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L. Wednesday
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Jersey girl. Amateur linguist. Student of history. Sci-curious. Reader of books. Former theatre kid. Insufferable pedant. Mediocre karaoke singer. Radio belter. Order Muppet. Mom. Fanilton. 3rd-gen Girl Scout Leader. Still marching. (She/Her)
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Final credits from PBS (3/3):
Jon Proudstar - Canasetego, Chainbreaker, Old Smoke, Shawnee Delegate Matthew Rhys - Thomas Paine (and Edinburgh Amusement) Liev Schreiber - Nathanael Greene, Samuel Adams, and Lewis Beebe Chaske Spencer - Dragging Canoe, Shingas Dan Stevens - William Howe, Rochambeau Meryl Streep - Mercy Otis Warren Yul Vazquez - Henry Knox, José de Gálvez
November 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Continued cast credits (2/3):
Charlotte Hacke - Friederike Riedesel, Hannah Davis, Lucy Knox, Martha Reed Tom Hanks - Andrew Eliot, Josiah Bartlett, Isaac Bangs, David Griffith, Thomas Jones, Ezra Tilden, Albigence Waldo, Ebenezer Denny Ethan Hawke - Anthony Wayne, John Andrews Maya Hawke - Betsy Ambler Lucas Hedges - Ebenezer Fletcher, John Laurens, Garrett Watts Josh Hutcherson - James Potter Collins, (and Thomas Mellen, Jabez Campfield, and Unidentified) LaTanya Richardson Jackson - Elizabeth Freeman, Judith Jackson Samuel L. Jackson - Boston King, Lemuel Haynes, Caesar Sarter, Flag Resolution Gene Jones - Landon Carter, Thomas Nelson, Moses Kirkland, Thomas Young Michael Keaton - Benedict Arnold Joe Keery - John Greenwood Joel Kinnaman - Nils Collin, Thomas Hutchinson, Samuel Seabury Tracy Letts - Elbridge Gerry Damian Lewis - King George III, Nicholas Cresswell, John André, Bartholomew James, and Unidentified Voice Laura Linney - Sarah Fisher, Sarah Mifflin, Ann Hulton, Eliza Wilkinson, Eliza Lucas Pinckney Josh Lucas - George Rogers Clark, Virginia Gazette, John Glover, Drury Mathis Michael Mando - Lafayette Carolyn McCormick - Hannah Griffitts, Hannah Winthrop, Esther Reed, and Unidentified Reece McCullagh - Patrick Ferguson Lindsay Mendez - Catharine Macaulay, Mary M Campbell, and Unidentified Tobias Menzies - Lord Cornwallis, Ambrose Serle, William Pitt, Horatio Gates, London Public Advertiser, and Unidentified Olivier Mercier - Cromot du Bourg Joe Morton - The New England Chronicle, Elisha Bostwick, Elias Dayton Edward Norton - Benjamin Rush, Philip Vickers Fithian, and Philip Schuyler David Oyelowo - Olaudah Equiano and Sam (witness in Jamaica) Mandy Patinkin - Benjamin Franklin Wendell Pierce - William Read
November 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Screenshots of PBS's post about Ken Burns's The American Revolution (1/3):
If Ken Burns docs are your superbowl, then let's meet the players! The voices that brought The American Revolution to life include: Adam Arkin - James Parker, Ashbel Green, Andrew Hunter, Samuel Shaw, Enoch Anderson, Timothy Dwight, Robert Morris Tony Beck - Ludwig von Closen Leon Dische Becker - Johann Friedrich von Bardeleben, Johann Conrad Doehla Jeremiah Bitsui - Twethorechte, Stockbridge Petitioners Corbin Bleu - John Joseph Henry, Daniel McCurtin, Nathaniel Bacheller, Isaac Jefferson Kenneth Branagh - Thomas Gage, Henry Clinton, Joseph Reed, Samuel Graves, Samuel Johnson, Charles Lee, Friedrich Adolf Riedesel, and Unidentified Josh Brolin - George Washington Bill Camp - Jabez Fitch Tantoo Cardinal - Mary Jemison, Delegation of Cherokee Women Josh Charles - John Peters, Joseph Warren, David Ramsay Martin Czembor - Georg Daniel Flohr Hugh Dancy - John Burgoyne, Hugh Percy, The Gentleman’s Magazine, London Morning Post, Banastre Tarleton, Charles Gravier de Vergennes, and Unidentified Claire Danes - Abigail Adams Jeff Daniels - Thomas Jefferson Keith David - Theodore Roneyn Hope Davis - Elizabeth Drinker Marcus Davis-Orrom - John Barker, William Bamford Bruce Davison - John P. Becker, Charles Inglis, Samuel Webb Alden Ehrenreich - Joseph Plumb Martin (and Town Meeting of Lebanon, Connecticut) Craig Ferguson - Lord North, Lord Dunmore John Paul Jones, Scotus Americanus, John Purrier, Martin Hunter, William Harcourt Morgan Freeman - James Forten Christian Friedel - Johann Ewald (and Friedrich von Münchausen) Paul Giamatti - John Adams Domhnall Gleeson - Roger Lamb, Loftus Cliffe, John MacPherson, John Bowater, and William Barton Amanda Gorman - Phillis Wheatley Michael Greyeyes - Joseph Brant, Solomon Uhhaunauwaunmut Jonathan Groff - Erkuries Beatty
November 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Guys, is it too niche that I saw this toddler-size hoodie on the U socials & the first thought was "that EFFING bear!"?
A navy-blue full-zip bear-ears hoodie emblazoned with the Philadelphia Union crest. It's for sale in the team's online shop, but it made me laugh for suppprters' group tailgate reasons.
November 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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If you see a post like this and don't giggle while hearing "ew," "it tastes the same," "and 15 orders of fries; is that it here?" ("Wine and beer!") in your mind's ear, IDK what to tell you:
A post from Threads reading: " I hate gay halloween, what do you mean you're going as Five Miso Soup Four Seaweed Salad Three Soy Burger Dinner Two Tofu Dog Platter and One Pasta with Meatless Balls?"
October 31, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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OGs only
Donald Sutherland, as Watcher Merrick in 1992's Buffy the Vampire Slayer film.
October 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Apparently this was in my sister's kitchen this morning; it's not venomous and her cat's okay, but ... nope:
A small light tan and brown rat snake is in a black-and-white oven mitt. The snake's mouth is open and its head is pointed at the camera. My niece found it in the kitchen.
September 14, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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post a random picture or else everything will go bad in september
NJ Turnpike billboard for Cure Auto Insurance, located an exit or two south of MetLife Stadium, featuring Saquon Barkley. Go Birds.
September 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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This is not, however, the Mondrian that's hung upside-down:
I told my teen that "Broadway Boogie Woogie" had been hung upside-down. I was wrong; the upside-down piece is "New York City I" but it was funny seeing her bend to view "Boogie Woogie" upside-down at MoMA in 2023. The photo shows a yellow, blue, and red abstract painting by Piet Mondrian hanging on a white gallery wall in the background while a blond teenage girl wearing a red t-shirt is bent over to see the piece upside-down.
August 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Other girls: revivalist clinch covers on HistRom

Me: Hear me out...
The cover art from CM Nascosta's Morning Glory Milking Farm, subtitled "a Monster Bait Romance" It features a Pre-Raphaelite style painting of a very muscular ginger-tufted minotaur posing with a swooning, dark-haired white woman wearing an orange and green drapey dress showing a lot of cleavage. Her lower body, and her hands shown pouring a milky fluid out of a large vase-like container, is partially hidden by the book title. If one is interested in the "Monster Romance" subgenre, this book is a good place to start, especially if you follow it up with the other Cambric Creek interconnected stories.
August 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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@95sports.bsky.social is apopleptic.

3 miles from MetLife Stadium.
A white billboard with a bust photo of Philadelphia Eagles player Saquon Barkley, a Black man with close-cropped hair & well-groomed beard, wearing a green shirt, at the left-hand side. The text on the billboard reads "Saquon says ... 'Record breaking savings are here!'" followed by the blue ball logo for Cure Auto Insurance. The tagged poster & I disagree as to whether or not this is trolling, bc Saquon was traded from the NY Giants. Who knows?!?
July 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Yes, but also:
A left-facing profile of the Mike Judge cartoon character Butt-Head (a white male character with a brown bouffant-like hairdo, beady eyes, a long nose with prominent nostrils, serious underbite, metal tooth braces, and prominent gums) shown against a bubblegum pink oval with the character name "BUTT-HEAD" in red uppercase bubble letters inside a jagged yellow caption balloon. Settle down, Hegseth.
June 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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I grew up eating chicken paprikash.

It used to be my brother J's favorite dish, which means we had it often.

I have my mother's recipe & remixed it.
A dark blue ceramic bowl filled with pale egg noodles and chicken thigh & chickpeas in an orange-red sauce. It's my riff on my mother's recipe for chicken paprikash, which suited the cool, wet weather and "operation clear out the freezer."
May 29, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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A green pixellated rendering of mountains, an ox-drawn covered wagon, and a winding river with a rectangular text-box at the bottom of the screen which reads "You have died of dysentery" This is a screenshot/reconstruction of one of the many causes of death in the early "educational" computer game The Oregon Trail, inspired by the actual westward expansion of the mid-19th century USA. Beloved by many, the game turned 50 in 2024.
May 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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An Xkcd strip; 3 panels left-to-right: 1st panel: A stick figure, wearing a hat, entering panel from left. A speech string reads "New headcannon:" 2nd panel: another stick figure, seated in a rolling chair at a desk with a computer monitor. A speech stting reads " Yeah?" 3rd panel: the hat-wearing stick figure from panel 1 tips their hat to reveal ... a cannon on their head, which has fired some sort of projectile at the stick figure seated at the desk. Puffs of smoke and explosion lines surround the figure saying "AUGH!" as they are blasted back from the now-broken desk. Above the action the cartoonist has written an onomotopoeic allcaps "BOOM!"
May 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Edmund, and, well ...
An iMessage exchange btwn me & my brother J: "Gonna bribe a Son of Adam with these" Me (blue text bubble): Did somebody give you Turkish Delight? J: responds with photo of 4 boxes of Turkish Delight candy; top is red/pomegranate flavor; next is green/pistachio flavor; then blue/rose flavor; and orange/hazelnut on the bottom. Stack is on a gray surface on top of an aqua blue sticky note, with yellow sticky notes to the left & right.
May 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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*ahem*
White text on dark blue background (which is an actual t-shirt I own) reading "That's what I do; I read books and know things."
May 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Emily "The Space Gal" Calandrelli, at a book signing for her last science experiment book (in March 2024,) who spent time chatting with her starstruck fans (mostly young girls & their moms) while personalizing their books:
A petite brunette woman wearing a pink headband, pink sweater, and green skirt holds up a yellow, green, and blue copy of Stay Curious and Keep Exploring: Next Level by Emily Calandrelli. She has her other arm around the waist of a tall, blonde teenage girl, wearing square eyeglasses, a green hoodie, and brown leather purse. Emily is the greatest and we love her.
May 4, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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I horrified my teenager by explaining reliquaries, so she almost bugged out & missed this and the Belles Heures.

Oh well; she was only here for the unicorns.
A Medieval French prayer book; tempera & ink. (Photo my own, April 2025, The Met Cloisters.) Note the blue pigment ... even if small devotionals weren't expensive at the time, you'd be able to tell this particular object belonged to someone wealthy bc of the blue. I love how vivid it is, some 500, 600 years after the work was done. It's amazing how art endures.
April 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Art is political.
"Molotov Cocktail", Kosalopov (1989) from the Norton & Nancy Dodge Collection of Soviet Nonconformist Art at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum at Rutgers U. A large canvas with red diagonal swatches, featuring a black ink portrait & the word "Molotov" in black on a white background. In the lower right-hand corner, a blue coverall-clad arm reminiscent of the We Can Do It Westinghouse ad holds a green glass Coke bottle filled with dark brown liquid; the bottle has a lit fuse coming out of the top. Art is political. Nonconformist art matters.
April 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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I'm fresh off my 30-something-th reread of the novel and John Hammond is one of the most believable villains in modern fiction.

Also? This announcement from Colossal is just the startup road-show with the mini elephant. 🤷🏼‍♀️
A battered mass-market paperback of Michael Crichton's 1990 novel, Jurassic Park, featuring the original cover art - the silhouette of a T.rex skeleton, mounted in an archaic upright position rather than the revised horizontal position of the 21st century, on a white background The silhouette wraps around the spine of the book, finishing with the hipbones & tail vertebrae on the back cover. Above the title (embossed, metallic royal blue, text ALLCAPS) is metallic gold ALLCAPS text trumpeting "3 months on the New York Times Bestseller List." Yes, this is an actual 2025 photo of my personal copy; I've had it since Christmas of 1991. It's being held together with packing tape and vibes.
April 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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I SPY LUCY THE ELEPHANT!

I love her; she's one of my favorite tourist traps.
Margate NJ: Lucy the Elephant's rear end; there's a window in her bum, which the tour guides will tell you is her "pane in the butt" ... there is a door in her right rear foot; thus is how you exit her belly. (I took this photo myself in July 2023.) My then-5-year-old, who has bobbed blonde hair & is wearing an oversized hot-pink Lucy t-shirt with shorts and sneakers, runs across Lucy's toes, painted in rainbow colors, left-to-right: green, yellow, orange, red, and purple. The green toenail has a capital "J" for OG Save Lucy Committee member Ms Josephine Herron.
April 7, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Repost with a robot.
Robot dog companion to the 4th Doctor, K-9 stands next to the TARDIS. K-9 has a trapezoid-shaped body with "K-9" written in the middle. His tail resembles a thin TV antenna. His boxy, almost cartoonish head has tiny satellite dishes for ears and a red LED display for eyes. K-9 wears a red-and-tan tartan collar around his neck. If asked if he's a good boy, he will certainly answer "affirmative." (He is my favorite nonhumanoid Doctor Who character.)
February 8, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Cold & miserable weather calls for ... cassoulet:
A simplified cassoulet from a recipe in Chop Chop Family Magazine bubbles in a red enameled Dutch Oven on a black cast-iron stovetop.
February 7, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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See also: SHORKS!

I startled when one swan toward the the tunnel (bc the visual input said "NOPE!") but it's still one of the coolest things I've ever seen/done:
February 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM