The voice speaking from the interior light . . .
Thursday, April 2, 2026. It's Thor's day . . . overnight thunderstorms have left Green County for the time being. Strong Southerlies are in the forecasts for TulseyTown with cloudy skies becoming clearer this afternoon in the mid 80's. More wind and rain chances tomorrow.
The knock at the door changes with the century. The censors wear different costumes. The machinery becomes more bureaucratic, more digitized, more deniable, more market-friendly. But the essential drama persists. Power wants compliance not only in action but in tone. It wants the joke blunted, the sentence softened, the analogy abandoned, the performance pre-edited. Against that pressure, the serious artist or comic does what [Christopher] Marlowe did first with such unnerving brilliance: he makes speech feel alive enough to escape. – Ray Pearcey, “The Dangerous Spark,” 3.30.26
Today is the birthday of Camille Paglia. She is 78. The outspoken feminist and cultural critic was born in 1947, Endicott, New York.
It's the birthdate of Max Ernst born in 1891, Brühl Germany. The painter and sculptor was one of the leading advocates of irrationality in art and an originator in the surrealist movement.
Juan Ponce de León was born on this day, we think, in 1460?, Santervás de Campos, Valladolid , León [Spain]. The Spanish explorer is credited with being the first European to reach Florida in 1513.
The unparalleled laureate British actor Alec Guinness was born on this day in 1914, London, England
2001: A Space Odyssey, was released on this day in 1968. It set the benchmark for all subsequent movies in the genre and consistently ranks among the top 10 movies ever made. The complex and thought-provoking film was directed by Stanley Kubrick and cowritten by Kubrick and futurist and novelist Arthur C. Clarke.
In case you missed it: The four Artemis II astronauts rocketed away yesterday On NASA's first lunar voyage in decades. Huff Post provided a replay link from NASA. It's four hours worth of superb insights and the lift-off.
PBS and NPR are safe for now, with a court-ordered restoration.\
In a related court action, another federal judge has blocked a massive merger of abc, cbs, fox, and nbc – at least for another two weeks.
There is a radical luxury to be found in the occasional purposelessness.