Frank Garrett
@frankgarrett
"Meaningless to heaven, and of no interest to hell." | literary translator | feral philosopher | becoming inimical | Fulbright Scholar 🇵🇱 | FLAS Fellow 🇺🇦 | BDS | LGBTQIA+
Today's research brought me back to one of my most adored sculptors: Johann Georg Pinzel. Seeing his work in person was one of the first times I really loved baroque art, but mostly because he seemed to foreshadow cubism: www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?...
Rest in peace, my little friend who made me toast for almost 35 years. It’s more than most people have done for me.
I feel your pain, Europe. Especially you, Poland. Be safe out there! (And yes, now our weather includes alerts about Saharan dust.)
Also, big middle finger to everyone who has ever said, “The older you get, the more conservative you become.”
Starfish with slipper giving strong @minxmarple.bsky.social energy.
Got called to my supervisor’s office this afternoon. He said I was doing a good job but that he’s noticed I’ve been slacking off on the afternoon tickles of late. I promised to do a better job.
Some of my earliest memories are of visiting the cemeteries on Memorial Day. Today I’m going to try to avoid firework displays, services that somehow try to conflate today with whatever it is that cops do, and whatever nonsense G00gle is doing with the folded flag bc eeew.
Extremely here for my best friend from grad school texting me his photobombing of THE Redon that happens to be on tour where he now lives. Though to be honest, extremely here for any of my friends texting me random Redons.
Some of my friends in the garden this morning. So glad I don’t have a lawn.
We should celebrate the fact that now even they can’t bring themselves to say „Z̴̶i̴̶o̴̶n̴̶i̴̶s̴̶m̴̶.”
Saw my first chupacabra today. At first I thought it was a xolo because it was a stocky, lumbering little tank. Def not a fox, boar, or opossum. Any of you folks have a clue?
Two works at auction that I wouldn't mind sharing my home with: Hugo Consuegra's 1958 Untitled (current bid: $3,000) and Takeo Yamaguchi's 1964 Yellow Assembly (starting bid: $25,000). My budget remains about $50.