"Sometimes to create, one must first destroy." (264)
Overcast most of the day in advance of coming storms. Our high was 77F.
Happy 76th Birthday, Iggy Pop.
Basically, I allowed myself to call this a day off; I've earned one. I will go back to work tomorrow. The afternoon's film was Ridley Scott's Prometheus (2012).
There's a very good article at The Atlantic, It’s Okay to Like Good Art by Bad People. You should read it. The author's politics are a good bit left of my own, and I do not necessarily agree all the people discussed are "bad," but these observations are generally on the mark. I quote:
Some readers may object to the phrase cancel culture. The progressive impulse is to deny that the phenomenon exists or to declare that, if it does, it’s not as dangerous as the right-wing, anti-“woke” version-and anyway, the canceled rarely stay canceled. Allen’s 50th film is currently in production. An exhibit of Gauguin’s portraits, critiquing his use of his Tahitian models, opened in 2019. J. K. Rowling, reviled for comments critical of transgender-rights policies, still sells books, and a new Harry Potter-related video game is doing very well. But to say that an artist hasn’t been canceled because she hasn’t been destroyed is to miss the point. To cancel is to do enduring reputational harm. Tarnished names and impugned works have a way of staying tarnished and impugned.
Indeed.
Please have a look at the Dreaming Squid Sundries shop. Danke.
A package from Chris and Kat in Tampa arrived today, and inside was this very fine gift. There's an inscription inside: Miss Bessie H. Ely, Mansfield, Pa. December 25, 1891. So, I assume this was a Christmas present to Miss Ely, 132 years ago.
Later Tater Beans,
Aunt Beast
4:22 p.m.
Happy 76th Birthday, Iggy Pop.
Basically, I allowed myself to call this a day off; I've earned one. I will go back to work tomorrow. The afternoon's film was Ridley Scott's Prometheus (2012).
There's a very good article at The Atlantic, It’s Okay to Like Good Art by Bad People. You should read it. The author's politics are a good bit left of my own, and I do not necessarily agree all the people discussed are "bad," but these observations are generally on the mark. I quote:
Some readers may object to the phrase cancel culture. The progressive impulse is to deny that the phenomenon exists or to declare that, if it does, it’s not as dangerous as the right-wing, anti-“woke” version-and anyway, the canceled rarely stay canceled. Allen’s 50th film is currently in production. An exhibit of Gauguin’s portraits, critiquing his use of his Tahitian models, opened in 2019. J. K. Rowling, reviled for comments critical of transgender-rights policies, still sells books, and a new Harry Potter-related video game is doing very well. But to say that an artist hasn’t been canceled because she hasn’t been destroyed is to miss the point. To cancel is to do enduring reputational harm. Tarnished names and impugned works have a way of staying tarnished and impugned.
Indeed.
Please have a look at the Dreaming Squid Sundries shop. Danke.
A package from Chris and Kat in Tampa arrived today, and inside was this very fine gift. There's an inscription inside: Miss Bessie H. Ely, Mansfield, Pa. December 25, 1891. So, I assume this was a Christmas present to Miss Ely, 132 years ago.
Later Tater Beans,
Aunt Beast
4:22 p.m.