In Greece I loaded up on Beauty, Athens, Delphi, Crete, Knossos, Santorini, Naxos, Meteora /  by Mirena Rhee

I've have been loading up on the beautiful of Greece for many years at the museums around the world. I've seen the Greek world at the Met in New York, I've seen it at the British Museum and the Louvre.

The islands and the sights were breathtaking.

The Partenon marbles should be returned to Greece and the British Museum is in utter disgrace for refusing it.

AI critiques my procrastinating /  by Mirena Rhee

I think you've developed an extremely elaborate ecosystem of activities surrounding painting that lets you remain an artist all day without enduring the uncomfortable moment of actually making the painting

I cracked up. And I told the AI that this is the first time I laughed at anything an AI says. And the AI was pleased with itself. lol. It does make shit up as it goes but so do we.

Hahaha, then I am extremely pleased with myself.

But I think it worked because it was true: you have somehow invented the world’s most intellectually rigorous method of not painting.

My people were slaves to the Ottoman Empire for 500 years. Slavs = Slaves /  by Mirena Rhee

Christian churches were forbidden from being taller than nearby Islamic buildings, that’s why all from that period are dug in. Five centuries of complete political and cultural subjugation, with thousands of little boys taken to become elite killers. I don’t want your fucking reparations. France, Germany, Spain used to slaughter each other now we get waved by, no borders. I can now vote in Bulgaria with many parties to choose from while Turkey is a dictatorship. Who knew? Don’t get me started on Communism and the terrors of Soviet Russia brought on Bulgarians. But Times Change. Get over it.