Friday is Skyday

20:06

 

Laughing Lhursday*

The artist's commission:
Paint within 3 minutes
Don Quijote on Rocinante and Sancho Panza on his donkey
approaching a windmill.
And voilà!
As an encore, the artist even added a scorching sun over La Mancha,
or is it a dust-wreathed herd of mutton? ...

* [For first time visitors]:

Typo in the title?
Nah. It's just that I would not
let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.

Two things are certain

Two things are certain:
Humanity will vanish.
Nature will prevail.

 

Beers & Books (390) – Das Geheimnis der Pineta

"Enigma in luogo di mare"
A fine read, the more while enjoying holiday in Italy. ;-)

Carlo Fruttero (19 September 1926 – 15 January 2012)

Franco Luccentini (24 December 1920 – 5 August 2002)

Fruttero & Luccentini

Beers & Books (389) – Sergio Ramírez: Tiempo de fulgor

Tiempo de fulgor

Sergio Ramírez *5 August 1942

Coffee time with Antonio Muñoz Molina

The Polish Rider (El jenite polaco) I re-read a few days ago.
This afternoon "The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield" 
enriched my coffeetime. ... Well, not all, but two of them. ;-)

Beers & Books (388) – James Baldwin

One Day When I Was Lost

 James Baldwin (2 August 1924 – 2 August 2024)

Friday is Skyday

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Laughing Lhursday*

Bird poo art

However you spin it

 * [For first time visitors]:

Typo in the title?
Nah. It's just that I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.

Edna O'Brien – 15 December 1930 – 27 July 2024

What a writer!
Not to write: What a woman!

Edna O'Brien (15 December 1930 – 27 July 2024)

Laughing Lhursday*

Comic cloud

* [For first time visitors]:

Typo in the title?
Nah. It's just that I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.

Beers & Books (387) – Kleiner Mann, was nun?

Little Man, What Now?

Hans Fallada (21 July 1893 – 5 February 1947)

Beers & Books (386) – Ernest Hemingway

Happy 125th birthday!

Ernest Hemingway (21 July 1899 – 2 July 1961)