly

deliberate composition that captures a great sense of movement. Close examination of the picture indicates that he moved the bar and the dancers' outstretched legs lower on the canvas

and repositioned the arms and the standing legs multiple times. Degas made little attempt to disguise his alterations, making his retakes known to the viewer.

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas

French, 1834-1917

Melancholy

late 1860s

Oil on canvas

The Phillips Collection, acquired 1941

Melancholy demonstrates Degas's tremendous talent for portraying the mood of his sitters. At this stage in his career, Degas was closely examining human nature through portraiture, and he may have intended to create a grouping of works that represented specific emotions. Here he produced a compact, balanced image that evokes quiet intimacy and emnity. Duncan Phillips acquired the canvas through a partial trade of pictures by Georges Rouault, Raoul Dufy, and Georges Braque. Phillips often displayed Melancholy with works that shared a similar intimate theme, like Pierre Bonnard's Woman with a Dog and Édouard Vuillard's The Newspaper.

Honoré Daumier

French, 1808-1879

The Uprising

1848 or later

Oil on canvas

The Phillips Collection, acquired 1925

Duncan Phillips was among the earliest American collectors to champion the art of Daumier. He referred to him in 1926 as one of the greatest artists of the nineteenth century and, by 1930, had assembled six paintings by Daumier. Phillips held The Uprising in highest esteem and referred to it as the greatest picture in the collection. Among the relatively few large-format paintings that Daumier produced, The Uprising may have been inspired by the Revolution of 1848, which saw the overthrow of Louis-Philippe's monarchy. Phillips called the central figure "the anonymous standard bearer of innumerable battles without name," and described the group as "the waves of self-rule … the epic movement in the history of freedom." On stylistic grounds, some scholars believe Daumier painted The Uprising in the second half of the 1850s and that another artist later retouched areas of the canvas. Phillips thought the painting expressed the spirit of Daumier. "An unfinished [work]," said Phillips, "cannot be left out nor underrated if the heart, the mind, and the hand of a great artist have been revealed." This painting held resonance for Phillips during the war years of the 1940s. The Phillips Collection owns seven canvases, three drawings, and several lithographs by Daumier.

Supplemental reading: The part of the #BillHaley story they usually leave out. Partially because the people who knew the story best weren't ready to tell it until recently.

#RockAndRoll
https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/falling-comet/

Sunday #Music:
The traditional rock history narrative stops telling the #BillHaley story after the Comets stop charting, which is a real shame, because he had some good music left in him. For instance, this 1967 session in Arizona of a country classic with a local bolero trio.

A million miles away from the teenage frenzy years of the 50s, but it's one of the best things he ever did...and it took decades to get a release.

#1960s #RockAndRoll

https://youtu.be/mPeBIREseyo

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