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Liza
@lizamezzo.bsky.social
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Mezzo-about-town. Singer, actor, Shakespearean text coach, will translate your opera libretti and song texts. She/they.
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Mystery is doing better this morning! She was ill overnight, I phoned the vet twice— but this morning she’s more sprightly, and she ate and drank while I watched.
I made a vet appointment for this morning, and we’re still going in. But she made it through the night.
A little black cat with white chest, paws and mustache, sitting on a wooden staircase
November 20, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Dawn sky traffic: moon, plane, contrails, bird
London sky at sunrise. A waning crescent moon is palely visible. A jet plane and a pink contrail cross paths above it. Above the contrail a gull can be seen in flight. This is all backwards of course. The gull is not above the planes. The planes are not above the Moon.
November 17, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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London morning skyscape. The thinnest little crescent moon.

(Technically it is waning. So, decrescent moon?)
City skyline before sunrise with dark towers silhouetted in the early light. Sky is yellowish towards the horizon, darker blue above. There is a thin little waning crescent moon visible, the last of the old moon.
November 17, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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Recording quality audiodrama with @beyondshakes.bsky.social
The script of a Tudor religious drama with a handwritten note at the top saying “NOT subtle”
November 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Just two goth skull ladies hanging out
Two Mexican skeleton ornaments in lacy dresses and big hats, one in red, one in purple
November 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Amateurish little altar. Miss you every damn day
Attempt at a Mexican style altar on top of a bookshelf with sugar skulls and colourful paper adornments
November 13, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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I made mushroom soup
Mushroom soup in the bottom of a pot. Mostly chestnut mushrooms with some shiitake, onions, garlic and shallots. Seasoned with bay leaf, thyme, rosemary, salt and pepper
November 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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London Eye in the late sun
The London Eye, a giant Ferris wheel, with the sun behind it. Blue sky and white clouds
November 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Travis Bear would like you to tell him where Blake is
A small murderous teddy bear wearing a black eyepatch, glove, collar and tunic with the Federation symbol in white stitching
November 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Off to Blake’s 7 event at the BFI. Significant other has brought Travis Bear
A small teddy bear in an overcoat pocket. Bear has an eyepatch and a black attachment on one paw. He is wearing a black collar and a tunic with white stitching and he wants to kill Blake
November 8, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Afternoon sun, Southwark Cathedral
Southwark Cathedral is visible through a haze of yellow-leaved plane trees in the afternoon sun Sun on the yellow limestone of Southwark Cathedral, where Shakespeare’s brother Edmund is buried. He came to London trying to be an actor but died in a duel
November 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Depends where you are and who you ask.
Religion in Germany, 2024 Estimate • Unaffiliated (46.8%) • Catholicism (23.7%) • Protestantism (21.5%) • Eastern Orthodoxy (1.50%) • Other Christians (1.00%) • Islam, excluding Alevism (3.90%) • Alevism (0.80%) • Buddhism (0.20%) • Judaism (0.10%) • Hinduism (0.10%) • Yazidism (0.10%) • Other raligions (0.20%)
October 28, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Sir Boniface Absee, over and out
An AFAB person with long hair which is tied in front of their face in an attempt to look like a beard. They wear an Elizabethan scholar’s cap and academic gown
October 22, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Tonight… The Witch Of Edmonton!
Tomorrow… The Wise Woman of Hogsdon!
Friday & Saturday… Doctor Faustus!!

But tonight: a small matter of a witch, a demon dog, a clown and a spot of murder….
Sign in pub saying “Well behaved dogs are welcome” with a black silhouette of a dog
October 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Saw the stuff about Paul Ingrassia and thought I’d share a scientifically accurate tree label
Placard in front of a tree in a botanical garden reading: CAUCASIAN WINGNUT PTEROCARYA FRAXINIFOLIA WALNUT FAMILY: JUGLANDACEAE W. ASIA 220006
October 20, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Got them a heated bed for their old bones. I think they like it
Two cats lying in a round cat bed. Their heads are in opposite directions
October 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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When you’re such a thesp that even your memorial plaque is Dramatic
Plaque on a London wall reading: WILLIAM TERRISS 1847 - 1897 HERO OF THE ADELPHI MELODRAMAS MET HIS UNTIMELY END OUTSIDE THIS THEATRE 16 DEC 1897
October 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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THE HORNS ARE HERE THE HORNS THE HORNS

Thank you, Runestone Prints on Etsy!

Yes, this is a radio play… but there will be a paying audience in the house, and YOU might be one of them, so it’s important that you be delighted
Various fake animal horns, not yet attached to their headbands
October 10, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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A jay! First jay I’ve seen on the balcony. I hope he ate some slugs out of the plant pots
A British jay, a medium sized bird with sort of pinkish feathers and blue wing feathers and a long tail, sitting on a potted plant on a London balcony The same jay with its back to us so its long tailfeathers are visible
October 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Brunost
A block of Norwegian brown cheese on a slightly chipped plate. The light is hitting it just right so with its fancy moulded shape it looks like a cheese cathedral
October 8, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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At Blackheath Halls, fascinated by plasterwork
Part of the frieze on the front façade of Blackheath Halls, a concert hall in London. A fantastical figure plays the drum; a jester smiles amid palm fronds; another creature plays something like a banjo
October 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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guess I'd better change the title before I send it in
document titled "god damn fucking programme notes"
October 3, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Me on October 1st
A greeting card from around 1910, with a picture of a lady in a fancy dress with a giant pumpkin for a head. A rope runs through the eyes of the pumpkin. Also visible are a bat with wings spread and a candle from which wisps of smoke pervade the scene. Below is written "On Hallowe'en, strange sights are seen"
October 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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A difficult relative just passed. We weren’t close, so I’m going to focus on supporting those who were.

Nevertheless. Mixed bag of feelings.

I hope there was peace at the end. I hope everyone will be OK.

I think about this title card a lot.
Closing title card from BARRY LYNDON (1975) which reads: EPILOGUE. It was in the reign of George III that the aforementioned personages lived and quarreled. Good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich are poor, they are all equal now.
September 29, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Street flowers in afternoon light
A wooden box containing red and pink geraniums, fuchsia and a purple daisy. Illuminated by the slanting sunlight, the flowers seem to glow
September 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM