Joel Calahan

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Apprentice philologist. Poetry translation and history teaching. Chair-leg hero. Emeritus: Signal to Noise, Chicago Review reader-in-chief of Caliber, an occasional newsletter of translation and reading [ask at calibernewsletter at gmail dot com]

Sunset at the beach
The Spaceballs scene with a character is breathing on a can of air labeled “Perri-Air”
A timeline that indicates that history started in 2000 BC
A very dirty pair of Nike shoes
Kombucha girl meme: FIFA CORRUPTION TO BENEFIT USMNT / USMNT FINALLY GOOD ENOUGH FOR CORRUPTION TO MATTER
Stats of Canada-Morocco showing Expected Goals CAN 0.42 MAR 0.02
Epic handshake meme: “shitting in public” by People on this post and Noah Kahan’s fans on their seats
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A man praying saying “JESUS, I SEE WHAT YOU'VE DONE FOR OTHER PEOPLE, AND I WANT THAT FOR ME.”
John Alexander dressed as Theodore Roosevelt, holding a toy battleship and saluting
Dining Room in the Country, Pierre Bonnard
A view from up high with clouds above, green mountains and trees below
THE MIDNIGHT WORK What's in it for me? The thing itself at sea. The read, the take. Beneath, a fear in lake of sleep, "I will not wake"" I am as it, by yesteryear all edged, death-centered, ill-befitted to the itness of the now. An ache across the prow occludes the nose, deserts the tongue in mouth. It is the heat this colic work of heart and limbic risk, my ego is such as it is what's in it.
a young man with lavender hair in graduation gown with a diploma. Proud dad on the right.
the famous 1969 German tour poster for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, designed by Günther Kieser
a list of four films: Marry Me, Marty Supreme, Trois Couleurs: Bleu, and One Battle After Another
a giant ballot longer than a CVS receipt
every time Chet and Wemby go head to head I think of that Katt Williams joke about how a Chrysler 300 looks like a Phantom until a Phantom pulls up
a woman ‘dancing’ like a kangaroo
Food, games, and poolside fun included! Don't forget sunscreen and your beool vibes! Optional: Bring your favorite pool toy to share!
Paperback copy of Hear Me Talkin’ to Ya: The Story of Jazz As Told By the Men Who Made It, by Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff
If I were Jesus, would you slap both sides of my face? If I were Jesus, would you stamp on my hands? If I was Jesus, would you lock me up? Would you make me crawl down the prison hall? Would you cover my head? Stick my face in the pot? Would you rape me? If I were Jesus, would you break down the door? Would you wreck the house and terrify my family? If I was Jesus, would you bomb my trees, my place Of parables, the fig trees and the rivers of wheat? If I were Jesus— Well, I'm not. So please-Go right ahead.
I tasted the Word and it wasn't bitter Until it reached my solar plexus. Then its letters grew thin as wires. Tincture of benzedrine. The deep red stain of iodine. Like Mastroianni's smile— Its seductive irony That I must adore or die.
A short poem titled “lalala” Tae kwon do and lock the door I bet I know who's forty-four
In addition, Barnett released a statement to SLJ via the Library of Congress on Thursday: "Thank you for the opportunity to respond. First of all, I want to acknowledge the passage I wrote is hurtful, especially to people who work hard making books for kids. I nderstand why people are upset and feel betrayed. In trying to make a point, I got hyperbolic and glib. I was wrong. I'm truly sorry."
Flipped version of LeBron dying inside and outside
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1786 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 76 63 There are...persons who have denied the magnetism of purified nickel OED3 (2003) 1881 Athenaeum 27 Aug. 274/2 We do not believe in the jussive pluperfect subjunctive OED2 (1901)
All Such to Life All such to life consuming as all were true in air passing and lifted besprent with dew Nor lavish nor in unison even at the shore for giving its world over for this and more By leaf turning, its colour so clear to find in itself its fond allure to love assigned Such voices set fiery within, and through the field of folk unwary in shape as true
The spine of the hardback volume of Poems 2016-2024, by J.H. Prynne.
Barbra Streisand eating a carrot and looking smokin’ hot in What’s Up Doc? (1972)
a woman with short in hair in a red blouse with a tan vest (Lynne Thigpen as the chief in Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?)
A 1937 study found that the performance of male teenage delinquents on the then-current edition of the Stanford Achievement Test improved under the influence of benzedrine.
a silver angular truck that looos like a dumpster with an angular grill in the back bed
a baking pan with eight scones
open brushland with tall sycamores, blue sky and clouds in the distance
A table with a burrito and a bottle of orange soda on a tray, a newspaper open
1 alone in her flat. alone in the room she was renting. 1 six years out of a classics doctoral program eight years out of a classics doctoral program 1 she was living in London and working for a temp agency as a legal secretary she was living in London and had been working as a legal secretary in a corporate law firm
6:42 Psallat Ecclesia - Sequences from Medieval Norway Schola Solensis • Halvor J. Osttveit What we call Gregorian chant is old music. By the 13th century most of it was already composed. It is the church's oldest musical treasure, and is the word of God spoken, and prayers prayed, in a language where the word is lifted and born on wings of exquisite beauty. It is not just a language of words, but a meeting of words and melody in an expression of extraordinary power. Gregorian chant developed over a long period of oral transmission from generation to generation. If there is an evolutionary theory for artistic expression, a sort of "survival of the fittest", it can certainly be used about Gregorian chant. Many of these melodies are so unbelievably beautiful; it is as if we sense divine participation in their creation. There is an air of mysticism in this music, which more and more people are seeking as a setting for meditation and prayer
A screen grab of an email with the subject line, Hey %%=v(@firstName)=%%, your April EnVision is here!
A copy of the book Skepticism and Impersonality in Modern Poetry, by V. Joshua Adams
a painting of men seated at a table: The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci
Thomas Kinkade Justice Leage puzzle
a posed still of three women fighters in stunning dark clothing with weapons from Heroic Trio (1993)
AF: Right. The first cassette was called [garbled] AF: What was it called? WD: Doesn't matter. The second tape was called I Had Sex with God. That was the one Ivo [Watts-Russell, the head of 4AD Records] heard.
A cartoon coyote tied to a rocket about to light it
A middle aged man with an Afro in a fur coat saluting in front of an American flag
Gâcha card for Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (; k nown as Lord Salisbury; 3 February 1830 - 22 August 1903) was a Br itish statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Mini
France - Ligue 1 FT Lorient 2-1 Lens Angers 0 - 0 Nice
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