The Immortal Life of Tiny Tim
Dec. 25th, 2023 09:04 amKiska Mabel is shy and easily spooked.
So, I braved the last-minute shopping crowds and went out yesterday to buy her a kind of reclusive hidey-nest so she’ll feel safe when she ventures outside the closet.
She seems to like it:
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gracegiver turned me on to The New York Times’ very excellent 2023 in Photographs.
Four pix in particular stood out for me:
This is a dead Russian soldier on a road in Ukraine somewhere. The body has been run over so many times that it’s now dimensionless, a flat fossil, part of the road.
This is Yusef Salaam upon finding out he’d just won the Democratic primary for the Harlem NYC Council seat. Yusef Salaam was one of the Central Park Five who were railroaded for the much-publicized rape of a female jogger in 1989. At the time, the rape was referred to as “The Wilding.”
These are premature babies being transported out of a Gaza Hospital. (But where could they be taken? They’re probably dead by now.)
I guess it made an impression on me because I identify with that open-eyed baby: My mother told me repeatedly all the while I was growing up that I was the most observant baby anyone had ever seen. “You were always looking around,” said my mother. “It was kind of creepy.”
This is the toppled head of a statue of Robert E. Lee. Comparisons to Ozymandias are inescapable.
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Merry Christmas to all!
And remember: Tiny Tim didn’t die for your sins—because, as Dickens informs us, he did not die!
In fact, that would make a terrific Christmas horror movie: The Immortal Life of Tiny Tim, who by this point is probably more unspeakably eeeeee-vil than Chuckie, Freddie Kruger, and Norman Bates combined.
So, I braved the last-minute shopping crowds and went out yesterday to buy her a kind of reclusive hidey-nest so she’ll feel safe when she ventures outside the closet.
She seems to like it:
gracegiver turned me on to The New York Times’ very excellent 2023 in Photographs. Four pix in particular stood out for me:
This is a dead Russian soldier on a road in Ukraine somewhere. The body has been run over so many times that it’s now dimensionless, a flat fossil, part of the road.
This is Yusef Salaam upon finding out he’d just won the Democratic primary for the Harlem NYC Council seat. Yusef Salaam was one of the Central Park Five who were railroaded for the much-publicized rape of a female jogger in 1989. At the time, the rape was referred to as “The Wilding.”
These are premature babies being transported out of a Gaza Hospital. (But where could they be taken? They’re probably dead by now.)
I guess it made an impression on me because I identify with that open-eyed baby: My mother told me repeatedly all the while I was growing up that I was the most observant baby anyone had ever seen. “You were always looking around,” said my mother. “It was kind of creepy.”
This is the toppled head of a statue of Robert E. Lee. Comparisons to Ozymandias are inescapable.
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Merry Christmas to all!
And remember: Tiny Tim didn’t die for your sins—because, as Dickens informs us, he did not die!
In fact, that would make a terrific Christmas horror movie: The Immortal Life of Tiny Tim, who by this point is probably more unspeakably eeeeee-vil than Chuckie, Freddie Kruger, and Norman Bates combined.
