Trefology

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[Trefology @trefology]

X marks the spot
where I buried
my xylophone

Y marks the spot
where I questioned
my reason for being

Z marks the spot
where I took a nap.

And XYZ marks the spot
where my friend told me
my zipper was down.

[Jim Wright @olbigjim]

How to read a map https://t.co/xC5Wv8Hp0v via @trefology

[Stereogum @stereogum]

Ahead of their headlining slot at Lollapalooza this weekend, the Smashing Pumpkins played a special show in Chicago yesterday — they were joined by Greg Brady actor Barry Williams and former bassist Melissa Auf der Maur. Flavor Flav was also there rocking out
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[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is one of the most famous paintings in America, and most people have no idea what they are actually looking at...

The painting is Christina's World, made by Andrew Wyeth in 1948, and the woman was real: her name was Anna Christina Olson, Wyeth's neighbour in Cushing, Maine. Since childhood a degenerative condition had slowly taken the strength from her legs, until walking was no longer possible. She refused a wheelchair, and for her entire adult life she chose to drag herself across the ground with her arms instead, going wherever she wanted to go under her own power.

Wyeth saw her one afternoon from an upstairs window, alone in that vast field, crawling slowly toward the house on the hill. He said the painting was an attempt to do justice to her extraordinary conquest of a life which most people would consider hopeless. Her world, he said, was limited physically but by no means spiritually.

That is what turns this painting from a portrait of frailty into one of the most triumphant images ever made...

Look at it long enough and it stops being about what her body took from her, and becomes about what she would not stop doing anyway. The field is enormous and she is small and the house is far away, and still she goes, because the alternative, to be carried, to give up, to let the distance win, was something she simply would not accept.

There is one more thing: Christina loved this painting. Pink was her favorite color, and Wyeth had placed her exactly where she most wanted to be, out in the open, in her own field, under her own sky. Late in her life, when she could no longer even crawl out to that field, she said something that holds the whole meaning of art inside it:

"Andy put me where he knew I wanted to be. Now that I can’t be there anymore, all I do is think of that picture, and I’m there."

[Trefology @trefology]

Too bad. Phenomenal series. The ending was so brilliant that, in a way, it already gave the series a perfect ending.

‘Wonder Man’ Canceled After 1 Season At Disney+ https://t.co/dgV9eEtopK via @Deadline

[Charlie Brown Fan Account @Peanuts_4Fans]

The perfect title! #Peanuts

[🇬🇧📺 Classic British TV 📺🇬🇧 @Classicbritcom]

58 years ago today on July 30th 1968, Thames Television began broadcasting! Sadly Thames Television lost its franchise in 1992, A Sad day for British Television 😢

[Makel @Makel_art]

Tempête de neige
J.M. William Turner - 1842

[The Woody Allen Fan @WoodyAllenFan]

Woody of the day continues... #18. #WoodyAllen #WoodyOfTheDay

[Fascinating History @Fascinate_Hist]

Art Deco gave us bathrooms that looked like dance halls.

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

— T.S. Eliot

[Alexandre Blaineau @AlBlaineau]

Vincent Van Gogh est mort le 29 juillet 1890. Il repose au cimetière d’Auvers-sur-Oise, à côté de son frère Théo

[Mordecai @MenschOhneMusil]

Peter Thomson - Morning.

[Cʜʀɪs Sᴛᴇɪɴ @chrissteinplays]

If you have to remake something do this ffs

[Nick Chappell @NickChaps96]

Here’s a clip of Roy E. Disney in 2007 talking about the death of his uncle Walt, and how his dad (Roy O. Disney) continued on with building Walt Disney World and the toll it took on him.

This is really interesting and worth the watch.

[Trefology @trefology]

I saw Paul in concert about two years ago, and it was one of the best live shows I've ever attended. How many concerts begin with a story about hanging out with Buddy Holly? Happy Birthday, Paul!

[Paul Anka @paulanka]

It's my birthday! Happy birthday to me!

[Enchanted Booklet @dreamerbook]

"The Forest Woman" (Die Waldfrau) ), 1901 – Otto Modersohn.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A photographer captured a family of owls and accidentally ended up with the perfect cover for a music album.

[Hollywood Golden Age of Cinema @HGACinema]

“A Star Is Bored” is a 1956 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon, directed by Friz Freleng. The short was released on September 15, 1956, and stars Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. The cartoon expands upon the rivalry depicted between Bugs and Daffy, in such films as Chuck Jones' 1951 short “Rabbit Fire”, this time placing the action in a show-biz setting. In this 5-minute short, Daffy must double for Bugs in any slapstick that Warner Bros. deems too dangerous for its top star. After each disaster, Daffy shouts “MAKEUP!”. The director directing the scenes has an Erich Von Stroheim accent.

This is one of the only four Warner Bros. shorts (the others being “This Is a Life?”, “Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers”, and “[Blooper] Bunny)” in which Bugs is paired with each of his three main antagonists (Daffy, Elmer Fudd, and Yosemite Sam).

The title is a play on the film A Star Is Born.

Cast

• Mel Blanc as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, Director (voice)
• Arthur Q. Bryan as Elmer Fudd (voice) (uncredited)
• June Foray as Lolly (voice) (uncredited)

[Nurses Against Dick Pics. 🪷🇺🇦 @ClaudetteGGibs1]

What pisses me off the most about this revisionist history about Covid is that these muthafuckers forget how hard medical workers worked to save lives. Fuck Rand Paul and the whole GOP 😤

[Trefology @trefology]

@berniemoreno Little man.

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“Your death will come on an ordinary day, in the middle of unfinished plans, and the world will continue without you.”