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Geoffrey Chaucer (Le Vostre GC): Servaunt of the Kynge. Blogger. Wryter of verse. Wearer of litel woolen hatte. Deputy Forestere of North Petherton. He/hym/hys.

The deeply talented & important Ayo Ebediri wears a t-shirt that says "Do not talk to me about AI I will kill myself." July 10, 2026. Broadway NYC. Shirt by Karl Kuehn.
Ronny Chieng delivering a 2026 Class Day speech at Harvard. A caption highlights part of his message of caution about Gen AI Use: "The creating is the fun part."
A catalog entry for a product called "Lilac Toad Bag [Glow Eyes]," a handbag in the shape of a toad. Available for $134.99 USD from a merchandise website with the title vampirefreaks.
A screenshot of the poem "A Song [I was want]" by Jos Charles: I was want ing the most bare language threaded bare ly there a bar on in english everywhere I went I langu ished in a war rent of a lang uage I did or did not want once in ame rica there w as a language we were guilt y I spoke it y ou were there
A real post from the real Sesame Street fb account proclaims "Oscar has been in his 'stinky' era since 1969. #HotTrashSummer." It includes a graphic of Oscar the Grouch popping out of his trash can (n.b. a TARDIS) on a bold salmony-orange background, with the title "Hot Trash Summer."
A young Geoffrey Chaucer looking joyful at a tourney (as featured in the 100% historically accurate film *A Knight's Tale*)
A picture of mosquitoes with the headline "Scientists say drinking beer makes mosquitoes more likely to bite you"
A weaselly New York Times artice titled "We Have to Stop Freaking Out About A.I."
A search for "Widow's Bay" contains the "Did you mean" question "Did you mean 'the next martha's vineyard and definitely not cursed'"
A single picture combines a screenshot of a Feb 3, 2025 tweet by Elon Musk stating "We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper" with a screenshot of a Feb 4, 2026 CNN headline stating that the cuts to USAID "could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030."
A rock show, an audience is facing the stage and the lead singer, Stuart Murdoch of *Belle and Sebastian* is wearing a plastic horse mask while singing and strumming the guitar to the f****ig excellent song "Judy and the Dream of Horses"
Popcorn bucket for Nolan Odyssey film, in the shape of the Trojan Horse
Barbie, from the Barbie film says "Do you guys ever think about majoring in English?" #Englishmajorhumor #Englishmajorproblems
Ghost of Geoffrey Chaucer from The Simpsons
Screenshots and dialogue of Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy and Anthony Stewart Head as Giles from the s2e7 episode "Lie to Me": "Does it ever get easy, life?" / "What do you want me to say?" "Lie to me." / "Yes. It's terribly simple..." Shared by SMG today 6/5/26 on the occasion of the passing of Anthony Stewart Head
The martians, aka the "yip yips," from Sesame Street
The character ALF from the series ALF playing guitar and singing.
The band "Billy and the Boingers" from the fictional world of the comic strip *Bloom County.* Bill the Cat holds his tongue while Opus the Penguin plays guitar. They are wearing glam rock outfits and in exaggerated poses.
Picture of tiny blue Galapagos octopus
"QUEERNESS IS NOT yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not yet queer. We may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality. We have never been queer, yet queerness exists for us as an ideality that can be distilled from the past and used to imagine a future. The future is queerness's domain. Queerness is a structuring and educated mode of desiring that allows us to see and feel beyond the quagmire of the present. The here and now is a prison house. We must strive, in the face of the here and now's total-izing rendering of reality, to think and feel a then and there. Some will say that all we have are the pleasures of this moment, but we must never settle for that minimal transport; we must dream and enact new and better pleasures, other ways of being in the world, and ultimately new worlds. Queerness is a longing that propels us onward, beyond romances of the negative and toiling in the present. Queerness is that thing that lets us feel that this world is not enough, that indeed something is missing. Often we can glimpse the worlds proposed and promised by queerness in the realm of the aesthetic. The aes-thetic, especially the queer aesthetic, frequently contains blueprints and schemata of a forward-dawning futurity. Both the ornamental and the quotidian can contain a map of the utopia that is queerness. Turning to the aesthetic in the case of queerness is nothing like an escape from the social realm, insofar as queer aesthetics map future social relations. Queerness is also a performa-tive because it is not simply a being but a doing for and toward the future. Queerness is essentially about the rejection of a here and now and an insistence on potentiality or concrete possibility for another world."
A quotation -- Author Kurt Vonnegut on telling his wife he's going out to buy an envelope: "Oh, she says well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And, see some great looking babes. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And, and ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don’t know. The moral of the story is, is we’re here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don’t realize, or they don’t care, is we’re dancing animals.”
ST TOS opening sequence with the title "Shambleau"
Star Trek OS title with Enterprise and planet -- episode title "Steamed Hams"
A title shot of the original Star Trek series shows the Enterprise near a planet, with the episode title "Pink Pony Club"
The Middle English phrase "House of Fame," title of a Chaucer poem, in the style of a Waffle House sign
A beautiful yet strangely stark chalk carving on an otherwise bland suburban street proclaims "There is still time" (from *I Saw The TV Glow*, 2024)
A shot of an email from the Modern Language Association shows it abbreviated as "Modern Language Ass."
A stark poster declares: Support These Data Centers: Schools, Libraries, Bookstores, Museums, Public Media, Concerts, Elders, Farmers Markets, Record Stores, Theaters.
Burger King logo altered to include English translation of Basho's famous haiku about Kyoto
Burger King logo with burger, altered to include the text of "The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams
Fake burger king ad using new logo (a revision of an old logo) features the ring rhyme from LOTR
The Star of Carrie Fisher in Hollywood. A small magnet with the label "Princess" has been placed on the star.
Stark and powerful sign says: "Support These Data Centers: Schools, Libraries, Bookstores, Museums, Public Media, Concerts, Elders, Farmers Markets, Record Stores, Theaters"
A ChatGPT ad says "Turn yourself into your own caricature with ChatGPT Images"
Simple, direct graphic proclaims "Support These Data Centers: Schools, Libraries, Bookstores.
skeletor, the villain of Masters of the Universe, shakes his arms
Picture of Earth taken by the Artemis II mission
Headline: "A priceless ancient golden helmet stolen from a Dutch museum is recovered"
Dune 3 poster made by a meme generator with the satirical message. Ballet and Opera: vital art forms that are forever changing to address the present moment while touching the soul and lifting up the despondent heart
Picture of Paul and Chani from recent *Dune* films, with title "Dune 3's official title revealed -- and fans aren't happy"
News story, picture shows two large shiny insects and headline reads: "These roaches form exclusive long-term relationships after eating each other's wings"
A news story says Marc Andreesen claims that "introspection" is a "modern invention"
An ad for a shirt shows a roughly woven tunic that looks oddly like something an NPC in Skyrim would wear
Geoffrey Chaucer in the film *A Knight's Tale,* dressed fabulously and addressing a huge crowd at a joust
Manuscript illustration of Geoffrey Chaucer riding a horse
Social media post by the muppet Elmo stating "That Bunny was AMAZING. Elmo thinks he should be called Good Bunny! Elmo loves you, Mr. Good Bunny."
The cover of the book *This is How You Lose the Time War* by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone