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Retired publishing drone (translator, copy editor, proofreader…).
The_Late_Buddy_Ryan, 🐕🦺s on 📽️ @imdb.com. “Nobody knows you’re a dog on the internet, until you dachs yourself.” ♏️, late-stage Boomer, UWS, NYC. My pronouns: *ḱís, *hinmai…
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Right! It’s like those NYT quizzes, “Can you put these events in chronological order?” Third Temple, War between Gog and Magog (Armageddon), The Antichrist, Christ returns to judge the quick and the dead, The Rapture, the unraptured pitched into a lake of fire… www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV_Y...
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It might be hard to let that one just slip right down the memory hole though.
Btw gotta love the way Wiktionary tranſcribes these Bible passages: “Speak vnto the childꝛen of Iſrael, that they bring thee a red heifer without ſpot, wherein is no blemiſh, and vpon which neuer came yoke.” [Num. 19:1-2]
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I’ve been trying to stay away from the peripheral craziness bc there’s so much crazy stuff going on in the center ring right now. That being said, you do know about the Baptists and the red heifer, right? www.jpost.com/judaism/arti...
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Yeah, I think bc their particular eschatology doesn’t include the idea of the goyishe Moshiach coming back to extinguish the ppl of Israel any time soon (like in the Book of Rev.), I think they’re willing to embrace these well-funded useful idiots for the time being.
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Wasn’t Hagee the one who infamously said, “God does not hear the prayer of a Jew”? Even a point of personal privilege like “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?”?, I remember wondering at the time. 🤔
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ཡབ་ཡུམ། Yab-yum FTW!
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Acid-poop-spraying bonnacons are way up on the list of denizens of the medieval bestiary I can never really wrap my head around and have to be reminded of periodically, so…thx!
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True, but, as a Maharishi [remember him?] devotee once explained back in the day, “Mantras are very powerful. They can be used for evil—black magic and doing harm—as well as for good.” 🕉️
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“Peacefully and patriotically!” is the MAGA version of www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvBL...
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“Half of the people are stoned and the other half are waiting for the next election….” www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiOC...
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Maybe best taken in small installments. I think the consensus was that Lenny was way out over his skis here as the Voice of the Rising Generation. I remember one UK record mag gave its readers a trigger warning that the Celebrant gets fed up and flings the chalice to the floor at one point. 🙀
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I think Lenny Bernstein (b. 1918) must’ve been trying for a more—how shall I say?—magisterial approach to the same themes in “Mass,” here performed by a gang of New Haven homies in Vienna. Just check out what’s going on around 55:00. Paul Simon contributed a short passage that starts
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“Half of the people are stoned and the other half are waiting for the next election….” www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiOC...
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFEQ...
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I’m guessing that hearing the original cast album played at least 500X on my sister’s portable record player left an imprint at least an indelible in the hippocampus, as we used to say, as a live performance.
Btw here’s a Galt Macdermot song you may not be familiar with…
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As a snotty college kid who listened to stuff like Tommy and 200 Motels, I professed to take a dim view of such an overhyped Broadway confection, but random lines like “and also my countryman Roman Polanski” still pop into my head at the oddest times
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Just to put it in terms you loser humanists can grok (no pun intended): The Key to All Mythologies + The Library of Babel + Joe Gould’s Oral History of Our Time + other foundational texts TBD = Grok 4.0 🤓🖥️🔥@451F°
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Wasn’t he just a bog-standard Lunnon geezer? (Though I see from Wiki his parents were both of Scouse provenance.)
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Jerry and the Pacemakers! Their big hit was “Ferry ’Cross the Mersey,” so ’nuff said. (Trying to avoid rabbit holes this soon after breakfast tbh.)
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They first tried it out on the Moors after the Reconquista IIRC. Remembered the word from a Medieval History survey course (but don’t ask me what I had for breakfast…)
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The term “encomiendas” sounds much less unsavory, even though it means pretty much the same thing.
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I think the unexpurgated version of McGuffey’s Reader warned us of this long ago
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Well put! In small-kid times I was also intrigued by the oblique black lines that meant “disputed territory”; always wondered what it would be like to live in one of those. Don’t think this was a concern shared by many of my peers tbh…
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I totally stan any map of pre-colonial Africa (or the anc. Middle East or med. E. Europe) where there are no clearly defined borders, just blurry color swatches. I remember thinking, Well, wouldn’t you *know* if you had to pay a falcon in tribute to Prince Igor or the Polovtsi? [cue the music…]
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Plus two of the three judges on the panel were DJT appointees, right?
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The Ninth Circuit held that judges need to be "highly deferential" to the president, the ppl responding to this poll, not so much apparently.
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Weird that these more-progressive-than-thou peeps are on almost the same page as this pre-war arch-reactionary, who didn’t know what a “weekend” was, allegedly. Wait for it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KBA...
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TL;DW: Be careful what you read in books! (Especially the ones written by a guy who had the same job you do now, the one you’re just barely hanging on to by the skin of your empty scrotal sac?) Stick to X and Snapchat!
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Just unpacking that “Quene hythe” took several clicks and at least 5′, and I have important work to do… (So the queen was Matilda, eh? Cool!)
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La noblesse d’𝕏 vs. la noblesse de Snapchat?
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much easier to keep track of a pdf!
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Aha! I was just wondering the other day what I’d done with my copy of The Krauss Project (J. Franzen tr.), also wondering if I’d ever get around to reading it and whether it might be time to donate it to the Block Ass’n Little Free Library. I’ve bookmarked the Last Days… for later perusal. So
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Best leave the dumb nicknames to the MAGA boys, unless we can come up with one as pungent as W’s “Turdblossom” for Karl Rove.
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I can’t believe I misspelled “Goebbels.” Possibly a capital offense, lèse majesté or whatevs…
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I’ve been trying to think of a better nickname for him—SoCal Nosferatu, possibly—though I guess if you keep discounting Goebells, you end up with a
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Did you forget POTUS'S SHOCKING REVERSAL ON AG, HOTEL WORKERS OVERRULED, UNSHOCKINGLY, BY DISCOUNT GOEBBELS? #𝕶𝖗𝖆𝖋𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖒𝕿𝖍𝖗𝖔𝖓𝖊
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Did he have an eponymous ancestor who became famous for rescuing his beautiful wife from a randy gentile nobleman…?
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You’re supposed to say, “Hefker!” (הפֿקר), and then anybody who wants one can take it. It is known!
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I dunno, C.E., I’m with Gibbon that the happiest age of mankind was the era of the Good Emperors, right up until that sneaky shitbird Joaquin Phoenix made his move…
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Concerning relative-pronoun issues at the NYT! Looks like Terry Moran doesn’t even rate an animate “who,” just an inanimate “that,” now that he’s no longer a network bigfoot. Are you seeing this, @nytpitchbot.bsky.social?!
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Thx!
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“a beat”! 🥺
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My ex–copy editor’s 🫀 defs skipped I beat when I paused instinctively after “cooker” and saw no printed acknowledgment of the open juncture. However, as the co-owner of a Breville Barista Espresso and a Breville toaster oven, ✠ ego te absolvo in nomine Gulielmi Shawni.
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The ed. in the story prob’ly lived on pulled pork, squirrel and rotgut whiskey with rattlesnake heads in it, so it sounds like you’ve been making better choices.
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We have to assume the minions of the admin. state snuck in and spiked her Ozarka water, then hacked the audio on her laptop to make it seem like she was 🤪 as a 🦨, amirite?
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Damn! Beat me to a good skeet by 3h! (I must assume UR in the PT zone…)
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So you agree with the ed. of the Morning Glory and Johnson County War-Whoop quoted in Twain’s “Journalism in TN”: “Mush-and-milk [social media posting] gives me the fan-tods”?
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I didn’t want to go there; might offend the status-quo-ante… faction on bsky. 🤓