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The Corodon @thecorodon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Okay, I didn't find my brain in that pot of tea... maybe it's in this one...

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The Corodon @thecorodon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

4 weeks out from tournament day, I'm focusing my training on getting over this cold... Not ideal.

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The Corodon @thecorodon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

It's starting to sink in that i entered a charity Brazilian jiu-jitsu tournament in November and I'm actually going to have to, like, do that. Or have that done to me, as the case may be.

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The Corodon @thecorodon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Finally, I didn't have a chance to visit the Lusterweibchen in the European Art wing, but I couldn't leave you without smother picture of a weird mermaid.

Set in a natural oyster shell, surrounded by silver seabirds and gold fish and turtles, suits a good figure of a mermaid of sorts. It has a dour, masculine face and two fish-tail legs. The mermaid is adorned with a crown, earrings, necklace, and bracelets of pearls, and gold a trident, but honestly looks pretty done with all of this.

The placard read:
Mermaid
1933

Franz Xavier Zirnkilton
American, born Germany,1851-1934

Gold-lip pearl oyster shell, gold, platinum, zircon, diamond, seed pearls, and semiprecious stones

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The Corodon @thecorodon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

More from Violet Oakley, who I just really liked: The Wise Virgins and Foolish Virgins, and the Weavers of New Hope (New Hope being a town in the county just north of Philadelphia).

A painting in the shape of two stained glass windows, showing several young women processing in the street at night with lighted clay lamps. In the background, several women whose lamps ran out of oil hood their faces in shame. It features text of two Bible verses and is made out to the memory of Mary Anna Bonnell.

This painting has more impressionistic brushwork. It features a sturdy middle-aged woman holding up a piece of blue textile, while a man works on a loom behind her.

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The Corodon @thecorodon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Some stunning stained-glass-like paintings by Violet Oakley. First, Hamlet and The Tempest. More later...

Art the top, the play scene from Hamlet. Polonius, Gertrude, and Claudius look shocked as Hamlet lays his head on Ophelia's lap. Ophelia glares arrestingly directly out at the viewer.
At bottom, a young man and woman play lutes.

A scene from The Tempest with Prospero, Miranda, and the other guy look out over the beach.
At bottom, two men play a lute and a harp.

Violet Oakley

Best known as a mural painter. Violet Oaklev also created designs for stained glass windows and other decorative arts. Most of these works were inspired by medieval models that Oaklev had seen on her
frequent trips to Europe. Her stained glass was also influenced by contemporary British arts and Crafts artists such as Edward Burne-Jones's neo-medieval designs for stained-glass windows made by
Morris & Co. The Wise Virgins and Foolish Virgins, taken from a Christian parable, was intended for Saint Peter's Church in Germantown; the scenes from Shakespeare's Hamlet and The Tempest were
designed for Maybrook, a residence in Wynnewood.

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The Corodon @thecorodon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Got to see an interesting exhibit on the Arts and Crafts movement in #Philadelphia at the at museum yesterday.

An elaborately decorated door lock, knocker, and key.

The upper corner the backboard of an extravagantly carved dresser. Carvings include a sphinx at the top, a lion's head holding a ring joined to a spiked ball, a cherubic figure, and a duck.

The top of a brass Japanese urn-type container. The whole thing was about 7 feet tall. At the top you have a guy doing some kind of balancing act while another person looks on with concern. Beaked, winged dragon-ish beasts climb the sides of the urn. At the bottom childlike figures look up, sitting among the legs holding the urn up.
This was a piece Japan sent to the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876.

Close-up of an inlaid Japanese desk, also sent to the Centennial Exposition. A tree is inlaid inside a circle of a fish scale pattern. Two dark drawers below are painted with gold plant life.

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The Corodon @thecorodon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

I assure you that even if a Philadelphian hates the Eagles, it has nothing in common with the way you hate the Eagles.

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The Corodon @thecorodon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

An odd thing that's happened twice to me now is, I'll travel somewhere and be making conversation with a conservative-type older man. When it comes up that I'm from Philadelphia, their next conversational gambit is to bring up that everyone hates the Eagles. Like this is something we'd have in […]

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The Corodon @thecorodon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

I do this when it comes around every few years, and wish I'd held onto my previous results. I feel like you used to see more of my influences (Long Island, dad from NC, college in PA, several years in Seattle). But it seems like since I moved to Philadelphia, so has my accent.

An accent heatmap from the quiz at mydialect.us
My dialect is concentrated in a red band centered on Philadelphia, New Jersey, and the Finger Lakes part of Upstate New York. There is of course a warm spot in Florida, where Long Islanders go to complete their life cycle. And Hawaii, for some reason. I don't sound like I'm from the Pacific Northwest anymore. I sound least like I'm from Iowa or Idaho.

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The Corodon @thecorodon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

From yesterday's Anthropeum, a 1,200-year-old Moche bottle decorated with bean warriors. www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/se…

A light brown ceramic bottle, round at the bottom, with a ring-shaped handle-spout combination called a "stirrup spout."
It's decorated all over in brown paint with spotted bean patterns. In this side there is one large figure of a spotted Lima bean with a human face and legs. He has a headdress, and is carrying a spear and a round shield. He looks so happy to be there.

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The Corodon @thecorodon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

[US Pol: (nonsense post)] @futurebird It's all beef if you believe.

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The Corodon @thecorodon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Ancient Egyptian writing board with spelling mistakes marked in red. 19th or 20th Century BCE. www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/se…

An ancient gessoed wooden board covered with early Egyptian hieroglyphics in black ink. Red symbols are written alongside some of the black ones. The Met museum's description says, "The main text is a wordy model letter that the student copied—and surely also was expected to memorize. His many spelling mistakes have been corrected in red ink by the teacher." Harsh.

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The Corodon @thecorodon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

If you have some money to throw at an underfunded #Philadelphia school and a worthy teacher, Danina is fundraising to fill a classroom library at her new high school. If you use the code "LIFTOFF" with your donation there's a fund that kicks in an extra $50! […]

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The Corodon @thecorodon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

Random cat photo with the new phone came out looking like a painting and I'm not sure why.

Close-up of Lita the tortoise-shell calico cat, rolled onto her back with her paws curled. The way her fur is unfocused in the picture looks a lot like brushstrokes to me.

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The Corodon @thecorodon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

Reminding myself that necessary writing counts, even if I didn't get to the flashy part of a project today.

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The Corodon @thecorodon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

If you can only see one Greek myth movie this Summer, The Odyssey can wait.

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The Corodon @thecorodon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the Hadestown pro shot is in theaters next weekend.

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The Corodon @thecorodon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

[The Odyssey, impressions, no spoilers] I liked it. More than Oppenheimer, but I wasn't so hot on Oppenheimer. It does a good job of the Odyssey, and the actors are all great. It's a very Christopher Nolan movie. It makes sure to say its Themes out loud, in simple language, at least once […]

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The Corodon @thecorodon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

Tomorrow: The Odyssey. Wish me luck. Will report back.

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The Corodon @thecorodon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

⚽ Welp, that game reminded me that I could stand to watch Rocky again.

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The Corodon @thecorodon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

This evening is both my only opportunity to train BJJ this week and predicted to be fully 100 degrees 😬

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The Corodon @thecorodon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

Yesterday was a cross-state road trip to help sell an inherited marble bust of young Augustus.

A marble bust of Octavian Caesar, partially robed in orange bubble wrap and secured by a seat belt in the back seat of a car. The picture is a screen grabfrom a text chat and accompanied by the message, "Haul Caesar."

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The Corodon @thecorodon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026

The scientists who finally figured out how bees stay in the air should investigate how window unit air conditioners stay in place, because I swear it always feels impossible.

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The Corodon @thecorodon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

Enjoying this new game at anthropeum.com where you guess the date and geographic origin of 10 artifacs from the Met collection. Let's just say I was way off about this one.

A painted image on an earthenware jar depicting a blue anthropomorphic wolf.

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The Corodon @thecorodon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026

Unsurprisingly, the Reddit thread was locked before I could finish writing my comment on how actually, Andor leaves plenty of room to critique accelerationism as a revolutionary strategy.

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The Corodon @thecorodon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

New resident cat Lita is still figuring out how things work around here. #Caturday

Lita the tortoiseshell calico cat looks skeptically at a dangling wand toy shaped like a rainbow colored piñata horse.

After some consideration, Lita decides to chew on the string holding up the colorful toy.

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The Corodon @thecorodon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026

The existence of billionaires implies the existence of sanguinaires, phlegmatinaires, and melancholaires.

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The Corodon @thecorodon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2026

I'd really like to buy tickets to the Pomplamoose show in Philadelphia, but I'm not sure if I want it as much as the website wants not to sell them to me.

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The Corodon @thecorodon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2026

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is the ideal hobby at this point in my life because I want to fight someone but I also want to lie down.

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The Corodon @thecorodon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 23/03/2026

Spotted in Philadelphia. Can't tell if the satire is intentional, but it tells a story.

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The Corodon @thecorodon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 21/03/2026

I wonder what dogs imagine God smells like.

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The Corodon @thecorodon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026

There's football today? Go Birds, I guess.

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The Corodon @thecorodon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 07/02/2026

Who's got no thumbs, one eye, and a clean PCR test for ringworm? This little guy. Ricardo was a hissy little scrunglefuzz when we got him but he's cleaned up and figured out that pets are nice. Almost ready to adopt! #Caturday

Ricardo in the same pose, but turned quizzically toward the camera. He only has one eye; his left eye is shut.

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The Corodon @thecorodon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 02/02/2026

[Urgent Philadelphia petition re: Sheriff Bilal and ICE] Folks in #Philadelphia, tomorrow at noon No ICE Philly will present this petition to Sheriff Bilal. She made the news recently taking a big game against ICE but she's not stopping them from snatching people in the courthouses, which is […]

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The Corodon @thecorodon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2026

Me: I think that's enough. Am I done shoveling? Shovel: I don't know about you but *I'm* done shoveling.

A snow shovel lying on the snow, with its aluminum handle bent at almost a 45-degree angle.

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The Corodon @thecorodon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/01/2026

Nothing reassures me about installing Linux on my main laptop than opening up my Windows 11 backup laptop.

A Windows 11 login screen. All the text is the wrong size and garbled. The text "Updates are underway" is partly displayed.

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The Corodon @thecorodon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 01/01/2026

Pippin's new year's resolution is to remain flawless.

Pippin the orange cat, curled up against a throw pillow on a brown couch, looking comfy and handsome.

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