OK, who wants to do a group reading of the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass in February? Let me know if you’d like to be added to the list. Then post with #log or the 🌿 emoji. 📖 🐳

It’s interesting. I mentioned to a few work friends and acquaintances that I didn’t know were into reading that I was doing a group read with a BlueSky book club and SO many were very interested. I’ve breaks is strange ways sometimes. 📖

As a nearly 40 year consumer of Norton Critical Edition books I might never recover from this honor. :-) @nortoncriticals.bsky.social 📖 🐳

Took a 20 min break this morning and made a big batch of chicken chili with black beans and Jiffy Cornbread. Once 12 noon hits it is all over for you bitches.

Some famous comedian: If you are ever wondering who in your relationship is "in charge" then the next time you get up to turn off the bedroom light, look back at the bed and THAT is who is in charge. :-)

I broke the string in a mala bracelet in my office about 3 weeks ago and my cats keep finding 'one more' of the beads to play with. The sound of a bead rolling around on the floor now haunts my dreams.

I'd love to see a short experiment here at Bluesky where they allow Rich Text in posts just to see how long it took for everyone to start using all bold so their posts stand out.

My wife’s dog looks like an out of costume cast member from Muppet Christmas Carol.

My most underrated skeet. I’m realistic. Most of my “clever” posts are borderline at best but this one was an all timer that never got its due respect.

I have to say that once I heard about Moby and Natalie Portman I can’t read the words “Moby Dick” without thinking “Moby is a Dick.” 🐳📖

I wasn’t quite ready for how poetic Melville’s language was. When I tried to read Moby Dick as a kid it just seemed “old fashioned” but now it has what can only be an intentional lyricism. 🐳📖

Menu from Sourdough Lil’s in Westport WA, which was a whaling port at one time. This is from the mid 1970s. The Dick Ultican in the story on the back cover was my grandfathers uncle. Good news ladies, you could smoke here while you enjoyed a $3 salmon and a cup of Sanka! :-) 🐳

OK. The group feed is setup and ready to go for February. Let me know if you'd like to be added. "A child said, What is the grass? Fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child?... I do not know what it is any more than he." - Song of Myself 📖

This feed is for the February Group Read of the 1855 edition of Whitman's Leaves of Grass. Reply to this post or contact me to be added to the list that allows you to post to the feed. Im allowing several days for the longer poems. bsky.app/profile/did:... Tag posts with 🌿 or #log

Hey, who remembers Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH? It was a read-a-long book I read with our teachers in 4th or 5th grade and then I read it to each of my (now adult) kids when they were like 7. Reading that book to a kid is an amazing thing to watch. Their feelings are right there on their faces.📖

I have to say Melville has so perfectly captured my life long feelings about sleeping in a cold room but with heavy blankets that I think I have never felt more 'seen' by a book in my life. People always looked at me oddly when I mention it but here, finally, is literary vindication! 🐳 #MonthofDick

I just ordered the Norton Critical Edition. I have a nice cloth bound copy but the Norton Critical is very good about explanatory notes and contains reviews and other essays. 🌿

If someone else in the group knows this person you might let them know that their settings are such that people in the group cannot reply? 🐳 to answer their question: I see 'them' as a placeholder for ANYONE that talks about preferring warm climates. Ismael wants to generate his own heat. :-)

OK. The Month of Dick is off and running so I thought I'd check interest about a Leaves of Grass group for next month. Im thinking the shorter, 1855 version with a schedule that looks something like the image below. I was thinking the name could be something like "Walt's Lawn and Landscaping"🌿 📖🐳

I have finally curated my block list subscriptions and block words to the point where if I dont go on the 'Discover' feed I see almost nothing terrible on Bluesky. I see only art, literature, photography, etc. I dont come here to get upset. I come here to relax.

I love how Melville, in the first 5 chapters of 🐳 Moby Dick, invents Abstract Expressionist Painting and lays the groundwork for socialism all while doing everything short of just saying his two main characters are gay.

🐋🐳 Reminder that I have uploaded this to add the Month of Dick to your Outlook or Google calendars as recurring daily events with the day's chapters. Note: There is an error on TODAY's event where it says to read 3-5. It should have been 3-4. :-)

“It’s not down on any map, true places never are.” - Moby Dick chapter 12 That’s a line that is going to stick with me. 10 words that explode into a constellation of metaphors and feelings.

I created a feed meant to scoop up Jane Austen related posts. 📖 #bsbookclub #booksky

So, we all know about the Month of Dick 🐳 but what's next after that? Are there any similar ones set for February? 📖 #booksky #bsbookclub

OK. This is my first read of Moby Dick so I have to just say that if we get to the end and Ishmael wakes up in bed next to Suzanne Pleshette I'm going to be a little disappointed. 🐳🐋 #MD

Im guessing Melville wasn’t accepting any literary awards from the New Bedford visitors bureau. LOL #md 🐳🐋

I just watched Paul Thomas Anderson's "One Battle After Another." WOW. What a bonkers movie. I mean that was just amazing, and crazy, and good and weird and weird and also WEIRD! But so good.

Treat yourself in the new year. Buy some amazing art!

I’m buying something from an infomercial just to Ron Popeil something.

“In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at every frontier.” - Herman Melville 🐳🐋 #MD

I just watched a trucker use his compression brake going UP HILL. Came to an almost complete stop and blocked traffic while he ground gears trying to get going again. I think they will literally give CDLs to anyone now.

This is a very cool edition of Moby Dick. It footnotes a LOT of the more obscure words and phrases and includes several reviews, biographical sketches and papers that discuss the themes and such. 🐳#md #booksky

I have uploaded the .ics file for this series of Events to dropbox in a shared folder. #booksky #md 🐋

Just converted the 'Month of Dick' reading schedule into Outlook All Day Events. LETS GOOOO!!!! 🐋 #MD #MobyDick

No. It’s not LIKE getting 6 months free. It IS getting 6 months free. Why do marketing people seem to not have to be acquainted with words anymore?

I hate that we live in a society where pedestrians routinely give drivers a “thank you” wave for stopping at a stop sign and that this behavior is SO ubiquitous that some drivers get pissy when you DON’T wave.

Ate a hot dog on a NYC street corner next to Tony Shaloub while he also ate a hot dog. Made eye contact a few times. As I finished I told him I was a fan. He thanked me for not making a fuss as nobody else had clocked him yet. Nice guy

I’m doing the Month of Dick reading group! The day schedule makes me feel like it’s possible. Ahoy! 🐳 #booksky #md

I’m dealing with a Reserve Oh, Hello!

Cool. I’m part of the landed gentry making end meet on a yearly income of $1.5 million as the book I’m reading is Pride and Prejudice. LOL

I've created a Feed for things pertaining to Jane Austen. It will show you all posts from the last 7 days that contain Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility #janeausten #prideandprejudice #senseandsensibility #booksky

It’s nuts to me that Goodreads allows people to give star ratings to books that haven’t been published yet. #booksky

Not a bad year for books! 29 books and 25,473 pages! #booksky

Cats are just house otters.

I’m 60 pages into Pride and Prejudice and am very disappointed that society was so good at pigeon-holing it as “chic lit.” Maybe I’m just more open to things as I’m aging but this shit is REALLY good!!! I just ordered the Norton Critical editions of the rest of Austen’s books! #booksky

It’s crazy to me that Safeway have men that doing the shopping for their delivery service that have very obviously never 1. Cooked food 2. Taken a math class If I ask for 3 1pound ground chicken please don’t give me 3 2pound ground beef.

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Cats are just house otters.