I sometimes include a few snippets of commentary on the paintings I feature here, but I don't think I need to say much about this well-known piece by the otherwise little known painter, August Friedrich Albert Schenck (1828 - 1901).

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Yesterday's post "Turn around, bright eyes" included this photo of an empty oil pastel box:

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First, I failed to note earlier that the brand name is Potato Cat in English, 土豆貓 in Chinese. In "Same aloo gobi (actually different aloo gobi every time)," I noted that aloo (Hindi for "potato") was ...

In "There again! There she blows right ahead, boys! -- lay back!" I discuss the synchronicity of attending a particular church twice in a two-month period and being treated to sermons on the Book of Jonah both times.

Today -- nine days after the second Jonah sermon -- I found that the preschool had just ordered a new ...

Yesterday I spontaneously thought of the scene in Idiocracy where Dr. Lexus, after diagnosing Joe ("You talk like a fag, and your shit's all retarded"), offers his prescription:

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After searching out that clip -- I just wanted that clip, not the larger scene of which it is a part -- I thought I'd ...

The Alt Media is abuzz about some "files" that have supposedly been released by the Establishment that "prove" the Establishment actively serves the agenda of purposive demonic evil.

And that the Western-Globalist Establishment leadership class are, personally, extremely corrupt.

Let's be clear. Files, and ...

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Sara Mapelli of Oregon meditating in her "bee blouse"

I'm currently rereading Daymon Smith's Words of the Faithful. One of the main characters, Izilba, is introduced as someone who used to "drape herself naked in a cloak of honey bees." This rather extraordinary behavior of hers is mentioned just ...

Her eyes, and a single glance seduces,Are merry and bright like an octopus's.-- Unto Deep

In "Gone with the wind from the house of leaves," I recounted seeing the name Marcellus while looking for something else in Book VI of the Aeneid. In an added note, I mentioned a book I saw someone reading later that day in a ...

EDIT: i was an idiot and forgot to add a link to the author’s website.

EDIT 2: my wife read this and thought it was best to warn about spoilers (i think mild ones, but still).

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i am not really the target audience for fantasy, nor for book series. in fact, i think this is the first series i am reading, if ...

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Yesterday could be considered Candlemass (nowadays equated with the Celtic cross-quarter day of Imbolc - coming about halfway between the winter solstice and the vernal equinox); which is a festival of burgeoning light (here, about an extra hour and a half per day, since the depths).

Symbolised ...

Another photo from yesterday, which I forgot to post:

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Yesterday's post "Same aloo gobi (actually different aloo gobi every time)" began with aloo gobi syncs, and then I tacked on a lot of other syncs (several related to the spectacles theme) that I said weren't directly related. But there's a pair ...

One of the psi studies discussed in Dean Radin's book The Science of Magic features so many people named Thomas that the author felt the need to insert a parenthetical comment:

One of the most prominent yet perplexing studies was published in 1965 in the top-tier journal Science by Thomas D. Duane and Thomas Behrendt ...

As mentioned in my last post, "Rock my Audible," the Weezer song "Aloo Gobi" has been stuck in my head recently.

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As I learned by looking it up when I first discovered this song about two months ago, aloo gobi (variously transliterated) is a vegetarian Indian dish, the name of which translates to ...

A Survival Guide to the End Times is the latest in a series of books that deal with the spiritual crisis of the present day which, it should be obvious, is the root cause of every other problem we face.

The series started with Meeting the Masters which describes certain experiences from the earlier part of my life ...

Dear oh dear; but people are so so gullible (and I include myself) when it comes to politics!

Some politician (whether national or international) merely has to present his policy or action as being in "a good cause" - and he will not lack support.

Support coming from those who persist (in the teeth of everything) ...

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.”

The quote above comes from Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937), a Marxist philosopher who was also a founding member and one-time leader of the Communist Party in Italy. I happened to stumble upon it today and ...

It is interesting to speculate how the incoherent and mass-apostasy-inducing Omni-God concept arose and came to dominate Christian (and some other) theologies and Priesthoods.

One God who is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent and created everything from nothing - i.e. the officially mandatory nature of God ...

I found myself singing the Weezer song "Aloo Gobi," so I played it on YouTube. When it was finished, the algorithm put "Grapes of Wrath" on next:

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In addition to Grapes of Wrath itself, the lyrics reference Mrs. Dalloway, Moby-Dick, 1984, Peter Pan ("take me up to Neverland"), Catch-22 ("hanging ...

The line "gone with the wind" (see my last post, "I have forgot much, Cynara!") made me think of the Cumaean Sibyl, who writes her prophecies on leaves that blow away in the wind. Remembering that I had posted about her before, I searched this blog and found only one post containing the word sybil (as I had carelessly ...

On January 26, in "The blue and scarlet books," I posted this photo of a shelf at a used bookstore:

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I was interested in only two of the books in the photo: Scarlett and Sacré Bleu. The former is a sequel to Gone with the Wind, and the title of that novel is prominently displayed on the spine, ...

From Exegesis by Philip K Dick, referring to his novel The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982)

This is a strange ending [to the novel].

The will (of Schopenhauer) turns back on itself

and is satisfied not to know: This is the form its cessation takes: that he is content not to know, and so

is she. Thus one ...

There seems to be a fundamental problem in life, that while passive, assimilative compliance leads (in our society and world) to disaster and damnation -- on the other hand, there is a very big problem when we consciously and conscientiously seek a specific thing.

This both in physical material terms (as when people ...

I took a first stab at the experiment described in "My plan for a sync experiment." I rolled a pair of dice 1,000 times and entered each roll into a spreadsheet. Of the 2,000 total die rolls, this was the distribution of the different faces:

One: 355 rolls (17.75%)Two: 312 rolls (15.60%)Three: 331 rolls (16.55%)Four: ...

At the very beginning of Nephite history, Nephi himself prophesied that Jesus would come 600 years from the time Lehi left Jerusalem:

"Yea, even six hundred years from the time that my father left Jerusalem, a prophet would the Lord God raise up among the Jews -- even a Messiah, or, in other words, a Savior of the ...

i don’t remember anymore how i got to this album. i think it was through a blog i followed at the time, but i can’t find it anymore. all i know is it was one of my favorites way back when i was first getting serious about music, or rather getting into serious music, and especially jazz. i was about ...

Atheist materialism - the mainstream ideology of the West, that monopolizes the entirety of public discourse - is a system of reasoning that claims to be wholly based on "evidence"; it claims to make no metaphysical assumptions regarding the ultimate or basic nature of reality.

Atheist materialism therefore operates ...

I have read and continue to read a lot of biographies; both formal biographies, and more journalistic accounts of people's character, actions, and lives.

And since the mid-20th century most biographies I have encountered - especially the worst ones, and the worst aspects of even the better biographies - adopt the ...

I've been reading some of Dean Radin's books on psi research, which got me to wondering once again if there might be any way of demonstrating statistically that I experience many more coincidences than I "ought" to just by chance. I think it's indisputable that I do, in some sense -- but in what sense? Do more ...

Dr. Charlton has posted some incisive observations on the topic of reaction—more specifically, on the perils of reacting to narrative peddled via the mass media, politics, and such. Bruce concludes (extra bold added):

In a nutshell; when we react to anything we know of, or think we understand, only or mainly ...

I had lunch in a cafe today, and one of the songs that played in the background was "The Moon Is Made of Gold" by Rickie Lee Jones:

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I noticed the song and looked it up because of the unusualness of the metaphor. Normally, the Sun is associated with gold, and the Moon with silver. Then I remembered ...

i didn’t even explain, for those who don’t know. synlogos.org is a blog agregator. i visit it often, now always with an eye for the subtle poetry of its feed.

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A few days ago, Anne Barnhardt posted this meme, about a Zoomer too young to understand what it means to "burn" a CD:

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Today I read a new post by Leo called "Pretti Good," referencing the names of the two latest media-martyrs in Minneapolis. He's not the first to have made the obvious play on ...

In that seminal year of 2020 we saw example of the two extremes of coordinated global media manipulation.

At the start of 2020 was the Birdemic (i.e. the international response to the supposed "emic" - the lockdowns etc.) - which was not just a big event, but the biggest event in the history of the world.

The role ...

This morning, I read Alma 3 in the Book of Mormon, which contains this passage:

And the Amlicites were distinguished from the Nephites, for they had marked themselves with red in their foreheads after the manner of the Lamanites; nevertheless they had not shorn their heads like unto the Lamanites.

Now the heads of ...