image depicting a
hamilton-themed hat of my own contrivance,
consisting chiefly of repurposed hockey legging,
subtly evocative of steeler logo, thus also incidentally continuant of said motif,
contrived by me this morning then worn by same
whilst walking to work in -27 degrees celsius (with windchill) conditions,
with snow, for 1 hr,
whilst simultaneously experiencing
onset of temporary and unplanned selective serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor discontinuation syndrome

If we have learned nothing else from the twentieth century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer, the more terrifying its consequences. Imperfect improvements upon unsatisfactory circumstances are the best that we can hope for, and probably all we should seek. Others have spent the last three decades methodically unraveling and destabilizing those same improvements: this should make us much angrier than we are./Tony Judt (1948-2010)/NYRB/Dec 17 2009


There is nothing mysterious about this process: it was well described by Edmund Burke in his critique of the French Revolution.  Any society, he wrote in Reflections on the Revolution in France, which destroys the fabric of its state, must soon be 'disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality'.  By eviscerating public services and reducing them to a network of farmed-out private providers, we have  begun to dismantle the fabric of the state.  As for the dust and powder of individuality: it resembles nothing so much as Hobbes's war of all against all, in which life for many people has once again become solitary, poor and more than a little nasty./Tony Judt (1948-2010)/Ill Fares the Land/2010

5 cathedral interiors and
1 exterior

handicraft

according to this dollar store thermometer
the floor level temperature inside my apartment
is 15 degrees celsius

token image continuant of steeler motif