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David M Rubin

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Stories, poems, essays, photos. Posts & pics on my peeps: Piero, Fra A, Nabokov, Ozu, Tanaka, Pasolini, Sirk, Varda, Demy, Dickinson, Rilke, Loy, H.D., Jameses. Love the friendly connecting with everyone. www.six18sfoundry.com Grab your copy of Junk Birds!

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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · Dec 21

My collection of previously published stories, Junk Birds and other stories has become!

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3 birds (myna pigeon sparrow) in silhouette on border between olive brown & cream color fields. Junk Birds and other stories by David M. Rubin

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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 8h

Red & black pencils gonna be nubs

Classic Horror Movies Coloring Book w cartoon predator, Jason Freddy, etc in great colors

David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 9h

They should have isolated the ruffians.

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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 2d

…fear in a handful of dust.

bit o’ The Waste Land
T. S. Eliot

#poetrysunday

(Come in under the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something different from
either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;

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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 2d

October’s strange connections

Peaking in a Catholic Church — yellow light bathes the pulpit and I also see 3 Halloween figures in lit up blue reflected in the glass

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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 2d

Despite the crimgey lyrics the music is so much better than I remember it!

David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 2d

I get Rio if seen as a Nick Cave song… horrific & darkly comic

Model from Duran Duran Rio. Black hat white & yellow big shades and red stick with a sultry playful smile… I suppose… as I don’t understand just like DD says Rio doesn’t.

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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 2d

…fear in a handful of dust.

bit o’ The Waste Land
T. S. Eliot

#poetrysunday

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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 2d

October’s strange connections

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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 3d

Middle stanza of Verlaine’s Claire de Lune

#poetrysunday -1

Singing all the while, in the minor mode, Of all-conquering love and life so kind to them They do not seem to believe in their good fortune, And their song mingles with the moonlight,

(Unsure of who translated this. Pulled from web via poem analysis by Steven ward)

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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 3d

Wow! Amazing. How we’ve descended… though poems would be indecipherable code now?

David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 3d

Middle stanza of Verlaine’s Claire de Lune

#poetrysunday -1

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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 4d

It’s demanding to defeat those evil machines

The Flaming lips Yoshimi battles the pink robots album covered.

Little woman in skirt and clenched fists going to wallop a giant pink robot iron man thing

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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 4d

Loki yawning

White Malti poo (rescue from Missouri) in blue striped sweater on grey blanket in full yawn

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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 4d

Worm holes

2 Morning glories defying the cold and rising on vines up stone wall next to wires

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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 4d

It’s demanding to defeat those evil machines

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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 4d

Loki yawning

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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 4d

Worm holes

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 5d

The Royal Game of Ur is the world’s oldest playable boardgame!

Played by Sumerians in ancient Mesopotamia about 4,500 years ago!

It is a two-player race game, the rules of which have been deciphered from a cuneiform tablet.

Game from the Royal Cemetery of Ur. 📷 British Museum

#Archaeology

British Museum photo showing a two-player board game with gaming counters known as the Royal Game of Ur. Dated c. 2,500 BC.

The game board is composed of a hollow box made of wood adorned with shell plaques. There is a drawer at one end for storing game pieces and dice. The top of the board is covered with twenty square-shaped off-white shell plaques, each bordered with dark-blue lapis lazuli. The shell squares are intricately decorated with blue inlaid patterns including dots inside circles and eye-shapes. Five squares are inlaid with flower-shaped rosettes with red limestone and blue lapis lazuli petals.

The game board is roughly rectangular in shape. Viewed from above in the photo, on the left side of the board is a block of 12 squares made up of 4 across by 3 down. On the right side of the board is a block of 6 squares made up of 2 across by 3 down. The two blocks are joined by two squares extending between the second square down on the end row of the left block and the second square down on the first row of the second block.

Dimensions H: 2.40 cm, L: 30.10 cm, W: 11 cm, (W 5.70 cm at narrowest part)

Beneath the board are 14 disc-shaped gaming counters. On the left are 7 white pieces, inlaid with 5 spots of blue lapis lazuli. On the right are 7 black pieces inlaid with five white spots.

Between the game pieces are three tetrahedron-shaped dice. L to R: Dark blue, brown, cream.

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Cathie Grimm @catgrimm.bsky.social · 5d

#6 rereading the Metamorphosis and some other Kafka stories (plus one Bernhard) as part of an independent study was definitely a highlight of my reading year! #Kafka #DieVerwandlung #booksky #litsky

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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 4d

Interestingly Emperor’s Tomb (the sequel) is much less in every way & still great

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 6d

This is Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron and considered to be the first person to write a computer programme which was for Babbage's Analytical Machine. She died in 1842
In her honour, today is Ada Lovelace Day and is all about encouraging women and girls in mathematics, science and engineering.

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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 6d

John Keats hair metal phase
#poetrysunday +3

GIVE me women, wine, and snuff Untill I cry out "hold, enough!" You may do so sans objection Till the day of resurrection:
For, bless my beard, they aye shall be
My beloved Trinity.

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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 6d

John Keats hair metal phase
#poetrysunday +3

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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 6d

Huge lol