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Kitchen Table Kibitzing 7/25/2023: Closing in on August [1]
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Date: 2023-07-25
Edvard Munch: The Sun (1909)
Good evening, Kibitzers!
As I write on Monday night, it’s 75° (at 11 pm) with 71% humidity. As you probably know, the “dewpoint” is the temperature to which the air, at its current humidity, can cool before it can’t hold any more water and dew (or fog) starts to condense. The warmer the air is, the more water vapor can be packed into it, so “71% humidity” at a warmer temperature represents more water vapor than at a cooler one. That’s why the dewpoint indicates how yucky it feels better than the humidity alone does. The dewpoint right now is 65°, which is regarded as “muggy”. Correctly regarded as muggy, I might add.
Blessedly, civilization hasn’t ended yet and there is still air conditioning. I hope all of you are well and in a comfortable place too!
This is another collection of stuff I found lying around on YouTube.
Since Barbie is HUGE now, and I have not seen it, I was interested to watch this TCM interview with director Greta Gerwig. In case anyone still thinks it’s just a stupid movie about toys, she has a towering stack of classic movies that Barbie visually quotes, nods to, pays homage, etc, starting with the 2001: A Space Odyssey opening. [14:16]
Pecos Hank is a storm chaser, and he takes some gorgeous footage. Here are some amazing time-lapse clips of mesocyclones, those giant storms that look like alien motherships. [4:47]
CBS Sunday Morning offers a look at a girl in Maine who developed a passion for beekeeping at age six. She’s 11 now, and she’s a formidable apiarist. [5:14]
At the 1983 Action into Research for Multiple Sclerosis concert in Madison Square Garden, New York, Jimmy Page plays Chopin’s Prelude No 4 in E minor, Op 28. [Chopin’s piano arrangement here.] [3:40]
I made this lightly-pickled cucumber and red onion salad from Lidia, “Insalata di cetriolo”, the other day and can testify that it’s good. Printed recipe here. [3:31]
Belgian photographer Matthijs Mierlo has a YouTube channel, The Gaze, about “art, film and visual culture”. Here, he explores the often-overlooked background art in Looney Tunes cartoons, and the artists responsible for it. [8:39]
Politics Girl has some words for white women in general: WTF?? [2:38]
Vox video producer Dean Peterson takes an Amtrak trip from LA to New York, during which he reflects on how the hell it got to this point and what would happen if we took Amtrak seriously. [12:56]
We’ve visited with the band/artist Reina del Cid before in KTK; the lead singer has decided to give up that stage name and go by her real name, Elle Cordova. Her Reina del Cid YouTube channel has been renamed Sunday Mornings HQ, but she now also has a channel under her own name, where she posts shorter solo musical pieces, poetry, and experimental stuff. This is a song parody from that channel, offering a warning to other planets, to the tune of Runaround Sue. [1:29]
Mangy Fetlocks (satirist Bruce W. Nelson) offers this handy self-assessment test to see if you’re an idiot. [2:31]
This Mexican entrepreneur has figured out how to make bricks out of the invasive sargassum seaweed that’s polluting many coasts. He sells the bricks (plus the service of hauling the sargassum away from beaches), but he also builds brick houses and donates some of them to people who need them. [8:12]
Here’s CBS Sunday Morning back again to bring us k.d. lang performing Because of You in memory of Tony Bennett. The song was Mr. Bennett’s first big hit. If you’d like to hear him sing it, at this link he performs it on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1951, when he was just 25. (See Charles Jay’s excellent diary for more about Tony Bennett.) [3:51]
As an extra bonus, I took this picture in Union Square in San Francisco in 2019 (on the “side pocket’s birthday” trip). The “Hearts in San Francisco” project is a fundraiser by the SF General Hospital Foundation, wherein Bay area artists paint these large heart sculptures; they’re displayed publicly for some months and then auctioned off. This particular heart was painted in the first year of the project, 2004, by Tony Bennett himself. That link has a much better picture — my washed-out one makes it hard to see the Golden Gate Bridge in the painting.
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