June 2021

Before the farmers arrive

Clowns insert themselves into open spaces in the shopping arcade. Crowds line up, as do small black flying things, to interact with them, as...

Four Things I Learned at The Field Museum

Here's a confession. Despite having lived in Manhattan for almost 15 years, I've never stepped foot in the American Museum of Natura...

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Genshin Impact: Kazuha story quest release date, time, & leaks revealed · Antarctic lake disappears after ice shelf fractures · a 2023 d...

The horticulture of melancholy

Derrida himself had an answer to the sudden space revealed by such a loss. According to next- best alternative consid- erations, he said, th...

Det sjunde inseglet

The passenger train that runs from the bottom of the state to the top goes by an hour late. Yesterday evening, I covered the almost ripe bun...

A line from Randy Newman

There is no single hack: but a blend of non-chill filtered rye & a strange breed of fire- ball, followed by public adher- ence to a numb...

An instinctive desire for authenticity

As in. Acacia. As in. Said, at random. We depend upon sub- sequent histories of this period to provide us with the ability to become involve...

geographies: Ararat

a note on mosquitoes

Only the female sucks the blood. The male feeds on plant juices.

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Crayfish take more risks while on antidepressants, study shows · physicists bring human-scale object to near standstill, reaching a quantum ...

You Can Go Home Again

Dad and Mom -- November 30, 1957 You probably won't be surprised to learn that Kansas wasn't actually an art destination for me. Whi...

The Downhill Raceway

Sculpture at Wichita State University

"Shockers" by Tom Otterness (2019) The NCAA Basketball Tournament is an event I look forward to every year. Given my Kansas roots,...

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Man looking for shark teeth in a Florida river survives an alligator bite to his head · no, DoNuts T.®ump didn’t wear his pants backwards · ...

geographies: Parachilna

Oh / the things / that one finds!

This poem was written nearly sixty years ago. No idea who made this video, which is recent, know nothing about it. The poem has appeared in ...

Inside the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Chance Encounter   by George Segal (1989) I was still in a sculpture frame of mind when I entered the Nelson-Atkins Museum proper. I headed ...

Varnishing Point

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Clever maker with hand tremors turned a smartphone gimbal into a soldering iron stabilizer · China watches on as a herd of elephants wanders...

Exploring the Nelson-Atkins' Sculpture Park

With Shuttlecock  by Claes Oldenburg and Coosie van Bruggen (1994) My first post-vaccination air travel found me heading to Kansas, the plac...

geographies: Little Topar

A Pope Porked

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People in the US state of Texas will soon be allowed to carry handguns without a licence · Greenland's melting ice sheet is unleashing a...