It feels like we could learn more about our society from the Bud Powell centennial than the latest paroxysms of the news cycle, but maybe it's just too painful to contemplate: youtu.be/speBYbLYl7w?...
YouTube video by Po!nt BlanC
One thing I like about chess is that it reminds you constantly that you're only ever as good as you are on your very worst day. The worst days are a ceiling everything else is an exception.
This tombstone was set up outside the Roman fort at South Shields in NE England. It records a British woman called Regina and a man called Barates from Palmyra in Syria. Regina was a slave, but Barates freed her and married her. When she died aged 30, he made the tombstone for her.🏺 ClassicsTober24
On off chance, does anyone have access to volume 19.3 (2021) of Black Theology? www.tandfonline.com/toc/yblt20/1...
Afrofuturism, Afro-pessimism and Black Religious Thought: Conceptualizing Ideologies of Race, Religion, Gender and Sexuality in the 21st Century. Volume 19, Issue 3 of Black Theology
Man, Dikembe. That just sucks. RIP.
This is really nice. I'm building up my ability to hand write using this technique. It's slow and painful and frustrating, but I feel like having these kinds of finite goals are so useful.
So no outrage? Alas, why even bother...
@flintdibble.bsky.social has done a great job defining his take on pseudoarchaeology (and I like and respect Flint for what he's doing), but I think it would be a mistake to assume that -- as a discipline -- we can or should respond in the same way. These issues are complicated.