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Elegance in Flowers: Classic Arrangements for All Seasons, 1985

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THE LAST SHOWGIRL 2024, Gia Coppola

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Medievalists know that if they claim to have found 'homosexuals' in the Middle Ages they will provoke cries of outrage, and nothing else they say will be heard. So they avoid the term. Thus Allen Frantzen, on the very first page of Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from Beowulf to Angels in America, declares categorically: “I call this a book about ‘same-sex love’ because the obvious choice, ‘homosexuality,’ is, for periods before the modern era, inaccurate. ‘Homosexuality’ and ‘homosexuals’ were not recognized concepts in the Middle Ages.” Apparently, the same is not true of 'heterosexuality' and 'heterosexuals.' Frantzen does not hesitate, throughout his volume, to oppose 'same-sex relations' to 'heterosexual relations.' The result is a Middle Ages that would make Pat Buchanan jump for joy, one from which all the homosexuals have been banished and only heterosexuals remain. This should give one pause. If homosexuality was not a 'recognized concept' in the Middle Ages, then heterosexuality wasn’t either.

Heterosexuality as a Threat to Medieval Studies, James A. Schultz

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Paul McCartney talking to Conan O'Brien in 1997

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i went to "mad at me" island expecting to find people i knew, something i understood. but when my boat landed, standing upon the shore were a million empty husks wearing my own face. every foot of the island was occupied, and everywhere i went, they watched me with contempt. they never spoke, never breathed. they simply watched. no matter how i grovelled and begged, snarled and cursed, tried to hide or kicked and hit, they simply stared. the hatred in their gaze was inescapable, but i could hardly return it, knowing that their doomed existence was of my own creation. knowing that the hatred was nobody's but my own. in the end i just wept, unable to stand the relentless gaze of my own infinite glare.

the guy who i accidentally cut off in traffic last week was there also

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Haus Zum Walfisch, Freiburg. As seen in “Suspiria”. March 2013.

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(via Home / X)

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Keith Haring, 1989 

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When 2-year-old Gabriella Angelina Bommino died of leukemia, her parents despaired that “we would never know what our daughter would look like when she was older.” Through the work of Disney animators, however, the Bommino family did get to see an artist’s impression of what Gabriella would have looked like as a teenager. The studio introduced a hearing-impaired character in its cartoon series with a tribute to the little girl who may have been mermaid Ariel’s biggest fan. “We didn’t have a name or a face for the character, and when we heard about Gabriella, it all fit together,” Mermaid writer and producer Patsy Cameron said. Using a photograph, animators took the girl’s features and made them those of Ariel’s new friend, who was named Gabriella in her honor. The Bomminos, devout Catholics, see the event as “a way the Lord is showing us what she would look like.”

For five months, while she endured painful bone-marrow tests and treatments, Gabriella watched Mermaid 3 or 4 times a day. It so happened that she was being treated at Children’s Hospital in San Diego and that Cameron had done volunteer work there as a teenager. Cameron decided to visit the hospital and called the Child-Life Program offering to bring copies of a children’s book she’d written and Mermaid mementos. “I immediately thought of Gabriella,” Child-Life program specialist Kathy Blue said. “I watched the movie so many times with her. She knew all the lyrics to the songs and could sing along with them and would dance to the tape.” By the time Cameron arrived at the hospital, however, Gabriella had been sent home to spend her last few days with her family. She died shortly after.

“That Friday she came home, the Make-a-Wish Foundation had a party for her, with everything to do with Mermaid–every gift you could imagine,” Bommino said. “She continued to watch the tape over and over again. She sang and danced every day up until a week before she passed away, but even then she would still try to sing along.” Meanwhile, Cameron and her partners, Tedd Anasti and Jamie Mitchell, were so moved by Gabriella’s story and her affection for Mermaid that they decided, with the Bomminos’ permission, to incorporate her in their series.

THE LITTLE MERMAID SERIES (1992-94).

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A young polar bear cub (Ursus maritimus) with its mother in Wapusk National Park, Manitoba, Canada

by Nedko Nedkov

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He's ready to be dead. And you're starting to realize you might not want to be buried with him, because who is he to you if he's not playing tennis?

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not exaggerating when i say this is the best post anyone ever made in human history

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Marilyn Monroe reading Ulysses by James Joyce, Long Island, 1955. Photo by Eve Arnold.

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being mutuals isn’t enough we need to eat breakfast in the garden together

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AMERICA FERRERA Elle US, January 2024