Rick Oehling

It’s not a “mixed picture”. If you go into the crosstabs, 8/10 WI Republicans say noncitizens are voting. 9/10 Dems say that’s not happening. Those aren’t just different opinions, they’re different realities. 4 cases of non citizen voting have been found since 2016.

@dieworkwear he's so demure!

It's interesting to see this 1947 test screen with Marlon Brando for the film "Rebel Without a Cause" (a film in which would later star James Dean). Brando, of course, would later epitomize mid-century American masculinity. Brando was 23 years old here.

@GarrochoS @edicionesiruela "Postscript to a Tragedy" is a Steiner essay I just keep rereading

Cuanto más lo leo, más inteligente y afinado me parece. No hay recambio para Steiner. Nadie hace lo que él hacía.

@bernardtjoy a poem almost ruined for me by Robert Bly's horrific rendering of it in a poetry class

No one should be allowed to teach Prufrock until he is at least nearing the age of 40.

@RobertTalisse the bag of sticks are inside

Spotted last night at my NJ hotel. They were still there this morning.... go figure

TV reporter tells David Bowie the internet is "hugely exaggerated" David Bowie's response is the closest thing to perfection about the future.

@jonwurl @Emilyaustin Lucky you. Endowed with the Eye of God to look into the hearts and minds of strangers. That kind of speculation doesn't interest me.

@RickOehling @Emilyaustin I haven't read it, probably good. I do know a lot about that period of history. But of the 1000 or so affluent retirees lining that street, how many of THEM were thing in the terms of 18th century colonial political philosophy. I'll bet none.

Congrats on a very successful “No Kings” protest! Here are the results:

@DrDavidVernon The Death of the Heart. O mercy, what a book.

One day I’ll stop buying books. But not today.

@jonwurl @Emilyaustin In the meantime I'm reading Richard Hofstadter's America at 1750: A Social Portrait and recalling/discovering the innumerable reasons why we opted for no more kings. I find Hofstadter a lot more compelling than researching retirement communities and political slogans.

@RickOehling @Emilyaustin That's a tautology. Obviously what I meant was why were these particular protests organized under that slogan? BTW I am on the trail of figuring out why -- check out the video of The Villages retirement community, where they unironically lined the streets with their golf carts.

@jonwurl @Emilyaustin 250-year old sentiment. Hardly immature.

@Emilyaustin I can understand the anti-Trump sentiment -- don't fully agree with it but understand. However I still have no clue why it is called "No Kings". That's such a politically immature slogan.

@paul_jkrause Edward Eager - all of his books but particularly Knight's Castle and Half-Magic

Children's Literature is great literature. What are some works of children's literature that are definitely great works of art that even now you don't tire of reading?

@JMcNallyBooks Hand models, feet models, and Rhys models

Jean Rhys Vintage, 1974

Dem leaders told me I was wasting my time running in 2018 for an 85% white House seat that Trump won because I’m Asian American. I stubbornly stayed in the race against a straight White Christian male incumbent and ended up winning. Winning is more than central casting. THREAD

reading a book about iran. apparently the government there is run by a Supreme Leader who has conducted mass deportations, sent forces into cities, uses state licenses to control media, labeled protestors "enemies," and is supported by religious extremists. didn't know this

“Inquiry… doubt… possibility… resolution.” In March 1991, Joni sat down at Geffen Records to discuss her album ‘Night Ride Home,’ where she talked about the emotions behind her chords and tunings.

@zermatist I follow the women - not just Ella, Sarah & Billie - but under-appreciated greats like Carmen McRae, Etta Jones (not James), Lorez Alexandria, Shirley Horn, Ernestine Anderson, Chris Connor, Carol Sloane, Ethel Ennis... Ken Burns & Giddins both them them out of their surveys

Attn: everyone. Please stop giving your takes on "jazz" if the first thing you think of as "jazz" is the screaming, fence-ripping solos of late-career John Coltrane. The vast majority of jazz fans are into stuff like fusion-era Miles Davis and the Peanuts soundtrack music.

I still can’t believe that she came. Vanessa Redgrave was speaking truth to power before I was born. To have her see my art and be in community is something I will never forget.

The items in this still-life (c1750) feel handled, because of the way they have been handled by the paintbrush in Chardin's hand, he has also suggested the objects' various textures and substances through the play of light across surfaces and successive applications of paint.

speaking of suicide, in reference to Nietzsche's remark about madness in individuals & nations: how ironic is it that suicide in individuals is always noted while suicide in nations goes unnoted, unnoticed. especially if you are a citizen of the nation & swept along with its suicidal momentum toward decline, defeat, devastation.

@batcountry1980 great tour

I am a fan of the guise adopted on Let’s Dance, and the sound Bowie shapes. He’s clearly having fun, and if anyone deserved to make some serious coin from their endeavours, it’s him. The sequencing doesn’t do the album any favours, though. It’s not that there aren’t good songs throughout. But opening with that mammoth trilogy of almighty pop gems sets a serious moonlight, sorry, momentum, that the record never quite catches up with again. Still, I do love how Bowie just decides “now I’m going to be a bright, shiny, massive unit shifting, MTV-conquering pop star” and then clicks his fingers and does it, just to show how easy he could.