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@ayjay If you’re contemplating it in your retirement, I’d suggest a Ghost blog (all the core Substack features, none of the bloat). And self-hosted Ghost is the best Ghost.

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@ayjay Substack feels like YouTube for writers. “Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe!” The many steps they march you through to sign up for a newsletter, etc, just feels spammy.

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Tarpon Spring Sponge Docks

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Wendell Berry, in Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition:

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\n

It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.

\n
\n

Berry, who’s 90 now, wrote this almost two and a half decades ago. He no longer needs to imagine this great division; we’re living it.

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A Map or Chart of the Road of Love, and Harbour of Marriage - Thomas Sayer - 1748

\n\"A\n

A New Map of the Land of Matrimony, Drawn From the Latest Surveys - Anna Laetitia Barbauld - 1772

\n\"A\n

Geographical Guide to a Man’s Heart, Geographical Guide to a Woman’s Heart - Jo Lowery - 1960

\n\"Geographical\n

Happy Valentine’s Day

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Ursula Franklin is my homegirl: hmm.vic.ooo

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For Josh Brake:

\n\"\"\n","summary":"","url":"https://zipk.ing/2025/02/12/for-josh-brake/","date_published":"2025-02-12T15:59:25+00:00","author":{"name":"Vic King","url":"https://vic.ooo","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F03%2F1714908.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"vicking"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-02-12 15:59","date_timestamp":1739375965,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"56883585","content_html":"\"\"\n","summary":"","url":"https://hmm.vic.ooo/2025/02/05/222841/","date_published":"2025-02-06T03:28:41+00:00","author":{"name":"Vic King","url":"https://vic.ooo","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F03%2F1714908.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"vicking"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-02-06 03:28","date_timestamp":1738812521,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"56765390","content_html":"

Shark Valley, Everglades National Park

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Ted Balaker re-ran my college advice on his blog. Welcome to y’all who’re arriving via Ted! 👋

\n","summary":"","url":"https://hmm.vic.ooo/2025/02/03/ted-balaker-reran-my-college/","date_published":"2025-02-03T15:43:46+00:00","author":{"name":"Vic King","url":"https://vic.ooo","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F03%2F1714908.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"vicking"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-02-03 15:43","date_timestamp":1738597426,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"56367448","content_html":"I’m editing a book of King family history, and @ayjay’s Breaking Bread With The Dead has been a welcome companion. It’s yielded a few quotes that may find their way to the top of a chapter:\n\nLP Hartley in The Go-Between:\n\n\"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.\"\n\nWilliam Faulkner in Requiem for a Nun:\n\n\"The past is never dead; it’s not even past.\"\n\nFrancis Spufford in The Child That Books Built:\n\n\"Usually Americans focus on the future, and kick yesterday impatiently out of tomorrow’s path. On the prairie, on the other hand, people shrewdly suspected that the past had surviva... hmm.vic.ooo","summary":"","url":"https://hmm.vic.ooo/2025/01/30/im-editing-a-book-of/","date_published":"2025-01-30T21:15:34+00:00","author":{"name":"Vic King","url":"https://vic.ooo","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F03%2F1714908.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"vicking"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-01-30 21:15","date_timestamp":1738271734,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"56276747","content_html":"

Meet Joseph Ducreux, diplomat-turned-meme-lord.

\n

If you’ve spent time on the internet, you’ve seen his “Self-Portrait of the Artist in the Guise of a Mocker:”

\n\"\"\n

But I bet you haven’t seen his other oddball gems:

\n

“The Silence”

\n\"Self-Portrait,\n

“Self-Portrait, Yawning”

\n\"The\n

and my fave, “The Surprise in Terror”

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Wendell Berry, in Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition:

\n
\n

It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.

\n
\n

Berry, who’s 90 now, wrote this almost two and a half decades ago. He no longer needs to imagine this great division; we’re living it.

\n","summary":"","url":"https://hmm.vic.ooo/2025/01/28/it-is-easy-for-me/","date_published":"2025-01-28T12:45:23+00:00","author":{"name":"Vic King","url":"https://vic.ooo","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F03%2F1714908.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"vicking"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-01-28 12:45","date_timestamp":1738068323,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"55932366","content_html":"\"\"\n","summary":"","url":"https://zipk.ing/2025/01/25/120908/","date_published":"2025-01-25T17:09:08+00:00","author":{"name":"Vic King","url":"https://vic.ooo","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F03%2F1714908.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"vicking"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-01-25 17:09","date_timestamp":1737824948,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"55927725","content_html":"

“I need a logo for my website!” WRONG.

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“I found him beneath a tree”\nfrom William Blake’s The Gates of Paradise

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\n

When possible, refer all matters to committees, for “further study and consideration.” Attempt to make the committees as large as possible — never less than five.

\n
\n

from Simple Sabotage, a now-declassified CIA field manual:

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On Choosing A College \"Dunbar’s : hmm.vic.ooo

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Johnson Creek Marsh, by Jay Fleming. I licensed it for use in my cover design for the Mudbound Books edition of Tales of the Chesapeake.

\n\"\"\n","summary":"","url":"https://hmm.vic.ooo/2025/01/23/johnson-creek-marsh-by-jay/","date_published":"2025-01-23T15:31:49+00:00","author":{"name":"Vic King","url":"https://vic.ooo","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F03%2F1714908.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"vicking"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-01-23 15:31","date_timestamp":1737646309,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"55766620","content_html":"

(why Mudbound Books exists): blog.mudboundbooks.com

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(why Mudbound Books exists): mudbound.micro.blog

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Old St. Mary’s (Poem) \"\" : blog.mudboundbooks.com

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Old St. Mary’s (Poem) \"\"\"\" : mudbound.micro.blog

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Old Washington Almshouse (Story) \"blue\"\" : blog.mudboundbooks.com

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Old Washington Almshouse (Story) \"blue\"\" : mudbound.micro.blog

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Chester River (Poem) \"silhouette\"\" : mudbound.micro.blog

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