Monday, March 23, 2026

Prince Buster's Ghost Dance ... in draft

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i didn't properly know what Ghost Dance was about, yet i've loved the delicate musicality of this track for DECADES ... so I looked ...
Saturday, March 21, 2026

MICHELANGELO'S MARBLE CARVING OF THE JEWISH HERO DAVID

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  The Wikipedia article gives a detailed account of the circumstances surrounding the original commission, and then what is known of the wor...
Friday, March 20, 2026

THE VERNAL EQUINOX ... the time in Tenby will be 1446 when the sun is crossing the equator from

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This morning, I asked ChatGPT about the Vernal Equinox ... The star charts are from Jamieson's celestial atlas of 1822 https://archive.o...
Tuesday, March 17, 2026

KUNG FU HUSTLE ... directed by Stephen Chow

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Fu_Hustle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Chow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixeHttmdsZY
Thursday, March 5, 2026

Rubens' re-invention of Saint Jerome

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  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome just about every painter in the history of christian art depicts jerome as an emaciated and sad-faced...
Wednesday, February 25, 2026

robert rauschenberg ... worked big ... his art was already familiar and almost commonplace when i was a teenager, yet i never engaged with it ... maybe i was put off because it seemed so messy & chaotic ... so i'm taking a few minutes to look again !

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rauschenberg https://www.rauschenbergfoundation.org/art/artwork/estate and you can find MARY LYNN KOTZ...
Tuesday, February 17, 2026

white witches ... i was looking at these china welsh women who were almost certainly a Victorian era import from germany ... and i wondered about why they were white ... so i asked ChatGPT an indirect question

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i asked them ... do white witches occur in germanic mythology or folklore ?   You said: do white witches get mentioned in Germanic mythology...