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Many people think the TV show Grey's Anatomy is based on the book...
In fact, there's a vas deferens between the two.
#puns #GreysAnatomy #lasttweetever?
Museum Nerd (2008-2024) retweeted
Now, more than ever, is the time
for art, above all art, to speak truth, be it hideous or hopeful, to power—as it always has done.
Did you know it's not called "passion fruit" because it's an aphrodisiac, but is named after the "Passion of Christ?" 😮💨
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...to serve as his bodyguard while he was here in town. He agreed and for the next 15 or 20 minutes we just ran away together from his crazed fans for whom he stopped occasionally to give a couple autographs. We finally escaped by jumping onto a trash truck.
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I dreamed that I saw Slavoj Zizek being mobbed on the street here in Bogotá by a bunch of Colombian teenage fans and he started running away. I jogged next to him and explained that we'd met (true story) when I worked at at art organization where he gave a talk. I offered...
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Looks like they're finally renovating this fantastic Bogota building, albeit with the most janky scaffolding I've ever seen. Cc: @LondoMomposino
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This is just to inform you that in Spanish R2D2 was known as Arturito, or "Little Arthur," a sort of transliteration of how R2D2 sounds to Spanish speaking ears*. Perhaps because "Erre. Dos dedos," just reading R2D2 sounds like, "Copy. Two fingers." 😳
*Ears don't actually speak.
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“Why are they even letting them debate? This is like what happens between innings at a baseball game when they let the guys in the hot dog costumes race each other.” — one of the Jimmies last night. 🤣🤣
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Ensuring unaffordable health insurance bolsters capitalism by securing a labor force willing to work underpaying jobs, that include "benefits," because they're afraid of dying, right?
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Museum Nerd (2008-2024) retweeted
Anthony James is known for monumental and experiential sculptures and installations making physical concepts such as infinity
This is his Great Rhombicosidodecahedron
Museum Nerd (2008-2024) retweeted
The most popular museums in the world according to Google’s #yearinsearch, included teamLab and Ark Experience in Kentucky bit.ly/3NBF29t
RIP Andre Braugher, a favorite of mine especially for Homocide: Life on the Street, which was like The Wire before The Wire. Fantastic actor and a sad loss at just 61 years of age.
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This is that drawing I love. The different postures of the dogs are natural and balletic, but in addition convey doggie happiness in a way that also makes me happy. 😁
ALT Drawing by Emilie Gossiaux of three dogs dancing around a maypole with the following caption from the New York Times: “Dancing, Again,” 2023, ballpoint pen and crayon on paper. One writer likened her blithe figures to those in Matisse’s monumental painting, “Dance.” Credit...Emilie Gossiaux
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