'Banter, innit? It's what we do.' -- Robert Galbraith, The Ink Black Heart

God is apparently not above trolling people who start celebrating his son's birthday before Thanksgiving.

We attended a lovely wedding yesterday and the reception was at the @mohistorymuseum which is the home of an impressive replica of the Spirit of St. Louis.

This is a great reminder from @AmericanGwyn about Joyce's ULYSSES that I had forgotten, and it recalled for me the circumstances John Milton experienced. As he begins writing Paradise Lost, he is completely blind, his second wife & their child have died prematurely, the

And here's one of his card tricks, only when I saw him perform last night, his sleeves were rolled up and he was standing out in the open, so the sleight of hand (if that's what it was! 🤯) was simply imperceptible. https://t.co/UwKLidjJn0

I saw this random number trick performed live last night & it was absolutely incredible. So incredible, in fact, that I had to be restrained from fetching the pitchfork & torches that I keep handy in the trunk of my car and leading the peasantry in a good old fashioned witch

This is a bit of a false narrative because I had already been mixing cocktails for a long time, but it was a conversation with Dav Eames at the Gilbert Scott that red pilled me about mixology. https://t.co/OdF0Jqqcn4

Yeah, you kinda had to be there.

My rediscovery of cocktails began on a warm summer afternoon in 2012 following a trip to the British Library with this cocktail, often described as the precursor of the Martini—the Martinez.

@atrupar The UK will always be a friend to the United States, whichever moron they have in charge

We have tickets to see Wynton in January!

I hope your weekend is as jazzy as this number featuring Wynton Marsalis and Rubén Blades. TGIF https://t.co/ylPjD03NtS🪘🎺

Magical morning on Lake Pontchartrain, with the sky & water mirroring every soft sunrise color. 💛🧡🩵💙 #lakepontchartrain #lawx

For @badly_wired, the biggest, hugest, I-shall-not-be-outdone, and I-keep-her-photo-cello-taped-to-my-vanity-mirror Adele fan in the universe.

Fiadh, running on a mirrored sky. "This might be heaven." County Clare, Ireland.

Our conditions are far less embarrassing than the ones James Joyce faced in 1914 when he began writing ULYSSES. While Europe became a slaughterhouse, Joyce wrote on. Artists are called to create works of lasting beauty, no matter the conditions. NOT doing so is embarrassing.

At London’s prestigious university @ucl, an academic is teaching the blood libel AS FACT. For the ignorant, Jews do not use any gentile blood at Passover - this is a conspiracy theory which started in the UK around 800 years ago. I’m genuinely amazed that today it is being

Missouri!

Brilliant. Weiner says “women & cis women”. So the male women are now the actual women? Chairman right at the end: “things were going so smoothly” - until the uppity woman stood up for her rights. They should just shut up & let entitled men take all our stuff, right?

I'm going to have so many photos to come, so get comfortable with aurora content. But, this one had to be posted first. If you can believe it, this is looking SOUTH near Buffalo, South Dakota and as the corona was absolutely ripping overhead with reds and greens a big fireball of