the new emotional blackmailer's handbook

Saturday, August 10, 2024

A VIRTUAL PUB SCRAPBOOK ... from the archives ...

... to be continued ...

Wednesday, August 7, 2024

who couldn't love a pea pod carved from box wood in around 1500 and illustrating several scenes from the book of genesis ? ( rhetorical question )

https://recherche.smb.museum/detail/2031737/betnuss-in-gestalt-einer-schote-mit-f%C3%BCnf-erbsen?language=de&question=Buchsbaum+Erbsenschote&limit=15&sort=relevance&controls=attachments&collectionKey=KGM*&objIdx=0

Monday, August 5, 2024

here's a post i made for THE VIRTUAL PUB that was refused by facebook a few days ago ...

Thursday, July 18, 2024

GEORGIA O'KEEFFE ... WITH TWO EFFS ...

Georgia O'Keeffe - Wikipedia

Georgia O’Keeffe My Front Yard Summer – Art Blart _ art and cultural memory archive

... to be continued ...

Wednesday, July 17, 2024

a bit of patrick caulfield, for old times' sake ...

Wednesday, July 3, 2024

alfred stevens and botticelli and bronzino ...

Friday, June 28, 2024

Holbein's startling painting of the dead Christ discussed by some anatomists ...

Religions | Free Full-Text | Anatomical Analysis of Holbein’s Dead Christ in the Tomb and Corresponding Theological Commentary (mdpi.com)

Thursday, June 27, 2024

MOLE

ANDREW YOUNG ... A Dead Mole

Strong-shouldered mole,

That so much lived below the ground,

Dug, fought and loved, hunted and fed,

For you to raise a mound

Was as for us to make a hole;

What wonder now that being dead

Your body lies here stout and square

Buried within the blue vault of the air?

All but blind
        In his chambered hole
     Gropes for worms
        The four-clawed Mole.

     All but blind
        In the evening sky
     The hooded Bat
        Twirls softly by.

     All but blind
        In the burning day
     The Barn-Owl blunders
        On her way.

     And blind as are
        These three to me,
     So, blind to Some-one
        I must be.