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Liza
@lizamezzo.bsky.social
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Mezzo-about-town. Singer, actor, Shakespearean text coach, will translate your opera libretti and song texts. She/they.
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The National’s set workshop have made a little gingerbread village out of cardboard offcuts
A little gingerbread house made out of cardboard, decorated with a white paint pen. It has arched windows and hearts on the façade A tall thin gingerbread house made of cardboard and decorated in white paint pen, with Christmas trees drawn on either side of the front door A cute gingerbread stable with a star over the door A windowsill with three little gingerbread houses made of cardboard, sitting among potted plants and snowballs made of foam packaging. A paper snowflake hangs above.
December 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Please enjoy this amazing tempo marking

(credit to my friend Peter, known to some of you)
Sheet music for a piece of choral music with libretto in Czech, German and English. Tempo is marked: Allegro con fucco
December 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Even my 2 shorthair demons seem to produce endless fluff
Two black and white cats lying side by side on a piano bench, looking at you
December 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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The hotel has a lego Schwebebahn!!!
A Lego version of the Wuppertal Schwebebahn. Blue train cars are suspended from a rail between green arches above plastic grass and a plastic river
November 30, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Wir schweben
End car of the Wuppertal Schwebebahn, a unique suspended monorail Car, rail and overhead wheel of a car of the Wuppertal Schwebebahn
November 29, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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I really liked this exhibition. It’s just one room, but full of wonders.
Ursula Le Guin’s hand-drawn map of her invented world Gethen, with a legend indicating summer thaw areas, permanent land ice, and permanent sea ice or polar cap.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Found a Caryl Churchill play that was clearly lying around while the bedroom was being painted and accidentally became Art
A paperback copy of the play Cloud 9 by Caryl Churchill. It is sky blue with the title and author in black lettering and also there are splashes of red paint
November 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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And here's Doreen. She's lovely and her work is beautiful. She's in the OXO studios on the upper level facing the river, if you need a handwoven scarf as a holiday gift for someone you love.
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A smiling British Caribbean woman with short grey hair stands surrounded by scarves in beautiful colours that she has woven. Behind her is a loom strung with green thread.
November 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Anyway. Doreen and I talked about our lost friends and we wept a bit. And she still had a scarf with the same blue silk she'd used for Michael's, so I got that one.

Here's Michael and his former scarf in happier times, with soprano Nadine Benjamin
Soprano Nadine Benjamin CBE, a Black British singer with a shaven head and a big smile, stands next to Michael Harper, a very beautiful Black American man, who is also smiling. He is 60 or so, his hair is silver, and his eyes are full of mischief. He wears a scarf woven of blue and white silk
November 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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If you wanna be my confessor, you gotta confess my friends

Make it last forever, world without end amen
Pope Leo being very serious in front of a microphone. Behind him are the other Spice Cardinals
November 23, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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If you zoom in, just visible through the haze: a dining room, the walls magnificently painted with a forest scene and a battle scene in 19th century style; King Hamlet victorious atop a hill holding a Danish flag. A great set for a chamber Hamlet, and beautiful work by the National’s scenic artists.
A proscenium stage, a company of actors taking a curtain call after a modern production of Hamlet. The beams of lights are visible in the haze.
November 22, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Speak the speech, I pray you
The Lyttelton Theatre, part of the National Theatre in London. In front of a large crowd, a black scrim hides the stage. On it is projected in white a single word: Hamlet
November 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Mystery is doing better this morning! She was ill overnight, I phoned the vet twice— but this morning she’s more sprightly, and she ate and drank while I watched.
I made a vet appointment for this morning, and we’re still going in. But she made it through the night.
A little black cat with white chest, paws and mustache, sitting on a wooden staircase
November 20, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Dawn sky traffic: moon, plane, contrails, bird
London sky at sunrise. A waning crescent moon is palely visible. A jet plane and a pink contrail cross paths above it. Above the contrail a gull can be seen in flight. This is all backwards of course. The gull is not above the planes. The planes are not above the Moon.
November 17, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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London morning skyscape. The thinnest little crescent moon.

(Technically it is waning. So, decrescent moon?)
City skyline before sunrise with dark towers silhouetted in the early light. Sky is yellowish towards the horizon, darker blue above. There is a thin little waning crescent moon visible, the last of the old moon.
November 17, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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Recording quality audiodrama with @beyondshakes.bsky.social
The script of a Tudor religious drama with a handwritten note at the top saying “NOT subtle”
November 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Just two goth skull ladies hanging out
Two Mexican skeleton ornaments in lacy dresses and big hats, one in red, one in purple
November 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Amateurish little altar. Miss you every damn day
Attempt at a Mexican style altar on top of a bookshelf with sugar skulls and colourful paper adornments
November 13, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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I made mushroom soup
Mushroom soup in the bottom of a pot. Mostly chestnut mushrooms with some shiitake, onions, garlic and shallots. Seasoned with bay leaf, thyme, rosemary, salt and pepper
November 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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London Eye in the late sun
The London Eye, a giant Ferris wheel, with the sun behind it. Blue sky and white clouds
November 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Travis Bear would like you to tell him where Blake is
A small murderous teddy bear wearing a black eyepatch, glove, collar and tunic with the Federation symbol in white stitching
November 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Off to Blake’s 7 event at the BFI. Significant other has brought Travis Bear
A small teddy bear in an overcoat pocket. Bear has an eyepatch and a black attachment on one paw. He is wearing a black collar and a tunic with white stitching and he wants to kill Blake
November 8, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Afternoon sun, Southwark Cathedral
Southwark Cathedral is visible through a haze of yellow-leaved plane trees in the afternoon sun Sun on the yellow limestone of Southwark Cathedral, where Shakespeare’s brother Edmund is buried. He came to London trying to be an actor but died in a duel
November 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Depends where you are and who you ask.
Religion in Germany, 2024 Estimate • Unaffiliated (46.8%) • Catholicism (23.7%) • Protestantism (21.5%) • Eastern Orthodoxy (1.50%) • Other Christians (1.00%) • Islam, excluding Alevism (3.90%) • Alevism (0.80%) • Buddhism (0.20%) • Judaism (0.10%) • Hinduism (0.10%) • Yazidism (0.10%) • Other raligions (0.20%)
October 28, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Sir Boniface Absee, over and out
An AFAB person with long hair which is tied in front of their face in an attempt to look like a beard. They wear an Elizabethan scholar’s cap and academic gown
October 22, 2025 at 9:56 PM