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Trappist Preserve Marmalades & Conserves 6-Jar Sampler Includes 12-oz. jar: 2 Sweet Orange Marmalade Rhubarb-Orange Conserve Lemon Marmalade Cranberry Preserve Ginger Preserve Please note: Multiple samplers shipping to a single address will be packed in 1...

Then they came to the U.S. and sold marmalade to my grannies. monasterygreetings.com/products/tra...

Wax Begonia (Begonia cucullata) shot last October 14th.
#Bloomscrolling #Flowers #Pavementplants

apples, painted by james marion shull, 1913

apples, painted by james marion shull, 1913

If you're looking for c. 1970s-1980s mms they got 'em. Each page tends to crumble per turn, but cheap is cheap, etc

Ranil y Su Conjunto Tropical - Galaxia Tropical (Analog Africa No.43), by Analog Africa 14 track album

This is a musical joy. New reissue of some vintage Colombian grooves from Ranil out this week on Analog Africa. 🌴🎸🔊🇨🇴

analogafrica.bandcamp.com/album/ranil-...

*secondhand

The Last Word on 40th Street has hundreds of worthy mm paperbacks for around 5 bucks!

Found my calculator. There was a hole in the lining of my handbag & it was in there. Thanks all for looking. Hole has disappeared now.

Found a book.. "No Mate for the Magpie" by Frances Molloy, an Irish writer who worked in a pyjama factory and was briefly a nun. Anybody read it?

Who's afraid of realism? 'Madame Bovary' by Gustave Flaubert (part two) Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 02/02/2026 · 50m

‘It's a classic scene of Flaubertian ironic alternation: he pairs the agricultural fair with the seduction scene, cutting like a camera to and fro between outside and inside.’

On our Close Readings subscription podcast: James Wood on Madame Bovary. Listen here:

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Market Harborough afternoon.

QSL cards sent between radio hams. These are from the UK dated 1938

QSL cards sent between radio hams. These are from Norway dated 1938

Here's our find. An album of hundreds of QSL cards. Sent by radio hams to each other to acknowledge contact. Most are from the late 1930s and from all over the world. Dumped in in a skip after a house clearance. Found the family and offered to send them the album. They didn't reply.

Urban expansion in the age of liberalism Many Victorian cities grew by tenfold in a century. Could ours ever do the same?

Charles Dickens visited Philadelphia in 1842 and described its street grid as ‘distractingly regular’, remarking that ‘after walking about it for an hour or two, I felt that I would have given the world for a crooked street’ worksinprogress.co/issue/urban-...

The Labyrinth and Its Escape Going Through Old Notebooks Part 19: On the Oulipo movement, the found rough draft, and writing with constraints.

On the Oulipo movement, the found rough draft, and writing with constraints.

YouTube video by rocky storm Aquarius British Reggae 1976

Here's a fantastic 1976 documentary on the British reggae scene. Filmed in Brixton, Stoke Newington, Notting Hill and Chalk Farm, it stars Delroy Washington, Roy Shirley, Sir Coxsone Sound System, Matumbi, Nicky Thomas, Tito Simon, Ijahman Levi, Aswad, Sharon Forrester etc
youtu.be/Ah5-2qA_drk

printed sign in Spanish searching for a missing crow

a crow is missing

In unrelated news, Paul Mazursky's autobiographical NEXT STOP, GREENWICH VILLAGE premiered fifty years ago tonight & remains exhilarating, even if one doesn't live down the street from where it's set, as we do. And damn, that supporting cast: Walken! Winters! Goldblum! Ellen Greene! Lois Smith!

Sulfur Cosmos (Cosmos sulphureus) shot on October 16th of 2023.
#Bloomscrolling #Flowers #Flowersky

Modern day photo of a street, centring on a City of London street sign: Cock Lane, EC1

Well, it’s the 264th anniversary today of a séance held to locate the elusive ghost Scratching Fanny of Cock Lane. There were many séances, in fact, because the noisy ghost was a media sensation, but only this one was attended by Samuel Johnson... 🧵

A huge pile of snow is so firmly-packed and frozen over that someone has tagged the side of the snow mound with "t$u" in dark red spray paint.

These mounds aren't going anywhere: street artists in Philly have started tagging the piles of snow!

8CD box set of The Complete Live At The Plugged Nickel 1965 by Miles Davis with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams (Columbia, 2026 reissue)

Quite the week it's been, for those of us who like old show tunes played by the greatest five-piece of the 60s at the pace of an early 80s punk band

Alley in nightlife area of Funabashi

The Downtown Lights

It is so hot today, the sweat is pouring off us.

Never been to a castle, but if it happens, it will be Taytos.

Claire's Knee (1970) dir: Eric Rohmer Jerome driving a boat, looking over his shoulder saying come to my house. I have great books.

ultimate pick up line

Malabar Spinach (Basella alba) shot at the bottom of Whitman on 8/8/25.
#Pavementplants #GardenEscapees #Crackplants

Scrolling through Twitter, finding the ancient texts, discovered a quintessential Dan tweet.

I'm around 5 blocks away, but did receive mail today. Forgot to flip my trash bin, though.

The Dipped Magic Wand: On Max Kommerell’s “Jean Paul” - Journal #157 Appearing for the first time in English, Walter Benjamin’s 1934 review of Max Kommerell’s book on the German poet Jean Paul.

“It is not through form [Gestalt] but rather through transformation that creatures can offer themselves inexhaustibly to poetry from this source.”

— Walter Benjamin

from an essay recently translated for the first time (shared by Winter Pallaksch):
www.e-flux.com/journal/157/...

Historical photo from the Philly History Archive

January 07, 1958: Snow Removable Equipment 15th St and Parkway.
https://www.phillyhistory.org/PhotoArchive/Detail.aspx?assetId=129480