Verity Vagary
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Artist, Writer, Vinyl ⒹⒿ 🕯📚 𝓈𝒽ℯ/𝒽ℯ𝓇
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Every Other Sunday
8 AM - 10 AM CST / 2 PM - 4 PM GMT+1
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Spinning 𝒋𝒂𝒛𝒛, soul, 𝚙𝚜𝚢𝚌𝚑, disco, 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐤, funk, 𝘴𝘰𝘧𝘵 𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘬, & 𝖒𝖔𝖗𝖊
LIVE on 🕌🏺 ＴＨＥ ＡＲＴ ＭＵＳＥＵＭ 👛
Every Other Sunday
8 AM - 10 AM CST / 2 PM - 4 PM GMT+1
https://www.mixcloud.com/ssshheee
･､ ｡★ ⊚⃝⸜(⸝⸝•ᴗ•⸝⸝)✩♬ ₊˚.★💿★.･､ ｡★
Sheesh, our short life spans really work against us sometimes don't they? Every generation has to learn what the previous one learned, but faster- if we're going to get anywhere.
December 12, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Sheesh, our short life spans really work against us sometimes don't they? Every generation has to learn what the previous one learned, but faster- if we're going to get anywhere.
Hope you don't mind me sharing some of my dad's journal entries on here. He was a great writer and I'm having a good time hanging out with his ghost today
December 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Hope you don't mind me sharing some of my dad's journal entries on here. He was a great writer and I'm having a good time hanging out with his ghost today
"Why were the police so vicious in their handling of the affair? The situation was not a riot, the kids were unarmed, passively sitting until attacked & then they only ran to avoid being clubbed?" - My dad, writing about the student actions at Columbia in 1967-68
December 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
"Why were the police so vicious in their handling of the affair? The situation was not a riot, the kids were unarmed, passively sitting until attacked & then they only ran to avoid being clubbed?" - My dad, writing about the student actions at Columbia in 1967-68
"Give me your poor, your starved, your hungry 'cause them cats'll kill to get a chaw at the top side of a hog."
- My dad, the day Bobby Kennedy was shot - June 5th, 1968.
- My dad, the day Bobby Kennedy was shot - June 5th, 1968.
December 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
"Give me your poor, your starved, your hungry 'cause them cats'll kill to get a chaw at the top side of a hog."
- My dad, the day Bobby Kennedy was shot - June 5th, 1968.
- My dad, the day Bobby Kennedy was shot - June 5th, 1968.
I'm wine-dark da-ba-dee-da-ba-dye
December 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I'm wine-dark da-ba-dee-da-ba-dye
It is kind of wild that back in the days of Homer, they did not have a word for blue, so the sea was called "wine-dark" instead. If there was no word for blue, could they see it at all?
December 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
It is kind of wild that back in the days of Homer, they did not have a word for blue, so the sea was called "wine-dark" instead. If there was no word for blue, could they see it at all?
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in case anyone else is intrigued:
youtu.be/w5qf9O6c20o?...
youtu.be/w5qf9O6c20o?...
Leon Theremin playing his own instrument
YouTube video by slonikyouth
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December 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
in case anyone else is intrigued:
youtu.be/w5qf9O6c20o?...
youtu.be/w5qf9O6c20o?...
The way I conceived of the internet changed when I started thinking of it as a physical space. A space that has predictably followed the same path of development as the Western world after it first stepped foot outside of Rome.
December 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The way I conceived of the internet changed when I started thinking of it as a physical space. A space that has predictably followed the same path of development as the Western world after it first stepped foot outside of Rome.
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Winter at Stapleton Park, Pontefract by Arthur Edmund Grimshaw 1894
Oil on Panel
(Private Collection)
Oil on Panel
(Private Collection)
December 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Winter at Stapleton Park, Pontefract by Arthur Edmund Grimshaw 1894
Oil on Panel
(Private Collection)
Oil on Panel
(Private Collection)
The temptation to sign all my emails "Happy Honda Days" is too great
December 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The temptation to sign all my emails "Happy Honda Days" is too great
You guys excited for Portal Day?
December 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
You guys excited for Portal Day?
my office desk is now scattered with books 😂 like every surface in my home
December 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
my office desk is now scattered with books 😂 like every surface in my home
"Artists are maybe symbol creators, symbol evokers. Poets are symbol manipulators, they take their language's symbols as the Donne and go from there. The artist .. creates the symbol which best expresses what he's after. The poet hopes he can control the symbols he is using to get what he is after."
December 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
"Artists are maybe symbol creators, symbol evokers. Poets are symbol manipulators, they take their language's symbols as the Donne and go from there. The artist .. creates the symbol which best expresses what he's after. The poet hopes he can control the symbols he is using to get what he is after."
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BLOG POST: Another batch of spooky stories, mostly made for TV, that I think capture something of the vibe of the Lawrence Gordon Clark era of BBC ghost stories for Christmas.
precastreinforced.co.uk/2025/12/11/a...
precastreinforced.co.uk/2025/12/11/a...
Another collection of vintage ghost stories for Christmas
If you’ve seen all of the BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas, and want more of the same, I’ve got good news for you. Last year I put together a list of films, short films and TV episodes that seemed t…
precastreinforced.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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This quote from George Saunders just immediately became part of how I view writing and the world: “I started to understand writing as a kind of sacrament, by which we remind ourselves that the person we happen to be, at this moment, through habit, is not the limit of who we might become.”
December 12, 2025 at 12:58 AM
This quote from George Saunders just immediately became part of how I view writing and the world: “I started to understand writing as a kind of sacrament, by which we remind ourselves that the person we happen to be, at this moment, through habit, is not the limit of who we might become.”
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Today in “Dudes Rock”:
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
December 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Today in “Dudes Rock”:
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
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all i'm saying is that there were better options
December 12, 2025 at 5:25 AM
all i'm saying is that there were better options
Read a few bits by William Morris this morning. Nothing as uniquely disheartening as the reminder that the world's greatest minds have known capitalism to be a disastrous ideology for ages, and yet...
December 12, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Read a few bits by William Morris this morning. Nothing as uniquely disheartening as the reminder that the world's greatest minds have known capitalism to be a disastrous ideology for ages, and yet...
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And the Angel Gabriel appeared before Mary and said, “Ooh, I like your robe!” and Mary did reply, “Thanks! It’s got pockets!"
December 12, 2025 at 10:47 AM
And the Angel Gabriel appeared before Mary and said, “Ooh, I like your robe!” and Mary did reply, “Thanks! It’s got pockets!"
The Frost Fair of the Winter of 1683-4 on the Thames with Old London Bridge in the Distance
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December 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The Frost Fair of the Winter of 1683-4 on the Thames with Old London Bridge in the Distance
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Local restaurant listing this menu item as "girl dinner" speaks to me in the craziest way
December 10, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Local restaurant listing this menu item as "girl dinner" speaks to me in the craziest way
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Shout! Studios has the whole Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas on their channel; it's the version with the intro by Kermit the Frog. 🧵
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmDH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmDH...
Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas | FULL MOVIE | Jim Henson, Frank Oz | Family Puppets Cult Comedy
YouTube video by Shout! Studios
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Shout! Studios has the whole Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas on their channel; it's the version with the intro by Kermit the Frog. 🧵
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmDH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmDH...
Heck yeah. There's not enough storage space on my phone to install the new update 😎
December 11, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Heck yeah. There's not enough storage space on my phone to install the new update 😎
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Cover art by Gil Kane & letters by Ira Schnapp.
December 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Cover art by Gil Kane & letters by Ira Schnapp.
Trying to find some help in town for a friend of mine whose life is falling apart from long covid. Pretty bleak out there when it comes to support services, but I did find a non profit that will help her clean her house. Told her about it, but she won't accept the help 😞
December 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Trying to find some help in town for a friend of mine whose life is falling apart from long covid. Pretty bleak out there when it comes to support services, but I did find a non profit that will help her clean her house. Told her about it, but she won't accept the help 😞