TYRANNOSAURUS SMUDGE
@tyranosaurossmudge.bsky.social
Epiphanies and mundanities from a language arts type.
To consider: the idea of “having compassion” for people who are better, wiser, smarter than you are, as opposed to “having compassion” for those worse off in these respects.
January 3, 2026 at 3:30 PM
To consider: the idea of “having compassion” for people who are better, wiser, smarter than you are, as opposed to “having compassion” for those worse off in these respects.
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"A physician is worth more than several other men put together, for he can cut out arrows and spread healing herbs."
(Il.11.514)
(Il.11.514)
January 1, 2026 at 3:57 PM
"A physician is worth more than several other men put together, for he can cut out arrows and spread healing herbs."
(Il.11.514)
(Il.11.514)
Maybe the only trick to writing is to say what you feel. Course, the problem then is that you have to feel something first. This continues the non-adventures of Sharon and Ray "A Romance in My Mind." Poor Ray...
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allpurposeblog.com/2025/12/27/a...
A ROMANCE IN MY MIND
I’m a little surprised that Sharon’s never offered to cut my hair. She has a line in one of her songs about how she’ll only cut the hair of “the ones she loves and the ones she does” and while I kn…
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December 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Maybe the only trick to writing is to say what you feel. Course, the problem then is that you have to feel something first. This continues the non-adventures of Sharon and Ray "A Romance in My Mind." Poor Ray...
allpurposeblog.com/2025/12/27/a...
allpurposeblog.com/2025/12/27/a...
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"Eris whose fury never tires, sister and friend of manslaughtering Arēs, who, from being at first but low in stature, grows till she raises her head to the sky ... She it was that went about among them and flung down discord to the waxing of sorrow with even hand between them."
(Iliad.4.440-445)
(Iliad.4.440-445)
December 19, 2025 at 7:43 AM
"Eris whose fury never tires, sister and friend of manslaughtering Arēs, who, from being at first but low in stature, grows till she raises her head to the sky ... She it was that went about among them and flung down discord to the waxing of sorrow with even hand between them."
(Iliad.4.440-445)
(Iliad.4.440-445)
I'm sort of opposed to such patently political content as I'm presenting here. What interests me is that I feel like the action against Venezuela *reallly is* what a lot of people thought the Iraq War was, back in the day.
December 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I'm sort of opposed to such patently political content as I'm presenting here. What interests me is that I feel like the action against Venezuela *reallly is* what a lot of people thought the Iraq War was, back in the day.
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Encountering the ghosts of Christmas past is what Facebook is for. BlueSky is for lying on the grass and staring at fluffy clouds rolling by.
December 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Encountering the ghosts of Christmas past is what Facebook is for. BlueSky is for lying on the grass and staring at fluffy clouds rolling by.
And it doesn’t pertain at all to Thought (Thought is like math) or to Perception (which is like a florid verbal description of the sort you could never write yourself, the author is so talented)
December 16, 2025 at 11:09 PM
And it doesn’t pertain at all to Thought (Thought is like math) or to Perception (which is like a florid verbal description of the sort you could never write yourself, the author is so talented)
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Homeric poetry has been accused of glorifying violence, oppressive social hierarchies, and the patriarchy. But it has also been interpreted as antiwar, critical of religion, and lauded for giving rare agency to female characters. To an artist, such contradictions make Homeric poetry catnip.
what's with the epithets? - valuing Classics - charlayn von solms dotcom
Epithets in Artwork Titles. Charlayn von Solms Use of Epithets. Willem Boshoff's Blind Alphabet. Ancient Greek and Braille
charlaynvonsolms.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Homeric poetry has been accused of glorifying violence, oppressive social hierarchies, and the patriarchy. But it has also been interpreted as antiwar, critical of religion, and lauded for giving rare agency to female characters. To an artist, such contradictions make Homeric poetry catnip.
Noted from yesterday during the press conference with the Federal Reserve Chairman: people are extremely fastidious about using a plural verb when the subject is data -- it's always "the data are" -- but they don't care at all about the pronoun. They don't call data "them" or "they" but "it."
December 12, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Noted from yesterday during the press conference with the Federal Reserve Chairman: people are extremely fastidious about using a plural verb when the subject is data -- it's always "the data are" -- but they don't care at all about the pronoun. They don't call data "them" or "they" but "it."
I have no idea what I've been thinking of for the last ten minutes, but it all made such sense. Brain is on tumble dry.
December 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I have no idea what I've been thinking of for the last ten minutes, but it all made such sense. Brain is on tumble dry.
I’d passed the woman with what I identified as the French baguette inside the grocery store, now she has passed me on the street outside with her baguette. I thought of the word “baguette” then began mentally to defend my use of the word "banquette" in a text message earlier in the day
December 3, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I’d passed the woman with what I identified as the French baguette inside the grocery store, now she has passed me on the street outside with her baguette. I thought of the word “baguette” then began mentally to defend my use of the word "banquette" in a text message earlier in the day
I thought Bluesky users might enjoy a description of the argument that occurred in the kitchen during my Thanksgiving repast in NYC this past week. I was probably the right-most person there, and am left of center, a gen-x abundance liberal.
December 1, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I thought Bluesky users might enjoy a description of the argument that occurred in the kitchen during my Thanksgiving repast in NYC this past week. I was probably the right-most person there, and am left of center, a gen-x abundance liberal.
Somewhat comical: that moment that generally occurs toward the opening of every dog walk when, in a panic, I thrust my hands into every available fissure to ensure I've brought dog bags: left and right front trouser pocket, left and right front jacket pocket -- could I have really forgotten...?--
November 19, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Somewhat comical: that moment that generally occurs toward the opening of every dog walk when, in a panic, I thrust my hands into every available fissure to ensure I've brought dog bags: left and right front trouser pocket, left and right front jacket pocket -- could I have really forgotten...?--
I had closed a message to a friend with the semi-jocular suggestion that she "be good;" now in the woods with the dog, I'm thinking that actually, seriously, that might be pretty good advice for me to follow myself,
November 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I had closed a message to a friend with the semi-jocular suggestion that she "be good;" now in the woods with the dog, I'm thinking that actually, seriously, that might be pretty good advice for me to follow myself,
Would love to hear of the complications that arose during the assembly of this piece.
Melpomene Act
Objects used: Trivet, injector, whistle, brass sphere, brass ring, Dazey No. 8 Butter Churn gear box, rotary saw blade, chandelier components, anniversary clock weights, mandoline grater, embroidery, ring, enamel paint, gold leaf, varnish.
Objects used: Trivet, injector, whistle, brass sphere, brass ring, Dazey No. 8 Butter Churn gear box, rotary saw blade, chandelier components, anniversary clock weights, mandoline grater, embroidery, ring, enamel paint, gold leaf, varnish.
November 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Would love to hear of the complications that arose during the assembly of this piece.
That Denial is a process of reverse-annealing, a kind of weakening of a weakness.
The word “archery” spoken by a passerby. “Maybe because he doesn’t like archery,” was I believe the phrase spoken by the young passing woman to her friend.
The word “archery” spoken by a passerby. “Maybe because he doesn’t like archery,” was I believe the phrase spoken by the young passing woman to her friend.
November 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM
That Denial is a process of reverse-annealing, a kind of weakening of a weakness.
The word “archery” spoken by a passerby. “Maybe because he doesn’t like archery,” was I believe the phrase spoken by the young passing woman to her friend.
The word “archery” spoken by a passerby. “Maybe because he doesn’t like archery,” was I believe the phrase spoken by the young passing woman to her friend.
I think Harold Bloom’s discussion of Wallace Stevens’ poem The Snow Man (in The Poems of Our Climate) is more complicated than it needs to be and that it strangely neglects to consider the idea of snow.
October 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I think Harold Bloom’s discussion of Wallace Stevens’ poem The Snow Man (in The Poems of Our Climate) is more complicated than it needs to be and that it strangely neglects to consider the idea of snow.
Wow, very cool --
"The 2024 Oxford Ancient Languages Society performance of Euripides' Orestes. In the original Ancient Greek, with a freshly edited text and a complete new musical score, written in accordance with all that is known of Euripidean music."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4hk...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4hk...
Euripides' Orestes (Complete Ancient Greek Tragedy)
YouTube video by Oxford Ancient Languages Society
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October 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Wow, very cool --
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"The 2024 Oxford Ancient Languages Society performance of Euripides' Orestes. In the original Ancient Greek, with a freshly edited text and a complete new musical score, written in accordance with all that is known of Euripidean music."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4hk...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4hk...
Euripides' Orestes (Complete Ancient Greek Tragedy)
YouTube video by Oxford Ancient Languages Society
www.youtube.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:23 AM
"The 2024 Oxford Ancient Languages Society performance of Euripides' Orestes. In the original Ancient Greek, with a freshly edited text and a complete new musical score, written in accordance with all that is known of Euripidean music."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4hk...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4hk...
Hard to tell at the level of the street but seemed like excellent attendance of the No Kings rally in D.C. today. Event organizers say 200 k, which is believable. Mood was much more chill than at your average Stadium rock concert. Best sign I saw: “QUICK QUESTION FOR YOU: WTF?”
October 19, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Hard to tell at the level of the street but seemed like excellent attendance of the No Kings rally in D.C. today. Event organizers say 200 k, which is believable. Mood was much more chill than at your average Stadium rock concert. Best sign I saw: “QUICK QUESTION FOR YOU: WTF?”
I've been wanting to up my game as a protestor by carrying a sign, but what is to be the message this coming weekend? My first thought was something literary, so as to lend some class to the event
October 16, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I've been wanting to up my game as a protestor by carrying a sign, but what is to be the message this coming weekend? My first thought was something literary, so as to lend some class to the event
Wondering if Measure for Measure might be the Shakespeare play for this American moment: Society was too lenient with lawbreakers under the Duke, so an Angelo was needed to prosecute justice with severity and to the letter, thus restoring balance and respect for the law.
October 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Wondering if Measure for Measure might be the Shakespeare play for this American moment: Society was too lenient with lawbreakers under the Duke, so an Angelo was needed to prosecute justice with severity and to the letter, thus restoring balance and respect for the law.
Dad's word of the day today was "dry."
The roast beef was "dry" (true), the water was "dry" (as in flavorless -- true again), an unspecified "they" and "it" was "dry." "But this," he said, tapping his plate with the cookie on it, "has some value to it."
The roast beef was "dry" (true), the water was "dry" (as in flavorless -- true again), an unspecified "they" and "it" was "dry." "But this," he said, tapping his plate with the cookie on it, "has some value to it."
October 6, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Dad's word of the day today was "dry."
The roast beef was "dry" (true), the water was "dry" (as in flavorless -- true again), an unspecified "they" and "it" was "dry." "But this," he said, tapping his plate with the cookie on it, "has some value to it."
The roast beef was "dry" (true), the water was "dry" (as in flavorless -- true again), an unspecified "they" and "it" was "dry." "But this," he said, tapping his plate with the cookie on it, "has some value to it."
“What do you think of this, Sancho?” said Don Quixote. “Are there any enchantments that can prevail against true valor? The enchanters may be able to rob me of good fortune, but not of fortitude and courage.” (Don Quixote, Part II, Chapter 17.)
October 2, 2025 at 1:38 AM
“What do you think of this, Sancho?” said Don Quixote. “Are there any enchantments that can prevail against true valor? The enchanters may be able to rob me of good fortune, but not of fortitude and courage.” (Don Quixote, Part II, Chapter 17.)