𝐁𝐚𝐝𝐚 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐫𝐞𝐧 (八大山人) & 𝐂𝐚𝐭
This is a thread🧵 about Bada Shanren and his cat #paintings .👇 #caturday

Zhu Da/Bada Shanren was the ninth-generation grandson of the seventeenth son of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang.
After the fall of the Ming Dynasty and the deaths of 1/5

The massive Rose Window in the south Transept of Chartres Cathedral, with Christ enthroned in Heaven at its centre, dates back to 1224. Over 10.5 metres across (34 ft), it’s just one of more than 170 stained glass windows in the church (photo: PtrQs, Wikimedia Commons)

notes on a first half-year of life in Belgium, from “a poet of boredom, otherwise known as a comedian” and his (one of my favourite) Substacks

'Six months in Belgium, by James Harris' open.substack.com/pub/stiffupper…

Have a great weekend!

Made a four-egg omelette today

Watching Clint Eastwood's directorial debut from... 1971(!)

I did but they stopped talking to me

'mental illness used to be the ups and downs of life'

No, mental illness used to be your mum taking to her bed for 20 years with what was euphemistically called 'nerves'.

You have to live in one Classical Civillization

I must say I am ambivalent about both the railway announcement and the Union Jack but that’s a great bit of retrofuturist branding that is