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guiltywisdom · 7 months

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David Kirby (1957-1990)

He looks like Christ, I see Christ in him.

David Kirby on his deathbed, a victim of AIDS. Also pictured, David's caregiver and friend Peta, David's father Bill Kirby and David's sister Susan. Photographed by Therese Frare in Ohio (1990). David's father Bill has made it clear, David wanted everyone to see his picture.

#society #aids #hiv #david kirby #death #i was struck by this image in another post but i felt making it about God there was the wrong place so i created another post #when this image was seen by many the roman catholic church was apparently outraged over the similarities between david and the pieta #which i saw as well - but instead of outrage i felt awe - i recognised in david the Christ like we should see in every person #of course there was similarities - of course this father was weeping for his child just as our Mother wept for her Son the day He suffered #they recognised the divine in David but instead of embracing it they turned away from it #i see Christ in David - just as i see Christ in everyone - but on that day 30 years ago it was a little easier to see

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the80s · 3 months

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A photo said to have changed the face of the AIDS: David Kirby, on his deathbed dying from AIDS in Ohio, is comforted by his father (1989).

#1989 #aids #David Kirby

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7r0773r · 11 months

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The Ha-Ha by David Kirby

Someone Naked and Adorable

When I see the sign that says "Nude Beach," I scuttle right over, though when I get there, all I see is three guys who look like me, two in baggy Kmart-type bathing suits and one in a "banana hammock" of the type favored by speed racers and the lesser European nobility,

and as they wait for the naked people to appear, all three scowl at the sand, the water, the very heavens themselves, the clouds as raw as the marble from which Bernini carved the Apollo and Daphne whose bodies rang like bells when the restorers touched them,

like the bells of Santa Croce that summer that woke me and Barbara every morning in Florence, which we called, not "Florence," but "Guangdong Province," because Hong Kong was in the news a lot in those days, and Hong Kong is near Guangdong Province,

and the bells would go guang! dong! as though a drunken priest were swinging from the bellrope. Now surely that is "the music of the spheres" (Sir Thomas Browne) as opposed to "the still, sad music of humanity" (Wordsworth), which is just some guy playing a violin in the corner.

Or four guys: a string quartet, and not a good one, either, one that meant well but hadn't practiced very much, or maybe one that hadn't even meant well, that just wanted to get paid, maybe meet a scullery maid or two, perhaps a nymphomaniacal marchioness . . .

What the hell do people want, anyway? Why does Barbara adore the cameo I gave her that depicts Leda and the swan, an episode in interspecies relationships that just gives me the creeps? There must be something there about being, not dominated, but overcome—

about allowing oneself to be mastered by a force greater than oneself or just another person who has taken on temporary godlike powers, for life has a sting in its tail, like a chimera, and you can no more draw that sting yourself

than you can tickle yourself, whereas another person can do both. Why, in the "cabinet of secrets" of the Archeological Museum in Naples, I saw a bell in the shape of a gladiator at war not with another warrior but with his own Schwanz!

It had rolled up on its back, if a penis can be said to have a back, and was clawing and snapping at its master with the nails and teeth of a lion! And in turn he, the gladiator, was slashing back with a broadsword in one hand and some kind

of lion-slapper or Schwanz-slapper in the other! Slap, slap, slice, slap! That would sting, wouldn't it? And it's a bell, remember, so the whole was meant to be struck and struck hard, be it by angry bachelor or vengeful wife! Dong! And given the choice

of which part of the bell to strike, who wouldn't strike the pecker-penis, the ravening lion of unrequited desire? As if to say, you're the one who's causing all the problems, you're the one body part who's making trouble for all the others!

No, no, we want something else altogether, for, as wise old Mr. Emerson says in A Room with a View, Love is not the body but is of the body, the one we are waiting for there on the beach, rooted in the sand like shore birds, our every atom tingling with desire.

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Lame as a Robin

The cumulative ticket is nominative and it can be used within three days. On the ticket is showed an entrance time table: this time table is indicative. -on the back of a ticket to the Uffizi

Halfway across the piazza, I turn to wave at Barbara, and she says, "Don't forget to buy some Tenderly!" because in Italy we have the habit of calling products by their brand names, not only to create a third language in addition to our native tongue and that of the locals but also to avoid such vulgar public reminders as "Don't forget to buy some toilet paper!" so that milk is Mukki, facial tissue becomes Tempo, laundry detergent is now Cocolino, and so on,

and as I stand waving the way a beauty queen taught me once, my hand not flopping up and down like a catfish out of water but swinging back and forth the way you'd do if you were trying to unscrew the lid of a family-size jar of mayonnaise, I can't help thinking, first, of the little neighborhood boy who thought that the Broadway musical was called Lame as a Robin, its connotation of injured innocence at least as expressive as, if not more so than, Monsieur Hugo's original title,

and then, in quick succession, of that guy Ragnor asking me Do you say, "I hate French" or "I hate the French?" and me saying, "The French!" and him asking, Is it, "You are sweetheart" or "You are the sweetheart?" and me saying, It's either "You're a sweetheart" or "You're my sweetheart," and him saying, What is difference? and then asking, Is it "I study maths" or "I study the maths?" and me saying, "I study maths," though we don't say "maths" in this country! and him saying, Why not?

and me saying, Because we're not English! and him saying, This what we speak is not the English? Then how do you call what is it what we speak? and me saying, It's English, it just isn't English English, and him saying, Okay, we forget about this one, let me ask you instead if we say "I eat beans" or "I eat the beans?" and me saying, It's "I eat beans" if that's all there is but "I eat the beans" if you eat the beans instead of the peas and him saying, I don't see difference,

and it occurs to me that if the world depended on our precise description of it for its existence, it would be a spotty patch, indeed, consisting of little more than childhood memories, a clutch of keen resentments, and a vague sense of our last few meals. On the one hand, we do not wish to find ourselves in the position of the bewildered older female relative who looked at the menu in the trendy restaurant and said, How do you know what to order when you don't know what anything is,

just as we don't want to become such misguided champions of clarity that we find ourselves in the position of the commentators on Homer and Aristotle in Gulliver's Travels who are forced to keep their distance in the underworld "through a consciousness of Shame and Guilt, because they had so horribly represented the Meaning of those Authors to Posterity," remembering that if the great tragedy of science is that a beautiful hypothesis can be slain by an ugly fact,

as Thomas Huxley said, so is it equally certain that a beautiful reality can be reduced to a pile of rubbish by the application of some slipshod language, like a coat of naval-issue battleship-gray paint on a fine old Tuscan table. Meanwhile, no one in the piazza is giving any indication that they are in the least bit aware of what we say or do, lost as they are in their own search for personal-care products, their brains humming with code, the specks and flashes that make a phrase, a memory, the face of someone they love.

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France / Francine’s Begonias (excerpt)

. . . . Alors, there has to be more to life than life.

#david kirby #book quotes

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dyscomancer · 8 months

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i have zero faith in dragon age 4 being worth a shit now. how do you let such phenomenal talent go to waste like this? what the fuck is happening behind closed doors at bioware?

#dragon age #dragon age 4 #dragon age dreadwolf #mary kirby #david gaider #da4 #dadw #from the desk

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myrcella-lannister · 5 months

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VANESSA KIRBY AS JOSÉPHINE DE BEAUHARNAIS Costume designers: Janty Yates and David Crossman NAPOLEON (2023)

#vanessa kirby #napoleon #napoleonedit #napoleon 2023 #joséphine de beauharnais #josephine de beauharnais #josephine bonaparte #joséphine bonaparte #empress josephine #flawlessbeautyqueens #flawlesscelebs #femaledaily #femalestunning #janty yates #david crossman #mine #*screams*

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the-lost-glove · 2 years

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Poetry is my religion—well, I wouldn’t die for it. I’d live for it, though.

— David Kirby, from “Get Up, Please” (via a-pair-of-ragged-claws)

#poetry #david kirby

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geekynerfherder · 2 years

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'The Sandman: Kirby Howell-Baptiste as Death of The Endless' by David Mack

#Art Of The Day #Art #AOTD #The Sandman #Kirby Howell Baptiste #Death Of The Endless #Sandman #David Mack #Death

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writing-for-life · 3 months

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Death—David Mack

“You get what everybody gets—you get a lifetime.” Neil Gaiman

#the sandman #sandman #death of the endless #kirby howell baptiste #neil gaiman #david mack #queue crew

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karenxmenfan · 10 months

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X-Factor, Eternals (drawn 2021, colors 2023)

#marvel comics #leah williams #david baldeon #jack kirby #esad ribić #daniel acuña #x-factor #dawn of x #eternals #sersi #polaris

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brokehorrorfan · 8 months

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The Sandman: Season 1 will be released on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD on November 28 via Warner Bros. The Netflix dark fantasy series is based on the DC comic series by Neil Gaiman.

Gaiman developed the show with David S. Goyer (Blade) and Allan Heinberg (Wonder Woman). Tom Sturridge, Boyd Holbrook, Vivienne Acheampong, Patton Oswalt, David Thewlis, Jenna Coleman, Gwendoline Christie, and Kirby Howell-Baptiste star.

The Sandman is presented in 4K with HDR and Dolby Atmos Audio. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

The Sandman - Behind the Scenes

The World of the Endless

There is another world that waits for all of us when we close our eyes and sleep — a place called the Dreaming, where The Sandman, Master of Dreams (Tom Sturridge), gives shape to all of our deepest fears and fantasies. But when Dream is unexpectedly captured and held prisoner for a century, his absence sets off a series of events that will change both the dreaming and waking worlds forever.

The Sandman: The Complete First Season.

#the sandman #neil gaiman #tom sturridge #boyd holbrook #vivienne acheampong #patton oswalt #dvd #gift #david thewlis #jenna coleman #gwendoline christie #kirby howell baptiste #dc comics #david s. goyer #allan heinberg

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jimothystu · 8 months

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