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The Confused Idealist

A daily dose of inspiration revolving around the arts and sciences. In a world focused on everything we can"t do, be inspired by just a few of the things we"ve already done.

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07:33

An Artist's Almanac for October 30, 2025

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2025/10/30

These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years.Today's film came out in 1992, and was directed by Robert Redford. It stars Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt, Brenda Blethyn, Emily Lloyd, and Tom Skerritt.We mark the anniversaries of the births of Ezra Pound, Zoë Akins, Ruth Gordon Jones, and the anniversary of one of the worst days of pollution in American history.Today's image is a painting by Angelica Kauffman, and is titled, "Diana and nymphs".Today's poem is by Ezra Pound.Please

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07:51

An Artist's Almanac for October 29, 2025

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2025/10/29

These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years.Today's film came out in 1999, directed by Spike Jonze.It stars Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, Orson Bean, Mary Kay Place, John Malkovich, and John Cusak.We mark the anniversaries of the births of Bob Ross, James Boswell, Fanny Brice, Bill Mauldin, and Henry Ossawa Tanner’s painting becoming the first from a black person to be hung in the White House, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X being published just 60 years ago

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07:04

An Artist's Almanac for October 28, 2025

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2025/10/28

These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years.Today's film came out in 1968. It was a documentary directed by William Greaves.We mark the anniversaries of the births of Desiderius Erasmus, Ayad Akhtar, Ian Hamilton Finlay, and the unveiling of the Statue of Liberty.Today's image comes courtesy of The Museum of the City of New York, and is a painting commemorating the unveiling the Statue of Liberty, by Edward Moran. It is titled, "Unveiling The Statue of Liberty

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08:15

An Artist's Almanac for October 27, 2025

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2025/10/27

These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years.Today's film came out in 1995, and was directed by Mike Figgis. It stars Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue.We mark the anniversaries of the births of Roberto Benigni, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, John Cleese, Fran Lebowitz, and commemorate the hanging of Quakers just for being Quakers.Today's image comes courtesy of the Fitzwilliam Museum, and is by Salvator Rosa. It's titled, "Human Fragility."Today's poem is by Dylan Thomas.Please

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06:19

An Artist's Almanac for October 24, 2025

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2025/10/24

These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years.Today's film came out in 1997, and was directed by Andrew Niccol. It stars Jude Law, Uma Thurman, Alan Arkin, Loren Dean, Ernest Borgnine, and Ethan Hawke.Today’s image comes courtesy of George Grantham Bain News Service, via U.S. Library of Congress, and is a photograph of Annie Edson Taylor and her cat, after they became the first to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. It's titled, Queen of the Mist.Today's poem is by

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06:13

An Artist's Almanac for October 23, 2025

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2025/10/23

These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years.Today's film came out in 1998, directed by Gary Ross. It stars Tobey Maguire, Joan Allen, William H. Macy, J.T. Walsh, Don Knotts, and Reese Witherspoon, and Jeff Daniels.We mark the anniversaries of the births of Ang Lee, Philip Kaufman, Michael Crichton, Robert Seymour Bridges, Johnny Carson, and “Weird Al” Yankovic.Today's image is of “Weird Al” Yankovic, and comes courtesy of Kyle Cassidy.Today's poem is by Robert

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09:37

An Artist's Almanac for October 22, 2025

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2025/10/22

These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years.Today's film came out in 1976. It stars Franklyn Ajaye, George Carlin, Professor Irwin Corey, Antonion Fargas, Jack Hehoe, Clarence Muse, Lorraine Gary, The Pointer Sisters, Richard Pryor, and Bill Duke.We mark the anniversaries of the births of Spike Jonze, Jan de Bont, Robert Capa, Raghubir Singh, Swami Rama Tirtha, Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani, Franz Liszt, and Sarah Bernhardt.Today's image comes courtesy of Robert Capa, and is

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08:05

An Artist's Almanac for October 21, 2025

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2025/10/21

These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years.Today's film came out in 1984. It stars Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid, Fred Ward, Barbara Hershey, Kim Stanley, Veronica Cartwright, and Levon Helm.We mark the anniversaries of the births of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Carrie Fisher, Domenichino, Mercy Amba Oduyoye, Volker Halbach, and Magellan discovering the Strait that would bear his name, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, forever altering

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07:53

An Artist's Almanac for October 17, 2025

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2025/10/17

These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years.Today's film came out in 1986. It stars Tom Cruise, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Helen Shaver, John Turturro, Bill Cobbs, and Paul NewmanWe mark the anniversaries of the births of Jupiter Hammon, Arthur Miller, Michael McKean, Norm Macdonald, Jesús “Chucho” Reyes Ferreira, and Henri de Saint-Simon.Today's poem is by Jupiter Hammon.Today's image is by Jesús “Chucho” Reyes Ferreira, and is titled, "2 gallos, Firmado".Please help

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08:30

An Artist's Almanac for October 16, 2025

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2025/10/16

These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years.Today's film came out in 1987. It starred Faye Dunaway, Alice Krige, Jack Nance, Pruitt Taylor Vance, and Mickey Rourke.We mark the anniversaries of the births of David Zucker, Oscar Wilde, Eugene O'Neill, Günter Grass, and Shay Youngblood.Today's poem is by Oscar Wilde, and is from, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol".Today's image is a caricature of Oscar Wilde, by his friend Max Beerbohm.Please help support us on Patreon.You can also

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07:42

An Artist's Almanac for October 15, 2025

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2025/10/15

These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years.Today's film came out in 1976, and was a documentary directed by Barbara Kopple.We also mark the anniversary of the births of Penny Marshall, the poet Virgil, Mario Puzo, Mikhail Lermontov, Friedrich Nietzsche, andKeyshia Cole.Today's image is a photograph of Harlan County's miners' homes. It is untitled and uncredited.Please help support us on Patreon.You can also support us directly by visiting our website.Follow us

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08:16

An Artist's Almanac for October 14, 2025

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2025/10/14

These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years.Today's film came out in 1994 and starred Morgan Freeman, Clancy Brown, Jeffrey DeMunn, James Whitmore, and Tim Robbins.We also mark the anniversary of the births of e.e. cummings, William Penn, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Luckmann, Masaoka Shiki, Ralph Lauren, and Martin Luther King Jr.'s Nobel Peace Prize.Today's image comes courtesy of The Boston Globe, and is of Martin Luther King Jr. being welcomed with a kiss from his wife,

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09:00

An Artist's Almanac for October 9, 2025

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2025/10/09

These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years."The worst part of having a wild imagination is that sometimes it works against you.”Today's film came out in 1992. It starred Gerard Depardieu, Armand Assante, Sigourney Weaver, and Fernando Rey, who as Christopher Columbus’s son Fernando says, "Of all the words my father wrote - and there were many - I remember these the most: "Nothing that results from human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. And those who are

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07:51

An Artist's Almanac for October 8, 2025

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2025/10/08

These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years.“Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”Today's film came out in 1982. It starred Mark Linn-Baker, Jessica Harper, Bill Macy, and Peter O’Toole who as Alan Swann reflects, "People like me, we're targets. I'm blamed for a lot of things I had absolutely nothing to do with. On the other hand, because of who I am, I get away with murder in other areas. I suppose it all balances out in the end."We also mark the anniversary of the

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08:19

An Artist's Almanac for October 6, 2025

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2025/10/06

These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years."He who boasts of honesty tempts the world to test it.”Today's film came out in 2006. It starred Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Vera Farmiga, Anthony Anderson, Alec Baldwin, and Mark Wahlberg who as Staff Sergeant Sean Dignam say, "I'm the guy who does his job. You must be the other guy."We also mark the anniversary of the births of Edwin Hubble, John Wessel, a few filmmaking

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07:21

An Artist's Almanac for October 3, 2025

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2025/10/03

These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years.Today's film came out in 1997. It starred Sean Penn, Jennifer Lopez, Nick Nolte, Billy Bob Thornton, Powers Boothe, Joaquin Phoenix, Claire Danes, and Jon Voight.We also mark the anniversary of the births of Denis Villeneuve, Leo McCarey, Gore Vidal, Louis Aragon, Harvey Kurtzman, and the premiere episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show.Today's image comes courtesy of CBS Television and is a publicity photo of Dick Van Dyke fromThe

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09:50

An Artist's Almanac for October 2, 2025

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2025/10/02

These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years.Today's film came out ten years ago today, and starred Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Kate Mara, Jeff Daniels, Michael Peña, Sean Bean, Sebastian Stan, Aksel Hennie, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Benedict Wong, Mackenzie Davis, and Donald Glover.It's also the birthdays of Groucho Marx, Gandhi, Gilbert Simondon, Nat Turner, The Twilight Zone, and the telescope.Today's image comes courtesy of Joanbanjo, and is titled, Groucho Marx

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10:02

An Artist's Almanac for October 1, 2025

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2025/10/01

These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years.Today's film came out in 1993, and starred Robert De Niro and Chazz Palminteri.You'll also hear about Clarence Darrow in a story you're guaranteed to have never heard before, before he defended a teacher's right to teach the truth in the Scopes Monkey Trial.Today's cover image comes courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, and is titled Winston and Clementine Churchill Gertrude Bell and T. E. Lawrence in Egypt 1921. The credit is listed

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06:46

An Artist's Almanac for September 30, 2025

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2025/09/30

These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years.Today's film came out 20 years ago today. It starred Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Alan Tudyk.Today's painting has a rather long title which is, The Piazza Navona, Rome, above the ruins of the Circus of Domitian, the Church of Sant Agnese to the right, Bernini's fountain in the center, from "Vedute di Roma", and was painted by Giovanni Battista Piranesi.Please help support us on Patreon.You can also support

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09:57

An Artist's Almanac for September 29, 2025

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2025/09/29

These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years.Today's featured piece of art comes from The Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, New York. It is called The Relief Fund in Lancashire (for "Once a Week"), and was created by James McNeill Whistler. It is a proof for a wood engraving that was published July 26, 1862.Please help support us on Patreon.You can also support us directly by visiting our website.Follow us on:YouTubeInstagramFacebookXDo the useful thing, say the

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