Senses working overtime #385

1 Living in the present

2 The 200 best albums of the last 25 years (according to Pitchfork readers)

3 Record grooves under the microscope

4 Rebecca Clark (artist)

Courtesy of Swissmiss

5 Aaron Judge - home run (almost) record breaker

With his 60th dinger of the season on Tuesday night, Yankees slugger Aaron Judge is on pace to break the long-standing American League home run record in the next few games. And if you happen to catch one of those home runs, you could be on pace to finally afford a house.

Given Judge’s lack of performance-enhancing drug controversy and his popularity among baseball fans, experts are estimating his 61st home run ball could fetch anywhere from $250,000 to more than $2 million at auction. His 62nd (and record-breaking) bomb/homer/moon shot has an estimated value of between $500,000 and $5+ million.

• For that reason, Yankees ticket prices have ballooned to $960 on StubHub, with some eclipsing $4,000 on the secondary market.

With all that money on the line, the MLB isn’t taking any chances on a forgery. For the rest of the season, every ball pitched to Judge will include a covert marking that can only be seen with certain technology, although the league isn’t being much more specific than that to ensure the legitimacy of its authentication process.

When could it happen? The 6'7" Judge is averaging one home run every ~2.5 games. He has 13 games left and needs just two more taters to break Roger Maris’s 1961 record.—MK

(Courtesy of Morning Brew)

Overtime: How to open a can without a can opener!

Senses working overtime #377

1 A glitch in the matrix

A few times this week I've had the distinct impression that I'm wired up somewhere in The Matrix.

That's the theme for this week's 5 jewels.

2 A Door - W S Merwin (1973)

This is a place where a door might be
here where I am standing
in the light outside all of the walls

there would be a shadow here
all day long
and a door into it
where now there is me

and somebody would come and knock
on this air
long after I have gone
and there in front of me a life
would open
 

3 Space!  

Stunning new pictures via that James Webb telescope out there in the heavens.

4 Planet Squid Game

5 Rhetorical questions by Seth Godin

Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash

Overtime: A reminder

“The right person will know how to hold your love. The right person will choose you just as deeply as you choose them. You will not have to quiet the way you care, you will never feel like you are too much. You will not have to beg for the love you deserve. One day, you will be met where you are. One day, you will be someone’s favorite thing, and you will not be confused you will not feel like you are fighting for someone who isn’t fighting for you. One day, you will understand that it never mattered how tightly you held on to the wrong people, how intensely you tried, because the right people were always going to find you. The right people were always going to stay.”

– A Gentle Reminder by Bianca Sparacino (courtesy of Swissmiss)

Senses working overtime #360

1 Abandoned Italian churches

(Courtesy Swissmiss)

2 Psychologist and author Adam Grant on criticism:

"Criticizing is easy and fast. Creating is difficult and slow. The two hours you spent on a book or movie usually took two years to produce.

Anyone can tear down someone else’s work. The true test of insight is whether you can help them improve it or build something of your own."

(Courtesy James Clear)

3 Poetry corner

from Songs of Unreason The fly on the window is not a distant crow in the sky. We’re forced into these decisions. People are forever marrying the wrong people and the children of the world suffer. Their dreams hang in the skies out of reach.   Jim Harrison (2012)

4 The dangerous tour (Ukraine rock star takes it to the front line)

Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, 46, the lead singer of Okean Elzy and perhaps Ukraine’s biggest star, was supposed to be preparing to play the band’s latest album to packed venues across the world from April. But then...

5 That smiling LinkedIn profile face might be a computer-generated fake.

Fake fake fake.

Overtime: The best books about Hollywood

Senses working overtime #337

 1 Sculptures by Diego Cabezas 

Courtesy of swissmiss - as are most of this week's sensual delights. Strong thread of positivity this week!

2 Paris 2024 

Promo for Paris 2024 and stunning use of the human upper body by Sadeck Waff and friends. Again courtesy of swissmiss (I am loving her frequent newsletters and teases).

3 I needed colour - Jim Carrey

I love Jim Carrey - the actor, and the artist and the person, especially the person. 

Another link courtesy of swissmiss.

4 Find a better way

I'm also an optimist. This is a great thing to view after the Carrey piece. Yes - swissmiss!

5 Reviews of Moby Dick (or The Whale)

Check out the original 1851 reviews!

...all these things combine to raise The Whale far beyond the level of an ordinary work of fiction. It is not a mere tale of adventures, but a whole philosophy of life, that it unfolds.

Courtesy of Austin Kleon.

Overtime: 

"Nearly everything in life is unfavorable once it grows to a certain size.

It is entirely possible to have too many clients, too much work, too much fame, too much free time, and so on.

Pay attention to when the thing you're chasing exceeds its usefulness." (James Clear)

Senses working overtime #325

1 The benefits of swimming

Photo by Todd Quackenbush on Unsplash

2 Make the sign bigger?

3 Burberry ad starring Adam Driver

esss crazy, no?

4 Here are 25 small changes to improve your life

Photo: Tim Chow/Unsplash

5 A Life Audit

No wait - it actually sounds like a fun and worthwhile thing to try on a wet afternoon!

Overtime: 

“Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow… The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward. I would tell all of you watching this screen: Before you go to bed, write a four line poem. Make it as good as you can. Don’t show it to anybody. Put it where nobody will find it. And you will discover that you have your reward.”

– Kurt Vonnegut Jnr (courtesy of Swissmiss)

Senses working overtime #321

1 A man, a dog and a walk around the world

2 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 

It's 30 years old! Still wonderful. And the American spelling of'judgement' still grates.

3  To the people

To the people
reading this poem, hello.
I want you to know
nothing bad will happen
as long as you’re here.
Every line you see
was written in a cab.
I’m on the FDR
in the middle of winter
and the sky is suddenly bluer
than Sundays in June.
There’s no reason for it.
No real science
to what will happen when
I get off at Chambers
and Broadway, wearing
gold and black sneakers
on my way to meet
a friend who is sad.
To my sad friends, hello.
For you I will be
a version of myself
I hardly remember.
I will be a lake
at the top of morning
some late afternoon into night.
And if you look away from
this page, to your right
there’s the world.
I am only trying to describe it.

—Alex Dimitrov, from "Poem Written In A Cab"

4 Detectorists

Loving this show! Season one was a hoot. We've just started on Season two and looks like Season three is out as well. 

5 Johnny Flynn's theme to the show...

...is special as well!

Overtime: When it's over...

“When it’s over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
When it is over, I don’t want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument.
I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.”

– Mary Oliver

(Courtesy of Swissmiss)