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Mam–bo-ho-ho–lica, ABD
@mambolica.bsky.social
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I am a museum curator and PhD Candidate studying community museums, veteran experience, Cdn WWII radar history, memory, and secrecy, but mostly I'm sassy, opinionated, and post about my cat. @mambolica on most platforms she/her #museums #history 🇨🇦🇺🇲
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My bestie is a veterinarian. She is the vet of my mom's cat, Smokey. Today, with a little feline sedative provided by my friend, I was able to bring Smokey to the hospital to see Mom. Operation SmokeyDope has been a success. This is important as Mom was so worried about Smokie in her absence.
The photograph shows an older woman asleep in a hospital bed. Her Chin rests on her chest. The woman, with short silvery blonde hair is wearing an oxygen mask and is covered by white hospital blankets with thin blue stripes. There are medical outlets and paraphernalia in the background. What is unusual is that lying in the woman's lap is a muted pastel tortoiseshell cat, her head draped over the woman's thigh. It is a photo of my mom and her beloved cat, and though it fills my heart with love, it also reminds me that there will be loss.
November 17, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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This request is either going to be the best... or the worst.
A text reads: "Hey, historian friend and lady of culture, I have a mission for you" My response is, "Oh no."
November 7, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Movie poster for 1972 horror/fantasy "Blacula," which starred William Marshall.
October 31, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Mostly, Morello kept us informed of the score. And he was awesome! It was clear some folks in the audience did not know that Morello is a staunch lefty and were uncomfortable, but honestly, good. That's the point.

And we got home in time to watch the last two innings. A great night was had!
A view from the balcony in a beautifully refurbished old-timey theatre, looking down at the orchestra seating and one man spot lit on the stage. The man is Tom Morello and he's playing an acoustic guitar while the words "Torches, Pitchforks, Molotovs, & Bricks" are projected on the screen behind him.
October 29, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Of course women don't like the Cybertruck.

Women only want the longevity and durability of a 1974 Toyota Land Cruiser BJ40 Diesel.
Photo of a restored pale green, two-door, Toyota Land Cruiser BJ40. It is a rugged four-wheel drive jeep-like truck. Land Cruisers never die. There are still original vintage models bouncing around in Africa and South America, held together by ropes and wire. This model is pristine, though, and really needs a woman to drive it across a desert or through a jungle.
October 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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A couple weeks ago I cleaned the cottage chimney for the first time ever. It was yucky but necessary. This is me looking unhappy about a massive chunk of creosote that fell out, which is actually what I wanted. I was just unhappy because it's yucky.
Mambolica holding up a big chunk of crunchy creosote to the camera. There's soot and creosote on her face and in her hair. She looks displeased.
October 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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God bless Choco. He's so old and so deaf that a deer mouse just walked right past him and he didn't notice. He is having a wonderful time at the cottage, sleeping under the covers, eating snacks, eating grass, vomiting grass and snacks...
Choco looking up just above the lens (at me), whiskers curled forward, ears pricked up. Choco is a skinny tuxedo cat, and because he's going grey the white hair is creeping into his black coat. His eyes are bright and yellow. To be honest, he doesn't look like he's almost 20, but if you know him, you can see it.
October 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Oh, sweet weeping combats, no.
Photo of a hand holding a hot pink, dare I say fluorescent pink, paracord bracelet against the saddest yellowish-taupe-off-white wall. Somehow, the shadows cast are vaguely hemorrhagic mauve-grey. This paint colour is not good. In fairness, the bracelet is a truly migraine-inducing shade of pink, but you get the idea.
September 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Yup, violence on both sides...
Two circular colour graphs that depict extremist-linked incidents and deaths between 2013 and 2022 broken down into those carried out by right-wing (red), domestic Islamist (orange), and left-wing extremists (blue). The vast, and I mean VAST majority is carried out by right-wing extremists. Incidents appear to be about 90% and killings appear to be about 75% right-wing perpetrated. Source is ADL analysis, printed by the Washington Post.
September 15, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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They have extended me through to March 31 and I am CHUFFED. Gonna have to carve out an office from this mess, but I like a challenge.
Selfie of Mambolica standing in a drab room with a large collection of books in the background. Mambo looks pleased, if slightly reserved, because this room, which is her future office, is pretty depressing and needs more than a coat of paint.
September 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Finishing this chapter like the classy-ass babe I am.
Mambolica pictured, smirking a little at the camera as she drinks an Innis & Gunn Highland Cask Ale from the bottle. She's sitting outside in a backyard, two sheds with trees behind are visible behind her. She's wearing an old pair of slightly cats-eye glasses and a ribbed white tank top that reveals some cleavage. What she is absolutely not doing in this moment is finishing this chapter of her dissertation, but rest assured, her laptop is on her lap.
September 1, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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This is a photo of a 19.5 year old cat inside a lined shipping box.
This is a photo of a 19.5 year old cat inside a padding-lined shipping box. The cat is almost entirely black with a tiny bit of white around his nose.
August 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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I had a group of infantry soldiers up from Brockville in the museum today and their comments were: 1) This place is very cool! 2) Not enough guns! 3) Sorry, we got hungry. You're gonna need more crayons. 😂

One of them even did some colouring and pinned it up. Behold:
A colouring sheet featuring a CF-18 in flight that has been coloured in three shades of orange, yellow, purple, and green. The artist was not at all concerned about staying inside the lines.
July 22, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Summer hours means I don't really have time for a proper lunch break, so my favourite thing to do right after we open the doors to the museum, is sit on the bench outside and drink my coffee, contemplating the day. This only works if visitors aren't there the moment we open, so today I am in luck.
Photo of a hand holding a mug of coffee raised over a cement front walk. The mug has an image of "La Maison des Canadiens Canada House" in red that features a drawing of the house with a maple leaf motif in the corner. Canada House, built right on the beach at Bernières-sur-mer, was the first house liberated on D-Day, but not before about 100 Canadian soldiers were gunned down in front of it by German machine gunners. Today, the same family still calls it home, and it is maintained in part by them as a tribute to Canadian liberators.
July 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Age verification? In high school, I hung up on my boyfriend by slamming this down.
Northern Telecom rotary phone in a yellowish cream colour.
July 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Nature finds a way.

My pic. Taken yesterday outside the museum.
Photo of a tiny yellow flower reaching its bloom out of a hole in the gravel filled pavement. The flower is perhaps 7cm tall.
July 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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So listen. Everything is going to shit. Here's me wearing a partially assembled barbecue and pretending I'm a Dalek.
July 4, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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What actor's expression will stay with you for the rest of your life?

(There are many, but here are two...)
Close up of Li'l Nell as Columbia, in Rocky Horror Picture Show, clutching her face and screaming as Eddie is murdered. Two stills from The Never Ending Story. The top is of Atreyu waist-deep in the swamp, facing his beloved horse pulling the reins trying to lead him out. Artax, the light grey horse is sinking and not moving. The still below I a close-up of Atreyu, played by Noah Hathaway, wailing in anguish as his horse sinks. So much trauma in one scene.
June 26, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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40+ appreciation post. You know the drill.

Almost 48!
Selfie of Mambolica. She's wearing a lavender and white striped top that matches her lavender spectacle frames. She's sort of smirky-smiling. She's wearing no make-up and her bleached blonde hair is floofy because of the humidity. On a board behind her are pins, badges, and challenge coins collected and received over the years.
June 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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It's been too long since you got a proper Choco update. He's 19.5; we celebrated his 19th Gotcha Day on May 15th. He's skinny, even though he eats like a piggy, and I worry about him and his eventual kidney failure. He's so frigging happy with his life and is very bossy about demanding love.
Mambolica and Choco leaning their heads together. Mambo is smiling and looking at the camera, while Choco, a tuxedo cat, is not. He's happy though. His ears are relaxed and his whiskers are curled forward. Mambo is wearing a black t-shirt with a silver and gold Auryn symbol printed on it. Choco, a mostly black tuxedo cat, is draped over Mambolica's leg, which is covered in a fleece Toronto Blue Jays snuggy. Choco is curled in the shape of a cashew with his tail and legs tightly tucked into his body. Even while sound asleep, he is adorable.
June 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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First beach day of the season! Some light reading! I'm feeling pretty grateful today.
The book "The Unknown Warrior" by John Nichol is open, pages down, on the corners of a white towel and navy blue sheet. A pair of sunglasses lie beside it and a pair of Birkenstocks rest in the sand. A wide angle photo of Shabogesic beach on the shore of Lake Nipissing. The sand is a warm beige. A spit of land points out into the water, the only indication of where the sky and lake meet. Nipissing is often an optical illusion. A family gathers around a bright yellow beach umbrella. Some people dot the shallow water.
June 16, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Today, the base raised the Pride Progress flag, and I was pleased to see a good turnout. It was unfortunate that the Americans on the base were told they could only attend out of uniform, but nonetheless, there were a couple in our midst. Diversity makes us stronger, and inclusion is integral.
A RCAF Sgt in CADPAT uniform and blue uniform ball cap holds open the Pride Progress flag so onlookers can get a good view. The flag is affixed to the basenof a flagpole and will shortly be raised.
June 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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A story of Northern Ontario in two texts, eight minutes apart.
First text reads, "I'm just sitting out behind the building, enjoying the evening. Gonna chill here for a bit because it's nice out." Second text reads, "Fucking blackflies."
June 4, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Classic meme of man checking out another woman while he walks with his girlfriend. In this case, the man is "Canada," the other woman he's checking out is "Vimy Ridge," and the woman he's walking with is "Hill 62."
May 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Yesterday was a good arm day. Today: agony.

Enjoy a photo I took on a hike yesterday of some wee ferns popping out their heads.
Photo of some pale green ferns, possibly fiddleheads, popping out of some mossy, rocky soil.
May 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM