And all the gods and all the worlds began colliding

There is a quantity of snow on the ground. I am not yet sure if I will have to shovel it out of my mother's driveway tonight or tomorrow. I suppose it depends on whether my brother's family gets their power back.

1. While looking for other images of Mayakovsky last night, I found this photograph from rehearsals for his satirical play The Bedbug (1929). I think it is my new favorite picture of Shostakovich. He looks like a cross between Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd.

2. Courtesy of strange_selkie: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 2. "And from the sea, all glistening / Rose a goddamn sharknado."

3. Courtesy of handful_ofdust: Ernest Thesiger embroidering. I think the single most random fact I know about Thesiger is that he co-founded the Disabled Soldiers' Embroidery Industry. What the actor doesn't mention in the article quoted was that he himself was wounded in the First World War, although not permanently disabled. Anything else I was going to say on this subject was just blown out of my mind by the discovery that the owner of the site from which both the photograph and the previous link were sourced is someone known to me from my time posting way too much about Dr. Prunesquallor on a now-defunct Mervyn Peake message board between 2001 and 2003. The tip-off was "Ernest Thesiger as a Source of Inspiration for Dr Prunesquallor," published last October in the final issue of Peake Studies. I remember talking about Dr. Pretorius. The site owner made beautiful portrait art of Peake's characters and I wrote 1500-word blocks of character analysis. My God, the internet is small. Maybe it's just small if you like Ernest Thesiger and Mervyn Peake.

I was going to post some other things, but I think that one took the cake.