#Nigel Short

[paul-archibald]

Superstitions

Composers and performing artists can often be superstitious about dealing with the trials and tribulations of performing and composing. From ‘touch wood’ or avoiding walking under a ladder or crossing fingers or feeling concerned about getting out of bed on Friday the 13th. Many of these superstitions can feel very real to those affected by them. In this edition of In Conversation we look at how…

[dozydawn]

Portrait of Nigel Short by Barry Martin, 1993.

The artist Barry Martin playing chess in front of a live audience against the British Champion, Grandmaster Nigel Short, at the Savoy Theatre, 1993.

[baldnt]

Holy Hell

"in a Twitter post, English Grandmaster Nigel Short described the opening [The bongcloud attack] as an "insult to chess""

[mozart2006]

Musikfest Stuttgart 2024 - Tenebrae Choir

Foto ©Holger Schneider Uno tra i punti fermi della vita musicale di Stuttgart è la Musikfest Continue reading Musikfest Stuttgart 2024 – Tenebrae Choir

[archaeopath]

Nigel Short has left Twitter. His account @Nigel Short does not exist anymore. I have no idea wether it is a reaction to Musk's ongoing misbehaviour or his own controversial habitus. He used to post photos from the early stage of his career quite frequently. Good luck the Internet Archive @internetarchive has many snapshots of his profile: https://web.archive.org/web/20230527074213/https://twitter.com/nigelshortchess (probably I did most of them myself).

[marypickfords]

Visions of Ecstasy (Nigel Wingrove, 1989)

[muffin-man-marq-lynch]

Per my current brainrot theories on the state of the BCC custody trial:

- Yes I think Yuta will be turning on Bryan

- God I want a Claudio x Yuta singles match but I get that's too much for Wrestledream

- There were the questions about who is potentially still puppet-mastering Mox, and most people think it's Eddie Kingston but after tonight I am going to go in on my 'other' theory in that poll for the following reasons:

There is one person who has been saying non-stop for months and months that Yuta needs to leave Bryan and the BCC's influence if he's going to grow as a wrestler from the period of stagnation he's hit after growing under their tutelage.

Eddie Kingston has the Mad King cred yes, but his vibe is much more 'i hate you and I'm gonna tell you to your face and fuck you up'. As far as we can tell this is part of his problem with Claudio. But someone with a deceptive hobby like complicated close-up magic? Already heel-aligned? Who has an interest in young talented technical wrestlers the same way the BCC did at its beginning? I think it's also worth considering that one of Bryan's monikers has been 'the ace of pro-wrestling' and in cards the King is the highest card there is... But always doomed to be outflanked by the Ace.

Because of the events at All Out, said person got their dream match against Bryan while he was not at full power, something they've wanted for 15 years to show they are his equal.

[likesummerrainn]

AEW Collision | 01.04.25

[disabled-battlekukku]

LOOK AT HOW SMALL HE IS BAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

[thisbluespirit]

Films watched (1990s): THE WINSLOW BOY (1999); dir. & screenplay David Mamet (adapted from the play by Terence Rattigan). Starring Nigel Hawthorne, Jeremy Northam, Rebecca Pidgeon & Gemma Jones.

"No, not justice. Right. Easy to do justice. Very hard to do right."

[kommandonuovidiavoli]

*peeks from a hole in the ground* what's numbuh 4's past dating life like that he and numbuh 1 ended up becoming close?

Again, they'd rather not talk about it.

It happened when Wally was dating this other girl, who turned out to be a terrible person who isolated him from everyone, to the point that he didn't even show up at Nigel's parents funeral. Which made Nigel pretty mad, and he went confronting the other directly.

They both were in a terrible mental state, both stressed, sad, angry and, well, stupid things happen. Stupid things that helped the situation. Stupid things that made Wally want out of that relationship and Nigel wanting to help him.

Everything turned out fine, luckily, but they don't want to talk about what happened that da-

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[paul-archibald]

Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613)

Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza was an Italian nobleman and lutist of the late Renaissance. He was also a murderer, wife-beater, adulterer, sado-masochist, flagellant, occultist and sublime composer. He was famous for his intensely expressive madrigals, using a chromatic language not heard of until the nineteenth century. His aristocratic family was well connected. His uncle,…

[unicorndeathrace]

So you like Rhys Darby in khaki

[desifugo]

pls dont kill me for this but thorfinn looks like a brown eyed male version of sabrina carpenter in my mind

[tired-demonspawn]

one thing i didn't expect from this update was old man yaoi, but old man yaoi i got