Hale-Maher
@hale-maher.bsky.social
Retired theatre teacher, ambler, amateur gardener, scribbler about the arts, sciences, cooking, music, & a protector of birds. No politics. Double lung transplant survivor. Resides in a quiet hamlet east of San Diego. 🏳️🌈
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The most INSANE Bohemian Rhapsody Flashmob you will ever see!!
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November 19, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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I feel like the pope being an American cinephile is God finally rewarding Scorsese for a lifetime of devotion
November 17, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I feel like the pope being an American cinephile is God finally rewarding Scorsese for a lifetime of devotion
"Sphere": Photo taken during a perambulation through my hamlet.
November 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM
"Sphere": Photo taken during a perambulation through my hamlet.
Music for Tonight: ‘Where To From’ by Hildur Guðnadóttir
November 3, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Music for Tonight: ‘Where To From’ by Hildur Guðnadóttir
Japan Happiness
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October 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Japan Happiness
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Prince's sound checks were better than most concerts.
October 23, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Prince's sound checks were better than most concerts.
I inherited a small ionized NASA plate from Mom & Dad. It shows a straight line through our galaxy, that of a satellite or a spaceship’s voyage with a red dot as an endpoint. We can only travel so far, both in space travel & in our lifetime. Our accomplishments end when we arrive at the red dot.
October 20, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I inherited a small ionized NASA plate from Mom & Dad. It shows a straight line through our galaxy, that of a satellite or a spaceship’s voyage with a red dot as an endpoint. We can only travel so far, both in space travel & in our lifetime. Our accomplishments end when we arrive at the red dot.
A night out at the Mingei Museum's new exhibition: The San Diego Modernist Movement of the mid twentieth century. Here I am being quite dapper. (Laura Andreson created the ceramic art shown here in the 1950's.) Such a charming evening.
October 12, 2025 at 1:07 AM
A night out at the Mingei Museum's new exhibition: The San Diego Modernist Movement of the mid twentieth century. Here I am being quite dapper. (Laura Andreson created the ceramic art shown here in the 1950's.) Such a charming evening.
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Artist of the day: Irma Boom. I’ve always had a gravitational pull towards exquisite tomes. Each page is an aesthetic design poem. In an article I read Mark Smith introduced me to Irma Boom. She said, "What I realized is that you make books not for the past or for the present… but for the future."
October 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Artist of the day: Irma Boom. I’ve always had a gravitational pull towards exquisite tomes. Each page is an aesthetic design poem. In an article I read Mark Smith introduced me to Irma Boom. She said, "What I realized is that you make books not for the past or for the present… but for the future."
Last night I watched the La Jolla Playhouse's musical, 'The Heart'. In it a woman receives a heart transplant from a young man. She writes to his family her gratitude as I did to the wife of my donor. I'm a recipient of a pair of lungs from a man whose family I'll never meet, yet he lives inside me.
September 30, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Last night I watched the La Jolla Playhouse's musical, 'The Heart'. In it a woman receives a heart transplant from a young man. She writes to his family her gratitude as I did to the wife of my donor. I'm a recipient of a pair of lungs from a man whose family I'll never meet, yet he lives inside me.
The joke is always how medication commercials spend half a lifetime disclaiming how patients might grow a second head. I would prefer they get right to the warning: “Snake Oil”. YOU WILL DIE. (Must be old enough to vote. Do not take with embalming fluid.)
September 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
The joke is always how medication commercials spend half a lifetime disclaiming how patients might grow a second head. I would prefer they get right to the warning: “Snake Oil”. YOU WILL DIE. (Must be old enough to vote. Do not take with embalming fluid.)
What I'm listening to: David Bowie’s version of Prokofiev’s Peter & the Wolf pulls me back six decades ago to our parent’s living room floor where my sister & I listened to it on a mono stereo. David Bowie’s narration charms, capturing the wonder of a child in small Russian village from long ago.
September 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
What I'm listening to: David Bowie’s version of Prokofiev’s Peter & the Wolf pulls me back six decades ago to our parent’s living room floor where my sister & I listened to it on a mono stereo. David Bowie’s narration charms, capturing the wonder of a child in small Russian village from long ago.
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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
-Oscar Wilde
#AI #Synthography #Nature #Quotes #Philosophy #Mimicry
-Oscar Wilde
#AI #Synthography #Nature #Quotes #Philosophy #Mimicry
September 17, 2025 at 8:57 PM
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
-Oscar Wilde
#AI #Synthography #Nature #Quotes #Philosophy #Mimicry
-Oscar Wilde
#AI #Synthography #Nature #Quotes #Philosophy #Mimicry
I killed a mud dauber wasp today. A desert breeze had pushed this beautiful creature into my house. No matter my attempts she wouldn’t be coaxed out. With night's arrival I had to kill her. All of the artistry twitched on the floor, broken like a porcelain plate. Death held her & gently took her.
September 12, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I killed a mud dauber wasp today. A desert breeze had pushed this beautiful creature into my house. No matter my attempts she wouldn’t be coaxed out. With night's arrival I had to kill her. All of the artistry twitched on the floor, broken like a porcelain plate. Death held her & gently took her.
If you are in a bad mood, cook
If you are still in a bad mood, cook for someone you despise.
Socrates
If you are in a bad mood, clean
If you are still in a bad mood, stop cleaning.
- Socrates
It’s the name, Socrates, that makes the platitude sound so august.
If you are still in a bad mood, cook for someone you despise.
Socrates
If you are in a bad mood, clean
If you are still in a bad mood, stop cleaning.
- Socrates
It’s the name, Socrates, that makes the platitude sound so august.
September 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
If you are in a bad mood, cook
If you are still in a bad mood, cook for someone you despise.
Socrates
If you are in a bad mood, clean
If you are still in a bad mood, stop cleaning.
- Socrates
It’s the name, Socrates, that makes the platitude sound so august.
If you are still in a bad mood, cook for someone you despise.
Socrates
If you are in a bad mood, clean
If you are still in a bad mood, stop cleaning.
- Socrates
It’s the name, Socrates, that makes the platitude sound so august.
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Noting all the appropriate content advisories, this 1939 film of The Mikado is ridiculously delightful, and I'm pretty sure you're getting a pretty good look at what it looked like onstage in 1885.
And Kenny Baker is great, go figure.
And Kenny Baker is great, go figure.
The Mikado (1939) | A Timeless Spectacle | Kenny Baker John Barclay| Classic opera, stunning visuals
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September 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Noting all the appropriate content advisories, this 1939 film of The Mikado is ridiculously delightful, and I'm pretty sure you're getting a pretty good look at what it looked like onstage in 1885.
And Kenny Baker is great, go figure.
And Kenny Baker is great, go figure.
My Garden of Earthly Delights... Fall edition: Tomatoes, Chives, Lettuce, Bell Peppers, Scallions.
September 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM
My Garden of Earthly Delights... Fall edition: Tomatoes, Chives, Lettuce, Bell Peppers, Scallions.
My American Gothic Revisited
August 31, 2025 at 9:05 PM
My American Gothic Revisited
I’d like park bench plaques to be more interesting. “In memory of all the women who are glad Robert's dead,"would be nice. Or, “Elma took her famous rhubarb pie recipe to the grave, Jen.” Or “John's family dedicates this bench to their father's estate lawyer, may he burn in hell for all eternity.”
August 27, 2025 at 4:50 AM
I’d like park bench plaques to be more interesting. “In memory of all the women who are glad Robert's dead,"would be nice. Or, “Elma took her famous rhubarb pie recipe to the grave, Jen.” Or “John's family dedicates this bench to their father's estate lawyer, may he burn in hell for all eternity.”
“I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don’t want to know. Some things are better left unsaid. I’d like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can’t expressed in words, and it makes your heart ache because of it.” Shawshank Red.
August 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
“I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don’t want to know. Some things are better left unsaid. I’d like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can’t expressed in words, and it makes your heart ache because of it.” Shawshank Red.
Although I’m not a Dead Head, the world's a better place because of them. All too soon they'll have descended into a curious counterculture bookmark in Americana, but that doesn’t diminish their relevance. I admire their pacifism, their loyalty to a vague natural order, their tie-dyed existence..
August 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Although I’m not a Dead Head, the world's a better place because of them. All too soon they'll have descended into a curious counterculture bookmark in Americana, but that doesn’t diminish their relevance. I admire their pacifism, their loyalty to a vague natural order, their tie-dyed existence..
Six months after my double lung transplant I hike my first trail. This is me out of breath & thrilled to be alive. It's a whole new world.
August 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Six months after my double lung transplant I hike my first trail. This is me out of breath & thrilled to be alive. It's a whole new world.
“The rest of the world has something important to learn from Japanese hospitality. Details are not just details in Japan — they’re everything.” —Beniya Mukayu, a traditional 'ryokan' inn
August 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
“The rest of the world has something important to learn from Japanese hospitality. Details are not just details in Japan — they’re everything.” —Beniya Mukayu, a traditional 'ryokan' inn