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David J. Clarke

@jazzphreak.bsky.social

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Seeking work as a Peer Bridger or 988 Support Agent. Jazz fanatic & amateur photographer. Former philosopher & logician. Disciple of Richard Rorty. Francophile. 💙🏳️‍🌈📸🎷 🇫🇷

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David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 3d

William, street musician, riffing on his six string while visiting the Jimi Hendrix sculpture on Capital Hill.

#streetphotography #musician #guitarplayer #blues #homage #jimihendrix #eastcoastkin #memorial #redhouse #purplehaze #sculpture #publicart

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David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 1h

This pooch is somewhat endearing
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#bradford #pooch #musiclover

Bradford’s fav moments 🐾🎹 #dogsofyoutube #piano #montage

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David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 2h

And whatever rapidly evolving publishing capabilities means, I doubt they exceed the publication capabilities ushered into the World by Gutenberg.

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David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 2h

Math aside, it sets a very limited scope to the novel, which is sad as it's always been an expansive form. I'm glad that Paul Murray, Delillo, Ferrante and Knausgard & many others are not constrained by such artificial criteria. The 4 authors could not be more different and are all writing in 2025.

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David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 4h

So how would this criteria apply to Anna Karenina and The Life and times of Tristan shandy? Both authors having denied that they were even novels.

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David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 5h

An Irish state of mind from Keith Jarrett. Expressive, lyrical... perhaps a poet may have words to pair with this performance. The best I can offer is listen
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#jazz #classic #ballad #improvisation #geoffdyer #butbeautifilul

Keith Jarrett - Danny Boy (Londonderry Air)

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David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 5h

Great mix of motion blur and color

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Mark @markhobbs.bsky.social · 5h

Plague Days - Basketball - afternoon - Bagong Silang, Caloocan City, Manila, The Philippines
October 20, 2020
#plaguedays #Manila #photography #urban #Philippines #covid19 #boys #streetphotography #street #b&w #blackandwhite #hot #afternoon #humid #alley #basketball

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 15h

Happy Tor Johnson's birthday!

Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · Sep 18

what

Vampira and Tor Johnson in Plan 9 from Outer Space

the president of the United States and Mme. Einstein Visa at a state dinner in England

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David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 6h

'I'm sure there are many examples.'

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David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 7h

The beauty of the prose sings throughout the passage, but I especially like the two unbending universals of 'unchanging' and 'unceasing' coupled with murmur, the sotto voce of a city brimming with subtle energy.

David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 7h

Like illuminated pearls the lamps shown from the summits of their tall poles upon the living texture below which, changing shape and hue unceasingly, sent up into the warm gray evening air an unchanging unceasing murmur.
—'Two Gallants' (Dubliners)
—James Joyce

#shortstory #light #synechdoche

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David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 1d

Farewell to a great gato named Omar. 17 years he spent on this earth and he leaves behind a shadow of memories that will endure in all those that knew him.

His only regret in life was that he did not take more naps.
A cat must have a code.
#catphotography #whiskers #TheWire
#gato

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David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 2d

Strong composition!

David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 2d

Kudos to the bird's barber!

Aintright @aintright.bsky.social · 2d

When you accidentally go out with your slippers on. #ukbirds #birds #wildlife #Robins

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David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 2d

Ngrams 'view' (case insensitive)
Google Ngram Viewer: Rumpus room,rec room share.google/HG9DmZkLaiBx...

Google Books Ngram Viewer

Google Ngrams: Rumpus room, rec room, 1900-2022

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David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 2d

Spoken like a true medigon; they said the same of peasants from a certain sunny peninsula; The worst people until they needed us to build their subways.

David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 2d

Kind of a sweet but still Deniro 'Taxi Driver' vibe: 'You talking to me? You must be, cuz there's no one else here,'

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Uta Feinstein @utafeinstein.bsky.social · Aug 10

#flowers and #insects for #StunDay 🦋🐝🌺🌸🪻🐞🐛

Have a good day and week! 🌞

#FlowersOnSunday
#bloomscrolling
#gardening
#FlowersOnBluesky
#nature
#photography
#nature
#naturephotography
#summer
#photography
#sensoryart
#EastCoastKin
#PhotographersOfBluesky
#blossoms
#pollinators

Fluffy bumble bee on a blue thistle blossom.

Ladybird nest yo the centre of a Pink-orange Dahlia.

Pink Dahlia blossom with yellow-green bud next to it.

Tortoiseshell butterfly sitting on small pink blossoms with wings open.

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David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 2d

Ouch, either the commission was not enough or should have gone with the local painter in Florence 🙂

David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 2d

'Lily, the caretaker's daughter, was literally run off her feet.'
—James Joyce
—'The Dead', 'Dubliners'

ChatGPT note: 'The author is confused by the term 'literally'. Proper usage would be 'figuratively'.

ChatGPT can be an idiot, but this reply makes it a special kind of idiot.

#Irony #Echos

More than nifty graphic design celebrating the centennial edition of Joyce's Dubliners.

Double exposure of a local coffee house and of the person that provides their weekly flowers, it seemed especially appropriate here as she is not only named Mary. She is actually from county Cork in Ireland.

David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 2d

My favorite ethnically ambiguous actor, I'm looking forward to seeing this half Guatemalan half Cuban thespian in del Toro's Frankenstein!
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Oscar Isaac is a savage 🤣🤣🤣

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David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 2d

Heartbreaking film, but the ladies horticulture scene where they're all hypnotized just kills me every time

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David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 3d

For such technically bright bulbs, it astounds me that after 20 years, much of the Bay area is surprised that TECH CEOs are independent in name only. That label is ideology for not paying taxes & supporting right-wing politics. Capital = Faust.
#Demons #NoTaxes

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Salesforce Tries to Help ICE Boost Its Immigration Force

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David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 3d

A beautiful poem written for her 1-year-old daughter...though a lyric poem in form, it scans as much as fairy tale and epoch.

#MargaretAtwwod #Poet #Lyric
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Talking Volumes: Margaret Atwood reads "Night Poem"

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