Peter Huestis

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Old Man River by Nurse with Wound: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n2L...

Other than Hurt by Johnny Cash and any version of The Sound of Silence, what are your favorite cover versions of famous songs?

Old Man River / Dance of Foolswww.youtube.com Provided to YouTube by The state51 ConspiracyOld Man River / Dance of Fools · Nurse With WoundAutomating Volume Two℗ 2000 United DairiesReleased on: 2008-12-...

Well, it's about time the world caught up with the brilliance of Cole Escola: www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

How Mary Todd Lincoln became Broadway’s biggest (and drunkest) new starwww.washingtonpost.com Cole Escola finally made it to Broadway with their “stupid” masterpiece, “Oh, Mary!” — after years of cult-comedian status and personal hardships.

I want to make love to this Liberace version of Feelin' Groovy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t28A...

Does This Make You FEEL GROOVY? Yikes! Liberace!www.youtube.com "Feelin' Groovy," also known as "The 59th Street Bridge Song," is a famous track by the American music duo Simon & Garfunkel. Written by Paul Simon, the song...

I was curious about the etymology of the word "jaunty" and was surprised to see that it comes from the same French root word as "gentle" and "genteel" but evolved into the quite different meaning of "easy and sprightly in manner".

I feel more of a sense of doom with each passing day, but congrats to my UK friends, I guess.

One of my weirdest memories of living in San Diego was getting to know Wild Man Fischer well enough to know to hide and run away if I saw him first.

Delivery Truck, 07-02-24:

I'm obsessed with this ca. 1815 pastel portrait of an unknown American man holding a folding rule. We just photographed it for a scholar who is trying to pin down an attribution for a group of similar works. It's so adorable!

Oh! You thought "Duck? Or rabbit?" was unanswerable, did you? (Warning: this post is gregorg clickbait.)

Looking forward to more info about this! I'm certain the people bootlegging them are the same Chinese companies who made them to begin with, so they aren't exactly counterfeits, but the same shoes: www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Trump sneaker knockoffs spark lawsuit over copyright infringementwww.nbcnews.com The former president's sneaker line, launched in February, consists of high-tops, red laceless athletic shoes and white laceless ones that cost $199 to $399.

National Gallery UK back with their cardboard and binder clips.

I love the redemption arc for the movie But I'm a Cheerleader, but I can't believe that CNN did a huge puff piece on the film without including the words "Mink" or "Stole": www.cnn.com/2024/06/28/s...

‘Is this too far?’: How the queer film ‘But I’m a Cheerleader’ broke boundaries in 1999 | CNNwww.cnn.com Originally an outlier of ’90s teen movies, the sapphic romcom — set in a hyper-artificial gay-conversion camp — has since become one of the era’s most beloved titles.

I was just looking at Martin Mull's paintings at Ben Brown Fine Arts, and they look exactly like paint-by-numbers paintings but are also kind of great?

There are better ways to translate difficult texts into easily digestible nuggets. Two of my adaptations of J.G. Ballard's Atrocity Exhibition from 2003:

What kills me about this is that The Great Gatsby isn't a particularly "hard" book to read? The prose is straightforward. It's hardly Pynchon.

❌ It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. ✅ A guy with money needs to get married. Everybody knows this.

Steve Bannon has only the weekend left to flee the country. Think he'll do it? Would be exciting!

A terrible debate performance isn't necessarily a political death sentence. Just look at how well things turned out for Richard Nixon!

Let's look at the positive: Biden definitely disproved the "performance enhancing drugs" thing.

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Tapping out at 21 minutes. That felt bad. I really wish we lived in a functioning democracy.

Just in case you were feeling youthful, Dexter Fletcher, the director of Rocket Man, also played the sideshow hustler's child sidekick in David Lynch's Elephant Man:

Right now in the museum world, nothing is more important than the artist's biography, UNLESS it's, say, Carl Andre or Paul Gauguin, in which case let's not dwell on biography.

Again, why are they doing it like this? It's so dumb!

National Gallery, UK has a new video format where the curators hold up a reproduction of the work they're discussing held onto a ratty piece of cardboard with large binder clips. I don't get it. Has the video team been banned from gallery spaces?

Side hustle opportunities presented by YouTube:

I grew up in the desert and have enough knowledge of rattlesnakes to know that you can't simply hold one by the tip of the tail and not get bitten. Snakes don't just hang limp, even if you hold them properly just behind the head. He is holding a dead snake. www.rawstory.com/internet-tru...

What a way to end a career. The Story of Everest is one of the best comedy sketches of all time: www.thewrap.com/jay-johnston... www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6H_...

Mr. Show -watch this The Story Of Everest.flvwww.youtube.com I've seen this granny getting pumped in the woods, makes me wanna cum just thinking about it

Slang's purpose is not to signal membership in a group. The author appears to be conflating "slang" with "lingo".

oh my god shut the fuck up www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

Last week I was amazed to go a whole week without a request for Matisse's Open Window Collioure, but then this morning noticed that I had gotten one late on Friday after I was off work. And, of course, there's another one from the weekend, so this week is already covered. Phew!

Is it art? Or is it just a private plane with an expensive custom paint job? (It is a private plane with an expensive custom paint job.) ilovetheburg.com/st-pete-airc...

A stunning art-covered airplane, The Mooney Anomaly, is flying out of St. Peteilovetheburg.com The Mooney Anomaly became one of the most famous planes in the world and it's flying out of downtown St. Pete.

Today's Artle features the corniest works by the corniest artist.

I love Weird Explorer's fun videos about obscure fruits, but this time he stumbled over a very obscure fruit and fell into a rabbit hole about the history of leprosy. This hour-long documentary is fascinating. I learned so much: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaSw...

The Forgotten Fruit Behind the Fight Against Leprosy - CHAULMOOGRA FRUIT (History Unpeeled)www.youtube.com Episode: 777 Chaulmoogra Species: Hydnocarpus sp. Location: Bangkok, Thailand & NYC, USA --- + See EXCLUSIVE videos! Get REWARDS! Help the channel GROW! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/weirdexplorer YouTube Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChsbD6Clp-ZPqKwXJR3V7DQ/join --- + GET A SHIRT: https://www.weirdexplorer.com/shop --- +Fruit Hunting Tours! https://weirdexplorer.com/tours --- +SEARCH through a complete database of all my fruit reviews on my website: https://www.weirdexplorer.com --- + Follow me on SOCIAL MEDIA: IG: @weirdexplorer Twitter: @weirderexplorer FB: https://www.facebook.com/weirdexplorer Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/weirdexplorer/ --- + MUSIC: "Nonstop" "midday dance" "mystic force" "Ecossaise in E-flat" By Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ --- Sources https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-621/chaulmoogra https://archive.org/details/americandoctorso00heis/page/262/mode/2up?q=leprosy confusion with gynocardia odorta, still goes on today, researchgate.net gets it wrong.. https://www.austriaca.at/0xc1aa500d_0x00159782 https://www.statista.com/statistics/871627/leprosy-new-cases-number-worldwide-by-country/ https://theconversation.com/humans-gave-leprosy-to-armadillos-now-they-are-giving-it-back-to-us-99915 https://www.cdc.gov/leprosy/symptoms/index.html https://www.britannica.com/science/leprosy/History https://www.cdc.gov/leprosy/world-leprosy-day/index.html a bit about g. odorata https://medicineonscreen.nlm.nih.gov/2016/06/23/leprosy-in-india/ https://www.nytimes.com/1924/07/14/archives/explorer-from-china-brings-60000-plants-jf-rock-has-2200-specimens.html https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-11-29-mn-62114-story.html --- Chapters 0:00-2:34 What does chaulmoogra fruit taste like? 2:34-4:12 The legend of how chaulmoogra was discovered 4:12-7:21 What is leprosy? 7:21-13:45 The Social Stigma about Leprosy Past and Present 13:45-19:10 How Leprosy used to be treated 19:10-23:49 Traditional use of chaulmoogra oil 23:49-27:00 How Chaulmoogra was introduced to the West 27:00-29:53 Chaulmoogra Seed review 29:53-36:18 Alice Ball and an improved leprosy medication 36:18-39:14 Moogral Review, a manufactured medicine for leprosy 39:14-41:49 How Chaulmoogra Fruit came to be grown in the USA 41:49-47:23 The Problem with Chaulmoogra Oil 47:23-51:08 How Leprosy is cured today 51:08-54:41 Will there ever be an end to Leprosy? 54:41-57:15 How Leprosy will be defeated + SPECIAL THANKS: Smarter Every Day, Joseph McCorkle, Bill T