Monthly Archives: September 2019

700th Post!

I made it to 700 posts! Here is Artists’ Brook, North Conway, New Hampshire by Samuel Lancaster Gerry. Here is Havana by Camila Cabello.   This is the Campo Santo in Venice by J. M. W. Turner. This is Royals … Continue reading

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Seated Guanyin, China

These figures are massive.  They are basically life size.  Sadly the resolution on the image isn’t great.  But that just means you’ll need to come to Cleveland to see it in person.

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90’s Songs: An Introduction

OK, last month I posted You Gotta Be by Des’Ree.  I talked about how Captain Marvel made me feel a lot of nostalgia for the 90’s, especially for the music.  Now, I didn’t feel nostalgia for all the music in … Continue reading

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Unemployment, ie What I Did Not Write About: Having Nowhere to Go

I saw the play Sweat last year, and it was amazing.  It’s a slow burn, but when it burns, it’s an inferno.  But one line that really struck me was when one of the characters on strike talks about waking … Continue reading

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Beethoven Piano Sonata 2 in A Major

The pianist is Daniel Barenboim. According to one of the comments on this video, by the time Beethoven wrote his sonatas, the professional pianist was much more of a thing than it was in Mozart’s day, and this helps to … Continue reading

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Chalice at Cleveland Museum of Art

I don’t know who made this or when.  The church that owned it probably didn’t know either.

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