Mathieu Duplay 🌈
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Music for a while. He/him/his. Reposts are not endorsements. TERFs need not apply. I am Albert Gregor.
When you discover that someone you briefly dated in your twenties now has his own Wikipedia entry.
an elderly woman says it 's been 84 years ...
Alt: an elderly woman says "it 's been 84 years..."
media.tenor.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:36 AM
When you discover that someone you briefly dated in your twenties now has his own Wikipedia entry.
there is no snow in Hollywood
there is no rain in California
I have been to lots of parties
and acted perfectly disgraceful
but I never actually collapsed
oh Lana Turner we love you get up
there is no rain in California
I have been to lots of parties
and acted perfectly disgraceful
but I never actually collapsed
oh Lana Turner we love you get up
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 12:44 AM
there is no snow in Hollywood
there is no rain in California
I have been to lots of parties
and acted perfectly disgraceful
but I never actually collapsed
oh Lana Turner we love you get up
there is no rain in California
I have been to lots of parties
and acted perfectly disgraceful
but I never actually collapsed
oh Lana Turner we love you get up
A bird? A plane? Don't be ridiculous, Ferruccio. That's obviously Superman.
December 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A bird? A plane? Don't be ridiculous, Ferruccio. That's obviously Superman.
Obviously, this is only the first part (the Allegro con fuoco is missing).
Capriccio brillant, Op. 22: Andante
YouTube video by Matthias Kirschnereit - Topic
youtu.be
December 6, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Obviously, this is only the first part (the Allegro con fuoco is missing).
It's a tie! "All I Want for Christmas" and "Feliz Navidad."
I know.
I know.
December 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
It's a tie! "All I Want for Christmas" and "Feliz Navidad."
I know.
I know.
If Spotify is as good at figuring out essential information about you as it is at guessing your age, I wouldn't worry about it snooping on your private life. The ICE stuff, the AI-generated slop and the exploitation of living artists are far more serious concerns, imho.
December 4, 2025 at 1:43 PM
If Spotify is as good at figuring out essential information about you as it is at guessing your age, I wouldn't worry about it snooping on your private life. The ICE stuff, the AI-generated slop and the exploitation of living artists are far more serious concerns, imho.
I'd take an old-style icebox, with actual blocks of ice in it, over a so-called "smart fridge" that calls me by my first name.
This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
December 4, 2025 at 9:21 AM
I'd take an old-style icebox, with actual blocks of ice in it, over a so-called "smart fridge" that calls me by my first name.
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Edmund Spenser
from Amoretti
from Amoretti
November 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Edmund Spenser
from Amoretti
from Amoretti
In belated observance of World AIDS Day, here is recently rediscovered footage of ACT UP marching through Paris on Dec. 1st, 1990. Yes, thirty-five years (a lifetime) ago. "Contre le sida, une journée ça ne suffit pas." Why is this scourge still with us?
Act Up-Paris : 1er décembre 1990
YouTube video by Didier Lestrade
youtu.be
December 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
In belated observance of World AIDS Day, here is recently rediscovered footage of ACT UP marching through Paris on Dec. 1st, 1990. Yes, thirty-five years (a lifetime) ago. "Contre le sida, une journée ça ne suffit pas." Why is this scourge still with us?
Reposted by Mathieu Duplay 🌈
Researching the origins of "Friends of Dorothy," I came across this description of board game that genuinely sounds like fun
December 2, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Researching the origins of "Friends of Dorothy," I came across this description of board game that genuinely sounds like fun
Reposted by Mathieu Duplay 🌈
Flyer by John Giorno published by Visual AIDS in 1993 for Day Without Art.
December 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Flyer by John Giorno published by Visual AIDS in 1993 for Day Without Art.
Whoever can write a cross between the Lied der Lulu and the Ballad of Sweeney Todd?
If you could have any musician, past or present, compose a soundtrack for your life, who would it be?
December 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Whoever can write a cross between the Lied der Lulu and the Ballad of Sweeney Todd?
When I asked Uchida to sign this CD after a concert in Edinburgh and added that it was a particular favourite of mine, she smiled and said, "Pierre would be so happy." Without question, one of the sweetest and most gracious people I have ever met.
#NowListening
Schoenberg – Piano Concerto (Mitsuko Uchida, Pierre Boulez, Cleveland)
(Philips, 2001)
20th Century Classical / Modernism
Schoenberg – Piano Concerto (Mitsuko Uchida, Pierre Boulez, Cleveland)
(Philips, 2001)
20th Century Classical / Modernism
November 30, 2025 at 11:25 PM
When I asked Uchida to sign this CD after a concert in Edinburgh and added that it was a particular favourite of mine, she smiled and said, "Pierre would be so happy." Without question, one of the sweetest and most gracious people I have ever met.
B*rdella had an egg thrown at him during a book-signing event, and now part of the French press is gravely comparing him to Charlie Kirk (I didn't know eggs could kill). Apropos of nothing, here is Anita Bryant getting pied.
Anita Bryant's Pie to the Face - www.NBCUniversalArchives.com
YouTube video by NBCUniversal Archives
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 9:56 PM
B*rdella had an egg thrown at him during a book-signing event, and now part of the French press is gravely comparing him to Charlie Kirk (I didn't know eggs could kill). Apropos of nothing, here is Anita Bryant getting pied.
Hans Krasa's extraordinary rewriting of Casta Diva in his 1933 opera Verlobung im Traum. Krasa was born #OTD in 1899 and was murdered by the Nazis in 1944.
youtu.be/UDw9wcm8MVc?...
youtu.be/UDw9wcm8MVc?...
Krása: Verlobung im Traum / Act 1: Casta Diva'
YouTube video by Juanita Lascarro - Topic
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Hans Krasa's extraordinary rewriting of Casta Diva in his 1933 opera Verlobung im Traum. Krasa was born #OTD in 1899 and was murdered by the Nazis in 1944.
youtu.be/UDw9wcm8MVc?...
youtu.be/UDw9wcm8MVc?...
How your email finds me.
Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart in, Dark Victory (1939).
November 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
How your email finds me.
The Alfred Jewel is one of my favourite things.
Offline, I've been asked why the Dark Ages isn't an appropriate term for the Early Medieval period. Bottom line, you'd be hard pressed to make something as stunning as the Alfred Jewel if you couldn't see what you were doing. End of. www.ashmolean.org/alfred-jewel
ALFRED JEWEL
The Alfred Jewel is a masterpiece of goldsmith's work formed around a tear-shaped slice of rock crystal. Its inscription: AELFRED MEC HEHT GEWYRCAN – 'Alfred ordered me to be made’ – connects the jewe...
www.ashmolean.org
November 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The Alfred Jewel is one of my favourite things.
Every time I open Facebook, I find it more loathsome than the last. I used to dislike it, now I find it scary. Unless it's all bots spouting fascist garbage at other bots in the absence of actual humans. In which case it is pointless and should be taken down.
November 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Every time I open Facebook, I find it more loathsome than the last. I used to dislike it, now I find it scary. Unless it's all bots spouting fascist garbage at other bots in the absence of actual humans. In which case it is pointless and should be taken down.
They will. Dogs understand everything. :) But they will forgive you.
Fun fact: your dogs can’t read the calendar and you can tell them tomorrow is Thanksgiving too. You can give them turkey every day and they’ll never know you’re fibbing.
November 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
They will. Dogs understand everything. :) But they will forgive you.
I really need to visit Ravenna again.
The church of St John the Evangelist (San Giovanni Evangelista) in Ravenna is the oldest in the city, built on orders of Empress Galla Placidia in the 5th century.
The 13th century floor mosaics, now affixed to the walls, depict scenes from the Crusades, such as the sack of Constantinople, 1204.
The 13th century floor mosaics, now affixed to the walls, depict scenes from the Crusades, such as the sack of Constantinople, 1204.
November 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I really need to visit Ravenna again.
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Thanksgiving with Lilian Harvey, 1933: carving the turkey in an ostrich feather boa, as one does.
November 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Thanksgiving with Lilian Harvey, 1933: carving the turkey in an ostrich feather boa, as one does.
I love the doting, maternal way Behrens looks at Norman. "She's going to do it... wait for it... NOW. OMG, OMG. There she goes again. I knew it. Isn't it wonderful? Come, darling, let me give you a hug. I love you so, so much. Now go."
Jessye Norman: "O hehrstes Wunder!"
YouTube video by Metropolitan Opera
youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I love the doting, maternal way Behrens looks at Norman. "She's going to do it... wait for it... NOW. OMG, OMG. There she goes again. I knew it. Isn't it wonderful? Come, darling, let me give you a hug. I love you so, so much. Now go."
Listening to the 1976 Walküre from Bayreuth. The standard of singing is really *much* higher today. De Barbeyrac is a Siegmund such as Boulez could only dream of. Even Tamara Wilson *sounds* considerably better than Jones in strictly vocal terms. But Boulez has not been replaced.
November 26, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Listening to the 1976 Walküre from Bayreuth. The standard of singing is really *much* higher today. De Barbeyrac is a Siegmund such as Boulez could only dream of. Even Tamara Wilson *sounds* considerably better than Jones in strictly vocal terms. But Boulez has not been replaced.