Having a small religious experience listening to the eponymous Moondog album for the first time in many years. Bad idea before bedtime, don’t do it! Too thrilling!

I looked into golems; it turns out that Adam (of the Bible fame. Or, in this case, the Talmud) was a golem?!

Richard D. Bartlett all organisms and ecosystems start out in the hole, from acorns to embryos, and yet we have oaks and elephants!

The other day Anna Riedl & I had near-identical encounters in different cities- she in Vienna, I in London. A smiling Jehova’s Witnesses asked if we wanted to hear the wisdom of Jesus Christ. We both responded with “yes!”, enthusiastically agreed with the passage the JW read

Physicist Richard Taylor analyzed Pollock’s paintings and found that they had consistent fractal qualities in certain dimensions. Pollock successfully embedded his self into paintings like any other artist.

Sentence from a pre-1920 book I’m reading: “Some one unknown dedicated a perpetually burning lamp in a little shrine at Nemi for the safety of the Emperor Claudius and his family.” I’m entranced by the “some one” instead or “someone”: immediately there is individuation.

I’m on an island with a multimillenial ceramics tradition and I just bought this little pig. It’s so wrong and yet so right: the smiley-face snout, 🧿 eyes, apparent skeuomorphic slot (can’t even fit a 1p coin!), unnecessary butthole… 🤌