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  • Picasso’s Harlequin

    December 29, 2025

    Prompt: You are the model posing for Picasso's Harlequin. It takes all day but your your mind is free and you get to condense your life into a fourteen-line poem. Do it.

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  • Mitch Sisskind eats sushi!

    December 24, 2025

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  • “The Orgasm Farm” [by Nin Andrews]

    December 16, 2025

    It was a beautiful spring day in 1947 when Barb and Joe moved to their orgasm farm in scenic Virginia. Though they had spent years studying orgasmic farming methods, they decided that nothing could…

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  • “A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy’s Day” — which is today, December 13 [by John Donne]

    December 13, 2025

    "A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day"  'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's,Lucy's, who scarce seven hours herself unmasks;         The sun is spent, and now his flasks     …

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  • Birthday boy Sinatra with the Dorsey band (1941)

    December 12, 2025

    "Be Careful, It's My Heart"

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  • Evergreen as a Christmas pine: why Jews wrote the best-loved songs of the season

    December 1, 2025

    https://www.thefp.com/p/eli-lake-jews-wrote-your-favorite-christmas-songs-irving-berlin Click here for Eli Lake's artilce on why Jews wrote your favorite Christmas Songs," a portion of which follows. On the left, Frank Loessr, who wrote "Baby, It's Cold Outside." <<< What’s most…

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