who wants to attempt to explain Waffle House tonight

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

Jeez Louise!

The SYMBOLOGIST (which is actually just a made-up word for an art historian) Robert Langdon alongside his ingenue saying, "I have to get to a library. Fast."

I don't get to Kalamazoo often, and perhaps it's because the very first time I went I attended the showing of the Da Vinci Code, and nothing will ever top a room of several hundred people dying of laughter at this precise moment of intense drama.

Arrived as a 2025 Christmas present — similar situation

Always. He was a regular at my undergrad college’s exhibition openings/our degree shows in Memphis and somehow this seemed normal

Late Bronze Age shield from Beith, Ayrshire

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I get it. I ran too

A simple stone rectangular tomb with slightly overhanging flat stone top, and three ovoid holes along the side. The holes allowed pilgrims and sick people to have access to the coffin below to kiss it and pray. It is pictured in Salisbury Cathedral with other tombs and stained glass windows in the background.

Simple #TombTuesday of St Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury from 1065.
Originally in 1st Cathedral at Old Sarum for 1099 burial, moved 1226 to new cathedral.
Holes allowed closer contact for pilgrims to crawl in, kiss coffin lid.
Osmund's magnificent shrine from 1457 canonization wrecked in Reformation.

Yes (I need the cure)

Heron between riverbank and green lawn, with trees and white building

Welcoming committee on university drop off day

hotographer Kevin Cummins, Joy Division on Epping Walk Bridge, Hulme, Jan 6 1979

Tower of London partially closed after food thrown at crown jewels display Four people arrested after protest against UK inequality claimed by civil-resistance group Take Back Power

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My department is hiring a tenure track assistant professor in in the visual arts, architecture, and/or material culture of the Islamic world. Please circulate!

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Putting the peer in peer review

Stars are Stars - Echo & the Bunnymen

The U.S. was a leader in cultural heritage investigations. Now those agents are working immigration enforcement. Homeland Security Investigations, the department’s investigative arm, once had as many as eight agents in its New York office investigating cultural property cases.

Denver Post confirms what we’ve been hearing: nearly all federal HSI agents with expertise on cultural property crimes have been reassigned to immigration duties in recent months.

Major loss of law enforcement capabilities in the world’s largest art market.

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All broken implements of a ruin’d house.

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“It would be funny if it wasn’t so f**king serious.”

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You were fabulous!!

This is all possible in Leicester (and Manchester, and Edinburgh, etc.)

Hot MERL Summer

So exciting!