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01 Jul 2025
America Has the Best, the Most Beautiful AlligatorsAlligator, Alligator Alcatraz, Donald Trump![]() 30 Jun 2025
An Important DifferenceEikophobia, The Elite![]()
29 Jun 2025
Gassenhauer [Popular Dance] nach [by] Hans Neusiedler (1536)Carl Orff, Gassenhauser, Hans Neusiedler![]() Commenter pfdr pointed out the similarity of a piece of music from Hans Zimmer’s soundtrack for “True Romance” (1993). I mentioned this to my wife, the family musicologist, who responded with this Wikipedia entry:
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Gen ZGen Z, Inadvertent Humor![]() Suzy Weiss complains on behalf of an entire hapless generation.
Gen Z has to be this f***** up because so many Baby Boomers were left-wing douchebags. 28 Jun 2025
Ladies Talk Salmon Fishing on the SpeyLady Caroline, River Spey, Salmon Fishing, Scotland![]()
24 Jun 2025
Canada Often Beats CaliforniaCanada, Official Idiocy, Wokerie, Šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmsəm Street![]()
24 Jun 2025
Johannistag"Die Meistersinger", Hagiography, Johannistag, Midsummer Day, St. John the Baptist, St. John's Day, Traditions![]()
From Chambers’ Book of Days, 1869: MIDSUMMER DAY – THE NATIVITY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST Considering the part borne by the Baptist in the transactions on which Christianity is founded, it is not wonderful that the day set apart for the observance of his nativity should be, in all ages and most parts of Europe, one of the most popular of religious festivals. It enjoys the greater distinction that it is considered as Midsummer Day, and therefore has inherited a number of observances from heathen times. These are now curiously mixed with those springing from Christian feelings, insomuch that it is not easy to distinguish them from the other. It is only clear, from their superstitious character, that they have been originally pagan. To use the quaint phrase of an old translator of Scaliger, they ‘form the footesteps of auncient gentility;’ that is, gentilism or heathenism. The observances connected with the Nativity of St. John commenced on the previous evening, called, as usual, the eve or vigil of the festival, or Midsummer eve. On that evening the people were accustomed to go into the woods and break down branches of trees, which they brought to their homes, and planted over their doors, amidst great demonstrations of joy, to make good the Scripture prophecy respecting the Baptist, that many should rejoice in his birth. This custom was universal in England till the recent change in manners. In Oxford there was a specialty in the observance, of a curious nature. Within the first court of Magdalen College, from a stone pulpit at one corner, a sermon was always preached on St. John’s Day; at the same time the court was embowered with green boughs, ‘that the preaching might resemble that of the Baptist in the wilderness.’ Towards night, materials for a fire were collected in a public place and kindled. To this the name of bonfire was given, a term of which the most rational explanation seems to be, that it was composed of contributions collected as boons, or gifts of social and charitable feeling. Around this fire the people danced with almost frantic mirth, the men and boys occasionally jumping through it, not to show their agility, but as a compliance with ancient custom. There can be no doubt that this leaping through the fire is one of the most ancient of all known superstitions, and is identical with that followed by Manasseh. We learn that, till a late period, the practice was followed in Ireland on St. John’s Eve. Read the rest of this entry » 24 Jun 2025
Cats Haven’t ChangedCats, Medieval Manuscripts![]()
The scribe was forced to leave the rest of the page empty, and drew a picture of a cat and cursed the creature with the following words: “Hic non defectus est, sed cattus minxit desuper nocte quadam. Confundatur pessimus cattus qui minxit super librum istum in nocte Daventrie, et consimiliter omnes alii propter illum. Et cavendum valde ne permittantur libri aperti per noctem ubi cattie venire possunt.” [There is nothing missing, but a cat urinated on it during a certain night. Cursed be the pesty cat that urinated over this book during the night in Deventer and because of it many others [other cats] too. And beware well not to leave open books at night where cats can come.] Cologne, Historisches Archiv, G.B. quarto, 249, fol. 68r 23 Jun 2025
O, Canada!Canada, Official Idiocy, Toronto![]()
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How Low Can NYC Go?Democrat Primary, New York City, Zohran Mamdani![]()
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