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Zanche's NewYear's resolutions is to catch up on her sleep 2025 was rough!
December 31, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Zanche's NewYear's resolutions is to catch up on her sleep 2025 was rough!
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(Bluesky has a sense of humor after all! semi-censoring the van Eyck altarpiece as "adult content.")
December 31, 2025 at 5:53 AM
(Bluesky has a sense of humor after all! semi-censoring the van Eyck altarpiece as "adult content.")
(Bluesky has a sense of humor after all! semi-censoring the van Eyck altarpiece as "adult content.")
December 31, 2025 at 5:53 AM
(Bluesky has a sense of humor after all! semi-censoring the van Eyck altarpiece as "adult content.")
Away with the Old Year 2025! hurry!
December 31, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Away with the Old Year 2025! hurry!
CHRISTMAS NAP CLUB!
tired of book clubs that require keeping your eyes open for extended periods of time?
Zanche has launched the first-ever CHRISTMAS NAP CLUB which began on Christmas Eve & will continue until New Year's Day.
(yes, you can join any time. don't even hurry.)
tired of book clubs that require keeping your eyes open for extended periods of time?
Zanche has launched the first-ever CHRISTMAS NAP CLUB which began on Christmas Eve & will continue until New Year's Day.
(yes, you can join any time. don't even hurry.)
December 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
CHRISTMAS NAP CLUB!
tired of book clubs that require keeping your eyes open for extended periods of time?
Zanche has launched the first-ever CHRISTMAS NAP CLUB which began on Christmas Eve & will continue until New Year's Day.
(yes, you can join any time. don't even hurry.)
tired of book clubs that require keeping your eyes open for extended periods of time?
Zanche has launched the first-ever CHRISTMAS NAP CLUB which began on Christmas Eve & will continue until New Year's Day.
(yes, you can join any time. don't even hurry.)
view of the George Washington Bridge as snow begins on Christmas day 2025. (photo: Richard Levao)
December 27, 2025 at 12:32 AM
view of the George Washington Bridge as snow begins on Christmas day 2025. (photo: Richard Levao)
great syllabus! but I begin with the Declaration of Independence & move through classics like Washington Irving, Melville & Poe, to the present day with a focus on on short fiction.
When I was still a professor teaching philosophy of literature, for about 5 years, I designed the course around the American Dream. We read: Day of the Locust; Play it as it Lays; Fear and Loathing in LV; A Scanner Darkly; and Less Than Zero. It was the most popular version of the course.
December 27, 2025 at 12:31 AM
great syllabus! but I begin with the Declaration of Independence & move through classics like Washington Irving, Melville & Poe, to the present day with a focus on on short fiction.
family portrait with music by artist Adam Dressner.
December 26, 2025 at 11:31 PM
family portrait with music by artist Adam Dressner.
gorgeous work of art!
Merry Christmas to all that celebrate 🎄! I hope Santa was good to you 😉
TY to everyone who commented in my last post. I promise I’ll respond, but I’ve been busy prepping food and wrapping last minute gifts 😅.
“Serene birches”; mixed media on canvas; 2024. Sold
#art #landscape #nature #painting
TY to everyone who commented in my last post. I promise I’ll respond, but I’ve been busy prepping food and wrapping last minute gifts 😅.
“Serene birches”; mixed media on canvas; 2024. Sold
#art #landscape #nature #painting
December 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
gorgeous work of art!
"The American Dream:" A Course Syllabus
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"The American Dream:" A Course Syllabus
Exploring the meaning of “The American Dream” through American literature and film
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December 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
"The American Dream:" A Course Syllabus
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new(ish) Substack posting~~
December 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
new(ish) Substack posting~~
The Miraculous Birth
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The Miraculous Birth
A Holiday Poem
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December 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The Miraculous Birth
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Garcia: They are, on one hand, putting names of survivors in these documents that are not redacted. And in these same documents, they're taking extra time and being extra careful to redact the names of the coconspirators
December 24, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Garcia: They are, on one hand, putting names of survivors in these documents that are not redacted. And in these same documents, they're taking extra time and being extra careful to redact the names of the coconspirators
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What we’re being told is that a guy who is an adjudicated rapist, who was credibly accused of sexual assault by dozens of women, who paid hush money to a porn star, who cheated on all his wives, who is mentioned hundreds of times in the Epstein files, couldn’t possibly be a sexual predator.
December 24, 2025 at 5:12 AM
What we’re being told is that a guy who is an adjudicated rapist, who was credibly accused of sexual assault by dozens of women, who paid hush money to a porn star, who cheated on all his wives, who is mentioned hundreds of times in the Epstein files, couldn’t possibly be a sexual predator.
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I don’t have anything festive for the holiday, so here’s another birch painting I did in 2024.
Fog Through The Trees
9”x12” Acrylic on Gesso Board
Sold
#art #landscape #acrylic #painting #trees #nature #blueskyart
Fog Through The Trees
9”x12” Acrylic on Gesso Board
Sold
#art #landscape #acrylic #painting #trees #nature #blueskyart
December 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I don’t have anything festive for the holiday, so here’s another birch painting I did in 2024.
Fog Through The Trees
9”x12” Acrylic on Gesso Board
Sold
#art #landscape #acrylic #painting #trees #nature #blueskyart
Fog Through The Trees
9”x12” Acrylic on Gesso Board
Sold
#art #landscape #acrylic #painting #trees #nature #blueskyart
Soon, he will discover the man o’war so excitedly named.
lol. No one has ever heard of battleships!
President Trump will announce on Monday a new type of large warship he is calling “battleships,” marking a step toward achieving the president’s vision for a new “Golden Fleet.”
December 22, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Soon, he will discover the man o’war so excitedly named.
What would the world have done without Bill & Hillary to demonize for decades? Acres of newsprint in the NY Times alone. All those tremulously spiteful columns by Maureen Dowd.
Pretty damn funny. I doubt Bill is clean in the files, so maybe he's just trying to make sure if he goes down the 🟠💩 and everyone else goes down with him. As they all should.
Nothing about this whole Epstein story is funny except maybe this. Trump spends months freaking out and his DOJ jumps through hoops to hide the evidence, meanwhile they kept trying to distract us by pointing at Clinton. Now Clinton demands a full release, and Trump looks ridiculous in comparison.
December 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
What would the world have done without Bill & Hillary to demonize for decades? Acres of newsprint in the NY Times alone. All those tremulously spiteful columns by Maureen Dowd.
“Radical left”?—his polls are dropping into the low 30’s. This is crediting the “radical left” with a popularity they’ve never even fantasized.
If this doesn't motivate you to vote in the Midterms, nothing will.
December 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
“Radical left”?—his polls are dropping into the low 30’s. This is crediting the “radical left” with a popularity they’ve never even fantasized.
So true! But maybe Schopenhauer had a deeper grasp of the world as will—blind instinct ruling humankind ; & only that will is strong enough to continue to propagate the species if there is conscious choice involved.
a loss of a deeply civilizational trait, but this isn't a decline. the material factors that produce it – gender equality, access to education, massive declines in childhood mortality – are things that should make us all proud.
December 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
So true! But maybe Schopenhauer had a deeper grasp of the world as will—blind instinct ruling humankind ; & only that will is strong enough to continue to propagate the species if there is conscious choice involved.
This appears to be true. Just as a person “who has everything” may take their own life confounding everyone around them who have failed to perceive the deep clinical depression that is kept hidden from view or may in fact have been unconscious.
There's a sense of inevitability about population decline. All societies have or will eventually complete the demographic transition. Many have been shrinking for a long time.
ourworldindata.org/data-insight...
ourworldindata.org/data-insight...
The world has passed “peak child”
The number of children in the world has stopped growing. This moment in time was given the term “peak child” by the late Hans Rosling.
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December 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
This appears to be true. Just as a person “who has everything” may take their own life confounding everyone around them who have failed to perceive the deep clinical depression that is kept hidden from view or may in fact have been unconscious.
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If you are tired of people complaining about paywall access to journalism then imagine how tired people are of living in places like America where disinformation is free and journalism is a mandatory paid subscription
December 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
If you are tired of people complaining about paywall access to journalism then imagine how tired people are of living in places like America where disinformation is free and journalism is a mandatory paid subscription
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For like the first time ever, the majority of my Blackwoods are together on the same shelf.
December 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
For like the first time ever, the majority of my Blackwoods are together on the same shelf.