Manual Defiance

moondog on the radio
this is not a drill
(somebody's playing)
moondog on the radio

what a scamp!

reading a book about 17th c Rome: the death of a pontiff was the golden opportunity to get your revenge killings in while nobody was in charge.

my favorite ablative absolute, 'sede vacante'

Star Trek The Next Generation scene. Riker and Geordi, in uniforms red and gold, meet at a Enterprise corridor intersection. Riker is *very* tall. You don't always see it, but here facing and compared to Geordi, sheesh he's a big fella. Anyways, his hair's a bit messy. Closed caption reads, "I'm having trouble waking up."

As promised here’s Pink Pony Club but it’s about encryption

"well lgbts we made it through another winter" illustration from -Wind in the Willows- of a happy animal picnic on the riverbank

👻

Maybe it's time for me to re-read Diamond Age.

girl
I wanna take you to a mediation bar

Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Mrs Dalloway.

Improve a first line by substituting Mrs Dalloway.

Mrs. Dalloway, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Da-lo-way: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth.

The March page of the 2025 'Museum Bums' calendar. The image is the painting 'Rokeby Venus' by Diego Velasquez which hangs in the National Gallery and which was famously slashed by suffragette Mary Richardson in protest at Emmeline Pankhurst being arrested.

The 31st of March on the 2025 Museum Bums calendar which quite clearly has 'International Transgender Day of Visibility' printed on it. Reassuring in these times.

Google Calendar removed Transgender Day of Visibility from its schedule, so I feel it necessary to point out that the @museumbums.bsky.social calendar for this year, a copy of which hangs in our kitchen, very much has it listed.

Wishing you all a safe and peaceful one. 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

69 Love Songs, 25th anniversary tour. Could only get tickets for the first night, songs 1-35, but, as super as it was, it felt like enough nostalgia, especially if I have to stay out past bedtime.

Bill Gates getting pied in the face ('entarté') in Brussels by Noël Godin in the late 90s. Good times.

& heart-breaker

Mellan's engraved portrait of Girolamo Frescobaldi with a crudely-applied cowboy hat

This being, by God’s great blessing, the fourth solemn day of my cutting for the stone this day four years, and am by God’s mercy in very good health, and like to do well, the Lord’s name be praised for it.

apparently there's an English ms. source with toccatas by Frisco Baldy.

Trans Fats of course is my favourite enby Blues pianist

two yards of figural lace with skulls & crossbones draped over a sofa

scored this exquisite spoopy lace at the Joanne Fabrics closing sale.

antimacassar time?

You're in good Hænds ... with Handel.

What a pleasure to have ×two× Handel walking-bass movements on the to-do list.

Étrœungt - Wikipedia

I just saw the place name Étrœungt somewhere & felt like I was losing my damn mind

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89t...

all these "ha ha T---p isn't doing capitalism right, look at the money graphs" posts *could* be funny to me if I hadn't used up all my irony.

See for yourselves: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:To...

Watched the very 70s adaptation of Ionesco's Rhinoceros last night with Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, & Karen Black. The disc also offerend an interview with the director, Tom O'Horgan, shot in front of a wall of mid-century recorders, curtals, the inevitable crumhorns, etc.

but I've made up my mind
I'm slartin my bartfast
gonna slart my bartfast