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Watching the 2001 film for the IndieWeb Movie Club.
Dec 15, 2025 10:36 PMEd Simon on The Egalitarian Vision of Nativity Scenes:
Dec 25, 2025 06:54 PMIn all its artistic iterations across millennia, the nativity — the birth of Jesus in a humble manger — remains inherently political. It reveals not just the paradox of divine embodiment, but the radical truth of equality inherent in God choosing to enter the world in marginalized circumstances, thereby declaring the sacred dignity of all human beings and our moral obligations to one another.
Paul Scheer made a mini-doc about Swiftie Dads on YouTube:
Dec 24, 2025 11:35 AMIn 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shorts waiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it’d be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.
David Velasco (former editor of Artforum), on How Gaza Broke the Art World:
Dec 23, 2025 04:48 AMI don’t know why I thought we were an exception. Maybe because sometimes we were. Artforum, for many years, was about as leftist as an elite publication could get. We really did play a role in holding weapons manufacturers and the engineers of the opioid crisis to account. We really did give jobs and bylines to some singular and brilliant people. We really were a brainy refuge of weird glamour married to principle, and sometimes I wonder if mine is the last generation to grow up thinking of the art world as a place for ungovernable outsiders and talented eccentrics, which doesn’t hear the word ‘art’ and think immediately of commerce…
…Palestine is different. Even with broad public support, no major museum has taken up the genocide in Gaza. No large institution I know of has put on an exhibition about Palestinian artists or Palestinian lives. Instead, the opposite: in June 2025, the Whitney Museum “suspended” its 57-year-old Independent Study Program after some of its members dared to host a performance critical of Israel. The art world, with all its progressive scaffolding and humanist ornamentation, practically designed to celebrate and aestheticise every rebellion, couldn’t metabolise Palestine. It still can’t.
Bookmarked Against markdown by .
Writing HTML is often simpler and easier to remember than the markdown equivalent.
This rings true. I can never remember the syntaxt for an image and its alt text in markdown, and there’s often more I want to include anyway in HTML. HTML is also wonderfully nuanced: You can italicize things quickly in Markdown, but it will always use <em> (emphasis), when you might need <cite> for a title of a book or something, or <i> for idiomatic text.
