Feb 20, 1872: The Metropolitan Museum of Art referred to as the Met opens in New York City. By floor area, it is the fourth-largest museum in the world and the largest art museum in the Americas. With 5,727,258 visitors in fiscal year 2025, it was the most-visited museum in the United States and the fourth-most visited art museum in the world.
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The museum’s collection contains more than 1.5 million objects spanning over 5,000 years of global human history, divided into 17 curatorial departments across 2-million-square-foot building. The main building at 1000 Fifth Avenue, along the Museum Mile on the eastern edge of Central Park on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
About The Met
The New Nineteenth-century European Paintings and Sculpture Galleries By Metropolitan Museum of Art (1993): PDF link
First visited when I was 12 years old, spent 9 hours walking around and only seen about 10% of the collection.
The Manifesto of Futurism (Italian: Manifesto del Futurismo) written by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, published in the newspaper Le Figaro on Feb 20, 1909. In it, Marinetti expresses an artistic philosophy called Futurism, which rejected the past and celebrated speed, machinery, violence, youth, and industry. The manifesto also advocated for the modernization and cultural rejuvenation of Italy. He wanted to goad. To incite. To rouse Italians. To wake them up. He called himself "The caffeine of Europe."
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Poesia, Volume 5, Number 6, April 1909
February 20, 1925: "TO HELL WITH PEOPLE SAY LEGISLATORS" - The Coconino Sun (Flagstaff, Ariz.) Some things never change.
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Wanda Gág's Millions of Cats (1928) is a new entrant to the #publicdomain this year and the oldest US children's book still in print. In 1928, The Nation placed Millions of Cats on its list of distinguished titles, and it won a Newbery the following year, a rare award for picture books. But there may be more to this heartwarming tale than first meets the eye...
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Unwashed Furry Masses: Wanda Gág’s Millions of Cats (1928)
Feb 20, 1935: Excavations Bare 15-Inch Humans In Ancient India
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PKD knew too much. He operated on a plane above everyone else.
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It's about his clairvoyant beef with author/screenwriter Harlan Ellison. PKD had a feud stemming from Ellison's 1967 claim in "Dangerous Visions" that PKD wrote "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" under LSD influence. PKD denied this, insisting he only tried LSD twice later in life and that his visionary ideas came from genuine clairvoyant experiences (like his 1974 "2-3-74" revelations). This is fictionalized in "Radio Free Albemuth," where rumors lead to the protagonist's persecution. PKD saw it as damaging his reputation.
Radio Free Albemuth by Philip K. Dick is a dystopian sci-fi novel set in an alternate America under tyrannical President Ferris F. Fremont, who rose to power via anti-communist paranoia.
It follows record executive Nicholas Brady, who receives visions from a godlike entity called VALIS, urging resistance against the regime. His friend, sci-fi writer Philip (a stand-in for Dick), gets involved in the underground fight. Themes include authoritarianism, Gnosticism, and hidden truths in a surveillance state. (Published posthumously in 1985.)
One of the most prescient and insightful comedy sketches that is now relevant again, 18 years later...
Off into the sunset...
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What billionaire has not been conned by and given power of attorney over billions and a personal finance manager for 20 years to a college dropout from Coney Island?
Happens all the time. Totally believable.
On second thought, How many were conned by Bernie Madoff? JP Morgan and many others knew Madoff was a bad seed, but they were profiting off it. You can literally go back every decade of this country and find this happening. What billionaire has a guy with no degree as an accountant/bookkeeper?
"And now, perhaps, it is time to reintroduce Leslie Wexner's dybbuk, the demon that always wakes up in the morning with Wexner and tweaks and pulls at him."
—New York Magazine, 1985
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New York Magazine, 1985 (PDF)
Note that Wexner made Epstein his personal finance manager in 1987 and remained so till 2007. Epstein met Ghislaine Maxwell around the same time.
Even more odd, when the word Covid is reversed, it becomes Divoc, a word that is almost phonetically identical to Dybbuk. In Jewish folklore, a Dybbuk Box is a magical cabinet that contains an evil spirit. The word dybbuk means "possessed by". So, Covid-19 could also mean "possessed by AI".
Just When You Thought Obama's Tower Of Doom Couldn't Get Any More Ugly...
Headache-inducing indeed!!! This monstrosity needs a Godzilla demolition wrecking crew.
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If I were conspiratorial, (which I am) I’d say it almost seems like Obama's "aliens are real" nonsense tee’s this up perfectly as an attempted distraction from the ongoing Epstein files meltdown—including the increasingly scandalous involvement of Kathryn Ruemmler, his White House counsel. She joined Goldman Sachs in 2020 and was Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel. Last week she announced her resignation from this position over her links to Jeffrey Epstein. Interestingly, both her parents worked on classified nuclear projects.
Weird times in the daily twilight zone...
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Daily Weirdness
When you live out in the middle of nowhere California you must ensure you have a secure perimeter at your homestead. A fence with secure gate and sign post, Tresspassers will be shot first, questioned later, and preferably carpeted with landmines.
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The museum’s collection contains more than 1.5 million objects spanning over 5,000 years of global human history, divided into 17 curatorial departments across 2-million-square-foot building. The main building at 1000 Fifth Avenue, along the Museum Mile on the eastern edge of Central Park on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
About The Met
The New Nineteenth-century European Paintings and Sculpture Galleries By Metropolitan Museum of Art (1993): PDF link
First visited when I was 12 years old, spent 9 hours walking around and only seen about 10% of the collection.
The Manifesto of Futurism (Italian: Manifesto del Futurismo) written by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, published in the newspaper Le Figaro on Feb 20, 1909. In it, Marinetti expresses an artistic philosophy called Futurism, which rejected the past and celebrated speed, machinery, violence, youth, and industry. The manifesto also advocated for the modernization and cultural rejuvenation of Italy. He wanted to goad. To incite. To rouse Italians. To wake them up. He called himself "The caffeine of Europe."
![[Image: WYKUSaCu_o.jpg]](https://images2.imgbox.com/cb/bb/WYKUSaCu_o.jpg)
Poesia, Volume 5, Number 6, April 1909
February 20, 1925: "TO HELL WITH PEOPLE SAY LEGISLATORS" - The Coconino Sun (Flagstaff, Ariz.) Some things never change.
![[Image: YxzUntfK_o.jpg]](https://images2.imgbox.com/4e/c4/YxzUntfK_o.jpg)
Wanda Gág's Millions of Cats (1928) is a new entrant to the #publicdomain this year and the oldest US children's book still in print. In 1928, The Nation placed Millions of Cats on its list of distinguished titles, and it won a Newbery the following year, a rare award for picture books. But there may be more to this heartwarming tale than first meets the eye...
![[Image: cyt1IwYW_o.jpg]](https://images2.imgbox.com/db/8d/cyt1IwYW_o.jpg)
Unwashed Furry Masses: Wanda Gág’s Millions of Cats (1928)
Feb 20, 1935: Excavations Bare 15-Inch Humans In Ancient India
![[Image: ic0aIdh6_o.jpg]](https://images2.imgbox.com/fd/81/ic0aIdh6_o.jpg)
PKD knew too much. He operated on a plane above everyone else.
![[Image: k3ZSUjFv_o.jpg]](https://images2.imgbox.com/3f/6c/k3ZSUjFv_o.jpg)
It's about his clairvoyant beef with author/screenwriter Harlan Ellison. PKD had a feud stemming from Ellison's 1967 claim in "Dangerous Visions" that PKD wrote "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" under LSD influence. PKD denied this, insisting he only tried LSD twice later in life and that his visionary ideas came from genuine clairvoyant experiences (like his 1974 "2-3-74" revelations). This is fictionalized in "Radio Free Albemuth," where rumors lead to the protagonist's persecution. PKD saw it as damaging his reputation.
Radio Free Albemuth by Philip K. Dick is a dystopian sci-fi novel set in an alternate America under tyrannical President Ferris F. Fremont, who rose to power via anti-communist paranoia.
It follows record executive Nicholas Brady, who receives visions from a godlike entity called VALIS, urging resistance against the regime. His friend, sci-fi writer Philip (a stand-in for Dick), gets involved in the underground fight. Themes include authoritarianism, Gnosticism, and hidden truths in a surveillance state. (Published posthumously in 1985.)
One of the most prescient and insightful comedy sketches that is now relevant again, 18 years later...
Off into the sunset...
![[Image: qFLD9zFp_o.jpg]](https://images2.imgbox.com/56/1f/qFLD9zFp_o.jpg)
What billionaire has not been conned by and given power of attorney over billions and a personal finance manager for 20 years to a college dropout from Coney Island?
Happens all the time. Totally believable.
On second thought, How many were conned by Bernie Madoff? JP Morgan and many others knew Madoff was a bad seed, but they were profiting off it. You can literally go back every decade of this country and find this happening. What billionaire has a guy with no degree as an accountant/bookkeeper?
"And now, perhaps, it is time to reintroduce Leslie Wexner's dybbuk, the demon that always wakes up in the morning with Wexner and tweaks and pulls at him."
—New York Magazine, 1985
![[Image: BGJCs05M_o.jpg]](https://images2.imgbox.com/74/29/BGJCs05M_o.jpg)
New York Magazine, 1985 (PDF)
Note that Wexner made Epstein his personal finance manager in 1987 and remained so till 2007. Epstein met Ghislaine Maxwell around the same time.
Even more odd, when the word Covid is reversed, it becomes Divoc, a word that is almost phonetically identical to Dybbuk. In Jewish folklore, a Dybbuk Box is a magical cabinet that contains an evil spirit. The word dybbuk means "possessed by". So, Covid-19 could also mean "possessed by AI".
Quote:DIVOC transcribed as ק ו ב י ד in Hebrew and it actually means something – it means possession by an evil spirit. (The word is transcribed into English as dybbuk, b and v being represented through the same Hebrew character, Bet – )ב. To better understand what a dybbuk is we will refer to no less of an authority as professor Yoram Bilu, professor of sociology and anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and recipient of the prestigious Israel Award in 2013. According to Bilu:
“The term dybbuk (dibbuq) was used in Jewish mystical circles to designate a spirit of a dead person, a notorious sinner in his lifetime, that took temporary possession of a human being (…) dybbuk possession was always conceived as an affliction or an illness and the possessing agent a foreign, dangerous intruder that had to be expelled. (…) The exorcist was always a revered rabbi who confronted the spirit with various religiously informed measures used in a fixed, graded order.”
Quoting renowned kabbalist Gershom Sholem’s works, Bilu points out that “dybbuks, demons or evil souls possessed some unhappy or mentally sick creature”. Dybbuks seem to target mostly women and children and “emotional intensification or arousal” are prerequisites for such demonic possession. Bilu concludes:
“Dybbuk possession left the victim as a passive object, temporarily bereft of self-awareness and without self-control vis-à-vis two external authorities: the possessing spirit who deprived the possessed of her individual identity and the rabbi-exorcist who compelled the spirit to leave”
The Occult Meaning Of The Term COVID
Just When You Thought Obama's Tower Of Doom Couldn't Get Any More Ugly...
Headache-inducing indeed!!! This monstrosity needs a Godzilla demolition wrecking crew.
![[Image: ri3Xb11z_o.jpg]](https://images2.imgbox.com/0a/d8/ri3Xb11z_o.jpg)
If I were conspiratorial, (which I am) I’d say it almost seems like Obama's "aliens are real" nonsense tee’s this up perfectly as an attempted distraction from the ongoing Epstein files meltdown—including the increasingly scandalous involvement of Kathryn Ruemmler, his White House counsel. She joined Goldman Sachs in 2020 and was Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel. Last week she announced her resignation from this position over her links to Jeffrey Epstein. Interestingly, both her parents worked on classified nuclear projects.
Weird times in the daily twilight zone...
![[Image: cifyL9D2_o.jpg]](https://images2.imgbox.com/d4/48/cifyL9D2_o.jpg)
Daily Weirdness
When you live out in the middle of nowhere California you must ensure you have a secure perimeter at your homestead. A fence with secure gate and sign post, Tresspassers will be shot first, questioned later, and preferably carpeted with landmines.
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." – Thomas Sowell