Althouse: At the Sunrise Café...

May 1, 2022

At the Sunrise Café...

... you can talk all night.

23 comments:

Jupiter said...: Wow! Alex Jones is back on Twitter! Cool!; 5/1/22, 8:19 PM
Two-eyed Jack said...: This is the kind of photo I love, but I would rotate it 90 degrees clockwise. It makes me think of Barnett Newman.; 5/1/22, 8:57 PM
gilbar said...: Two-eyed Jack said...
This is the kind of photo I love, but I would rotate it 90 degrees clockwise.

What the? You CAN'T DO That, the lake would spill out all over the floor: Be reasonable; 5/1/22, 9:16 PM
wildswan said...: Go up in a plane at sunrise or sunset and you get clouds in strips of color and the plane rotates sharply so you get the color strips off horizontal but you don't spill. At least not yet.; 5/1/22, 9:28 PM
stephen cooper said...: Betjeman was a kinder man than Larkin, although you would not guess that from Betjeman's sad wistful poetry and Larkin's poetry which showed so much empathy for the desolation of unsuccessful lives among those who did not find passionate love and fulfillment in their long workweeks and their time off .... that being said, the poet Eliot, who grew up in the Saint Louis that almost nobody remembers anymore, once said, in his poetical 9 to 5 working hours "I will show you fear in a handful of dust" (memento mori), but he worked hard and made a lot of money and gave a lot of money away and put little stock in being a poet, and actually, or so I have read, was a very hospitable host (good suppers after a long day traipsing around London seeing the sights, clean sheets in the guest room, and the next day a wonderful English breakfast), and not at all the sort of host who would show a guest, for any reason at all, "a handful of dust."; 5/1/22, 11:20 PM
stephen cooper said...: the point is, we were not born to be poets, we were born to be good hospitable people, or if we are too lazy to be hospitable, at least to be someone who tries to be kind, to be good, or at least to protect people, or at a minimum try to protect people, from those who are not good. (Betjeman was a very famous English poet in the 1950s and following decades- imagine Billy Collins times 10 or 20 in fame and sales - and he wrote about rich people a lot, and Larkin wrote almost exclusively about people who had to work for a living, but Betjeman was kind to the people who worked with him and Larkin was rude to his secretary and others in his private life).; 5/1/22, 11:38 PM
Two-eyed Jack said...: "It takes brains not to make money," Colonel Cargill wrote in one of the homiletic memoranda he regularly prepared for circulation over General Peckem's signature. "Any fool can make money these days and most of them do. But what about people with talent and brains? Name, for example, one poet who makes money."
"T. S. Eliot," ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen said in his mail-sorting cubicle at Twenty-seventh Air Force Headquarters, and slammed down the telephone without identifying himself.; 5/2/22, 12:40 AM
Clyde said...: @ wildswan

I vacationed in Hawaii back in 2019, and our flight from Los Angeles left around sunset. Because we were flying west, sunset lasted for a couple of hours on the plane.; 5/2/22, 3:06 AM
Clyde said...: Remembering Bill Murray in Stripes, I would guess that his on-set transgression involved a spatula.; 5/2/22, 3:08 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: I read that Musk tried to buy the Bidens, but China wouldn't sell.; 5/2/22, 4:40 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Try the veal.; 5/2/22, 4:41 AM
tim in vermont said...: So the war machine started Russiagate because Carter Page objected to the US backed coup in Ukraine and the pouring of US weapons into the resulting civil war. Steve McIntyre’s Twitter feed is must read. He has been following events in Ukraine for years as the source of so much rot in our government.; 5/2/22, 5:49 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: https://www.feedandgrain.com/news/perdue-farms-plant-catches-fire-in-virginia; 5/2/22, 6:05 AM
Christopher B said...: Being rude to your betters was the jester's stock in trade, and still is the source of much comedy. Sometimes the betters take it with good grace and other times they say "that's not funny", depending on how secure they feel in their elevated status. Bill Murray is an old school jester.

The WHCD strikes a discordant note now because it's no longer the jesters poking fun at the betters but the exhalated tittering among themselves.; 5/2/22, 6:10 AM
rhhardin said...: Chomsky praises Trump while saying he's the most dangerous person in the world. (minutes 6-9 roughly)

Dangerous means Trump shakes the box, rearranging stuff until an agreement can be found, which is dangerous to the keepers of the box, in Scott Adams's terms.; 5/2/22, 6:28 AM
mezzrow said...: Outside Goodison Park in Liverpool, thousands gathered to see if they could keep Everton up. At the same time, two folks were walking their dog and had to get to the other side of the park. Talk about your sang froid - attagirl Myra, now the Everton dog:

https://www.trendsmap.com/twitter/tweet/1520779414379843584

https://www.toffeeweb.com/season/21-22/comment/editorial/42108.html; 5/2/22, 7:05 AM
Rusty said...: Because the Fox River is so high a lot of deer are in back yards and they aren't as skittish as normal. The eagles are hunting for food for their little ones. I saw one go into a dive but couldn't see if it got anything. Grosbeaks at the feeder along with Western Tanengers. Ducks and geese are on their nests.; 5/2/22, 7:37 AM
Andrew said...: @stephen cooper,
What the hell are you talking about?; 5/2/22, 7:50 AM
frose said...: Beautiful photo - reminds me of a blue Rothko; 5/2/22, 8:29 AM
Meade said...: tim in vermont said...
“So the war machine started Russiagate because Carter Page objected to the US backed coup in Ukraine and the pouring of US weapons into the resulting civil war. Steve McIntyre’s Twitter feed is must read.“

Fascinating thread, Tim. Thanks.

https://mobile.twitter.com/ClimateAudit/status/1519881339968925697; 5/2/22, 8:39 AM
Michael K said...: Tim, that thread is great. Thank you.; 5/2/22, 2:23 PM
TheOne Who Is Not Obeyed said...: I wonder if he's going to catch a cold....

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/foreign/us-unable-to-confirm-putin-planning-power-transfer-for-cancer-treatment; 5/2/22, 5:01 PM
stephen cooper said...: Andrew - in the Johnny Depp trial, one artist has sued another, and each artist is trying their best to show to the jury that, whatever their art may be, they are a good person. It is not poetry!

On the comments here, many people have tried to win a rhetorical advantage by saying -"well you are a bad person" ----- and while they were saying that, far off on an island in a cold ocean, Betjeman and Larkin were doing their thing - and that is instructive for all of us.; 5/2/22, 7:21 PM