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collected anne carson: pdf

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Random mansion generator

The Procgen Mansion Generator produces large three-dee dwellings to toy with your imagination, offering various architectural styles and other options. Each mansion even comes with floorplans:

https://boingboing.net/2019/07/12/random-mansion-generator.html

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— CZESŁAW MIŁOSZ, “Encounter”, trans. Czesław Miłosz & Lillian Vallee.

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my favourite lesbian poems:

joan larkin, want

kitty tsui, breathless

donna allegra, stilled life

suniti namjoshi, i give her the rose

elizabeth bishop, insomnia

jackie kay, her

karen brodine, driving home

dorothy allison, a woman like the ocean

stacey waite, fixing my voice

becky birtha, how i became a lesbian

kristin chang, a postcolonial portrait of the girl loving a girl

deborah a. miranda, marriage proposal

janice gould, blackbirds

adrienne rich, paul becker to clara westhoff

adrienne rich, twenty-one love poems

natalie diaz, these hands, if not gods

natalie diaz, if I should come upon your house lonely in the west texas desert

natalie diaz, i watch her eat the apple

sappho 31, trans carson

sappho 16

chrystos, crooning

carol ann duffy, warming her pearls

tamai tobayashi, for lola

leah horlick, levitating

mita radhakrishnan, self-love or i love myself when i am laughing and when i am eating pussy

mary coleridge, the witch

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That time Paul McCartney stole a London street sign (probably)

Whilst perusing this photo set, my attention was caught by the street sign in the background, fixed to the wall:

The sign says Wellington Road NW; this road runs parallel to Cavendish Ave.

So at first I thought he and Heather were somewhere out on Wellington Road, but this didn't make sense: there are no places to swim (except the canal at the southeast end of Wellington, but, gross), and anyway Heather's wearing a nightgown. But as I looked more closely, I realized the photos were actually taken (by Linda, I assume, perhaps in 1969) the backyard of his house at Cavendish. The crappy paving stones and the multicolor brick wall match other photos at roughly the same time:

Note also the railing and steps, which match the fifth photo of Paul with his leg up.

But where did the sign come from?

These street signs were and are ubiquitous in Westminster. The original signs (installed in the 1950s) are cast iron and use the Crown Estate’s gilted crown emblem and relief lettering in a serif font. They look like this (note the Cavendish Place sign in this lot!):

In 1967, they started replacing them with a new style of sign, designed by Sir Misha Black. From this article:

If you ask most people what the typical London street sign looks like, they will probably describe something that looks very like the classic Westminster design: white enamel with neat black lettering and the postal district in red, then the name of borough in red across the bottom, all in sans serif. This classic and copyrighted design – many genuine examples of which are currently being auctioned online by Catherine Southon Auctioneers – feels historic but was in fact conceived as recently as 1967 by Misha Black’s Design Research Unit. Black was commissioned by Westminster City Council to design a simple and striking template that would replace the existing anarchic street sign policy – which he did with great success.

Here's the new Wellington Road sign:

The old Wellington Road sign ended up in Paul's backyard sometime after 1967. I think he must have seen it on the side of the road and picked it up while he was walking around, or fished it out of a skip. Or maybe he straight up nicked it while they were doing the sign replacement. Who can say?

I'd love to know how long he kept it fixed to the wall.

In conclusion, Paul McCartney stole a street sign (I think).

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DOWNLOAD: BEATLES BOOKS AND CLIPPINGS

Making a change from the Buckingham Nicks and Fleetwood Mac stuff I usually post, lol. I thought I’d upload these for anyone interested - not many of my followers, I know, but hopefully it’ll be seen in the right tags.

Basically, these aren’t my favourite Beatles books by any means but these are the ones I have a digital copy of. I’ve also included many, many uploads of magazine scans I bought off eBay years ago, as well as some other magazine PDFs I have, and the digipaks/booklets from The Beatles remasters in 2009.

Beatles Books Babiuk, Andy - Beatles Gear: All the Fab Four’s Instruments from Stage to Studio [2002] (PDF) Berman, Garry - We’re Going To See The Beatles [2008] (PDF) Brown, Peter - The Love You Make [1983] (EPUB) Charles, Paul - Pocket Essential Series: The Beatles [2003] (PDF) Clayson, Alan & Leigh, Spencer - The Walrus Was Ringo: 101 Beatles Myths Debunked [2003] (PDF) Coleman, Ray - Yesterday and Today [1995] (EPUB) Davies, Hunter - The Beatles [4th ed. 2009] (EPUB) Doggett, Peter - You Never Give Me Your Money [2009] (EPUB) (PDF) Ellis, Geoffrey - I Should Have Known Better: A Life in Pop Management [2005] (PDF) Emerick, Geoff - Here, There & Everywhere [2006] (EPUB) (MOBI) (PDF) Everett, Walter - Revolver Through The Anthology [1999] (PDF) Everett, Walter - The Quarry Men Through Rubber Soul [2001] (PDF) Frontani, Michael R. - The Beatles: Image and Media [2007] (PDF) Gambaccini, Paul - Paul McCartney: In His Own Words [1976] (EPUB) Gutman, David & Thomson, Elizabeth - The Lennon Companion [2004] (PDF) Harry, Bill - The British Invasion: How The Beatles and Other UK Bands Conquered America [2004] (PDF) Kane, Larry - When They Were Boys [2013] (EPUB) Lennon, Cynthia - John [2005] (PDF) Lennon, John - In His Own Write [1964] (PDF) Lewisohn, Mark - Beatles Recording Sessions [1988] (PDF) Lewisohn, Mark - The Complete Beatles Chronicle [1992] (PDF) Lewisohn, Mark - Tune In: All These Years 1 [2013] (EPUB) (MOBI) McMillian, John - Beatles vs. Stones [2013] (MOBI) Miles, Barry - Many Years From Now [1997] (EPUB) Moore, Allan F.  - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band [1997] (PDF) Newman, Ray - Abracadabra: The Complete Story of Revolver [2006] (PDF) Norman, Philip - John Lennon: The Life [2008] (EPUB) (MOBI) (PDF) O’Donnell, Jim - The Day John Met Paul: An Hour by Hour Account [2006] (PDF) Ono, Yoko - Memories of John Lennon [2005] (EPUB) (PDF) Pascall, Jeremy - Paul McCartney and Wings [1977] (EPUB) Pedler, Dominic - The Songwriting Secrets of The Beatles [2010] (PDF) Robertson, John - The Complete Guide to the Music of The Beatles [1994] (PDF) Rodriguez, Robert & Krantz, Les - The Beatles: Fifty Fabulous Years [2010] (PDF) Rowlands, Penelope - The Beatles Are Here [2014] (EPUB) Russell, Ethan A. - Get Back [1969] (PDF) Sounes, Howard - Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney [2010] (MOBI) (PDF) Stark, Steven D.  - Meet The Beatles: A Cultural History [2005] (PDF) Sulpy, Doug - A Beginner’s Guide to Beatles Bootlegs [1989] (PDF) Turner, Steve - The Stories Behind The Songs 1967-1970 [2009] (EPUB) Ulrich, Ben & Bielen, Ken - The Words and Music of John Lennon [2007] (EPUB) (PDF) Wald, Elijah - How The Beatles Destroyed Rock ’n’ Roll [2009] (PDF) Winn, John C. - That Magic Feeling, Vol. 2: 1966-70 [2009] (PDF) Womack, Kenneth & Davis, Todd F. (ed) - Reading The Beatles [2006] (PDF) Beatles Magazine & Newspaper Articles MOJO - The Beatles 101 Greatest Songs [July 2006] (PDF) NME - Beatles Anniversary Edition [Dec 2011] (PDF) NME - Beatles: The Solo Years 1970-1980 (PDF) The Official Beatles Yellow Submarine Magazine [1968] (PDF) Official McCartney vs. Mills divorce judgment [March 2008] (PDF) Reader’s Digest - Paul McCartney interview [2001] (PDF) Rolling Stone - How The Beatles Broke Up [Sept 2009] (PDF) Taschen’s archive of articles re. the Linda McCartney exhibition [2011] (PDF) The Times - Profile: Paul McCartney [Jan 1982] (PDF) Uncut - John Lennon: Ultimate Music Guide [2010] (PDF) Uncut - Life After The Beatles [Aug-Nov 2010] (PDF)

[x] Club Sandwich - scanned images from assorted issues of Paul’s fanclub magazine, which folded in 1998 Magazine/Newspaper Clippings Collections [x] The Beatles [x] John Lennon [x] Paul McCartney [x] George Harrison [x] Ringo Starr & Misc Remastered Album Art Collection [2009] [x]

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trying to come up with some sort of list of literature which evokes a parallel feeling to lynch’s movies to me. lynchian literature if you will. so far i’ve got

kafka, e.g. metamorphosis - structurally, in terms of tension, in terms of the absurd introduced into the expected ‘script’ of a given interaction …

fever dream, samanta schweblin - the horror coming from lack of understanding, the idea of “darker layer lurking underneath normalcy always” but only now coming to light. the desperation of clinging to human connection. very in line with the return

djuna barnes’s work - nightwood is basically a modernist mulholland drive, haunting, heavily symbolic and full of dread. so are her short stories, some scant and parable-like the way the gotta light? episode of the return is; some like blue velvet

autobiography of red, anne carson - mostly visually, and in terms of incommunicable but vivid emotion, the scenes where geryon is travelling alone to the city especially always evoked the silencio scene in mulholland drive in me

philip k. dick - but only sometimes; in things like ubik where the structure of the world disintegrates visibly which brings to light its instability

… what i have so far. i want to both expand and update this. but it’s a rare connection.

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My fellow American hobby bakers, demoralized by egg prices and scarcity and how you will make the American apple pie or the chocolate chip cookie, fear not. I have spent many years turning regular baking recipes vegan for my corrupt and traitorous sister who last week ate a salmon cream cheesed roll. There are many, many substitutes for eggs including but not limited to:

Mashed banana: best added to compliment flavors of whatever it is you're baking (peanut butter, chocolate) make sure it's MUSHY and ripe

Apple sauce: again, best with complimentary flavors (cinnamon, brown sugar) use unsweetened and have the rest as a snack

The big boy champ, ground flaxseed: flavorless, though it does darken your batter/ dough a bit. Bags found next to cornstarch and almond meal, etc. Instructions on how to use right on the bag! Make sure to let the flaxseed water combo sit in a separate bowl until it has the consistency of mucus 👍

Now with all of these you MUST add a bit more leavener, they don't have the lil bit of lift eggs give, so make sure you add a touch more baking powder. Sort of ok for brownies and cookies if you want them a bit more dense but KEY for cakes, quick breads, muffins and other things like that or she is gonna be SQUIDGY 🫡

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i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.

there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.

anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.

A Better World - create an alternate history timeline

Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game

Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet

Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games

Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones

Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy

ZenGM - simulate sports

Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi

IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)

Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface

The Cafe & Diner - mystery game

The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game

Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions

Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game

Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game

Miniconomy - player driven economy game

Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes

BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators

Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil

Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.

if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.

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matt murdock lockscreens / 1 please like and/or reblog if you take. if you want any of them in a different colour, send me an ask!

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a subtle daredevil lockscreen bc i wanted a daredevil lockscreen but nothing was speaking to my personal taste :)

pls like/rb if you use !!!

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here’s some matt murdock lockscreens I’ve had sitting in my drafts for like months on end that I just never posted.

like/rb if you’re using

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Six Mark Waid Vol 2 Daredevil wallpapers (like or rb if using, credit is appreciated but not necessary if posting on a different site)

Bonus undercut:

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peter parker lockscreens (peter 3 my beloved)

please like AND reblog if you save or use<33

also let’s pretend that peter and gwen are happy and everything is fine !

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I leave you some lockscreen/wallpapers of "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" (2014, dir Mark Webb) with amazing quality ✌🏽😉

(via GeekZoneGZ)

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Peter Parker wallpapers

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