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  • Sam Francis

    Today, from an incredibly thoughtful gift of Younger Kid (very smooth genmaicha from LACMA) I learned about Sam Francis (there is at least one of his works at SF MOMA but apparently not the one targeted towards me đŸ˜‰ ). He’s an abstract expressionist, like Pollock, but while Pollock’s paintings feel like they would beat…

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  • Beo-Seuss

    by Morgan Rowanwaif Every Dane down in Heorot liked to revel a lotBut the monster who lived just north of Heorot did notGrendel hated the Danes and all manly races.He hated their homes! He hated their faces! He stared from his lake with a sour, Grendel frownAt the warm lighted windows above in their town.For…

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  • Egyptian

    TIL (from the amazingly patient Younger Child) that phonetic glyphs were a thing. To celebrate, here’s a nice detailed instruction on how to read those (including determinative glyphs which, of course, I also had no idea about).

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