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My Southern Baroque Art Period Loving Heart has been longing for this image my whole life and I never knew it. This is marvelous. Go look. Go. GO.
I hate to post a link to the inspiration for this piece, because I feel like I'm catering to philistines. But I know not everyone is as enamored with this period of art and so not everyone is as familiar with Michelangelo's Pietà . It's an awe-inspiring piece of sculpture. It's arguably the most amazing piece of sculpture ever, from a technological and logistical standpoint. Beautiful, beautiful.
Not beautiful: I'm not sleeping well. Again. I'm hoping the past three nights of restlessness can be blamed on a particularly bad cycle this month. I haz discomfort. Because yesterday was rather excruciating, I didn't follow through on my plans to fast. I didn't follow through on my plans to do anything yesterday. The only thing I managed to complete that was remotely noteworthy was a three-hour nap.
To close on a note of rage, let me point you to a couple news articles I saw posted on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
ontd_political this morning. First, A RNC National Committeeman told Governor Susana Martinez's staff that her agreeing to meet with Native Americans is disrespectful to the memory of Col. George Armstrong Custer, the infamous cavalry officer who killed thousands of Native Americans in the 1800s. And second, Racism, Bigotry and the Death of Respectable Conservatism. I don't agree with everything Wise has to say in that second article (mostly about how William F. Buckley was just a sad little man who needed just a little spot of being shown up to come around), but overall, it's a very good observation of just how fucked up the GOP has become. Look at the article and note all the links to all the ridiculous issues raised by the Republican party during the past four years. If articles like these aren't indicative of the fact that the RNC has completely lost its collective mind and sense of reason, I don't know what else could convince you. The idea of these people in control of me, my life, and my country is terrifying.
I am going to have a very hard time this year at faire, biting my tongue when I hear the conservative asshats (there are a lot of them) pipe up about politics. I have no interest in engaging with them. I don't have the energy or inclination. I wonder how many tables I'll find myself vacating.
I hate to post a link to the inspiration for this piece, because I feel like I'm catering to philistines. But I know not everyone is as enamored with this period of art and so not everyone is as familiar with Michelangelo's Pietà . It's an awe-inspiring piece of sculpture. It's arguably the most amazing piece of sculpture ever, from a technological and logistical standpoint. Beautiful, beautiful.
Not beautiful: I'm not sleeping well. Again. I'm hoping the past three nights of restlessness can be blamed on a particularly bad cycle this month. I haz discomfort. Because yesterday was rather excruciating, I didn't follow through on my plans to fast. I didn't follow through on my plans to do anything yesterday. The only thing I managed to complete that was remotely noteworthy was a three-hour nap.
To close on a note of rage, let me point you to a couple news articles I saw posted on
ontd_political this morning. First, A RNC National Committeeman told Governor Susana Martinez's staff that her agreeing to meet with Native Americans is disrespectful to the memory of Col. George Armstrong Custer, the infamous cavalry officer who killed thousands of Native Americans in the 1800s. And second, Racism, Bigotry and the Death of Respectable Conservatism. I don't agree with everything Wise has to say in that second article (mostly about how William F. Buckley was just a sad little man who needed just a little spot of being shown up to come around), but overall, it's a very good observation of just how fucked up the GOP has become. Look at the article and note all the links to all the ridiculous issues raised by the Republican party during the past four years. If articles like these aren't indicative of the fact that the RNC has completely lost its collective mind and sense of reason, I don't know what else could convince you. The idea of these people in control of me, my life, and my country is terrifying. I am going to have a very hard time this year at faire, biting my tongue when I hear the conservative asshats (there are a lot of them) pipe up about politics. I have no interest in engaging with them. I don't have the energy or inclination. I wonder how many tables I'll find myself vacating.