X refugee. Book nerd, hiker, pagan, aging punk rocker. Enjoy the 'classics,' but I'm a tourist. Ohio. ABD from Cle State, proud Kent journo undergrad 🎯.
CBS News did a weirdly dismissive piece yesterday about younger workers being pro-union, sparking a modest rise in membership. The story implied workers lost interest in being organized back in the Reagan era, hence the decline.
In fishing towns and villages, the most haunted place isn't some pub with spurious tales of tunnels and spectral smugglers, but the causeway and steps down to harbour. For many ghosts cling to the infrastructure of labour, cling to the working that defined their lives – C. Josiffe
Some bits of classical reception while castle-hopping today:
Targe with Medusa head, stained glass where Aphrodite commands Eros to shoot Hades, fountain relief panel with Amphitrite (or Aphrodite?) wielding a trident, crest with Thomas Neville’s motto “ne vile velis” (‘don’t go for cheap’).
If you are low income and live in Cleveland check this out. Low income shares are $13 a week for a weeks worth of fresh seasonal produce. If you live in Collinwood there is a low cost veggie market next to the City Fresh tent to supplement your share with low cost produce.
cityfresh.org
#MosaicMonday
Here a cat appears to be catching a bird while a lower panel shows ducks, birds, and fish seemingly unaware of the cat lurking so close by! Clearly these are two different registers.
📍 House of the Faun, Pompeii
📸 Carole Raddato
🏛 MAN Napoli
🏺AncientBluesky
#MosaicMonday at Cleveland Museum of Art, a North African mosaic of a poor onager on the losing end of a lion encounter. Nice show focused on Byzantine Era in that region. Heavy on Xtian Orthodoxy, though.
To heck with you I won't do what you told me
To heck with you I won't do what you told me
To heck with you I won't do what you told me
To heck with you I won't do what you told me
I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️🌈💖
