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The Patriot Postโs Thanksgiving: Anย Evaluation
I had never heard of The Patriot Post, although it tells me that it is "highly acclaimed" and "the nation's leading digest of conservative news and opinion" (no external sources listed for that information). But it is the first defense of theโฆ
This one time in the mid-late-90s, my friend Rich and I went to one of two gay clubs in Kalamazoo, the one for the older, sadder homosexual men, called Brothers.
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Ugh, 54.
Literary friends:
Looking to define beauty and spirituality for a paper on Diane Seuss. Recommendations for specific poems? Figuring Whitman, Keats, Baudelaire might also have something illuminating. Any of their writings or writing about them that would help?
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep ...
The Truth About Halloween: Final Report,ย 2025
Well, here it is: A day after All Souls Day/All Saints Day 2025, and, with other priorities, I was unable to get far in answering any of the questions I posted in the last post. I will present what information and sources I have found and pick it upโฆ
Eros and thanos in the walls of the finely ordered room of logos.
frank 16, "What is it you feel, I asked Kurt..." by Diane Seuss
One of @dseuss.bsky.social 's poems that have a soundtrack. My 1st time listening to Ravel's String Quartet. Realizing how at least frank 13-16 present a world behind, before, between our own, like the infinitely divisible numbers within any interval of ordinary numbers.
Diane Seuss sonnet "To return from Paradise..." from frank: sonnets, p 15
So much buried in this, just beginning to suss it out after a crowded page of notes, half of which probably go in the wrong direction, but my inkling, again spirit/flesh, Romantic/Decadent, truth/lies... what it is to be human ... @dseuss.bsky.social frank "To return from Paradise"
Evaluating Sources: CARS, CRAAP, ACT UP, &ย SIFT
Evaluating Sources using CARS: Credibility, Accuracy, Reasonableness, Support. From URL Before I look into any claims in my Truth About Halloween series, or in any other research project, I must have a strategy for evaluating my sources ofโฆ
The Truth About Halloween: Scaryย Stories
The following stories are accounts of Halloween propagated by conservative Christians as fact, culled from various places on the internet. I make no claims as to the veracity of any of this, but I will make every effort to prove them true. As any goodโฆ
I pray they get their loves ones back however Netanyahu is a fucking Butcher
The Ethics of Writing/Editing: Researching Livedย Experience
I am performing a developmental edit on a story by a friend in which the protagonist is a drug addict. As an addict myself, in recovery, I know a little about the subject, but not about this particular drug. I also have a personalโฆ
Is there a virtual human library with a recovering addict? Would I call the NA hotline and put out feelers? Is there an ex-junkie speaker's bureau?
Say I was writing a story about a heroin addict and wanted to know how it feels to overdose, without actually going through the experience. I personally know some recovering addicts. But what if I didn't?Whom could I talk to?
The Truth Aboutย Halloween!
Around 2011, or maybe late 2010, I downloaded this audio file of the interview of an evangelical preacher (as I recall, a D.Div. or Th.D. or some kind of Bible college doctor) on the "True History and Meaning of Halloween." My interest in it was ironic. I love Halloween,โฆ
Who has more pedophiles, librarians or pastors?
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Search Engine Test 2.c & 2.d: Science.gov andย Mojeek
This is the second and final post in the Search Engine Test 2.0, using the keywords spacetime expanding. I wanted to try a science-specific search site, and Science.gov, as a government site, seemed a good place to start. The results are aโฆ
Search School: Jessamyn West on the Trail of Miss Crabb, partย 1
I decided to reconstruct Jessamyn West's research trajectory in Miss Crabb: librarian and poet because I wanted to learn from the best. Although, as a librarian, I'm ashamed Jessamyn's claim that "many librarians could replicate thisโฆ
Search Engine Test 2.a & 2.b: Google vs.ย Bing
I've heard great things about Bing, but, as a Google guy, I've resisted. So, I gave it a shot with the keyword search spacetime expanding. Both sites search semantically, attempting to "make sense" of the search terms, and both use crawlers to discoverโฆ
About Mojeek
I ran a search for the keywords spacetime expanding on Mojeek, and it did not shower me with right-wing perspectives. (Now that I say that out loud, it sounds like a ridiculous expectation.) Something of a surprise, given the results of the Ben & Jerry's search yesterday. So I wantedโฆ
AI hallucinations and research on the H3LP desk. theh3lpdesk.wordpress.com/2025/09/21/w...
Adventures in research! Read this theh3lpdesk.wordpress.com/2025/09/21/t... ... and then hit me up on Fiverr www.fiverr.com/s/99g8vjj
Hey folks. Starting up my Fiverr gigs again. If you need help researching, writing, editing, or proofreading, I'm your person. HMU! ๐ผ๐๐๐ป www.fiverr.com/s/dDqRpE2
frank 14 "Here on this edge I have had many diminutive visions." Diane Seuss
This one is dense. Call it a spiritual manifesto? So much more to unpack. "How to mother that peace, to wean/ it, is a terrible career." To separate, cast into the world, make one find its way back/forward to "love's other shore"...So much here, I've hardly begun...frank 14 @dseuss.bsky.social
