C.P. Horn
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Books, Philly, formerly "doginabikini"
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"Black Friday" predates shopping deals. 🛍️ The term originally referred to the 1869 U.S. financial panic & stock market crash.
Black Friday is also a 1904 novel by Frederic S. Isham, inspired by those events.
📖 Read the #publicdomain novel ➡️ archive.org/details/blac...
#BlackFriday
Black Friday is also a 1904 novel by Frederic S. Isham, inspired by those events.
📖 Read the #publicdomain novel ➡️ archive.org/details/blac...
#BlackFriday
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"Black Friday" predates shopping deals. 🛍️ The term originally referred to the 1869 U.S. financial panic & stock market crash.
Black Friday is also a 1904 novel by Frederic S. Isham, inspired by those events.
📖 Read the #publicdomain novel ➡️ archive.org/details/blac...
#BlackFriday
Black Friday is also a 1904 novel by Frederic S. Isham, inspired by those events.
📖 Read the #publicdomain novel ➡️ archive.org/details/blac...
#BlackFriday
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Een Toorts als muurplant.
November 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Een Toorts als muurplant.
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RIP Udo Kier
‘I have no time for real horses, so I have a plastic horse. Large size. Called Max Von Sydow. For photographs it looks real. If I do a photo shoot and it stands in the background, you think it's a horse. A horse is a horse.’
‘I have no time for real horses, so I have a plastic horse. Large size. Called Max Von Sydow. For photographs it looks real. If I do a photo shoot and it stands in the background, you think it's a horse. A horse is a horse.’
November 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
RIP Udo Kier
‘I have no time for real horses, so I have a plastic horse. Large size. Called Max Von Sydow. For photographs it looks real. If I do a photo shoot and it stands in the background, you think it's a horse. A horse is a horse.’
‘I have no time for real horses, so I have a plastic horse. Large size. Called Max Von Sydow. For photographs it looks real. If I do a photo shoot and it stands in the background, you think it's a horse. A horse is a horse.’
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Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
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Parking Lots, a poem by Clarence Major, was published in Mt. Horeb, WI, in 1992, in a limited edition of 130 copies by Walter Hamady's Perishable Press. Laura Dronzek illustrated the book.
November 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Parking Lots, a poem by Clarence Major, was published in Mt. Horeb, WI, in 1992, in a limited edition of 130 copies by Walter Hamady's Perishable Press. Laura Dronzek illustrated the book.
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November 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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At The Wire website, read an extract from Music Stones: The Rediscovery Of Ringing Rock, in which author Mike Adcock explores the aural properties of stone and introduces some notable figures in the development of lithophones
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/b...
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/b...
Read an extract from Music Stones: The Rediscovery Of Ringing Rock - The Wire
In an extract from his new book, Mike Adcock explores the aural properties of stone and introduces some notable figures in the development of lithophones
www.thewire.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
At The Wire website, read an extract from Music Stones: The Rediscovery Of Ringing Rock, in which author Mike Adcock explores the aural properties of stone and introduces some notable figures in the development of lithophones
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/b...
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/b...
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“On the way back from the 1937 Labour Party Conference at Brighton – we had stopped to eat sandwiches & talk about George Lansbury – I happened to notice a hobyah type of fairy just going away.”
—A casual reference to seeing fairies in Naomi Mitchison’s 1975 memoir ALL CHANGE HERE
#BookWormSat
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—A casual reference to seeing fairies in Naomi Mitchison’s 1975 memoir ALL CHANGE HERE
#BookWormSat
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November 15, 2025 at 2:28 PM
“On the way back from the 1937 Labour Party Conference at Brighton – we had stopped to eat sandwiches & talk about George Lansbury – I happened to notice a hobyah type of fairy just going away.”
—A casual reference to seeing fairies in Naomi Mitchison’s 1975 memoir ALL CHANGE HERE
#BookWormSat
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—A casual reference to seeing fairies in Naomi Mitchison’s 1975 memoir ALL CHANGE HERE
#BookWormSat
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Poster designed by Ela Troyan, for Jack Smith’s “I Was a Male Yvonne de Carlo for the Lucky Landlord Underground,” performed in the basement of a West Village aquarium store - third Friday of every month, 1982.
November 14, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Poster designed by Ela Troyan, for Jack Smith’s “I Was a Male Yvonne de Carlo for the Lucky Landlord Underground,” performed in the basement of a West Village aquarium store - third Friday of every month, 1982.
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Headlines posted in street-corner window of newspaper office, Brockton, Massachusetts (1940)
Photo: Library of Congress (U.S.)
Photo: Library of Congress (U.S.)
November 14, 2024 at 6:06 PM
Headlines posted in street-corner window of newspaper office, Brockton, Massachusetts (1940)
Photo: Library of Congress (U.S.)
Photo: Library of Congress (U.S.)
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Roxolania (1584) by Sebastian Klonowicz is a very long Latin poem in elegiac distichs in which a troop of nymphs and satyrs tour Red Ruthenia (basically Lublin voivodeship and western Ukraine) learning about cheesemaking and other local specialities (I'm not making this up)
November 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Roxolania (1584) by Sebastian Klonowicz is a very long Latin poem in elegiac distichs in which a troop of nymphs and satyrs tour Red Ruthenia (basically Lublin voivodeship and western Ukraine) learning about cheesemaking and other local specialities (I'm not making this up)
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I curated some readings for class on "data tensions" and the list felt worth sharing. Come on a tour of datasets, books, the web, and AI with me...
We'll start with this piece on the Google Books project: the hopes, dreams, disasters, and aftermath of building a public library on the internet.
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We'll start with this piece on the Google Books project: the hopes, dreams, disasters, and aftermath of building a public library on the internet.
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Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria
“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”
www.theatlantic.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I curated some readings for class on "data tensions" and the list felt worth sharing. Come on a tour of datasets, books, the web, and AI with me...
We'll start with this piece on the Google Books project: the hopes, dreams, disasters, and aftermath of building a public library on the internet.
1/n
We'll start with this piece on the Google Books project: the hopes, dreams, disasters, and aftermath of building a public library on the internet.
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Venus' Looking Glass (Triodanis perfoliata) shot in 2020.
November 13, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Venus' Looking Glass (Triodanis perfoliata) shot in 2020.
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Lee Miller’s Man and tar (c.1929-1931)
November 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Lee Miller’s Man and tar (c.1929-1931)
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We surprised Rosemary and Martin yesterday.
November 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
We surprised Rosemary and Martin yesterday.
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apricot plum, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1895
November 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM
apricot plum, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1895
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Cake on Tower Bridge. Exactly as I encountered it; photo not staged at all.
November 9, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Cake on Tower Bridge. Exactly as I encountered it; photo not staged at all.
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Went to the disco on Sunday and copped off with Kevin.
November 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Went to the disco on Sunday and copped off with Kevin.
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A gentle underwater zephyr wafts thru this Bernardpora coral in the Coral Morphologic coral museum #coralmorphologic #miami #coralcity
November 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
A gentle underwater zephyr wafts thru this Bernardpora coral in the Coral Morphologic coral museum #coralmorphologic #miami #coralcity
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Carla Marlier | Zazie Dans Le Métro | Louis Malle | 1960.
November 4, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Carla Marlier | Zazie Dans Le Métro | Louis Malle | 1960.
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And my mind moves again towards this. #AllSoulsDay #JohnTavener
Tavener: Song For Athene
YouTube video by The Sixteen - Topic
m.youtube.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:25 AM
And my mind moves again towards this. #AllSoulsDay #JohnTavener
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November 2, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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‘Haunted house stories tend to end in one of two ways: either the family flees, or the ghosts are soothed, and everyone – living and dead alike – is allowed to move on.’
Jon Day on the cultural history of haunted houses:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jon Day on the cultural history of haunted houses:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jon Day · Gloomth: Haunted Houses
Haunted house stories tend to end in one of two ways: either the family flees, or the ghosts are soothed, and everyone...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM
‘Haunted house stories tend to end in one of two ways: either the family flees, or the ghosts are soothed, and everyone – living and dead alike – is allowed to move on.’
Jon Day on the cultural history of haunted houses:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jon Day on the cultural history of haunted houses:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...