Matt

Flower watercolour with stripey grass, iris, rose, Icelandic poppy and dianthus

Mostly roses with shells, watercolour

I have always enjoyed flower painting and here's a couple of older ones from the '80s, sold a long time ago. These images were scanned from film photos taken by me before they were sold. These would all have been picked from my garden.
#art #botanical #stilllife #flowers

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Misokinesia is a sensitivity to seeing others fidget that is prevalent in the general population - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Misokinesia is a sensitivity to seeing others fidget that is prevalent in the general population

It’s normal! It’s known as Misokinesia, or anxiety derived from seeing other people fidget. It’s incredibly common in ADHD folks.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Lady gaga on drag race and she’s pointing at YOU

if artpop has a million fans, i am one of them. if artpop has 5 fans, i am one of them. if artpop has 1 fan, that one is me. if artpop has no fans, then i am no longer alive. if the world is against artpop, i am against the entire world. til my last breath, i’ll support artpop.

Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

Getting a library card is punk as fuck and free!

Reasons to Live Through the Apocalypse Sunrises. People you have still to meet and laugh with. Songs about love, peace, anger, and revolution. Walks in the woods. The smile you exchange with a stranger when you experience beauty accidentally together. Butterflies. Seeing your grandparents again. The moon in all her forms, whether half or full. Dogs. Birthdays and half-birthdays. That feeling of floating in love. Watching birds eat from bird feeders. The waves of happiness that follow the end of sadness. Brown eyes. Watching a boat cross an empty sea. Sunsets. Dipping your feet in the river. Balconies. Cake. The wind in your face when you roll the car window down on an open highway. Falling asleep to the sound of a steady heartbeat. Warm cups of tea on cold days. Hugs. Night skies. Art museums. Books filled with everything you do not yet know. Long conversations. Long-lost friends. Poetry.

I wrote this on one of the darkest days of my life. It gave me an anchor to hold onto.

Just so we’re clear:
1. Audiobooks count
2. Reading is political
3. The orange man is a piece of 💩

Thanks for stopping by 💃

Please buy books and read them. It will matter moving forward.

an elderly woman is sitting in a crowd of people and making a sad face . ALT: an elderly woman is sitting in a crowd of people and making a sad face .

Black Americans watching everyone else finally get scared:

Going over to X now feels like having to check the mold infestation in your basement.