Plaque with swallow (Late Period - Hellenistic Period (400-30 BCE)) Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy
Plaque with swallow (Late Period - Hellenistic Period (400-30 BCE))
Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy
As a professor of it, I once had to describe — in a single sentence — where authority originates in journalism.
Goes like this:
"I'm there, you're not, let me tell you about it."
In times of war it applies most www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7e3...
I elaborated here: pressthink.org/2012/03/im-t... 1/2
Rock carvings from Foum Chenna, Morocco. Prehistoric engravings showing cattle and other animals in the Draa Valley, evidence that this area was once much greener and inhabited by pastoral communities thousands of years ago.
#Morocco #RockArt #Prehistory #Archaeology #FoumChenna #Sahara #Petroglyphs
Apropos of nothing, wouldn’t you all agree that many job titles could be improved substantially by taking a few pages from history?
Like mine:
“Senior researcher” - 🥱
”By grace of God, Senior researcher” - 😎
From a very productive time when I took every opportunity to paint directly from the subject, usually putting my bike on its stand and resting my drawing board on the handlebars. Magdalene bridge is crossing the river, punts are for hire and it wouldn't be complete without some ducks are happily swimming around.
One of my Cambridge on-the-spot watercolour drawings from nearly 30 years ago. This was done from the riverside board walk that leads to Quayside. I don't sketch in town any more - too crowded plus lack of stamina!
#watercolour #watercolor #Cambridge #enpleinair
Black cat sleeping on side
Trismegistus is too old for action photos. #caturday
Healthy shamrock shake
Watercolour drawing of Green Street, Cambridge with the figure of a young woman in a green dress striding along and a few lightly-sketched bicycles.
I have produced quite a few paintings and drawings of Green Street in Cambridge over the years. Here's a watercolour and ink sketch showing the western end as it goes into Trinity Street. Not sure if I still have this one.
#Cambridge #watercolour #streetscene
Pyramidion of the royal scribe Ramose (Deir el-Medina, New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, reign of Ramesses II (1275-1240 BCE)) Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy
Pyramidion of the royal scribe Ramose (Deir el-Medina, New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, reign of Ramesses II (1275-1240 BCE))
Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy
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More of yesterday’s coyotes. Bonus red winged blackbird tweets in the background.
My silly stinker senior cat, Zeke
my sweet baboo is a few days shy of 16. still stinky, kinda dim, and super snugly. 💕
Every anti-vaxxer I encounter seems to love weird unregulated supplements. They hate Big Pharma but they love Little Pharma, Big Pharma’s younger sibling who grew up without any adult supervision.
Covered Bridge #Photography
My plein air watercolour from 30 years ago showing the ice cream kiosk on Jesus Green, Cambridge
This view across the River Cam by the lock gates hasn't changed much since I painted this watercolour on the spot 30 years ago. I later produced a small oil using this as a sketch and I posted that on here recently.
#watercolour #Cambridge #JesusGreen #icecreamkiosk
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The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close!
New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...
Very true, thank you!
To those of you who have read and enjoyed any of my three books, the reason they wound up in your hands is that in 2004, Ann Godoff, the editing and publishing giant who founded Penguin Press, took a chance on me. She died yesterday at 76. I owe her more than I can say. She changed my life. >
Another great online event, coming up sooner: Siân Echard, “One sober tint”: Facsimiles of Illuminated Manuscripts and the Problem of Color."
Online and free, March 13th! Register at the link.
www.library.upenn.edu/events/schoe...
Close up of the face of a green gecko with orange stripes and a beautiful ring of blue around its eye. Against a bamboo tree.
This dapper Gold Dust Day Gecko called dibs on the bamboo tree before I got there.
#herps #smallwonders #nature #lizards #Maui #photography #eastcoastkin #love #nokings
Whose footprints are in the snow?
Taylor Driggers gives a very discerning assessment of my essay in reviewing the Reid/Vaccaro/Yandell Queer Tolkien anthology in Journal of Tolkien Research. Here is the entire review scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftolki…
I think there is about 30 times more academic work on Bob Dylan than on Dylan Thomas. It’s interesting as obviously Thomas was once considered the more literary figure..
Happy Twin Peaks day to all who celebrate!
For #Lynch and #TwinPeaks fans this starting pack of Academics obssesed with Twin Peaks created by @joshshepperd.bsky.social is a must to explore!
go.bsky.app/HsVGGTE
I’m calling it. Literary studies is the best because we do everything. Often badly, yes, but we do it or value it or use it. Always already interdisciplinary. I am not taking questions.
I’ve lost track of how many times GD Speaker of Parliament Shalva Papuashvili met his Turkmen colleague, in addition to various Georgia-Turkmenistan visits.
Can anyone with adequate resources dive into this please?
thedylanreview.org/wp-content/u... new issue of the Dylan Review, my article (a review of Robert Reginio) is on page 34.
The whole last decade has been the wildest Coen Brothers movie ever
A tree down in a snowstorm.
A snowy woods behind a fence. A snow-covered field is in the foreground.
Stay safe, friends. The blizzard currently slamming NJ is as intense as any I’ve ever been through. 3-4” of snow per hour and no signs of letting up any time soon.
Bright side: A tree came down in our front paddock but somehow didn’t damage the fence! 😀
#newjersey #weather #blizzard #snowstorm
