Jonathan Jones: Hoarders or collectors? Our frightened society has forgotten the difference(The Guardian)
… this is the kind of collecting that comes to the fore in the New Museum's latest show. Even though it spans modern history and reaches back to collectors like Nabokov, its sensibility is that of the hoarder - and respondents to the New York Times suggest this hoarding passion is widely shared by 21st-century Americans. Once, the trash was full of poetry. Today, a frightened society looks for stability in a hoard of paperclips.
mj said:
That is one big mother
Of a word. It would scare me too. Trying to pronounce it would give me
the shakes, but it's really the size that counts when generating fear.
People suffering this affliction fear long words.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
The fear of long words.
Yesterday's page has the following caption under a pic of Michael Keaton kneeling
at his star on the walk of fame:
"Academy Award winning actor Michael Keaton poses at a ceremony awarding him
with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, Thursday, July 28,
2016.
Photo by Nick Ut"
Michael Keaton was NOMINATED for one Oscar, in 2015 (for Best Actor,
"Birdman"), but has never won.
He won a Golden Globe for it. Maybe they mixed him up with Diane Keaton (no
relation), who has won one.
Kevin K.
Washington, DC
Thanks, Kevin!
You're absolutely right!
The archived page has been corrected.
Patriot Act NSA Spying Unconstitutional Section 215 National Security Letters Must End
My name is Marc Perkel and I have decided to announce that I will not comply with the so called "Patriot Act" laws requiring me to disclose information about my customers. If I receive a national security letter I will immediately photograph it, post it online everywhere I can, and then make a video of me burning it. I will then await my arrest. If you want to put me in jail then come get me mother fucker.
The heat and humidity are still on the unpleasant side. Sigh.
Tonight, Saturday:
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'Rush Hour', followed by '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'America's Got Talent', followed by 'Dateline'.
Of course, 'SNL' is a RERUN with Amy Schumer hosting, music by The Weeknd.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN'Last Man Standing', followed by a RERUN'Dr. Ken', then '20/20: In An Instant', then a FRESH'Boston EMS'.
The CW offers an old 'Friends', followed by another old 'Friends', then an old '2½ Men', followed by another old '2½ Men'.
Faux has a RERUN'Heaven Sent', followed by a RERUN'Wayward Pines'.
MY recycles an old 'Rizzoli & Isles', followed by another old 'Rizzoli & Isles'.
A&E has 'The First 48', 'The First 48; Extreme Rage', followed by a FRESH'The First 48: Without A Trace', then a FRESH'The First 48: Without A Trace'.
AMC offers the movie 'True Grit', followed by the movie 'Gran Torino', then a FRESH'American West'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 12 - Episode 6
[7:00AM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 13 - Episode 1
[8:00AM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 13 - Episode 2
[9:00AM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 13 - Episode 3
[10:00AM] MAN VS. WILD - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 2-Bear's Top Man Moments
[11:00AM] MAN VS. WILD - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 3-Vietnam
[12:00PM] MAN VS. WILD - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 10-Namibia (Part 1)
[1:00PM] MAN VS. WILD - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 11-Zambia (Part 2)
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 24-Menage a Troi
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 25-Transfigurations
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 26-The Best of Both Worlds (Part 1)
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 1-The Best of Both Worlds (Part 2)
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 2-Family
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 3-Brothers
[8:00PM] THE PATRIOT (2000)
[11:30PM] THE PATRIOT (2000)
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 25-Transfigurations
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 26-The Best of Both Worlds (Part 1)
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 1-The Best of Both Worlds (Part 2) (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of OC', another 'Real Housewives Of OC', followed by the movie 'The School Of Rock'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser', 'Jeff Ross Presents Roast Battle' (day 2), followed by the FRESH'Jeff Ross Presents Roast Battle' (day 3).
FX has the movie 'Transformers: Dark Of The Moon', followed by the movie 'Man Of Steel'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] FRIDAY THE 13TH: THE FINAL CHAPTER
[8:00AM] FRIDAY THE 13TH -- A NEW BEGINNING
[10:00AM] FRIDAY THE 13TH, PART VI: JASON LIVES
[12:00PM] SIXTEEN CANDLES
[2:00PM] BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE
[4:00PM] FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH
[6:00PM] FOOTLOOSE
[8:30PM] THE BREAKFAST CLUB
[10:45PM] SIXTEEN CANDLES
[12:45AM] THE BREAKFAST CLUB
[3:00AM] DIE HARD (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter-Comedy Actors
[7:00AM] The Bone Collector
[9:30AM] I Know What You Did Last Summer
[12:00PM] Christine
[2:00PM] The Impossible
[4:30PM] Monster's Ball
[7:00PM] The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
[10:30PM] Meet Joe Black
[2:30AM] The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Sharknado', followed by the movie 'Sharknado 2: The Second One'.
Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac performs at the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation Blue Diamond Gala at Dodgers Stadium on Thursday, July 28, 2016, in Los Angeles.
Photo by Rich Fury
The US Naval Institute's news service has obtained a congressional memo stating that the US Navy will name a Military Sealift Command fleet oiler after gay-rights activist Harvey Milk.
According to the Naval Institute, Milk came from a Navy family, joined in 1951, served as a diving officer during the Korean War, and later received an honorable discharge as a lieutenant junior grade.
After his stint in the Navy, Milk continued his public service by becoming the first openly gay elected official in California in 1977. He was assassinated a year later by another city official. At the time of his death, he was wearing his Navy diving belt buckle.
Other civil-rights leaders such as Medgar Evers and Cesar Chavez have had Navy ships named after them as well.
The USNS Harvey Milk will be the second oiler of its class built by General Dynamics in San Diego. Oiler ships serve as support ships to other Navy vessels by replenishing them with fuel and sometimes food, ammunition, mail, and other goods while at sea.
Actor Zachary Quinto is seen at Hennessy V.S Limited Edition by Scott Campbell Bottle Launch at Kinfolk on Thursday, July 28, 2016, in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Photo by Donald Traill
Genetic tests confirm that a mysterious, unnamed species of beaked whale only rarely seen alive by Japanese fishermen roams the northern Pacific Ocean, according to research published this week.
The testing shows the black whales, with bulbous heads and beaks like porpoises, are not dwarf varieties of more common Baird's beaked whales, a slate-gray animal.
Japanese researchers sampled three black beaked whales that washed up on the north coast of Hokkaido, the country's most northern island, and wrote about them in a 2013 paper. The challenge to confirm the existence of the new animal was finding enough specimens from a wider area for testing and matching genetic samples, said Phillip Morin, a National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration research molecular biologist.
He and his team uncovered five other whales, all found in Alaska, that matched the species found in Japan.
"Clearly this species is very rare and reminds us how much we have to learn about the ocean and even some of its largest inhabitants," he said in an announcement.
Justin Bieber rejected the Republican National Convention.
TMZ reports that the singer was offered $5 million by the RNC to perform at the convention nominating Donald Trump as the Republican candidate for president.
But Bieber ultimately turned down the offer, after his manager considered quitting over the potential gig and LeBron James urged Bieber to stay away from the convention, according to the site.
It would've been a windfall for an apparent 45-minute show, and according to TMZ's sources connected to CAA (Bieber's talent agency), the promoter for the event assured Bieber's team the performance was "not political." But Bieber's manager Scooter Braun and CAA felt differently.
Braun is a supporter of Hillary Clinton and reportedly said he would quit if Bieber did the show, as he believed "the GOP was using Bieber as its tool."
U.S. singer Lauryn Hill performs at the Stockholm Music and Arts festival on the islet of Skeppsholmen in central Stockholm, Sweden, Friday July 29, 2016.
Photo by Vilhelm Stokstad
China wants everyone to stop stealing its Great Wall.
Officials from the State Administration of Cultural Heritage have announced they will begin conducting regular inspections and will carry out random checks along the wall to ensure local authorities are complying with national protection laws, the Guardian reports.
While the country has worked to preserve the UNESCO site for decades, protection measures have not been as successful as they would like. Nearly one third of the Ming dynasty-era (1368-1644) wall has disappeared, and officials blame environmental causes and human damage.
The millions of tourists who visit the historic site can cause problems when they hike along remote stretches, but it's not only visitors hurting the wall. China's Great Wall Society has said local people who live near the wall regularly steal bricks from it to use in buildings or to sell. State-run media also reported that some villagers took bricks featuring historic engravings to sell to tourists for 30 yuan ($4.50).
U.S. soldier Chelsea Manning, imprisoned for passing classified files to WikiLeaks, now stands accused of misconduct stemming from her suicide attempt earlier this month and could land in solitary confinement indefinitely, her lawyers said on Thursday.
The ACLU, which has acknowledged a suicide attempt by Manning earlier this month, said the 28-year-old soldier remains despondent over what the civil liberties group describes as the Army's continued denial of appropriate health care for her.
The ACLU denounced the latest disciplinary action as "unconscionable."
"While Chelsea is suffering the darkest depression she has experienced since her arrest, the government is taking actions to punish her for that pain," ACLU staff lawyer Chase Strangio said in a statement.
The circumstances of the incident have not been disclosed, but the ACLU said it occurred in her cell and that she lost consciousness.
Canadian-American singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright performs at the Stockholm Music and Arts festival on the islet of Skeppsholmen, in central Stockholm, Friday, July 29, 2016.
Photo by Vilhelm Stokstad
Bill Cosby has dropped a lawsuit that demanded the accuser in his criminal case repay the money from their confidential 2006 court settlement.
Cosby had sued Andrea Constand for breach of contract for speaking to police who reopened the criminal investigation last year. His lawyers argued that her police statements, along with two tweets and brief comments to a Toronto newspaper, violated the confidentiality clause.
A judge this month upheld her right to talk to police, but said Cosby could pursue the other issues. Cosby, though, dropped the suit entirely on Thursday. The move comes a week after he switched law firms for the second time in about a year.
"With a court validation of his ability to proceed ... Mr. Cosby has today stepped away from that suit and will instead focus his efforts on defending himself against the claims that have been lodged against him," his lawyer said in a statement.
An Indian transgender K Manjamma Jogathi carries a vessel with images of Hindu goddess Renuka or Yellamma, her patron goddess, as she poses for a portrait after performing at International Trans Art Festival in Bangalore, India, July 29, 2016. The community of transgender artists known as Jogathis from southern Indian state of Karnataka perform at festivals and various other occasions to earn their livelihood.
Photo by Aijaz Rahi
Genetically modified wheat developed by Monsanto Co, and never approved by federal regulators, has been found growing in a Washington state farm field, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said on Friday.
The discovery of 22 unapproved genetically modified (GMO) wheat plants has prompted an investigation by federal and state investigators - the third such discovery in three years.
A farmer found the GMO wheat in a field that has not been planted since 2015. The plants had been identified as being one of Monsanto's experimental varieties "a few weeks ago," a spokesman from the Washington State Department of Agriculture said.
The USDA is testing grain harvested from the farmer's other wheat fields as a precaution, the agency said. Officials also reached out to at least one trade group earlier this week, and alerted importers on Thursday.
There are currently no commercially approved genetically modified wheat varieties and incidences of rogue plants are rare. The first case was in 2013 in Oregon, which prompted buyers including South Korea and Japan to stop buying U.S. wheat. More unapproved wheat was found in Montana in 2014.
A member of staff holds a first issue of The Tale of Peter Rabbit, estimated at £25,000-35,000, which will be auctioned in the Beatrix Potter Books and Works on Paper sale on her 150th anniversary, at an auction house in London, Wednesday, July 27, 2016.
Photo by Lauren Hurley
He got it from his mama. Twitter is going wild over an old photo of Donald Trump's late mother, Mary Trump, in which she sports an almost identical hairstyle to that of her son.
In the screen grab from a 1997 interview with Australian TV network Foxtel, Mary is seen with an extremely tall and swoopy combover in the exact same shade as the Republican presidential nominee's famous coif. She's wearing big gold earrings and a large pearl necklace, and the uncanny family resemblance is undeniable.
The photo resurfaced on social media after Foxtel aired a new documentary, Who IsDonald Trump? earlier this month, which included footage from Mary's old interview.
According to The New Yorker, Mary was an immigrant from Scotland who moved to New York City. It was there she met builder Frederick Christ "Fred" Trump at a dance. They married and settled in Jamaica, Queens. As her husband's fortune grew, she became a regular on the New York social scene. Mary died in New York City in 2000 at age 88.
Colombian model Ariadna Gutierrez, presents creations by Colombian brand Agua Bendita during Colombiamoda fashion event in Medellin, Colombia, July 28, 2016. Picture taken July 28, 2016.
Photo by John Vizcaino
The Top 20 Global Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows Worldwide. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.
1. Beyonce; $5,976,666; $128.27.
2. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band; $4,658,702; $104.73.
3. Paul McCartney; $3,230,728; $130.21.
4. Kenny Chesney; $1,803,319; $69.22.
5. Sting / Peter Gabriel; $1,677,513; $111.58.
6. Jeff Lynne's ELO; $1,648,038; $109.18.
7. Rod Stewart; $1,633,434; $106.52.
8. Justin Bieber; $1,616,057; $99.35.
9. Pearl Jam; $1,372,159; $68.10.
10. Rihanna; $1,297,290; $90.36.
11. Lionel Richie; $1,211,477; $95.98.
12. Iron Maiden; $1,055,438; $72.94.
13. Luke Bryan; $934,873; $55.39.
14. Dave Matthews Band; $921,930; $58.57.
15. The Who; $877,563; $85.94.
16. The Cure; $833,506; $56.11.
17. Andre Rieu; $806,334; $80.24.
18. Mumford & Sons; $792,779; $53.56.
19. Dixie Chicks; $752,328; $66.11.
20. Carrie Underwood; $737,004; $66.86.
A Sumatran Tiger called Indrah climbs a tree in its enclosure at the Melbourne Zoo in Melbourne, Australia, July 29, 2016. Only around 350 Sumatran Tigers remain in the wild due to deforestation. International Tiger Day is celebrated on July 29 to raise awareness of endangered tiger species.
Photo by Tracey Nearmy
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He got it from his mama. Twitter is going wild over an old photo of Donald Trump's late mother, Mary Trump, in which she sports an almost identical hairstyle to that of her son.
