Remembering James Doohan on his Birthday, born March 3rd, 1920. #StarTrek #JamesDoohan

Remembering Karen Carpenter on her birthday, born March 2nd, 1950. #BOTD #KarenCarpenter #LeadSister #TheCarpenters

Some railwayana for #StainedglassSunday.

“Full many a glorious morning have I seen ... ” ~ Sonnet XXXIII. #ShakespeareSunday #TomAndJerry

“ ... we each new hatch'd unfledged!” ~ Hamlet (A1,S3). #ShakespeareSunday

“ ... for the season bids us prepare.” ~ Richard III (A5,S3). #ShakespeareSunday

"All right," said William. "Come on, my ole varlets. Let us haste with all speed, gadzooks, to do the gunpowder plot." ~ William Carries On (1942), Richmal Crompton. #BookWormSat #JustWilliam #40s

“Ah, how oft we read or hear of Boys we almost stand in fear of!” 📚Wilhelm Busch, Max and Moritz - A Rascal Story in Seven Tricks (Original illustrations by W.Busch, 1865 English version from the 1871 edition of C.T. Brooks) #BookWormSat #mischiefmakers

"This is my lucky day," Bugs said. "I can feel it in my bones. Guess I'll stroll over to Elmer Fudd's and help him with his garden. Those carrots should be ready to eat." ~ Bugs Bunny Hangs Around (1957), Nancy Hoag. #BookWormSat

Legendary Singer and Songwriter Neil Sedaka has passed away at the age of 86. Rest in Peace. #NeilSedaka #RestInPeace #TracksOfMyYears

Ghosts, old houses, and a mystery to solve from Gladstone comics back in 1986. Mickey Mouse issues 219, 220, and 221 which contained the three part story 'The Seven Ghosts'. #PhantomsFriday

Still raining, outside and in.☔ #Weather #Aimsir

“The Nile Flood had retired” (H.C. Andersen) 🎨 W. Heath Robinson #wyrdwednesday #goldenageofillustration #booksky #bookillustration

#WyrdWednesday “New Hopes, New Beginnings & Renewals!” After the destruction of Ragnarök a man and a woman survive. Líf & Lífþrasir repopulate the new world.

A young woman wakes up from being dead, and must now find who murdered her. The story unfolded in Terry Moore’s Rachel Rising. #WyrdWednesday #RachelRising

Remembering Pete Duel on his birthday, born February 24th 1940. #PeteDuel #BOTD

South Pacific on TCM. #FlicksOfMyYears

This made me smile, important connections being made. #BéalFeirste #Belfast #Grianghrafadóireacht #Photography

What a fantastic #ShakespeareSunday this week. So many terrific contributions to look through. Thank you @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

"How many score of miles may we well ride 'Twixt hour and hour?" ~ Cymbeline (A3,S2). #ShakespeareSunday #WayOutWest

"Give me my boots, I say; saddle my horse." ~ Richard II (A5,S2). #ShakespeareSunday #HarveyComics

"High crest, short ears, straight legs and passing strong, Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide ... " ~ Venus and Adonis (A1,S1). #ShakespeareSunday #70s

Happy Birthday Kyle MacLachlan, born February 22nd, 1959. #KyleMacLachlan #BOTD

“And know not now what name to call myself!” ~ Richard II (A4,S1). #ShakespeareSunday #America

"The truth will come to light. Murder can't be hidden for long." ~ The Merchant of Venice (A2,S2). #ShakespeareSunday #Troy

“Mounted upon a hot and fiery steed, which his aspiring rider seem'd to know.” ~ Richard II (A5,S2). #ShakespeareSunday #Film

“I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat; But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world’s eyes As though they’d wrought it ... ” ~ Coat (1914), William Butler Yeats. #BookWormSat

“ ... I cannot urge or beg you to pray for anyone or anything, for prayer in this green island is tarnished with stale breath, worn smooth and characterless as an old flagstone ... ” ~ Neither an Elegy nor a Manifesto (1972), John Hewitt. #BookWormSat

“ ... He rooted out tall tops, buried the bright edge deep To scatter new potatoes that we picked, Loving their cool hardness in our hands. By God, the old man could handle a spade. Just like his old man ... ” ~ Digging (1966), Seamus Heaney. #BookWormSat

I attended this at the MAC Belfast yesterday, a reimagining of an exhibition lost to the 1948 Nakba. Highly recommended. #Art #Belfast

Bovril beef and yeast extract was first introduced in 1886, apparently it is a popular drink to heat one's spirits on a chilly afternoon or evening. #PhantomsFriday #Advertising #1930s

Happy Birthday Rihanna, born February 20th, 1988. #Rihanna #BOTD

Remembering Sidney Poitier on his birthday, born February 20th, 1927. #SidneyPoitier #BOTD

This was the final double sized issue of Marvel-Two-In-One when The Thing shared the comic with Ben Grimm. The title lasted from 1974 to 1983, and clocked up 100 issues. But it wasn't the end yet as he returned in his own title The Thing. #WyrdWednesday #MarvelComics #80s

New #PositivelyTrek! Dan, Brandi and Barry discuss “Come, Let’s Away,” episode 6 of #StarTrekStarfleetAcademy! #StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy #podcast www.positivelytrek.com/tiny-firefli...

“If music be the food of love, play on; 
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, 
The appetite may sicken, and so die. 
That strain again! it had a dying fall.” Twelfth Night #ShakespeareSunday #DoctorWho

#ShakespeareSunday The sugar'd game before thee. Timon of Athens [IV, 3] #chocolate

As sweet as balm, as soft as air. Antony and Cleopatra (5.2) #ShakespeareSunday

“So am I as the rich, whose blessed key can bring him to his sweet up-locked treasure.” ~ Sonnet LII. #ShakespeareSunday #TracksOfMyYears

Valentine's Night the rain returns to Belfast.☔ #Weather #Aimsir #Belfast #BéalFeirste

(stage directions) [Drawing a dagger] ~ Antony and Cleopatra (S5,S2). #ShakespeareSunday #Chocolate

'Come, musicians, play. A hall, a hall. Give room, and foot it, girls." ~ Romeo and Juliet (A1,S5) #ShakespeareSunday #TomTomClub

"The sight of lovers feedeth those in love." ~ As You Like It (A3,S4). #ShakespeareSunday #ChildhoodMemories

“Our revels now are ended ... and are melted into air, into thin air!” ~ The Tempest (A4,S1). #ShakespeareSunday #Chocolate

‘ your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers, you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose ‘ 📕 E.E.Cummings, somewhere i have never travelled ⬇️E.Munch, The Heart (woodcut) #BookWormSat #poetry #love

"Murder, I have often noticed, is a great matchmaker." A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie (1936) #BookWormSat #ValentinesDay

“I am my lover’s and he desires me. Come my darling, let us go out into the fields and spend the night in the villages. Let us wake early and go to the vineyards and see if the vine is in blossom.” Song of Songs #BookWormSat 🖼️ = Andrew Dasburg

#BookWormSat "I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you." E M Forster - Maurice

"Saturday Night’s Alright ..."🎶 Earlier this evening. #UlsterOrchestra #EltonJohn

“It's about time”, she said to herself, drawing a valentine around The Personal with her black eyeliner. ~ Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Susan Dworkin, based on a screenplay by Leora Barish. #BookWormSat #80s