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  1. Jul 2025
    1. Notandum,A rat had gnawn my spur-leathers; notwithstanding,I put on new, and did go forth: but firstI threw three beans over the threshold. Item,I went and bought two tooth-picks, whereof oneI burst immediately... and at St. Mark’s I urined.

      I've had a rat similarly chewing on my conveyance-related items: the wires of our Mercedes-Benz. I think I'll throw three beans.

      Quote from Ben Jonson’s 1606 play Volpone and an entry in Sir Politic's diary/journal - the first appearance of a journal in a work of English drama/fiction.

  2. May 2024
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  5. Nov 2017
    1. some of the rats they skinned and stuffed for the collections of the Yale University Peabody Museum of Natural History, where they will join stuffed rats from 100 years ago.

      Was this really necessary?

  6. May 2017
    1. The Black Rat Café, is headed to San Francisco. Whereas KitTea Café in Hayes Valley and Cat Town in Oakland let patrons meet and adopt cats over coffee, tea, and snacks, the rat café will do the same with rodents.

      Love it!

  7. Oct 2016
    1. Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song. The river bears no empty bottles, sandwich papers, Silk handkerchiefs, cardboard boxes, cigarette ends Or other testimony of summer nights. The nymphs are departed.

      The evidence of what once was has left, but in a cruel manner.