Mambo Italiano I was hoping, but no: No, the painting "The First Tribute to Columbus" by José Garnelo y Alda at Madrid's Naval Museum was not protected by glass. The activists were able to directly throw red paint onto the canvas, which suggests that it was not behind protective glass at the

"free Ayn Rand books"

Extremely disorienting to navigate to a Mars Volta track on youtube only to see touring dates underneath of it, two decades removed from relevancy or merit. What is going on?

Reconstruction of the face of St. Teresa of Avila at the age of 50, carried out by professors at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine at Monash University, Australia:

Please pray for my uncle. He's having open heart surgery and there have been complications.

Bartolo Longo, a former Satanic priest turned Catholic who devoted his life to the Rosary and the Virgin Mary, will be canonized by Pope Leo XIV on Sunday, October 19.

To bleat, or not to bleat, that is the question: Whether 'tis globular of the rind to buffer the flings of sparrows and outrageous bore tunes, or to rake farms against a sea of baubles, and by supposing, rend them? To rye too deep...

Anatoly Solonitsyn in Tarkovsky: Andrei Rublev - Solaris - Mirror - Stalker. He'd wanted Solonitsyn to play the lead roles in Nostalghia and The Sacrifice as well, but he died in 1982 (RIP). Instead Erland Josephson (nice name) took various stage roles in those, to great effect.

"What doth life?" "The wind in pines." "No, the autumn rain." "Alas, poor sister."

So Henry can’t wait He knows it’s too late; I’m shouting ‘Hal, my boy!” His soul pains away “Fall to thy prayers,” I heard him say. How ill white hairs become a fool and jester.

Just finished recording a great piece with James Clark on an absolute monster of a novel. Will subject it to edits as necessary and hope to have the next installment of BOOKCAST: AD out in a couple of days.