meet me on Sisotowbell Lane, down by the Sally Gardens....

bee in my bonnet, in the belfry: bats

A color, macrophoto of a Robin perched on a branch in Virginia, during late April, 2026. The capture was taken during rain and the photographer snapped the photo at the split second a raindrop fell on the top of the bird's head, making it appear like a "natural" crown. 📸 Dawn Denise Boyer of Gloucester, Virginia

#WonderfulBirdWednesday

Right in the middle of rain, the photo was captured the split second a droplet of water landed on the #Robins head like a crown! 👑
04/2026

#Birds #Nature
#FlawlessTiming 🌟
#FMSPAD
#SomethingThatFlies
#Birdsky #Wildlife
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#Macrophotography

Good morning to the moonstruck poets

champagne champêtre

Matt F. Amati’s For Sale: Baby Shoes, Feet Included Matt F. Amati’s new collection of flash and short fiction, For Sale: Baby Shoes, Feet Included , is not for all sensibilities nor all sen...

A taste for short fiction that flirts between absurd and grotesque? Having a hard time scratching that itch? Look no further!

No sooner was I just thinking about it than I learn that L'Arpeggiata has a new album hot off the press : La Torre del Oro! in my hot little hands tomorrow!

From the Ashes Much ink has been spilled and pixels displayed over the flames that swallowed up the steeple and roofing of Notre Dame de Paris, its fam...

I wrote this in the aftermath of the horror

The Enemy Was a Picture First. Arab American Heritage Month

The Enemy Was a Picture First.
Art about Arabs and Muslims after 9/11 cannot be understood without looking back to the longer history of Orientalism.

Dada does St. Julien-le-Pauvre You were invited - or forewarned - by the myriad posters put up throughout Paris in their signature typography and perhaps even enticed by t...

Thursday, 14 April, 1921, at three o'clock, this happened:

heyya!

A three legged dog walks into a bar. He jumps up on a table and yells "I'm lookin for the man who shot my paw!"

I would like to know the difference, please, between pyxis and pixies

"The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own."

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

"Benjamin believed that history was a constellation of past and present through which the present would find an image of itself and thus see more clearly.... perhaps this dialogue can be best achieved by an enhancement of the historian's "conversation" of words into one of and with images."

I listen to a lot of L'Arpeggiata. Roma '600 has been on a loop and I almost don't even look at the original track titles, but I did just notice that one instrumental is called "Mal francese mi tormenta" or "The French Malady Torments Me," or, in other words, a syphilis lament.

OK - so, does he install a Maralago Papacy aftre kidnapping Leo, or name himself Fidei Defensor --- or porque no los ambos?

Rogue Art Historian (@roguearthistorian) To all of my new subscribers, thank you so much for being here 🙏🏼 I am genuinely overwhelmed and humbled that you found your way to this little corner of the internet. And to my longtime subscribers,...

To all of my new subscribers, thank you so much for being here 🙏🏼 I am genuinely overwhelmed and humbled that you found your way to this little corner of the internet.

A note of thanks:
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we are nigh on the anniversary of this event

The shared excitement over NASA’s recent mission compared to the general indifference to SpaceX missions speaks to the power of something seen as the product of communal human effort rather than just the ego and avarice of one obnoxious dork.

Every sickness is a musical problem. - Novalis / (Dreyer)

there's a hare in my soup and I'm a vegetarian.

if only I could frolic in muslin at the Petit Trianon.

I had been wondering why French court ladies were fond of the stark white makeup and circles of rouge and then I just saw the beauty advice : "how to get that false eyelash look". It might, of course, be a meta-joke.

I think DB Copper was Kim Philby.

T'is Caturday Eve, Beloveds, what are you about?

ELO: it's not "medieval woman" - TIL it's just "evil woman" and my life has been a lie.

RAPID ACTION ALERT: WHITE HOUSE TONIGHT

Emergency protest at the White House at 7 PM. This morning, Trump posted on Truth Social: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” He has set an 8 PM deadline for Iran to reopen the

Someone should release the Epstein files at 8pm est tonight.