“Illness,
insanity, and death . . . kept watch
over my cradle and accompanied me all my life,” noted innovative Norwegian
artist Edvard Munch (1864-1944). Deeply
affected by the untimely death of his mother (when he was 5) and his
15-year-old sister (when he was 14), he devoted his early artistic efforts to
painting their predicament and the ravages of tuberculosis. His own fragile physical and emotional state
dominated the way he viewed and executed his art. In his middle years,
incapacitated by depression, he spent time in a sanatorium in Denmark, and even
though he recovered, his work never regained its initial expressiveness. Inspired
by the work of Henrik Ibsen, Munch studied psychoanalysis and created art that
unraveled the mysteries of the psyche.
His canvases are filled with agonizing uncertainty and excruciating
loneliness, anticipating Ingmar Bergman’s theater and cinematic work. His personal neuroses and physical ailments
permeate the cultural anxiety expressed in his work. Even as he painted the existential drama of
his own life, Munch did so without graphic depictions of monsters or
apparitions. Rather, he provoked
emotional response through unnatural color, internal rhythm, and undulating
lines, as in The Scream, one of the most reproduced and universally acclaimed
paintings in the history of art. Munch
studied in Oslo and traveled extensively to Italy, Germany, and France, where
he took in the influences of his contemporaries (particularly Toulouse-Lautrec,
van Gogh, and Gauguin) who were turning the angst of modern civilization into
symbolism and stark expressionism.
Preoccupation with decadence and evil pervaded the artistic and literary
climate of the day. Darkness and horror
inspired deeply personal, highly expressive art in a variety of styles, all of
which fit under the umbrella of symbolism, as long as they embodied its
peculiarly gloomy state of mind. The
movement’s emphasis on inner vision rather than observation of nature captured
Munch’s haunted imagination and engaged his moody genius. Infectious
disease medicine has come a long way, yet Munch’s specter of the flu is
alarmingly current. Surveillance of
circulating viruses is increasing and flu vaccination has entered the
mainstream, but epidemics are still frequent and strains arising from antigenic
shift keep the next flu pandemic just around the corner. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2958553/ See also https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edvard_Munch_-_Self-Portrait_with_the_Spanish_Flu_(1919).jpg
All-Purpose
Beer Marinade for Grilling (meat or veggies!)
Jackie Dodd Mallory
A live action role-playing game (LARP) is a form of role-playing game where the participants
in real life physically portray their
characters. The players pursue goals within a fictional setting represented
by the real world while interacting with each other in character. The outcome of player actions may be mediated
by game rules or determined by consensus among players. Event arrangers called gamemasters decide the setting and rules
to be used and facilitate play. The
first LARPs were run in the late 1970s, inspired by tabletop
role-playing games and genre fiction.
The activity spread internationally during the 1980s and has diversified
into a wide variety of styles. Play may
be very game-like or may be more concerned with dramatic or artistic
expression. Events can also be designed
to achieve educational or political goals.
The fictional genres used vary greatly, from realistic modern or
historical settings to fantastic or futuristic eras. Production values are sometimes minimal, but
can involve elaborate venues and costumes.
LARPs range in size from small private events lasting a few hours to large
public events with thousands of players lasting for days. LARP does not have a single point of origin,
but was invented independently by groups in North America, Europe, and
Australia. These groups shared an experience with genre fiction or
tabletop role-playing games, and a desire to physically experience such
settings. In addition to tabletop
role-playing, LARP is rooted in childhood games of make believe, play fighting, costume parties, roleplay simulations, Commedia dell'arte,
improvisational theatre, psychodrama, military simulations,
and historical
reenactment groups such as the Society
for Creative Anachronism. The
earliest recorded LARP group is Dagorhir, which was founded in 1977 in the
United States and focuses on fantasy battles. Soon after the
release of the movie Logan's Run in
1976, rudimentary live role-playing games based on the movie were run at US
science fiction conventions. In 1981, the International Fantasy
Gaming Society (IFGS) started, with rules influenced by Dungeons &
Dragons. IFGS was named after a fictional group in the
1981 novel Dream Park,
which described futuristic LARPs. In 1982, the Society for
Interactive Literature, a predecessor of the Live Action
Roleplayers Association (LARPA), formed as the first recorded theatre-style LARP
group in the US. Treasure Trap, formed in 1982 at Peckforton Castle, was the first recorded LARP
game in the UK and influenced the fantasy LARPs that followed there. The
first recorded LARP in Australia was run in 1983, using the science
fiction Traveller setting.
In 1993, White Wolf Publishing released Mind's Eye Theatre, which
is still played internationally and is probably the most commercially
successful published LARP. The first German events were in the early
1990s, with fantasy LARP in particular growing quickly there, so that since
2001, two major German events have been run annually that have between 3000 and
7000 players each and attract players from around Europe. Today, LARP is a widespread activity
internationally. Games with thousands of
participants are run by for-profit companies, and a small industry exists to
sell costume, armour and foam weapons intended primarily for LARP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_action_role-playing_game
Slow-Cooker Hobo Stew https://foursistersdish.com/2018/10/08/slow-cooker-hobo-stew/
Hobo Stew—Four
Ingredients https://thesouthernladycooks.com/hobo-stew-4-ingredients/
Texas Cowboy Stew https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/82160/texas-cowboy-stew/
Ranch Stew AKA Cowboy
Stew https://www.food.com/recipe/ranch-stew-aka-cowboy-stew-310053
Slow-Cooker Cowboy Stew
with Beef and Beans https://www.thespruceeats.com/slow-cooker-cowboy-stew-3054549
David
Litvin, an indoor-crop specialist, tends the plants in a temporarily shuttered
exhibition, “Countryside, The Future.” He
moved to New York from Tel Aviv in February, along with his wife, Stefanie, and
their Dutch shepherd, Ester, with a plan to stay six months harvesting the
Guggenheim tomatoes that are growing in a greenhouse outside. The museum has been closed since March 13, 2020
but Litvin still walks across Central Park every day around noon from his
rental on the Upper West Side to tend his flock. “When you grow tomatoes on Fifth Avenue, you
want to have the perfect tomatoes; there’s no room to mess up,” he said. “If I have ugly plants, I’ll hear it from the
neighbors.” The tomatoes, housed in what
looks like a radioactive shipping container on the sidewalk, were on view as
part of the exhibition for just three weeks before the city folded in on
itself. But they’re still growing, their
vines snipped every Tuesday and donated to City Harvest, at least 100 pounds at
a time. “This tomato-growing module
couldn’t just be turned off with the lights,” said Guggenheim curator Troy
Conrad Therrien, who organized the exhibition with architect Rem Koolhaas and
Samir Bantal of AMO, the research arm of Koolhaas’ firm. “We brought the exhibition to the street, and
the street is still accessible.” Litvin
works for 80 Acres Farms, a company that grows organic produce, including
cucumbers, leafy greens and herbs, at giant indoor farms where controlled
environments allow for year-round harvesting. They’re close to making it work for
strawberries, too. https://artdaily.com/news/123698/The-museum-is-closed--but-its-tomato-man-soldiers-on#.XsUmT2hKiUk
Before founding Feisty
Acres, Abra Morawiec & Chris Pinto acquired their farming chops working for
a variety of different agricultural operations both domestic and abroad. Abra was first introduced to agriculture on a
large scale while serving as a volunteer for the United States Peace Corps
in Mali, West Africa. Chris spent time
at Fort Hill Farm in Connecticut and worked on dairies in
Alabama. It wasn't until 2012, however,
that Abra & Chris crossed paths as apprentices at a commercial organic
vegetable farm on the North Fork of Long Island. While they worked together moving irrigation
pipe, running tractor mounted transplanters, and harvesting vegetables for
market, they shared their farm and business ideals and realized there was a lot
in common between them. As they
continued to work and manage other people's farms, they couldn't shake the idea
of one day striking out on their own. And,
inevitably as most good stories go, they fell in love. Since 2015, Farmers Abra & Chris grow and
care for pasture raised game birds and specialty poultry. It first began with quail, but has now
expanded to include other species such as: French Guinea Fowl, Chukar Partridge, Silkie
Chicken, heritage breed ducks, heritage breed chickens and various heritage
breed turkeys. All birds live their
lives on the North Fork of Long Island. They are also processed on Long Island and
marketed directly by the farmers.
https://feistyacres.com/about-us-1 In early March 2020 small farms on the North
Fork of Long Island (like Feisty Acres) began to boom during the COVID-19
crisis because they have been able to shift their sales directly to
consumers. The New York Times May 10, 2020
In the end, it will go down as a 1-up win for Tiger Woods and Peyton Manning over Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady The Match: Champions for Charity on May 24, 2020, which raised $20 million for coronavirus relief. After a 45-minute weather delay, the fun started. There was entertaining banter from the players and from Tour-player-turned-broadcaster-for-the-day Justin Thomas and NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley. Nick Pietruszkiewicz See descriptions of the play and link to video at https://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/29216145/follow-live-tiger-woods-peyton-manning-phil-mickelson-tom-brady
H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor is a comic opera in
two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and
a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It opened at the Opera Comique in London,
on 25 May 1878 and ran for 571 performances, which was the second-longest
run of any musical theatre piece up to that time. H.M.S. Pinafore was Gilbert and Sullivan's fourth operatic collaboration and their first
international sensation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.M.S._Pinafore
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