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Joe
@demymondaine.bsky.social
Wayward francophile. Adrift in the provinces. A bit Éric Rohmer, a bit Barbara Pym, but perhaps the wrong bits.

Je ne sais plus si je suis le bon. – Paul Dédalus 🏳️‍🌈
Brandenburg Concerti were on the program and are chasing away the blues, at least for a bit.
December 6, 2025 at 4:33 AM
December 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
A view from the Park and Ride.
December 2, 2025 at 4:19 AM
A bit from my Thanksgiving constitutional:
November 28, 2025 at 2:36 AM
At last weekend’s (very fine) MSO concert, UW’s Art History Dept. set up a table and gave out slides of paintings formerly used in survey courses.

I snagged one for Manet’s “Woman with a Parrot.”
November 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
November 19, 2025 at 5:21 AM
I think that I will, thank you very much.
November 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
October 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Pure transcendence (the chorus! the trombones!) thanks to Mahler 2 this afternoon.
October 19, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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October 8, 2025 at 1:54 AM
A few photos from tonight’s constitutional:
October 8, 2025 at 1:53 AM
August 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
WMC sign has seen better days.
August 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Found in this in the Google Photos. Dates from 2018, and my first apartment in Ravenswood. Was I ever so young?
July 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
But these may be the best films too. Who’s to know?
June 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
My ballot for the NYT poll:
June 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
“I asked chat GPT” “I asked grok” well I asked Ramona to tell me where we could find the social register.
June 19, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Per Google Maps, my hometown has a new tourist attraction:
June 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I hope that she is trotted out on some apology tour and that we get another cheerfully morbid photo or two.
May 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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