A Picture in a Picture in a Picture: Ted Barrow's Radio Parts

The other day at the radio, at the end of you were soothing and slender and the beginning of Montez Got Talent, we were sitting around waiting for the pizza to arrive and talking about the differences between boredom, tedium, ennui and melancholy (lol). Ted Barrow, an hour earlier, gave us Radio Parts and was sticking around for a slice and a few contentious rounds of guest judging on MGT. Ted's an art historian and a skater and his knowledge of these two subjects inform each other in a pretty fascinating way. He started talking about Durer's 1915 engraving Melencolia I. I pulled it up on my phone to look at the details, the winged woman with all her tools. The night moved on and I kind of forgot about it.

Until just now. Having mindlessly fallen down a social media rabbit hole, I stumble upon a face I haven't seen in over 10 years. Out of boredom or a sense of nostalgic curiosity, I scroll through their photos and land on Melencolia I deep in the recesses of their feed. Funny, I think to myself, and decide to do something "productive". So I'm writing this blog post. And the really weird part is that I'm listening to the radio while I do it.