dreaminginthedeepsouth : Yuri Klapouh (Ukrainian,b.1963) :: Autumn Palette, All Colors of the Rainbow, Summer Sun Day., 2018 :: oil on canvas [ Guillaume Gris ] * * * * “…The orthodox presume to know, whereas the marginal person is trying to find out. …To accommodate the margin within the form, to allow the wilderness to thrive in domesticity, to accommodate diversity within unity – this graceful,…
* * * * I wake up like a stray dog belonging to no one. Cold, cold, and the rain. Friendships outgrown or ruined. […] Alone with the heart howling and refusing to let it feed on mere affection. Lying in the dark, singing about the intractable kinds of happiness. — Jack Gilbert, from “Between Aging and Old,” Collected Poems (Knopf, 2012) [Alive On All Channels]
LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN August 15, 2026 Heather Cox Richardson Aug 16, 2026 On Monday, August 10, Todd Blanche took the oath of office as attorney general, administered by federal appeals court judge Emil Bove, another of Trump’s defense lawyers before moving to the Department of Justice, where he was Blanche’s top deputy. In that capacity, CNN’s Hannah Rabinowitz recalled, he fired career…
dreaminginthedeepsouth : “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ― George Orwell , 1984
dreaminginthedeepsouth : stjohnsphot o :: @stjohnsphoto Burt Glinn #photography State senator Robert Francis Kennedy campaigning in a small town. Indiana, USA. 1968 * * * * You live through that little piece of time that is yours, but that piece of time is not only your own life, it is the summing-up of all the other lives that are simultaneous with yours… . What you are is an expression of…
dreaminginthedeepsouth : Guy Parsons :: @theparsonguy + “An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes.” -Sun Tzu
dreaminginthedeepsouth : “We create the world that we perceive, not because there is no reality outside our heads, but because we select and edit the reality we see to conform to our beliefs about what sort of world we live in. The man who believes that the resources of the world are infinite, for example, or that if something is good for you then the more of it the better, will not be able to see…
dreaminginthedeepsouth : Peter Brouwer * * * There’s too many men, too many people Making too many problems And not much love to go around Can’t you see this is a land of confusion? — Genesis, “Land of Confusion”
dreaminginthedeepsouth : The Court Jester starring Danny Kaye, Basil Rathbone, and the amazing Glynis Johns, and Angela Lansbury and it is all around a fun time. spotweld All kidding aside, watch Basil Rathbone’s foot work. He knows fencing, and sets up the form even though he’s still playing up the stage blows for Danny Kaye to flail at for comedic effect. theimpossiblescheme Okay, but I need to…
dreaminginthedeepsouth : Memphis Muse “What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.” –Simone Weil
dreaminginthedeepsouth : The Enigma (detail) by Gustave Doré, 1871 * * * * “Life is every bit as devious as Death. It too can wear a hooded coat. It too can slip into town, lurk in an alley, or wait in the back of a tavern.” ― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow
dreaminginthedeepsouth : Andy Borowitz · TEHRAN—In a surprise attack that has rattled the White House, on Friday the Iranian Air Force dropped unredacted copies of the Epstein files on the U.S. Standing in front of a banner reading, “OMISSION UNACCOMPLISHED,” Iran’s newly chosen Supreme Leader said that its aircraft dropped the files over most major media outlets in the U.S. but skipped CBS News.…
dreaminginthedeepsouth : shy fawkes :: @butterbooter memorized this short poem a few days ago and have been repeating it to myself a couple times a day
Gamla stan, 1931 * * * * The weight of the world / is love / Under the burden / of solitude, / under the burden / of dissatisfaction / the weight, / the weight we carry / is love ‘Song’, Allen Ginsberg [alive on all channels]
dreaminginthedeepsouth : Galactic Stoneworks :: @GalacticStones :: Shrine to the stars.. * * * * We were the world’s dead people, rotating and orbiting around and around, embedded in the planet’s crust, while the earth rolled down. Our minds were light-years distant, forgetful of almost everything. Only an extraordinary act of will could recall us to our former, living selves and our…
The Enshittification of Everything (Part 3) Shifting Power Back to Workers: We’ve Done it Before The way to end this vicious cycle is to reduce the huge accumulations of wealth that fuel it, and to get big money out of politics. But neither can can be accomplished when wealth and power are compounding at the top. It’s a chicken-and-egg dilemma. Yet such vicious cycles have been reversed before. In…
Glee Violette Who are “TREASONISTS” now? People who head agencies that want to preserve our national monuments. Is “treasonist” even a word? What the hell - Trump makes up everything else. Why not this? He ranted on Truth Social that “The National Trust for Historic Preservation” is “fake”. He says they committed treason for revealing in their lawsuit to stop…