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Embroidery beginner, stained glass enthusiast. Go Birds.
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Francis Heaney’s Holy Tango of Literature.

He answers the (understudied) question of what would happen if poets and playwrights wrote works whose titles were anagrams of their names.

You can read the whole thing free here on his website here:

www.francisheaney.com/holy-tango-o...
IS A SPERM LIKE A WHALE? WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Shall I compare thee to a sperm whale, sperm? Thou art more tiny and more resolute: Rough tides may sway a sea-bound endotherm, But naught diverts thy uterine commute. Sometime too fierce the eye of squid may glint And make a stout cetacean hunter quail; Methinks 'twould take much more than bilious squint To shake thee off the cunning ovum's trail. Yet still thou art not so unlike, thou two, Both coursing through a dark uncharted brine While fore and aft there swims thy fellow crew; And note this echo, little gamete mine: As whales spray salty water from their spout, So with a salty spray dost thou come out. KIN RIP PHALLI PHILIP LARKIN They trim your dick, your mum and dad. They may not need to, but they do. They take the foreskin that you had And leave you smoother than bamboo. But Dad was severed in his turn By docs in old-style masks and gowns, Who wore a look of unconcern While snipping little penile crowns. Man hands on suffering to man. It stains indelibly as ink. They cut you early as they can, Then wonder why you need a shrink. WE LONG BONY DORKS GWENDOLYN BROOKS The Mathletes. Seven in the Computer Lab. We long bony dorks. We Real big on quarks. We Quote Python lines. We Know arcs and sines. We Not good at sports. We Black socks with shorts. We Beat up at noon. We Out-earn you soon. ELVES ENACT LAWS WALLACE STEVENS Call the roll for the majority whip, The wispy one, and bid him vote On autumn leaves' numismatic worth. Let committees dawdle in the glen As they are wont to do, and let their aides Weave flowers through broken lute strings. Let vetos float amid the spheres. The only senator is the senator of pointy ears. Take from the closet of lark, Lacking a three-piece suit, the vest On which are embroidered fairy songs To while away the hours of debate. If a porcine clause appear, a spell Will make a rider say farewell. Let the world keep its frontiers. The only senator is the senator of pointy ears.
November 18, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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You can eat pavlova. And anything from this cultural icon
The cover of the Australian Women’s Weekly Birthday Cake Book (vintage edition), with the famous Train cake on the cover.
September 17, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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Thanks very much. Learn something new every day. Also, lol at the AI summary Google foisted on me when I googled those acronyms (I did figure out what BCP meant eventually).
A Google search for TLM and BCP. Google Gemini is telling me the first is the Traditional Latin Mass but the second stands for Business Continuity Plan (this is wrong, it’s the Book of Common Prayers).
September 12, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Essential gear for sun protection while paragliding (other stuff too, I guess).
A picture showing how to wear your headskinz, with illustrations of each. Face mask, neck scarf, chin chill, head band, hair band, pirate, wrist band, blind fold, hair tie, cap and beanie, hoodie/balaclava, the Sahara.
April 24, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Patrick Shanahan. He was acting SecDef but withdrew from consideration for the job permanently- see this excerpt from a news article at the time.
In November 2011, Shanahan rushed to defend his then-17-year-old son, William Shanahan, in the days after the teenager brutally beat his mother. The attack had left Patrick Shanahan’s ex-wife unconscious in a pool of blood, her skull fractured and with internal injuries that required surgery, according to court and police records. Two weeks later, Shanahan sent his ex-wife’s brother a memo arguing that his son had acted in self-defense. “Use of a baseball bat in self- defense will likely be viewed as an imbalance of force,” Shanahan wrote. “However, Will’s mother harassed him for nearly three hours before the incident.” Details of the incidents have started to emerge in media reports about his nomination, including a USA Today report Tuesday about the punching incident in 2010. In an hour-long interview Monday night at his apartment in Virginia, Shanahan, who has been responding to questions from The Post about the incidents since January, said he wrote the memo in the hours after his son’s attack, before he knew the full extent of his ex-wife’s injuries. He said that it was to prepare for his son’s initial court appearance and that he never intended for anyone other than his son’s attorneys to read it. “That document literally was, I sat down with [my son] right away, and being an engineer at an aerospace company, you write down what are all of the mitigating reasons something could have happened. You know, just what’s the list of things that could have happened?” he said. As he wrote in an ongoing custody battle stemming from their divorce, Shanahan said Monday that he does not believe there can be any justification for an assault with a baseball bat, but he went further in the interview, saying he now regrets writing the passage. “Quite frankly it’s difficult to relive that moment, and the passage was difficult for me to read. I was wrong to write those three sentences,” Shanahan said. “I have never believed Will’s attack on his mother was an act of self-defense or justified. I don’t believe violence is appropriate ever, and certainly never any justification for attacking someone with a baseball bat,” he said.
March 22, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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A Mad Mad style sickos cartoon. The sickos dude is driving a big oil tanker in the right. On the left, cars of dudes in their best Mad Max style regalia are attacking the tanker from a series of spiffed up cars.
March 13, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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And Bove has signed the thing and entered and appearance himself too.
The motion to dismiss, with Emil Bove’s signature at the bottom below the names of Edward Sullivan and Antoinette T. Bacon
February 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Go Birds!

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A screenshot showing two skeets in my timeline. The first by Noah Becker @noahbecker.bsky.social says “One of the best parts of the Eagles being in the Super Bowl is the number of people who are very mad about Eagles fans getting to be happy about the Eagles being in the Super Bowl.” The second, by Candy @labeautenoire3.bsky.social says “I live in a world where I'm forced to begrudgingly root for the Eagles. This is Dante's 7th circle of hell.”
January 31, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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Hell yeah, looks awesome. I’m very glad we’re done with winter in Australia and looking forward to my next trip inland to Manilla once the thermals start kicking off.
A photo taken from a paraglider showing a gaggle of fellow pilots in the air at sunset above the launch at Mt Borah, Manilla, NSW, Australia.
September 3, 2024 at 7:09 AM
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Have a cat also at the end of its patience
A ferocious looking gray tabby at the end of its patience, hissing at someone out of shot
March 6, 2024 at 1:37 AM