Sunday Tourist Miscellany

numbering these things was always going to be a big pain in the neck

More Songs About Paintings and Soup

Friend of the ‘stack Matt Haugen says most of what’s worth saying about that throwing-soup-at-a-Van-Gogh protest from the other day, an action I find silly, appalling, desperate, sympathetic, symptomatic, and pointless, by turns.

I want to add one thing: there is a style of communication, almost a theory of communication, popular among activist types, that I really hate in almost any application. It’s the tweak-your-nose-and-then-ask-you-why-you’re-angrier-about-your-tweaked-nose-than-____ method.