Jacob Wrestles With The Angel, Alexander Louis Leloir (1865)
my preferred version. The Rembrandt version communicates no violence and the Gaugin version is totally weaksauce. Yeah, I went there, You art-history kids can eat me. Anyway, I’m off to the gwoon.
Lee Fields - Money I$ King
new WBA Champ Yuri Foreman now seeking to become a rabbi.
and Jacob wrestled with an angel (or God, depending on how phrased) and fought with his brother Esau in the womb, so why not? The article makes it sound like Yuri is far wiser than the critic, rabbinical scholars of Brooklyn in large part THANKS to his work in the ring.
13YO Runaway Spent 11 Days in the Subways
Day after day, night after night, Francisco Hernandez Jr. rode the subway. He had a MetroCard, $10 in his pocket and a book bag on his lap. As the human tide flowed and ebbed around him, he sat impassively, a gangly 13-year-old boy in glasses and a red hoodie, speaking to no one. (Via NY Times)
If there’s a modern day Dos Passos he’s writing this boy’s story.
- friend Brendan (aka Raw Dawg)
It’s been one of those days of unbelievably bad Republican math.
Sifu: it’s fight week in the City WingTsun tutorial class this coming week. Bring your gear!
Brady: As opposed to the normal routine which is poetry and cartwheels?
Me: I guess sometimes it’s hard to tell them apart…
(photo via I’ve Had Dreams…)
awesome. I actually had never seen/considered the right (questioned?) half of the graph and as a comic book reader I’m kinda ashamed I hadn’t.
(via unburyingthelead)
