Somebody That I Used To Know, March 2021

uh oh. Do not buy hand sanitizer with benzene as an ingredient. 

Samples from 44 hand sanitizer products contained benzene, an industrial chemical known to cause leukemia and carry other serious health risks  

Ultrasound has potential to damage coronaviruses

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

A new study by researchers in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering suggests that coronaviruses may be vulnerable to ultrasound vibrations, within the frequencies used in medical diagnostic imaging. (Learn more: https://news.mit.edu/2021/ultrasound-...​)

COVID killed your sense of smell? Here’s how experts train people to get theirs back

The link between COVID and smell and taste disturbance became apparent in March 2020 as the pandemic swept around the globe. To date, nearly 100 million people have been infected with coronavirus. Around 60% will have experienced smell and taste disturbance – with 10% having persistent symptoms. This means that about 6 million people – and rising – have this symptom. So what can be done about it?...

We agreed that the best treatment is smell training and that vitamin A drops may also be a treatment option to consider. ...

Lemon and orange rind, nutmeg, clove, mint, eucalyptus, ground coffee, coconut and vanilla are all common items that can be used. A good guide to the technique can be found on the charity website Fifth Sense...

More recent studies have suggested that the four smells used for training should be changed every 12 weeks. The results of this new approach show that greater recovery of smell function can be achieved. Further research also shows that the longer the training continues for, in terms of number of weeks, the better. So keep going as it’s not an instant result.

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Meet the spouses whose marriages were destroyed by QAnon

A therapist who specializes in cult recovery says he's "never seen anything like this before"

Awesome distraction and entertainment while you crochet, knit, do stuff.

Drive through any city in the world, seeing local sites, while listening to local radio stations.

This new season of black mirror is wild: This woman from Myanmar was recording her aerobics class. Unbeknownst to her, she records the military Junta arriving to the parliament for a coup d'etat in the background

Somebody That I Used To Know

I love the full story of this song

How GOTYE Created A Song We Used To Know

Now and then I think of when we were together
Like when you said you felt so happy you could die
Told myself that you were right for me
But felt so lonely in your company
But that was love and it's an ache I still remember

You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness
Like resignation to the end, always the end
So when we found that we could not make sense
Well, you said that we would still be friends
But I'll admit that I was glad it was over

But you didn't have to cut me off
Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing
And I don't even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough

No, you didn't have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records
And then change your number
I guess that I don't need that though

Now you're just somebody that I used to know
Now you're just somebody that I used to know
Now you're just somebody that I used to know

Now and then, I think of all the times you screwed me over
But had me believing it was always something that I'd done
But I don't wanna live that way
Reading into every word you say
You said that you could let it go
And I wouldn't catch, you hung up on
Somebody that you used to know

But you didn't have to cut me off
Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing
And I don't even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough

And you didn't have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records
And then change your number
I guess that I don't need that though
Now you're just somebody that I used to know

Somebody (I used to know)
Somebody (Now you're just somebody that I used to know)
Somebody (I used to know)
Somebody (Now you're just somebody that I used to know)

Somebody

The ancient fabric that no one knows how to make, gossamer muslin, made of tree cotton

 Gossamer muslin,  made in India and Bangladesh

The ancient fabric that no one knows how to make

The original muslin from Bengal, in eastern India for clothing, quilts and sheets was not made of the cotton that grows on bushes but from a distinct type of cotton that grows on trees. A much softer cotton. So gossamer it's like spinning spider's web silk. The stuff of fairies.

It is usually handwoven into fabric that is sheer, super light weight.

The Indian name for this tree cotton is "phuti karpas", pronounced footee karpass. The Latin name is Gossypium arboreum.

There is more heavyweight muslin out of regular shrub cotton used for all kinds of things too, like bags or ordinary sheeting fabric. This post is about the very fine muslin, made of "tree cotton", handwoven in Bengal India.

MUSLIN SPINNING AND WEAVING

In Kalna, West Bengal, we visited Rajib Debnath. He and his father Jyotish are reviving the art of muslin jamdani weaving.

The raw cotton is spun by hand into a thread finer than a hair from my head (see below). The cotton is handpicked in Kerala and Maharashtra and then spun by women with very good eyesight.

Jamdani is a fine muslin cloth on which decorative motifs are woven on the loom, typically in grey and white.

Different types of cotton plants

How tree cotton looks, Gossypium arboreum

Our Story of Dhaka Muslin

“What’s muslin?”

Muslin, he said, was the name of a legendary cloth made of cotton, fit for emperors, which used to be made way back in the past. Muslin from Dacca had been the finest, he said, from where it used to be shipped to the far corners of the world. 

THE WORD “MUSLIN” is popularly believed to derive from Marco Polo’s description of the cotton trade in Mosul, Iraq. (The Bengali term is mul mul.) A more modern view is that of fashion historian Susan Greene, who wrote that the name arose in the 18th century from mousse, the French word for “foam.”

Muslin today has come to mean almost any lightweight, gauzy, mostly inexpensive, machine-milled cotton cloth. The word has lost all connection to the handwoven fabric that once came exclusively from Bengal.

The cliché in India and Bangladesh is that 6 yards of fabric is so fine, it can pass through a finger ring

Revival of Dhakai Muslin: Commercial production will create global market

Durga Puja Off White Behula Dhakai jamdani Saree Soft Finish Women Formal Sari from West Bengal hand Weaving 603

Bengal’s weavers revive muslin, spin success

How fine muslin can pass through a finger ring. Its revival has improved livelihoods of many spinners and weavers (Photo by Gurvinder Singh)

Reviving Muslin

Hand woven muslin cloth, sheer, super light weight and gossamer soft

Rajasthan, India is famous for its super soft muslin sheets and lightweight quilts, called razai.

These quilts are lightly filled with cotton or kapok.

Fairy soft, lightweight sheets are made of muslin, often called mul mul in India. 

On eBay for example the words used to find these super soft, light quilts or muslin cotton fabric might be

Rajasthan traditional Sanganeri Jaipuri rajai or razai, Dhaka or Dhakai 

muslin Behula rajdani 

On PicClick, under the search for Jaipuri razai

Exquisitely lightweight kurta (India tunics) and other articles of clothing made of sheer muslin are made in the Indian city of Lucknow. Super soft. They are starched in the photographs to hold their form.

Buyable on Etsy at 

LucknowiArts

The Killian Kurta at Lucknowi Arts on Etsy

March 18th 2021

 

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Cyber Granny. Love this image by Madison Pollard

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lovely music from West Africa

Ballaké Sissoko (born 1968) is a Malian player of the kora. 

Ballaké Sissoko ft. Sona Jobarteh - Djourou (Official video)

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Lovely bluegrass

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So cool, cardboard robot does magic

The Delicious History of 14 Pasta Shapes

This online book explains SO MUCH about so many things I'd been wondering for years and years about the changes I witnessed in NYC during the 1960s and then, when I returned after having been away for 15 years, at the end of 1985. About how the Happenings happened in Central Park's Sheep Meadow in the 1960s, about who closed traffic in Central Park over the weekends and in summer, who renovated Central Park in the 1960s, who created those cool pocket parks around NYC, like the Paley one on East 53rd Street, who made Shakespeare in the park possible, who made the the Schaefer Beef Festival rock concerts at the Wollman ice skating rink during summers or those massive classic music concerts in the Great Meadow in the park, or built the Delacourt Theater in the park, who was responsible for creating the restaurant at the Bethesda fountain Terrace,  who started the whole deal of blockbuster shows at NYC museums, like the Tutankhamun show. 

It was Thomas Hoving, both NYC's Central Park Commissioner and also the head of the Metropolitan Museum.

ARTFUL TOM, A MEMOIR

by Thomas Hoving

The complete book, readable online here.

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Remembering Hoving's Service as Parks Commissioner - The ...

Dec 11, 2009 — Remembering Hoving's Service as Parks Commissioner. Arthur Brower/The New York Times Thomas P. F. Hoving on Central Park lake with his wife, Nancy, and their daughter, Petra Bell, on Dec. 1, 1965.

Thomas Hoving, Wendy Burden and the End of Elite Privelige?

The Executive Director: Thomas Hoving and the Rise of the Museum-biz

Thomas Hoving, who ran the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York from 1966-1977, was among the first museum directors to recognize the potential of this new (museum) world order. Hoving reimagined the museum as an experiential hub–a place for blockbuster shows and postcard shops as well as for connoisseurship, conservation and scholarship–setting a template for museums and their directors that’s become the norm in the past 40-odd years.

Happenings: Art, Play, And Urban Revitalization In 1960s Central Park

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The 'In' Crowd

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A history of the nightclub and restaurant where the elite of more than 50 years ago ate and drank.

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