Notes

On Keats's concept of negative capability; its primary source included

A pizza graphic representing how many slices of pie Americans are getting.

New Jersey Artist and Sculptor Anthony Triano (1928-97)

Three hours of incredible best-of BBC David Attenborough Nature features.

CBS caved, law firms caved, Tech giants caved. Colbert instead has the entire CBS building sucked into a green vortex, shrunk, and put into a snow globe

Section 46, Song of Myself, Walt Whitman

It’s time to stake a claim in the new $1.776 billion slush fund for those targeted unfairly by the government. I will accept nothing less than $5 million for: the fact that every day I have to be living with the shame of being an American; that my subscription to media outlets I had formerly enjoyed now are brim full with the evil committed by a salacious regime only moderately acquainted with the Constitution or the nation’s history; that their...

Tolstoy diary entry as a young man

Pablo Neruda poem.

The film follows the routine life of Hirayama, who cleans public restrooms and during his breaks, relaxes by having a bite to eat on a park bench and taking photos of the sun shining through the leaves above. I have since learned that the word in Japanese for the appreciation of sunlight coming through a canopy of leaves overhead is komorebi (木漏れ日). I have a trove of photos like that, so it should have its own word. I also learned...

Himeji Castle is located in Himeji, about 55km west of Kobe. It is the largest surviving feudal castle complex in Japan.