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Juliet Clark @thenagain.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This is a nice article but I'm very disappointed to learn that the Bat Lord is not the new caretaker of the Cloisters. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/a...

New York Times headline reading "A Bat Lord Has Landed at the Cloisters. He'll Be Its Caretaker."

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Ray Davis @pseudopodium.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Prof. Christopher M. Sterba explained how #elcerrito turned out sane & livable in "Taming the Wild West in the Late 1940s: Suburban Progressives in the San Francisco Bay Area". He's kindly given permission to share the article: www.pseudopodium.org/repress/shor...

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Juliet Clark @thenagain.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I enjoyed this except that it caused me to peer through my fingers at Nextdoor and be met with fresh screeds railing against "The C People" like something out of The Odyssey

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

James Thurber, The Years with Ross.

Text:

BoB BENCHLEY sat down at a table in Tony's
one night, before the unlamented death of Prohibition, and found himself in the midst of a discussion about the comparative unendurability of writers and artists. Someone asked, "If two ships were sailing from New York tonight, one filled with writers and the other with artists, which would you get on?"
"Do I have to get on either one of them?" Benchley asked.
I told it to Ross the next day and he said, "You and Benchley don't know what you're talking about. You don't know how easy your life is. I have to get on both ships every goddam day."

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Juliet Clark @thenagain.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Back in 2003 when I had the good fortune of working on this series, Wiseman's career was already monumental, and that was before he made another dozen movies. bampfa.org/program/fred... (A website "upgrade" left this archived page in ruins but I'm sharing anyway in a moment of nostalgic weakness)

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Frederick Wiseman

“Social reality is infinitely more complicated than ideology. There's no reason a documentary film shouldn't be as complex and subtle as a good novel.”-Frederick Wiseman Frederick Wiseman is not only ...

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Juliet Clark @thenagain.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Can't stop thinking about the two words my grandparents used over and over to describe the German forces in Vienna in spring 1938: “lächerlich” and “teuflisch.” Laughable and diabolical. Ridiculous and fiendish.

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Juliet Clark @thenagain.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Day 15: Evening #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025 The Kinks, "Waterloo Sunset" Chilly, chilly is the evening time Waterloo sunset's fine youtu.be/2dbEZIq-LkI?...

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The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset (Official Audio)

YouTube video by The Kinks

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Juliet Clark @thenagain.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Day 11: Coat #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025 Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys, "Stay a Little Longer" Pull off your coat, throw it in the corner Don't see why you don't stay a little longer youtu.be/KZBVAGBYPos?...

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Stay All Night (Stay A Little Longer)

YouTube video by Bob Wills - Topic

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Juliet Clark @thenagain.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Day 8: Rest #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025 Billie Holiday, "All of Me" You took the best, so why not take the rest? youtu.be/5J18k5Sx3Dw?...

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Billie Holiday - All of Me (Official Audio)

YouTube video by BillieHolidayVEVO

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Juliet Clark @thenagain.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

(I know the Chantels version has already been posted, but this is the one that sticks in my head!)

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Juliet Clark @thenagain.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Day 3: Fist #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025 Scrawl, "Take a Swing" You’re talking big So you can save face Show me your fists Put me in my place youtu.be/XYQrcQB4ek4?...

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Take A Swing

YouTube video by Scrawl - Topic

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Juliet Clark @thenagain.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Day 1: Nothing #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025 The Happenings, "I Believe in Nothing" Perhaps tomorrow I'll believe in something . . . youtu.be/4D1NP4YG7i4?...

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I Believe in Nothing

YouTube video by The Happenings - Topic

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Juliet Clark @thenagain.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

@pseudopodium.bsky.social and I did this recently and can agree it's apropos

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Juliet Clark @thenagain.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Put Baby In Pelican Mouth. no problems ever in peliccan mouth

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Juliet Clark @thenagain.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Unearthed my immigrant grandpa's union badge from the WWII shipyards to mark the day

Badge from A F of L Local 681, Welders & Burners, 1942

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Dorothy @catandgirl.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Eight years ago, continued "Triangle of Life"

Cat: What makes a life worthwhile?

Girl: Improving OTHER lives.

Cat: What makes those lives worthwhile?
Girl: Working for other lives' comfort. Working for other lives' meaning

Cat: What makes those lives worthwhile?
Girl: Working to allow other lives to DETERMINE and ESTABLISH their own dignity.

Cat: What makes those lives worthwhile?
Girl: Working to make the world a BETTER PLACE for ALL people and animals and plants and minerals

Cat: What makes those lives worthwhile?
Girl: Holding back the HOWLING VOID

Cat: Still sounds like a ponzi scheme
Girl: We just need to find the next sucker

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Juliet Clark @thenagain.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Getting Rid of What's Buggin' You (Unless It's an Unplanned Pregnancy), Chillicothe, MO

Two billboards in Chillicothe, Missouri: one for a pest control agency with the tagline "Getting Rid of What's Buggin' You," the other for a Birthright anti-abortion center

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Juliet Clark @thenagain.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Thanks, my inbox was sorely lacking in overwhelm

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Juliet Clark @thenagain.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Sunday evening in line at the Trader Joe's near the college campus. Van Halen comes on the sound system. Student 1: I kinda like this, what is it? Student 2: I think Nirvana?

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Juliet Clark @thenagain.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Come for the Midnight Mass, stay for the Liebestod

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Juliet Clark @thenagain.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

I love to imagine unprepared moviegoers going to see a Christmas movie starring Deanna Durbin and Gene Kelly and finding themselves trapped in this sordid hallucination. youtu.be/sBVWLwwkt3I?...

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Christmas Holiday 1944

YouTube video by Screamin Munkee

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Juliet Clark @thenagain.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Took a family member to the hospital last week and found the surgical reception area completely decked out in Grinch merch. Just the thing to make patients feel at ease before going under the knife.

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Howard Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social · 26/12/2023

At that awkward age between being born and dying.

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Juliet Clark @thenagain.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I've learned a lot by studying my grandparents' archives from 1930s Austria, but perhaps the most important lesson is that Putzi the cat's favorite food was banana

Black-and-white photo of a fluffy cat sitting on a tapestry chair, nibbling on a peeled banana held by someone outside the frame

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Don’t forget to vote (for your six fave Gold Diggers of 1933)!

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Juliet Clark @thenagain.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

Day 3: Try #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2024 Ed’s Redeeming Qualities, “A Little Thing” I'll love his bathtub Trying to improve my home It's just a little thing I'm asking He doesn't trust me since I don't have a phone www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVoF...

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A Little Thing

YouTube video by Ed's Redeeming Qualities - Topic

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Juliet Clark @thenagain.bsky.social · 18/04/2024

If only all nonprofit job listings were this honest

Screen shot from a job listing stating "Candidates must understand that the remuneration for this position is not commensurate with the amount or demands of the work involved."

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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 23/03/2024

Shouting, "That's the last straw!" while straws continue to pour down onto me with undiminished fury

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Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

What a titanic force in film scholarship we have lost with the passing of David Bordwell. He was among the first to see the potential of blogging, and he used it to spread his love of film as art. And no one was kinder to fledgling writers. Deepest condolences to Kristin Thompson and his family.

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 17/02/2024

If you visited Paris in the early 20th century your guidebook would tell you where to go to visit the studios of artists, including Whistler—described as an elegant & penetrating portraitist—and when to go as well. The sculptor Rodin received visitors on Saturdays

A list of artists' studios in Paris in the early 20th century, including those of Rodin & Whistler

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Ray Davis @pseudopodium.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

Terry Bisson's voice: www.pseudopodium.org/ht-20230620....

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Juliet Clark @thenagain.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

Last-minute gift idea from the Third Man Museum, Vienna

Cardboard box with text: "the 3rd man Junior ZITHER / A WONDERFUL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT THAT ANYONE CAN PLAY"

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