Some exciting personal news: The Golem of Havana (music by Salomon Lerner, book by Michel Hausmann and lyrics by me) returns to Miami New Drama fromJan 28 to Feb 28 in a new, freshly conceived production directed by Michel!

The Golem of Havana, 10th Anniversary Production - Miami New Drama

JAN 28 – FEB 28, 2027: A young girl. A mythical protector. A revolution no one could stop. Set in late-1950s Havana, 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙂𝙤𝙡𝙚𝙢 𝙤𝙛 𝙃𝙖𝙫𝙖𝙣𝙖 is a sweeping original musical set in 1950s Havana, blending Je...

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Minute Cryptic - 5 August, 2026 "Big fans of bananas eat "boring grapes"" (5,4) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (125,115 solvers so far). www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...

Ah, what could have been...

Art of the Squeal

Ivan the K ™@ivanthek.bsky.social · 2d ago

Heh.

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Aug 3rd 2026 (Easy), in less than 8 minutes 🟩🟠🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

Clues by Sam

A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

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Lincoln Flood Apollo 18

Mia Murphy 🏳️‍⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d ago

What's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)

The Seven Percent Solution is such a cool, brilliantly cast piece of fanfic.

Checks out…

Stop Calling Me Frank@stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 5d ago

You have a month to write a 33 1/3 book about the album of your choice. Which record are you going to write about? (No previously covered albums allowed; new shit must come to light: see below.) (For all books in the series: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_1/3) (H/t @monostich.bsky.social

The Odyssey (2026)

Molly Jong-Fast@mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 5d ago

Troy!

Mary Norton's later books really got into the weeds.

NPR@npr.org · 5d ago

The borrowers say they were defrauded by their colleges, but the class-action lawsuit to erase their federal student loans has been tangled up in courts for years. n.pr/4fEgpWM

Anyone from Sullivan County NY knows what's going on here?

Gregor Samosa@lenschiff.bsky.social · 6d ago

This restaurant in Monticello NY. I got breakfast sandwiches there once. For the rest of that time, I've never seen another soul there. yelp.to/m_FwdSo2hl

🎶Budapest Airport In the heart of Hungaria Samplin' the tokajs Stressing out about delays🎶

I admit i know nothing about fashion but what's up with Nike Trotters?

finally, the Democratic party has a plan.

A thread on special editions, luxury books, and publishing history: In 1903, J. M. Dent created Everyman’s Library, intended as a cheap line of hardbacks to make a classical education accessible as mass literacy rates were on the rise.

Budapest. Next to us at the pastry shop, a skinny 20 yo with a huge beard and waxed mustache is absolutely HOUSING fruit tarts and slices of cake, one after the other, because NOBODY CAN STOP HIM.

Minute Cryptic - 29 July, 2026 "Pilot, lost from geographical misprint, lands at sea" (11) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 3 under the community par (94,513 solvers so far). www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...

Nancy 7/28/26

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Tal Lavin@swordsjew.bsky.social · last wk.

just found out that a 17th century book of jewish folktales features an adaptation of the french werewolf epic bisclavret, but in this version the werewolf is a rabbi. AND the internet archive has it

Alan Moore & Bill Sienkiewicz, during the promotional efforts for Big Numbers.

Not saying anything here, but Wallace Stevens is trending on Kalshi

Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.

Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now

In a similar vein

Laurel Krahn@windowseat.bsky.social · last wk.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains.

I feel so seen

Salzburg you're freakin me out.

Confusing

It took going to Salzberg to find where I belong.

This utter muppet of a conservative Canadian politician in New Brunswick forgot to remove the LLM text from his floor speech and read it out loud.

Name Of Rose: Man with Magnifying Goggles

ALT: Name Of Rose: Man with Magnifying Goggles

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Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies@sims-mss.bsky.social · 2w ago

Today's manuscript is a 15th c. copy of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, translated by Leonardo Bruni Aretino with introduction and dedication. The original first two leaves are missing and the text was later replaced on an added bifolium. (UPenn Ms. Codex 760) #medievalsky 🔗 https://bit.ly/3TeMiO2