But unfortunately, her besetting sin is sloth. Either that, or she’s a Platonist. The Platonic House! Cleaner than any house could ever be in reality! Meanwhile, the cave is set to receive more out-of-town company today . . . Jody’s brush posts remind me that we have here, at this blog, . . . . Continue Reading »
The New York Times’ obituary for the 27-year-old artist Dash Snow: Mr. Walls distinguished Mr. Snow from working-class addicts like William S. Burroughs, Herbert Huncke—and himself. “It was like his money never ran out,” Mr. Walls said. “When it came to doing drugs, he . . . . Continue Reading »
A.C. Grayling reviews Alison Gopnik’s The Philosophical Baby: What Children’s Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love and the Meaning of Life : In the days when Jean Piaget and Sigmund Freud dominated thinking about child development, small children were thought to be irrational, . . . . Continue Reading »
From the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, a nice silver rosary:Not show-stopping, but simple and clean, made by Vezzosi . . . . Continue Reading »
A famous line out of Gone with the Wind is, “I don’t know nothin’ about birthin’ babies!” And that was when babies were just brought by the stork, which is to say, when they only resulted from a couple’s love or the expression of a more primal human urge.But . . . . Continue Reading »
Good for President Obama. In the aftermath of his foolish, off the cuff remarks about the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the President took some advice from police sergeant James Crowley and invited the duo to the White House for beers and a chat. Gates is still clinging to a false reading of . . . . Continue Reading »
A vaccine has been found that is 100 percent effective in preventing malaria in mice. From the story:A new malaria vaccine has been shown to provide 100% protection in mice. If it can approach that level in people, it could slash the toll from one of the world’s worst scourges, according . . . . Continue Reading »
In noting the Fredrikson Stallard Brush #1, I somehow missed the Fredrikson Stallard Brush #2—a clothes-brush, to match the #1 scrub-brush:Ah, me. Fredrikson-Stallard seems to be not a real household-goods company but a would-be hipster design house, which explains something. Or . . . . Continue Reading »
Rome’s Pantheon, the only great structure of antiquity to survive intact, also is the Basilica of St. Maria ad Martires, in whose walls are interred the Savoy unifier of Italy Victorio Emanuele II and his son Umberto I. It is noon on Sunday, and perhaps a thousand tourists are gathered at . . . . Continue Reading »
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