Karl Appuhn

@appuhn

Historian of Renaissance Italian trees, critters, medical practitioners, and assorted other stuff. Californian in exile. Veteran. Semi-pro Curmudgeon.

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Karl Appuhn@appuhn· 13d

A long haired calico cat sitting on a wooden chair and staring directly at the camera.

Karl Appuhn@appuhn· 22d

Archivio di Stato in Venice. This is the exit on a wet winter evening.

A darkened courtyard illuminated by a single light. It is paved with large grey stone blocks that are wet from the rain. There is a small archway through which you can see another door. That door leads to a canal.

Karl Appuhn@appuhn· 25d

You've been murdered. Who do you want on the case?

Bunk and McNulty, two characters from the television show The Wire.

Karl Appuhn@appuhn· Apr 16

Shouldn't this be a self-guided tour?

A man in a grey jacket holding up a sign that reads "Ayn Rand Tour"

Karl Appuhn@appuhn· Feb 2

Not quite ready to walk over to Manhattan, but we're getting close.

A photograph of the frozen over Spuyten Dyvil Creek, which separates the Bronx from Manhattan. The Henry Hudson Bridge looks overhead.

Another view of the frozen over Spuyten Dyvil Creek. This is looking west. The Amtrak trestle bridge is in the foreground. The Hudson River and the Palisades are in the middle and background.

Karl Appuhn@appuhn· Jan 30

Is it cold in NYC this fine sunny morning? Why yes, yes it is.

A photograph of the trestle bridge over Spuyten Dyvil Creek. There is a lot of ice on the water. Beyond the bridge is the Hudson River, which is also quite icy. The Palisades are in the background.

Karl Appuhn@appuhn· Jan 2

Also, have you read this?

Karl Appuhn@appuhn· Jan 1

And, of course this is an early sixteenth-century text that was heavily influenced by those neoplatonic ideas. And while Machiavelli and Guicciardini and Botero get most of the press, this is arguably just as important for shaping modern ideas about social norms and political hierarchies.

Cover of a paperback edition of Baldessario Castiglione's "Book of the Courtier" first published in 1528. The image is a portrait of Castiglione painted by the artist Raffaello. Castiglione is looking directly at the viewer, and he is wearing a large soft black hat and a coat. His beard would make a Brooklyn hipster weep with envy.

Karl Appuhn@appuhn· Jan 1

Hall of Fame bad response to the JH thread. JH's cardinal sin as a scholar was that he did not recognize anything outside of his own interests as legitimate. If your response is that what he worked on was obviously unimportant, then you are exactly as narrow minded as he is. Congratulations.

Skeet that reads: It is hard to believe that anything about 15th-century Florentine Neoplatonism is very important.

Karl Appuhn@appuhn· Dec 25

Search your first name and then "glamour shot" and post a photo.

Karl Appuhn@appuhn· Dec 15

Palate cleanser, for those who need one. Venetians on ice.

Karl Appuhn@appuhn· Dec 10

Nothing is more cursed that Tomlinson in a Jets Jersey (and I stand by the statement that anyone ending their career in a Jets jersey is a gimme).

Karl Appuhn@appuhn· Dec 10

Seahawks Franco Harris

Karl Appuhn@appuhn· Dec 10

Jets are a gimme:

Karl Appuhn@appuhn· Dec 10

Working on eighteenth-century sources is usually relatively easy. Then every once in a while there's some secretary who was apparently mad at posterity.

An eighteenth-century manuscript. The person who wrote it appears to have started suffering from seizures about halfway through.

Karl Appuhn@appuhn· Nov 11

Happy Veterans Day. But I wish the radio stations would stop playing fucking Lee Greenwood. Speaking only for this veteran, I hate that song. It's shitty on the merits, and shittier because of who has appropriated it.

A stick of paratroopers descending under canopy. You can see the C-130 they jumped out of receding in the distance. I took the picture. Taylor DZ. If you know, you know.

Karl Appuhn@appuhn· Nov 10

This is the one and only good Fluffernutter.

A calico cat in the loaf position on a white floor. She is looking at the camera with a pained expression of contempt for the stupid human taking her picture. "This again?"

Karl Appuhn@appuhn· Nov 5

I could smell the mustard and the onions

the actress Sharon Stone in a still from the movie Basic Instinct. She is being interrogated by police while wearing a very revealing white dress. She is about to uncross her legs and flash her interrogators.

Karl Appuhn@appuhn· Nov 5

I could smell the mustard and the onions

The actor Tom Berenger as Sgt Barnes in a still from the Oliver Stone Film "Platoon" Berenger is smoking a cigarette while staring menacingly at another soldier.

Karl Appuhn@appuhn· Sep 4

Palate Cleanser: Yonkers warehouse cat:

An orange and white cat sits on the windowsill of an ivy covered brick warehouse building. The cat is very focused on something going on on the street below.

Karl Appuhn@appuhn· Sep 4

Palate cleanser: Yonkers warehouse kitty

An orange cat sitting on the widowsill of an ivy covered warehouse building.

Karl Appuhn@appuhn· Aug 31

Who's the next mayor of NYC? Wrong answers only.

A man in a red muppet (Elmo) costume walking in Times Square.

Karl Appuhn@appuhn· Jul 8

I take that back. I would have paid money to see all the broken ankles from these guys doing a fast rope insertion. Just a giant pile of dipshits at the bottom of the rope. And you just know someone would have been knocked out cold when the helo crew cut the ropes loose at the end.

Screen shot of a section of the op planning for the MacArthur Park shitshow today. It says "No Fast Rope Insertion; Rotary Wing for Medevac only." That this needed to be said suggests that at least one dipshit must have been pushing for it.

Karl Appuhn@appuhn· Jun 6

you may not like it but this is what 2 high agency males look like

Publicity still for the sitcom "The Odd Couple" Jack Klugman and Tony Randall as Oscar Madison and Felix Unger against a pink background. Klugman is wearing a backwards baseball cap and smoking a cigar. Randall is wearing a brown houndstooth jacket, striped shirt, and paisley necktie.

Karl Appuhn@appuhn· Apr 19

I'm pretty sure this is exactly how the minutemen rolled up to the battle of Lexington.

Karl Appuhn@appuhn· Mar 20

It's Triton Time. LFG.

Me, a middle aged man with a lot of gray in his beard, holding up a UCSD coffee cup and wearing a dark blue UCSD T-shirt. This is an illustration of how, despite their evident problems, college sports can make adults who should know better behave like absolute dipshits.

Karl Appuhn@appuhn· Mar 19

Post a fictional character who you think would be an antivaxxer. Hard Mode: No villains

The character Joey Tribbiani from the TV Sitcom Friends. Sitting on the couch, holding a half eaten slice of pepperoni pizza with a "death stare" expression on his face. Probably because Chandler just told him to get vaccinated.

Karl Appuhn@appuhn· Mar 5

Why get an overpriced Dodge Ram stuck in a narrow Italian street when you can support the EU by doing it with your Ferrari?

Ferrari incastrata in un vicolo stretto (Ferrari stuck between the walls of a narrow street)

Karl Appuhn@appuhn· Mar 1

Treetop level is the best level for bird watching.

A calico cat stares intently out of a second story window.

Karl Appuhn@appuhn· Mar 1

Was cleaning out some boxes and these were in there. Going to have to update them to include NATO aircraft in the enemy suits