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I never thought it was such a bad little Josh
@shmeppy.bsky.social
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Assoc Prof of modernism, film, sound studies. Despairing but loyal Broncos fan. Dog and donkey lover, foe of AI, Douglas Sirk acolyte, blunderer of pawns.

The slotted spoon can catch the potato. 🥔
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every single one of my teachers until the age of about 24
November 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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sigh, i guess computers can be ok sometimes
EDITOR’S PREFACE TO invoke the aid of an electronic computer in mapping Yeats’s private worlds of myth and symbol and Irish legend may well arouse disquiet. What humanist can remain undisturbed at the cold prospect of tabulating cones (1 occurrence), cubes (2), and gyres (14, in its various forms)—those magical designs which, Yeats tells us, “Robartes describes the Judwali Arabs as making upon the sand for the instruction of their young people, and which, according to tradition, were drawn as described in sleep by the wife of Kusta-Ben-Luka”? But the reader of Yeats who can learn to tolerate these ironies will find in this concordance (produced on an IBM 704 Electronic Data Processing Machine) information never before readily accessible. For this is, I believe, the first concordance of a symbolist poet ever undertaken. Apart from the ordinary uses of such an index, the reader has available here the means of tracing surely and in intricate detail the language patterns of a symbolist imagination. A Concordance to the Poems of W. B. Yeats
November 17, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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not NOT one of my favorite album covers ever
cover of Sigismund Toduță's HOREA, bitchin' mustache and hat
November 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Laptop shot
October 27, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Shut the front door, Tatum O’Neal, I’d eat that off a flip flop!
October 23, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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This one’s good too, just keep it closed
October 20, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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October 17, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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thanks to facebook memories for reminding me of this gem, which I remember the way I think of a day when I did something slightly unusual
October 16, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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That ain’t working. That’s the way you do it.
October 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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I'm still salty about my ignominious defeat in the New Yorker caption contest, but when they're on, they're on
October 2, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Everything Happens to Me (except baldness)
September 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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this would explain why my paper towels always come out a little dry
September 28, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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live shot from Portland metro
September 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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I would like to know more
Absolute Rubbish: The family dustbin is the hero of a programme telling the story of salvage this afternoon at 3.30 [picture of cat on dustbin]
September 19, 2025 at 10:12 PM