Birds on a Wire

OP: This time it's lion cubs dance (cr 冰彬兵)

This is a form of backdoor bigotry from both normative facts (there are more straight than gay relationships) and well represented bigoted beliefs (men are superior to women).

Chinese archaeologists have restored a 1,400-year-old royal crown, which belonged to Empress Xiao the wife of Yang Guang, or Emperor Yang of Sui, the second and last monarch of the short-lived Sui Dynasty (581-618).

“After spending several months on loan to the Musée d'Orsay, Madame X (1883–84) returns.”

I received an email today with a headline that read “The Return of Madame X.” In honor of her return home, I found myself revisiting the photos I took of her this summer.

Camera lighting and shadow never quite catch the details that stop you in your tracks. Similarly, words never quite capture the moments that alter you.

Yet somehow I still find myself taking too many photos at museums and trying inevitably to put pen to paper. What madness of impulse this is.

P.S. I adore John Singer-Sargent.

Rikishi Ryōri Sumo Restaurant