Long-tailed Sylph, Aglaiocercus kingii, in the Colombian rain-forest (from LiveScience)
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Hummer’s Here
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Hummer’s Here
I Like Aix
Mandarin duck, Aix galericulata (Linnaeus 1758) (from the In-Terms-in-ator)
Peri-Performative Post-Scriptum
“I Like Aix” corely references “I Like Ike”, a slogan for Dwight “Ike” Eisenhower’s presidential campaign in the 1950s. Aix galericulata means “crested aix”, the word αἴξ, aix, being used by Aristotle for an unknown variety of water-bird. In Greek, it would have been pronounced something like “aye-ks”, which is what I’ve used in the title of this incendiary intervention. But “ay-ks” is probably better in modern English.
Free-Wheel Ferning
Photo of unrolling fern frond, frondlets and frontletlets (from Free Photos)
Elsewhere Other-Engageable
• Farnsicht — beautiful black-and-white photograph of ferns by Karl Blossfeldt
Post-Performative Post-Scriptum
“Free-Wheel Ferning” is a pun on the title of core Judas-Priest track “Free-Wheel Burning”, off core Judas-Priest album Defenders of the Faith, issued in core Judas-Priest success-period of 1984.
Farnsicht
Photo of developing ferns by the German nature photographer Karl Blossfeldt (1866-1932)
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Post-Performative Post-Scriptum
“Farnsicht” is a pun on German Farn, meaning “fern”, and Fernsicht, meaning “view” or “visibility” (literally fern, “far”, + Sicht, “visibility”).
Slanted and Enchanted
Green-Gold Moss with Ivy-Leaved Toadflax
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Post-Performative Post-Scriptum
I assume I got the name “Slanted and Enchanted” from a subconscious memory of an album of the same name by the American band Pavement, though I might just have come up with it independently.
Fish upon a Star
Lionfish fry photographed by Steven Kovacs off Palm Beach, Florida, 2017
Troch’ and Roll
The Stages of Cin (#3)
Cinnabar moth, Tyria jacobaeae, on ragwort, Jacobaea vulgaris
Update: In fact, it’s a Six-spot burnet, Zygaena filipendulae, on ragwort, Jacobaea vulgaris. Probably.
Overlord In Terms of Core Issues Around Maximal Engagement with Key Notions of the Über-Feral 