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The Allusionist
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Podcast of adventures in language with @helenzaltzman. theallusionist.org patreon.com/allusionist
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Sun Hop lost its hillock!
September 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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this, in the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, is the first time I saw dinosaurs represented as brightly coloured and with feathers/hair. And also...humping??
Two large models of dinosaurs on display in a museum. One is blue with auburn hair, and it is grasping the hindquarters of a green and red dinosaur with a distraught expression
July 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Look mum, I’m in the Radio Times! [Falls back down to Earth] Oh, no, it was that Helen Zatlzman again
July 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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A new episode is in your podfeed! We go on a field trip with @jmcelroy.bsky.social around several of Vancouver's parks, to consider what IS park, also how their names can make us feel about them. Listen, see more photos, read the transcript at theallusionist.org/park
Justin McElroy has a mic stuck in his face in Vancouver's CRAB Park, on the edge of Vancouver port with stacks of shipping containers and big cranes Justin McElroy poses enthusiastically with the green standing sign for Dude Chilling Park on the edge of the small park's worn grass in Vancouver's tiny Sun Hop Park on the busy intersection of two streets, Helen Zaltzman and Justin McElroy sit recording on a low wall at the edge of a small grassy hillock. The rest of the park is paved, with an installation of giant red bendy straws forming a pergola The sign for Choklit park - spelled C H O K L I T - stands in a colourful flowerbed. Behind it are some bald trees, a couple of trees laden with blossom, and behind them the tall buildings of downtown Vancouver
July 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Vancouver! This Sunday is our big live performance of Souvenirs, celebrating the podcast's tenth birthday. I've stocked up on the tea towels I drew and tickets are available from @riotheatre.bsky.social - let's sell this fucker out! riotheatretickets.ca/events/33395...
A tea towel with a hand drawn print of the word Souvenirs, each letter depicting a different type of souvenir - teddy bear, snow globe, map, tourist spoons, scarf, keychain, pencils, shell necklace, and a tea towel that is a mini version of this tea towel
January 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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It can also be rather withering, as this video shows
November 25, 2024 at 10:00 PM
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help how do I get off this train
a notification of a 1000-day Duolingo streak, complete with orange cartoon owl wearing sunglasses, in a sort of comet-like yellow blaze
September 25, 2023 at 5:56 PM