Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Monday, April 29, 2024
The Road to Zero Degradation
Martin Luther King Blvd, Dallas. Source: Google. |
The City of Dallas has bond proposals on its ballot in the May 4, 2024, election. Proposition A will ask voters to approve "$521 million in bond money to repair streets, alleys, sidewalks, bridges and other transportation-related infrastructure over five years." That sounds like a lot. It isn't. It's not even enough to keep up. The Dallas Morning News has the details.
Sunday, April 28, 2024
POTD: A Well-Read Man
"In Málaga's heart,
stop for coffee and the news,
Spanish elegance."
—h/t ChatGPT
From 2023 09 12 Costa del Sol |
Today's photo-of-the-day is from Calle Marqués de Larios in Málaga, Spain. Wikipedia describes it as "the most expensive street to live on in Málaga, and the eleventh most expensive to live on in all of Spain." To sit and read the paper, however, costs only a small tip.
A bonus photo is after the jump.
Saturday, April 27, 2024
POTD: A Picasso Museum in the City of his Birth
"In Málaga, Spain,
Picasso's legacy lives
in tapestry's weaves."
—h/t ChatGPT
From 2023 09 12 Costa del Sol |
Today's photo-of-the-day is from the Picasso Museum in Málaga, Spain, the city of Picasso's birth. The museum is only 200 meters from where Picasso was born. It now houses 285 works donated by members of Picasso's family.
In a surprise to me, the work photographed here is not a Picasso painting, but a wool tapestry by Jacqueline Dürrbach made in 1958 after an original Picasso painting, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, from 1907. That painting is housed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Picasso has been reported to have described the tapestry as better than his original painting.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
3 Body Problem (TV 2024)
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