Althouse: Artist in Residence?

August 15, 2023

Artist in Residence?

On the grounds of Grandpa's Barn in Copper Harbor, Michigan.

17 comments:

rehajm said...: I see it is an invitation...

...like DRAW BRIDGE; 8/15/23, 10:42 AM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: YouTube: James Webb telescope captures 'question mark' in deep space; 8/15/23, 10:48 AM
Anne in Rockwall, TX said...: Or Glen Bateman's spot in Woodsville, New Hampshire.; 8/15/23, 11:15 AM
Paddy O said...: The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering.

I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable...

The last scud of day holds back for me,
It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadow’d wilds,

It coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk.

I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun,
I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.

I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,
If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.

You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,
But I shall be good health to you nevertheless,
And filter and fibre your blood.

Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,
Missing me one place search another...; 8/15/23, 12:03 PM
H said...: Do judges let their political leanings influence their judicial decisions?

Here’s a very recent paper with data-based evidence.

This paper seeks to contribute to the long-standing debate on the extent to which the ideology of federal circuit court judges, as proxied by the party of the president nominating them, can help to predict case outcomes. …. I show that the political affiliation of judges is associated with outcomes, and thus can help to predict them, throughout the vast universe of circuit court cases – and not only in the ideologically contested cases on which prior empirical research has focused….Altogether, my analysis shows that political affiliation can help to predict outcomes in over 90% of circuit court cases.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w31509#fromrss; 8/15/23, 12:27 PM
Big Mike said...: His coffee mug is still there. He’ll be right back.; 8/15/23, 12:40 PM
Kevin said...: DO NOT FEED!; 8/15/23, 12:49 PM
madAsHell said...: That's kinda where I am.

I play a lot of guitar, and sometimes piano.

I try to drag my daughter into this whirlpool, but she hasn't time for me. Go figure!!; 8/15/23, 1:57 PM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: very serene nice hiding spot!; 8/15/23, 2:17 PM
BG said...: So...Wisconsin State Fair controversary. Or...
Even if you've never heard the word before, you will be cancelled and thrown out.

https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/what-jigaboo-mean-wisconsin-state-fair-racial-slur-cow-controversy-explained

I was born and grew up and still live in the same county as the Hildebrants. They are a well known area name and have a good reputation. Scratch that...used to have a good reputation. I am 70 years old and had never heard the word jigaboo. I have queried numerous friends and relatives, some also in their 70s. They have never heard of the word either. If you had asked me what that word meant before this controversy, I would have guessed it to be some sort of dance from the Roaring '20s. If us older people had never heard the word in this rather white county, I doubt a young girl would have heard of it. I looked at the names of the sire and dam of the prize winning cow, and I can guess how the name came about.

In another article I had read, it stated the term had been used mainly in the late 1800s/early 1900s. Okay...those people are dead. So the term should also have been dead and forgotten. Well, until the local TV station stated that it is a widely recognized racial slur. It certainly isn't in my county. Hundreds of people walked past that name and didn't give it a thought. But it took only one person to dredge up the past and raise a stink. So do we all have to subscribe to some dictionary that's updated daily with any and all possible or maybe possible or very slightly possible slang words that may sound one tiny bit racist? Thanks to Mr. I Am Not Racist, we now have another word added to our vocabulary that we must avoid at all costs. Forget that the real racists now have another word to enjoy, since his thoughtfulness turned this into "news" nationally.

Forget the family with the young girl who spent hours working with the cow and taking care of it, culminating in an honor at the State Fair. Now it's the humiliation of being kicked out of the fair and being attacked online and in print. They can never be innocent because they should have had the mindset to know when a word or name that was used 100 years ago to belittle someone. Their lives have now become a living hell. Will they be allowed to exhibit at any fair again? Though they have apologized for their ignorance and aim to do better, we know that in these times forgiveness is never given.

End of rant.
(FYI, I come from a farming background.); 8/15/23, 3:48 PM
Lucien said...: My high school prom date was later the artist in residence at SETI.
I still think that’s the coolest thing ever to be able to put on your resume.; 8/15/23, 4:52 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Jimmy Hall has the remedy! Gratitude.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUHABMKhX5k; 8/15/23, 5:01 PM
rhhardin said...: A beaver or something chopped up my ham radio feedline into little one foot sections, apparently looking for nourishment. An amazon order brought me six 25-foot garden hoses, which I spent the morning shoving a new feedline into, and finally putting a BNC connector on the transmitter end. So now it's a garden-hose armoured feedline.

It doesn't load quite like before - the feedline is several feet shorter - but a guy in NJ says I'm loud so maybe it's okay.

About six hours of work.; 8/15/23, 5:11 PM
Narr said...: That chair looks unsafe to sit on. Needs a Vitrazza mat, at least.; 8/15/23, 6:04 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: New anthem for California due to pending legislation.

"Don't - Teach Your Children Well"

So went the Age Of Aquarius.; 8/15/23, 7:44 PM
Lucky John said...: Lovely idea. I’ll try to do something like that up on the Sunshine (Sechelt peninsula) Coast.; 8/15/23, 8:03 PM
John Holland said...: Extreme uppermost tippy-tip of the Upper Peninsula. Nothing north of that but the Canadian Shield. Gorgeous. UP was a big hunting/fishing destination for folks living in Sarnia, Canada where I grew up.

I wonder, is that the northern-most point of the continental US? Google says no! There's an enclave of US territory in northwestern Ontario on the Manitoba border, completely cut off from the rest of the country. It's not actually attached to the continental US. Does that count?

There's also an island in Lake Superior, Isle Royale, that's almost as far north as Thunder Bay ON. If you can't drive to it, or walk, is it still part of the "Continental US"?

Obviously, I didn't take geography in high school. They probably had clever answers to all this.

I got interested in these places during Covid lockdowns. There are all these oddball US towns that were cut off from everything: the Canadian border was closed, the ferry boats were mothballed, no-one was allowed in or out by order of the Wise Ones. A truck with a few pallets of food and medicine might show up at the border once a week -- or not. Didja have a heart attack or broken leg? Crawl into your bathroom and put a band-aid on it. Break the Universal Quarantine and face arrest. Crazy.; 8/16/23, 9:28 AM