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Welcome to the SSA gulag
(not for kids or the sexually modest) rabbit rabbit rabbit for St Dafydd’s Day (pleasant), for fucking like bunnies in the spring (joyous), and (stake to the heart) for all of us little animals who...
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Morning name: barramundi
Awakening at 3:51 am (to a performance of Richard Strauss’s comic opera Intermezzo, which has nothing to do with any of what follows, beyond evoking operatic singing), what was in my head was the word...
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Put a red apple in that mouth
… and call it Cochon de lait rôti. Put a mouth on that green apple and call it Le fils de l’homme. Mash them together in a nightmare and you get today’s Bizarro strip, a Wayno Psychiatrist cartoon...
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I woke at 3:30 am, after 8 hours of good sleep, to the sound of Scott Ross playing Soler keyboard music on his power harpsichord — the Fandango and an assortment of sonatas — which filled me with...
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Hybrid portmanteaus
three tigers for ultimate March, the day on which the tigers eat the lambs that the month proverbially goes out as; my posting for this morning begins with tigers, but only so I can slide into the...
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Saint George and the superb fairy wren
4/23 St. George’s Day, celebrating the dragon-slaying patron saint of England, who (according to tradition) died on this day in the year 303 — the most martial of the British fab four (David,...
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Suzerains of sheldrake
Today’s (4/26) morning names: sheldrake (or Sheldrake) and suzerainty. I have no idea how the gorgeous big duck (or the parapsychologist) got into my head; suzerainty might have popped up because of...
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Schadenfroggy
A Victoria Roberts schadenfrog cartoon in the 5/5/25 New Yorker: (#1) The surviving frog — call it Schadenfroggy — takes malicious pleasure in its companion having been flattened to death; it’s a...
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Sol is secretly queer
It’s Cinco de Mayo today, but this posting has precious little Mexican content; don’t let that keep you from your celebrations, whatever they are. I had intentions to cook up a homey Mexican pozole...
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Invasion of the superb birds
Yesterday, a greeting card from Ann Burlingham, written on 5/5 in Pittsburgh (mostly about the University of Pittsburgh graduation on 5/3, featuring graduate Opal Armstrong Zwicky among the crowd of...
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