It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!

The current state of America (‘s drive-in)

Today’s method of coping with (waving hand to indicate all of everything) was to make this tribute to David Lynch featuring prairie dogs.

Old Rip the horny toad survived 31 years sealed up in the cornerstone of the Eastland County, TX courthouse. He died of pneumonia after being freed. Years later, John Connolly picked him up and broke off one of his legs. He can now be viewed 24/7 in the courthouse window.

Echos on a rainy Wednesday morning.

“A work of art tends to speak of things that are at once too large and too intimate to be summed up, and they speak of them by not speaking at all.” Patrick Bringley, All The Beauty in the World

Ilya Repin
Portrait of Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin
1884

Samurai scene from the Met: The cuff on the sleeve is a pen and ink holder.

At a market yesterday, a dad asked his young daughter, “Which one is Edgar Allan Poe?” She picked the one on the right.

Christmas 1959 - rice and jello, together at last!