Dark Rothko
@schopenhegel.bsky.social
“In the kingdom of ends everything has either a cost or a dignity.” - Kant
Socialist. Husband, father, grandfather, world citizen.
Socialist. Husband, father, grandfather, world citizen.
Maybe drop in a little bit of Guildenstern further along in that scene if the conversation starts to flag.
“Good my lord, vouchsafe me a word with you.”
“Good my lord, vouchsafe me a word with you.”
November 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Maybe drop in a little bit of Guildenstern further along in that scene if the conversation starts to flag.
“Good my lord, vouchsafe me a word with you.”
“Good my lord, vouchsafe me a word with you.”
Keep this one going...
"Prithee play on, for if the king likes not the comedy methinks he likes it not perdee."
Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2
Great material here.
"Prithee play on, for if the king likes not the comedy methinks he likes it not perdee."
Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2
Great material here.
November 21, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Keep this one going...
"Prithee play on, for if the king likes not the comedy methinks he likes it not perdee."
Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2
Great material here.
"Prithee play on, for if the king likes not the comedy methinks he likes it not perdee."
Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2
Great material here.
Concur. Back, reluctantly, in the States after ten days in London visiting family. The rest of the world was also there sharing Central London with us and it was almighty fun. Been almost everywhere myself and London remains for me the world’s most vibrant city
November 21, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Concur. Back, reluctantly, in the States after ten days in London visiting family. The rest of the world was also there sharing Central London with us and it was almighty fun. Been almost everywhere myself and London remains for me the world’s most vibrant city
Did you manage to get a book blurb from Johanna Schopenhauer?
November 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Did you manage to get a book blurb from Johanna Schopenhauer?
That smile. It’s the Grinch telling Cindy Lou Who he is taking her family’s Christmas tree away to get its lights repaired. No disrespect to the Grinch.
November 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
That smile. It’s the Grinch telling Cindy Lou Who he is taking her family’s Christmas tree away to get its lights repaired. No disrespect to the Grinch.
Well, that’s depressing.
November 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Well, that’s depressing.
Not with these courtiers, Billy Shakes.
"No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp,
And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee
Where thrift may follow fawning."
"No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp,
And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee
Where thrift may follow fawning."
October 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Not with these courtiers, Billy Shakes.
"No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp,
And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee
Where thrift may follow fawning."
"No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp,
And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee
Where thrift may follow fawning."
The Mellon family ancestral cottage in Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It took many years before the Irish were fully assimilated into the white establishment in this country.
October 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The Mellon family ancestral cottage in Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It took many years before the Irish were fully assimilated into the white establishment in this country.
I did not realize how much I needed to hear this today from Little Stevie Winwood. I was 16 years old when the Blind Faith album came out, living in a place I despised. This song rescued me.
October 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I did not realize how much I needed to hear this today from Little Stevie Winwood. I was 16 years old when the Blind Faith album came out, living in a place I despised. This song rescued me.
Who you calling "desiccated?"
October 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Who you calling "desiccated?"
Not to be "that guy,'' but the Patti Smith version is a cover of the Them's original written by Van Morrison. I might go with the latter for the "authenticity." Oddly enough, Laura Branigan's (brilliant) "Gloria" is itself a cover of an Anglicized Italian love song.
October 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Not to be "that guy,'' but the Patti Smith version is a cover of the Them's original written by Van Morrison. I might go with the latter for the "authenticity." Oddly enough, Laura Branigan's (brilliant) "Gloria" is itself a cover of an Anglicized Italian love song.
...along with the leader of the Milice, Joseph Darnand, and Vichy's Prime Minister, Pierre Laval. Pétain's death sentence was commuted after the intervention by de Gaulle. Vive la France!
October 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
...along with the leader of the Milice, Joseph Darnand, and Vichy's Prime Minister, Pierre Laval. Pétain's death sentence was commuted after the intervention by de Gaulle. Vive la France!
I would love the answer to this question be Lancelot “Capability” Brown, rather in the spirit of “Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.”
October 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I would love the answer to this question be Lancelot “Capability” Brown, rather in the spirit of “Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.”
Thank you for this. The Phillips Collection here in Washington, DC did a major retrospective of her work in 2021 titled “Everything is Beautiful.” And it was…just exuberant canvases.
September 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Thank you for this. The Phillips Collection here in Washington, DC did a major retrospective of her work in 2021 titled “Everything is Beautiful.” And it was…just exuberant canvases.
This remains my favorite among O'Carolan's works. I passed the cemetery where he is buried last March on my way with my wife to a wedding in Drumshanbo. We spent a few nights at Kilronan Castle nearby. Leitrim and Roscommon were both pleasant surprises, as most of rural Irelalnd tends to be.
September 20, 2025 at 12:51 AM
This remains my favorite among O'Carolan's works. I passed the cemetery where he is buried last March on my way with my wife to a wedding in Drumshanbo. We spent a few nights at Kilronan Castle nearby. Leitrim and Roscommon were both pleasant surprises, as most of rural Irelalnd tends to be.
It is never not a good time to read/reread Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy.
September 11, 2025 at 5:20 PM
It is never not a good time to read/reread Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy.
More importantly, Mr. Gavin, where do you stand on the agenbite of inwit?
September 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
More importantly, Mr. Gavin, where do you stand on the agenbite of inwit?
Dunno man. With KU leading Penn State 14-7 late in the 1969 Orange Bowl, Pepper Rodgers passed on a sure field goal from the PSU 5 and gave the ball to John Riggins who got stuffed. It goes both ways. Penn State won 15-14. My daughter married a Penn State grad. I cannot look him in the eye.
September 7, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Dunno man. With KU leading Penn State 14-7 late in the 1969 Orange Bowl, Pepper Rodgers passed on a sure field goal from the PSU 5 and gave the ball to John Riggins who got stuffed. It goes both ways. Penn State won 15-14. My daughter married a Penn State grad. I cannot look him in the eye.
Only consolation -small though it may be - is that the Fightin’ Gundys are getting obliterated in Eugene 69-3.
September 6, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Only consolation -small though it may be - is that the Fightin’ Gundys are getting obliterated in Eugene 69-3.
There are indeed other more potent analogies out there. If one throws about the word "Caesarism" perhaps demonstrate that one has some familiarity of Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy. Or Paul Cartledge on Cleisthenes and Greek democracy. The parochialism of our pundit class is laughable.
September 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
There are indeed other more potent analogies out there. If one throws about the word "Caesarism" perhaps demonstrate that one has some familiarity of Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy. Or Paul Cartledge on Cleisthenes and Greek democracy. The parochialism of our pundit class is laughable.
August 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM