Knocking At The Gate

Writing in The Bitter Southerner , Wyatt Williams reads Lucinda Williams' memoir but doesn't get to talk to her about it and instead contemplates the limitations of memory, the relationships between parents and children, the complexities of the American South in general and of Louisiana in particular, on the nature of songs that are lists of resonant images or place names, and on whatever it is that Lucinda Williams does for and about and because of all of these things.

  Wilhelm von Kaulbach. (1857). " Headpiece with dancing animals." 2000 – Ice Spice and Lil Pump 1999 – Polo G and Lil Nas X  1998 – Maya Hawke and Shawn Mendes 1997 – Simone Biles and Lil Yachty  1996 – Tom Holland and Zendaya 1995 – Timothée Chalamet and Denzel Curry 1994 – Bad Bunny and Justin Bieber 1993 – Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande 1992 – Cardi B and Selena Gomez 1991 – Tyler The Creator and Travis Scott 1990 – Margot Robbie and Emma Watson 1989 – Taylor Swift and SZA 1988 – Adele and Lizzo 1987 – Zac Efron and Kendrick Lamar 1986 – Drake and Josh Peck 1985 – Gal Gadot and Keira Knightley 1984 – T-Pain and Mark Zuckerberg 1983 – Future and Mila Kunis 1982 – Seth Rogen and Lil Wayne 1981 – Beyoncé and Roger Federer 1980 – Macaulay Culkin and Lin-Manuel Miranda 1979 – Josh Hawley and Zhang Ziyi 1978 – Ashton Kutcher and Ron DeSantis 1977 – Orlando Bloom and Shakira 1976 – Rick Ross and Kyrsten Sinema 1975 – Bradley Cooper and Taika Waititi 1974 – Christian Bale and M

  Hell and damnation: I stewed over this article in Nature since before sunup so now I bring to you my list of boderations. I am enormously pleased to see that visual logic problems are hard for machines to solve. I am not at all pleased at how well the damn things do on the GRE. I'm neither a fan of nor an apologist for the GRE despite all the many enduring benefits I obtained by acing it, but nonetheless this is vexing. My rubric for admitting that there are "glimmers of reasoning" or what we think of as actual understanding in machine results is so hard that I'm sure I'm not being objective about it. As with preschoolers and matches, we're not smart enough nor responsible enough to be doing this work and we ought not to be doing it. That I believe something like this is quite astonishing to me, because it seems to go against just about everything else I believe about science and technology and ambition and possibility and progress. I am amused and slightly

Trying to use the 2010s Internet with a 1980s mentality is an ongoing struggle. What I mean is that I still somehow think the Internet should be experienced so that (1) I get to the content I want in less than three clicks, (2) I do so in a way that sheds the least personal information, and (3) I get the content I want, instead of the content a robot wants me to see. This last item includes advertising, of course, all of which we all know in our hearts to be a mortal sin.  Obviously, I use a pihole as a DNS sink, and I send all of the devices I use through it: my PCs, my tablet, my phone, my teevee box, and every stupid light bulb that thinks it needs to tell corporate when it gets dark here. On my pcs, my phone, and my tablet, I used locked-down versions of Firefox with additional layers of adblock. I also block most scripting, and block specific layout elements. When I want to build up my teevee watchlist, I use an aggregator like JustWatch or Letterboxd. I expect these services to e

Killer Mike by Brinson + Banks Writing in The Bitter Southerner , Christina Lee looks at why Atlanta legend Killer Mike is so successful and why he continues to surprise and confound: But as Mike has discovered, being what he calls a “connector” is tougher than ever to actually put into practice, especially when America’s political and cultural divides have deepened. “I wish to be someone from the westside of Atlanta who keeps his community connected to hope and opportunity, and I don’t mean that in an abstract, vague way,” he says. “There’s a real hope in growing up as a Black person in America and seeing Black success. And there’s a real hope in seeing Black people and white people cooperate.” Mike is invoking the storied “Atlanta Way,” an unwritten and informal code of conduct between Black activists and white business leaders that dates back to the Civil Rights Movement. Proponents of the Atlanta Way credit it with achieving gradual but steady reforms by putting business interests

It is my honor to have three paintings in "The Road To Florida," a new juried show at The Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center on First Street in Fort Myers. The shows asks of the artist and the audience to consider what brought us to Florida, and what keeps us here.    The show opens Friday, June 3rd at 6:00 p.m. and runs through Friday, June 24th at 10:00 p.m. Dona and I will there in the Grand Atrium on opening night and it would be great to see you!   Regular gallery hours are Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. with extended hours on Wednesdays and Fridays 10 a.m to 10 p.m. Admission is one dollar.