We have only allocated an hour to write this post, so we don’t have time to discuss that infamous memo (we mean here the Nunes memo, not Trump himself) Given this time-crunch we’re merely going to see how the posts from our allocated two week period from last year (Jan. 23-Feb 5) fit into the […]
Back in 2013 I wrote a Minus Plato post about Jimmie Durham’s Public Monument for the Birthday of Rome, 1995. I was reminded of this work on looking at the catalogue for the Hammer Museum retrospective of Durham’s work Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World, as a picture of Durham’s Rome work, which I had never seen […]
But he showed no greater mercy to the people or the walls of his capital. He had also planned to extend the walls as far as Ostia and to bring the sea from there to Rome by a canal. Returning from Greece, since it was at Naples that he had made his first appearance, he […]
That such opposed vices, both the greatest arrogance and the greatest timidity, were to be found in the same person, I have no doubt in attributing to his mental infirmity. For this man, who had so little respect for the gods, would, at the slightest hint of thunder or lightning, close his eyes and over […]
At the beginning of his reign, he would spend hours alone every day doing nothing but catching flies and stabbing them with a needle-sharp pen – Suetonius Domitian – Pablo Ríos, sketch for Presidente Trump: Dios perdone a América