The Boys of Spring

An opening day win at Yankee Stadium.  Right as rain.

200 countries over 200 years

Orwell Lives

Dark Spring

Today's mail brought this poignant cover art by Christoph Niemann from this week's issue of The New Yorker.

Kukulkan Descends

Today's vernal equinox brings 12 hours of light and 12 hours of night.  And the first of two appearances this year by the feathered serpent Kukulkan on the steps of El Castillo at Chichen Itza.  Kukulkan will descend again on September 24.

Owsley Stanley, RIP

AKA Bear, Alice D. Millionaire and Kid Charlemagne. 

Great Wave off Kanagawa

Katsushika Hokusai's 1820s woodblock makes me weep.