Sunday Links

The Painting Behind the Meme: the Reluctant Bride. Toulmouche’s aggrieved lady has become a mouthpiece for women around the world. (Image above)

In 1966 six Tongan teenagers ran away from their boarding school and became shipwrecked on an island. Time passed and they were given up for dead and funerals were held. Read their story.  

"A Mind-Bogglingly Slow Job" Released in 1978, The Campaign for North Africa has been called “the most complicated board game ever released.”

Sunday morning: the cat wakes me up in its usual way, by leaping on to my chest and placing a paw over my mouth to stop me crying out. - Tim Dowling

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Kim Gordon’s Coolest Act Yet At 70, the onetime Sonic Youth musician is releasing a blistering new solo LP

A sickening montage of Trump selling his crap (via Perfect for Roquefort Cheese)

RIP Iris Apfel, centenarian fashion icon.

Meet history’s trailblazing female detectives on Masterpiece PBS (A contribution from my friend Alan Parker)

Jack Black covers Hit Me Baby and I like it.

How does the sky turn dark at night? via the new shelton wet/dry

I am Michiko Kakutani “Many people will have a hard time accepting the idea that a basically undistinguished middle-aged white man living in Hartford, Connecticut, is actually the brilliant, acerbic, reclusive, rarely photographed lynx-like New York Times book critic and Pulitzer winner.” (If you don’t know who she is read this.)

Of the 700 or so speakers of Seke, most of whom can be found in a cluster of villages in Nepal, more than 150 have lived in or around two apartment buildings in Brooklyn. Endangered Languages in New York City via perfect for roquefort cheese

Migrants, asylum seekers, refugees and immigrants: What is the difference?

Device Orchestra plays music covers using electric toothbrushes, credit card machines, typewriters, and other electric devices.

This Haunting Cover of Cindy Lauper’s  'Girls Just Want to Have Fun' is surprisingly good.

How the French revived a Japanese artform.

No Sense Of Decency That other time America went bonkers and supported a draft dodging, womanizing right winger with a taste for money from any place he could get it.

Can you freeze that? Probably yes, but do it properly.

A weeknight tomato soup that can be made with mediocre cherry or grape tomatoes you might find on sale at a chain store in the dead of winter. Just add a grilled cheese sandwich.

Dickie Goodman and the Art of the "Break-In" Record A “break-in” record was created by using clips of other songs to tell a story or perform a skit, usually with narration of some sort. They were godawful. (Thanks Bruce) 

I’ll leave you with 8 hours of rain falling on leaves. Use this video to meditate, focus, study or just to unwind and relax.