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NAVVI:
đ” Polychrome
#NAVVI
https://navvi.bandcamp.com/album/in-gold-polychrome-singles
https://open.spotify.com/track/5AVYGcOwD45W6TUOfyGOCJ
John Pilger had a documentary about Venezuela - a good crash course for why they invaded today.
And you can watch it for free on YouTube now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyWVh4kRyg4
RE: https://mastodon.social/@onlmaps/115836203805522195
You meant kidnapping, right?
He wasnât taking a pleasure cruise, I donât think.
Some works exist only to give us the pleasure of reading the review that pans them. They need only be seen once, by an unfortunate critic, and then never viewed again by human eyes. As a sacrificial offering to the aesthetic gods, this hapless critic channels and then purges all that is ugly in this world, purifying us all in the caustic bath of their wit. https://mastodon.social/@WarnerCrocker/116003101576465477
Have a beautiful first Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday. May the new year bring love and pleasure into your life đč
"There is at hand a good relish, very inviting, and Thasian wine and ointment and fillets. For Kypris [Aphrodite] dwells where plenty is, but among those who are hard up Aphrodite will not stay."
Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 1.28
đ Celestial Venus, Roman sculpture, 2-3rd Century CE
Just published: A volume on âProfessions as Religious Metaphorsâ in our @… Metaphor Papers series that I had the pleasure to edit. Itâs a nice collection of short case studies on a wide arrange of professions that are used as metaphors of the divine. (My internal working title for it was âGodâs jobsâ đ.)
Je sais pas trop ce qu'il se passe sur le marché de l'emploi de la cyber française, mais en une dizaine de candidatures envoyées, j'ai reçue une seule réponse en plusieurs semaines : "trop qualifié".
Je candidate sur une seule boite non française : réponse immédiate, entretien planifié dans la semaine et passé avec succÚs.
Ca recrute plus du tout en France ? Le pays est Š l'arrĂȘt ? On dĂ©cide de couler avec le gouvernement ?
Pondering Barthes' introduction to the book Tricks, with rough English translation by me and Gemini
ââLes pratiques sexuelles sont banales, pauvres, âvouĂ©es Š la rĂ©pĂ©tition, et cette pauvretĂ© est disproportionnĂ©e Ă€ âl'âĂ©merveillement du plaisir qu'elles âprocurent.
Sexual practices are banal, impoverished, devoted to repetition; this poverty is disproportionate to the marvel of pleasure that they provide.