Ars Nihil

Fun things I learned from this Nerd With Microphone video about animator Ladislas Starevich 's 1937 movie The Tale of the Fox : 1.) The...

Drag has a long history with how soldiers blow off steam while waiting for the fighting to start. It's also been long-tied to queer...

Sunny, hot, just work and house stuff. Have some possible Something Interestings/micro-posts for later. Today's album is The Durutti...

I grew up with The Beach Boys on the radio during car rides to Virginia Beach in the 1990s, so finding out about Brian Wilson's death is...

A poet I've known about for a while, Amy Lowell is both well-known and not known enough. Since she's famous for drawing from her...

Journaling has both been beneficial but also perhaps a backfire. I've been more temperamental and unfocused lately, obsessing more about...

Along with classical music and professional cycling , philosophy is an area of knowledge I have only rudimentary awareness but still...

How can anyone not like platypuses? They lay eggs even though they're mammals, they can fend for themselves with huge spurs, and their...

While I shared Aja (1977) as my Album of the Day for this morning's journal entry , I also mentioned it's not my absolute favorite....

After a jam-packed weekend, things have gotten quiet again and we're off to planning for other summer events. The situation in L.A. is...

Sly Stone died today at 82. All the Sly & The Family Stone albums are fantastic but their Woodstock performance is my favorite (they...

Cycling is one of those sports up there with cricket and F1 that the rest of the world goes crazy for but is generally ignored by us...

This was a jam-packed weekend but also a cathartic one. Almost all of it was focused on attending World Pride/Capitol Pride on both...

While I've been more focused on other things, I also want to take a moment to acknowledge that today is the 81st anniversary of D-Day (...

This is going to be a busy weekend for me for reasons I'll explain on Sunday/Monday but mostly gearing up to be out and about with...

For some good ol' queer swashbuckling fun, here's a few videos about one of the coolest women in history, the French opera singer Julie...

Stonewall is often the key event when talking about LGBTQ+ rights here in the United States but there was an equally important event...

Chess boxing is one of those weird things I've come across here and there throughout the years, so I finally looked into some videos and...

Same story as before: sunny, hot, nothing of real note. Been listening to this week's Behind the Bastards about the scientist behind the...

Today was apparently National Cheese Day but also only one of many cheese days . Regardless of whether this was the superior Cheese Day,...