Sunday 10 November 2013
day-trip: good for the goose, good for the gander
Coincidentally, we visited on the Feast Day of St. Martin, to whom the grand cathedral was dedicated, built in hopes of establishing itself as a Holy See. Saint Martin of Tours, one of the first famed contentious objectors and reluctant to be honoured for his stance, was betrayed by a gaggle of friendly geese, whom gave away his hiding spot to the fellow-priests who wanted him as their leader. Because of this, it is traditional to feast on a goose in Germany on St. Martin's Day.
catagories: ๐ฉ๐ช, ✝️, holidays and observances, language, Rheinland-Pfalz
dipterology
catagories: ๐, ๐งฌ, environment
in the room the women come and go, talking of michelangelo, or prufrock and other observations
Julien Peters delivers an excellent recitation of T. S. Eliot's seminal modernist's work, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, illustrated in comic strip style. The artist has given several dozen classic pieces of poetry the same treatment and it's fun and moving to follow along with stanza and verse converted to panels in the form of graphic novellas.
catagories: ๐, graphic design
Friday 8 November 2013
neat, sweet, petite
catagories: ๐, ๐บ, networking and blogging
doctor pangloss, i presume?
Though this kind of story might seem a bit belaboured—in spite and because of the very cultural isolationism of gentrification which causes the wealthy and the poor to
believe their station in life exactly what it ought to be and every one
else is just as fortunate featured in the article, Zero Hedge has a list of twenty-one facts and figures that add insult to injury. Such a brand of capitalism does not seem equitable at all and only designed to support the illusion of limitless opportunities and detached entitlements.
catagories: ๐ฑ, labour, philosophy