in lieu of a gift link, i'm offering a bare-bones version of my story Artemis, which originally appeared in Exacting Clam. just go to ulricahume.com/story-time/ and enter the password "readme"

An Enemy of the People 1990 Satyajit Ray from an Ibsen. Jaws without a shark, cinematography of Welcome Back Kotter, Prisoner Cell Block H level polemics… yet w RFKj, Cassidy et al still relevant, & Ray qualities still pop up some

Mallard Wallpaper

& The Best Painting in Princeton goes to Phillippe de Champaigne for The Visitation 1648

Evening Goose Report: Victoria maybe feels the six babies jiggling so stands up a bit. Nicholas in the stream. Ugo across from Giuliana. Bonnie & Clyde on the other side of the old bridge in the canal

Gondor’s White Tree blossoming

Nicholas up on the stone rampart & sympathetically matching his neck rest to Victoria’s

Mallard Wallpaper

Next up: The Complete Fiction of David Foster Wallace, including the uncollected stories “The Planet Trillaphon As It Stands In Relation to The Bad Thing,” “Other Math,” “Solomon Silverfish,” “Crash of 69,” “Order and Flux in Northampton,” segment of “The Flexicon” & “All That”.

Ugo pretty far from Giuliana resting on the nest. He crossed the path headed for a gate to the big field but passed under a split rail, outlaw style

Nicholas up on the stone rampart & sympathetically matching his neck rest to Victoria’s

Monet so cavalier with the white… oh wait… it’s a reflection of trees & flowering bushes in a canal

2 rock doves on concrete lookout perches. The one on the right is Elmer questing to become the Uberpigeon

Mother Goose Victoria nesting in the rain

2 rock doves on concrete lookout perches. The one on the right is Elmer questing to become the Uberpigeon

Monet so cavalier with the white… oh wait… it’s a reflection of trees & flowering bushes in a canal

& The Best Painting in Princeton goes to Phillippe de Champaigne for The Visitation 1648

Princeton Raven who seemed very comfortable w passerby

Mother Goose Victoria nesting in the rain

Princeton Raven who seemed very comfortable w passerby

Princeton’s Fra Angelico’s Jerome… crazy red top hat colorformed in (as if Fra channeled Titian that future colorform master) 2nd best painting in the museum (first to be posted later(!)) #frafriday +1

Oh you lost god! You unending trace! Only because at last enmity rent and scattered you are we now the hearers and a mouth of Nature. —Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus Cy Twombly, Orpheus, 1979 Rilke was his favourite poet, & a major inspiration for his painting.

Claire Denis shot looking down at Juliette Binoche who is looking up (at Claire Denis most likely)

Weekend & Day 3 Nabokov Conference Dance!!!

Beach and Boats c.1830-1845 ~ JMW Turner

Another day and another amazing experience with this beautiful male Western Black-eared Wheatear. One of my favourite Spanish birds. #birds #birdoftheday #birdsseenin2026 #birdphotography #birding #naturephotography

Rainy Day Waiting for Hatching w Cigars Goose Report. Victoria on nest w Nicholas in stream. Giuliana solo shot on nest pointed away. Ugo appeared on my second pass; he loves the big rocks & empty parking area. Bonnie & Clyde camo chomping plants canalside.

I cast an 11th level fireball on a tennis ball Tom Seaver’d way up but must have got the spell wrong. Still no sun here & my ball rolled into the weeds

Weekend & Day 3 Nabokov Conference Dance!!!

Claire Denis shot looking down at Juliette Binoche who is looking up (at Claire Denis most likely)

Titian did things with Colorforms we haven’t seen since. Perseus & Andromeda at the Wallace Collection London

Titian playing colorforms in 1520, places Bacchus in a ridiculously cool spot & heads for a bowl of Lucky Charms

Colorforms Resurrection Set. Love where Titian stuck everybody

Princeton’s Fra Angelico’s Jerome… crazy red top hat colorformed in (as if Fra channeled Titian that future colorform master) 2nd best painting in the museum (first to be posted later(!)) #frafriday +1

Joseph Cornell, American artist and film maker, and one of the pioneers and most celebrated exponents of assemblage. Home, poor heart, 1960 #JosephCornell #Surrealism #Assemblage

1st Edition Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, Princeton Library Collection

Jumpy, just remember all of this is an illusion

Clyde paddling to Bonnie. The outlaws then climbed the bank to check out nest possibilities

Hansel & Gretel cover for double live album Ate the House & Lived to Quack

Daily Goose Report: Frodo says eggs are late in hatching. Giuliana & Victoria say goslings arrive exactly when they mean to. Ugo & Nicholas afloat listening

Hansel & Gretel cover for double live album Ate the House & Lived to Quack

Clyde paddling to Bonnie. The outlaws then climbed the bank to check out nest possibilities

Jumpy, just remember all of this is an illusion

Princeton’s Avolokiteshvara being infinitely chill with compassion since 1250

Wavelets of fire, and pale phosphorescent hints Photo of Vladimir Nabokov getting ready to teach lit:

like a convalescent receiving her first breeze (Lispector tr Entrekin). CL in the Simone Weil saint-writer category, maybe Nabokov, Conrad, Sebald stranger in strange land. On not fitting, she speaks to me

Egon Schiele, Sleeping Woman (detail) (gouache, watercolor and pencil drawing, 1912)

Bits of David’s study for Death of Socrates. 1787. Princeton Art Museum