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**Andrew Shields** @AndrewShields@mas.to · 8h

Andrew Shields @AndrewShields@mas.to

Alma Mahler-Werfel and a kiss with Gustav Klimt. #111Words #AlexRoss #TheNewYorker #Music #AlmaMahler #AlmaMahlerWerfel #GustavMahler #OskarKokoschka #WalterGropius #FranzWerfel #GustavKlimt #TheKiss #Vienna https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/04/alma-mahler-werfel-and-kiss-with-gustav.html

andrewjshields.blogspot.comAlma Mahler-Werfel and a kiss with Gustav KlimtIn " Femme Vitale ", his article on Alma Mahler-Werfel (1879-1964) in the 10 February 2025 issue of "The New Yorker", Alex Ross recalls that...

**Andrew Shields** @AndrewShields@mas.to · 22h

22h

Andrew Shields @AndrewShields@mas.to

I’m a Basler from Detroit. Where are you from? #111Words #Basel #Detroit #Switzerland #Home #Identity #Migration #Immigration #Emigration #WhereAreYouFrom https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/04/im-basler-from-detroit-where-are-you.html

andrewjshields.blogspot.comI’m a Basler from Detroit. Where are you from?For a few years now, when people in Basel ask me where I'm from, I say that "I'm a Basler from Detroit." That gets a laugh, and I get anot...

**Andrew Shields** @AndrewShields@mas.to · 2d

Andrew Shields @AndrewShields@mas.to

Despite everything, Snoopy types another story. #111Words #Snoopy #DonQ #Plunderland https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/04/despite-everything-snoopy-types-another.html

andrewjshields.blogspot.comDespite everything, Snoopy types another storyDespite everything, Snoopy that he would do what he wanted to do: sit on top of his doghouse and write another story. First, he put a new ri...

**Andrew Shields** @AndrewShields@mas.to · 2d

Andrew Shields @AndrewShields@mas.to

Sarfaz Manzoor writes down a line from Bruce Springsteen that comes to seem like “the secret to the universe”. #111Words #SarfazManzoor #GreetingsFromBuryPark #BruceSpringsteen #CandysRoom #DarknessOnTheEdgeOfTown https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/04/sarfaz-manzoor-writes-down-line-from.html

andrewjshields.blogspot.comSarfaz Manzoor writes down a line from Bruce Springsteen that comes to seem like “the secret to the universe"In class today, we discussed a line from Bruce Springsteen's song "Candy's Room" (on "Darkness on the Edge of Town", 1978): "In the darkness...

**Andrew Shields** @AndrewShields@mas.to · 4d

Andrew Shields @AndrewShields@mas.to

Snoopy gets distracted from writing by another silly statement from Exit. #111Words #Snoopy #Plunderland #Exit #DonQ #SixFlacks https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/04/snoopy-gets-distracted-from-writing-by.html

andrewjshields.blogspot.comSnoopy gets distracted from writing by another silly statement from ExitSnoopy would prefer to sit on top of his doghouse and write another story: "It was a dark and stormy night." But whenever he looks up, his g...

**Andrew Shields** @AndrewShields@mas.to · 5d

Andrew Shields @AndrewShields@mas.to

While Uneven and Don Q milled around Hush Money House, Vanza visited the Good Shepherd, who then died. #111Words #DonQ #Uneven #HushMoneyHouse #Plunderland #Vanza #TheGoodShepherd #TheOrderOfLove #ResurrectionDay #Correlation #Causation https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/04/while-uneven-and-don-q-milled-around.html

andrewjshields.blogspot.comWhile Uneven and Don Q milled around Hush Money House, Vanza visited the Good Shepherd, who then diedWhile Uneven milled around Hush Money House and ranted about how anyone who disagreed with him was a "terrorist", Don Q stared at the window...

**Andrew Shields** @AndrewShields@mas.to · 6d

Andrew Shields @AndrewShields@mas.to

Objections to Meta’s request for permission to use my public posts for their AI products. #111Words #Meta #AI #Objections #CreativeWork #EnvironmentalIssues #Search #Linguistics https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/04/objections-to-metas-request-for.html

andrewjshields.blogspot.comObjections to Meta’s request for permission to use my public posts for their AI productsMeta sent me an email if I wanted "to object to the use of [my public] information" in order "to develop and improve AI at Meta." I objected...

**Andrew Shields** @AndrewShields@mas.to · 6d

Andrew Shields @AndrewShields@mas.to

Don Q thinks about Paul Revere. #111Words #DonQ #PaulRevere #PaulReveresRide #HenryWadsworthLongfellow #Poetry #Vanza #GolfCart #ExecutiveOrder https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/04/don-q-thinks-about-paul-revere.html

andrewjshields.blogspot.comDon Q thinks about Paul RevereYesterday was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride, which Henry Wadsworth Longfellow commemorated in his 1860 poem, "Paul Re...

**Andrew Shields** @AndrewShields@mas.to · Apr 18

Apr 18

Andrew Shields @AndrewShields@mas.to

"Well, I’m not involved in it”: Don Q answers questions from the Six Flacks and laughs with Omen and Vanza. #111Words #DonQ #Plunderland #SixFlacks #Omen #Vanza https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/04/well-im-not-involved-in-it-don-q.html

andrewjshields.blogspot.com"Well, I’m not involved in it”: Don Q answers questions from the Six Flacks and laughs with Omen and VanzaDon Q listened to the questions from the Six Flacks and looked at the window on the wall in Hush Money House. "Well, I’m not involved in it,...

**Andrew Shields** @AndrewShields@mas.to · Apr 17

Apr 17

Andrew Shields @AndrewShields@mas.to

"I was born in a city near two lakes”: A short autobiography without names. #111Words #BiographicalNote #Autobiography #Constraint #Oulipo https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/04/i-was-born-in-city-near-two-lakes-short.html

andrewjshields.blogspot.com"I was born in a city near two lakes”: A short autobiography without namesI was born in a city near two lakes. When I was three, my family moved to a city on a western coast. Over the next twenty years (except for ...

**Andrew Shields** @AndrewShields@mas.to · Apr 16

Apr 16

Andrew Shields @AndrewShields@mas.to

Snoopy’s view of Don Q’s Plunderland. #111Words #Snoopy #DonQ #DimePenny #Vanza #Plunderland #HushMoneyHouse https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/04/snoopys-view-of-don-qs-plunderland.html

andrewjshields.blogspot.comSnoopy’s view of Don Q’s PlunderlandFrom atop his doghouse, Snoopy looks across the ocean to Plunderland, where Don Q sits in Hush Money House. From Snoopy's vantage point, eve...

**Andrew Shields** @AndrewShields@mas.to · Apr 15

Apr 15

Andrew Shields @AndrewShields@mas.to

Don Q invites Bookalie to celebrate his successes. #111Words #DonQ #Vanza #Omen #Bookalie #Plunderland https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/04/don-q-invites-bookalie-to-celebrate-his.html

andrewjshields.blogspot.comDon Q invites Bookalie to celebrate his successesLooking at the window painted on the wall , Don Q decided he wouldn't make the same mistake he had made with Sky Man, who had not praised...

**Andrew Shields** @AndrewShields@mas.to · Apr 14

Apr 14

Andrew Shields @AndrewShields@mas.to

A British touring production of “Twelfth Night” in the late 1990s. #111Words #TwelfthNight #WilliamShakespeare #Viola #Sebastian #ToledoOhio #Theater #Acting #Hats https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-british-touring-production-of-twelfth.html

andrewjshields.blogspot.comA British touring production of “Twelfth Night” in the late 1990sIn a British touring show of William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" that I saw in Toledo, Ohio, in the late 1990s, the stage was empty but ...

**Andrew Shields** @AndrewShields@mas.to · Apr 13

Apr 13

Andrew Shields @AndrewShields@mas.to

Seven premieres at the Human Shields concert in Basel on 11 April 2025. #111Words #HumanShields #Music #Poetry #FolkMusic #JamMusic #Basel #Beclys #GeorgeSzirtes #Claraplatz https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/04/seven-premieres-at-human-shields.html

andrewjshields.blogspot.comSeven premieres at the Human Shields concert in Basel on 11 April 2025The Human Shields concert on Friday, 11 April, featured seven world premieres of songs written between 2018 and 2024. "Speak Up" was inspire...

**Andrew Shields** @AndrewShields@mas.to · Apr 12 *

Apr 12 *

Andrew Shields @AndrewShields@mas.to

Watching two FC Basel football matches in one afternoon and evening. #111Words #FCBasel #FCAarau #FCZurich #Football #MensFootball #WomensFootball #AWSL #SRF2 #BlueSport https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/04/watching-to-fc-basel-football-matches.html

andrewjshields.blogspot.comWatching to FC Basel football matches in one afternoon and eveningThis afternoon, I'm watching the first leg of a quarterfinal between the FC Basel and FC Aarau women's football teams, and this evening, I'l...

**Andrew Shields** @AndrewShields@mas.to · Apr 11

Apr 11

Andrew Shields @AndrewShields@mas.to

Singing Woody Guthrie’s "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)” for Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia. #111Words #HumanShields #WoodyGuthrie #Deportee #PlaneWreckAtLosGatos #KilmarArmandoAbregoGarcia #Music #Beclys #Basel https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/04/singing-woody-guthries-deportee-plane.html

andrewjshields.blogspot.comSinging Woody Guthrie’s "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)” for Kilmar Armando Abrego GarciaWhile preparing for this evening's Human Shields concert at Beclys in Basel, I thought of Woody Guthrie's 1948 song "Deportee (Plane Wreck a...

**Andrew Shields** @AndrewShields@mas.to · Apr 10

Apr 10

Andrew Shields @AndrewShields@mas.to

Buying first one and then later another copy of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”. #111Words #HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows #BurningBooks https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/04/buying-first-one-and-then-later-another.html

andrewjshields.blogspot.comBuying first one and then later another copy of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"In July 2007, I bought "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" the night it was released. In August, my wife and I began to read the series t...

**Andrew Shields** @AndrewShields@mas.to · Apr 9

Apr 9

Andrew Shields @AndrewShields@mas.to

Don Q, Lovey Leave-It, and Pronoun Users. #111Words #DonQ #Vanza #Pronouns #LoveyLeaveIt #Plunderland https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/04/don-q-lovey-leave-it-and-pronoun-users.html

andrewjshields.blogspot.comDon Q, Lovey Leave-It, and Pronoun UsersDon Q shouted at the window on the wall : "I don't want to talk to anyone who uses pronouns!" Vanza told Lovey Leave-It: "The President sa...

**Andrew Shields** @AndrewShields@mas.to · Apr 8

Apr 8

Andrew Shields @AndrewShields@mas.to

A blackboard from my class and the discussion of it in my colleague’s class. #111Words #CharlesDickens #GreatExpectations #Blackboard #Teaching #Students https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-blackboard-from-my-class-and.html

andrewjshields.blogspot.comA blackboard from my class and the discussion of it in my colleague’s classIn class this morning, I filled a blackboard with notes on the third paragraph of Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations" (1861), mostly on m...

**Andrew Shields** @AndrewShields@mas.to · Apr 7

Apr 7

Andrew Shields @AndrewShields@mas.to

On first reading Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” (1988). #111Words #DorisLessing #TheFifthChild #UniversityOfPennsylvania #ComparativeLiterature #LiteraryTheory #Dissertation #Novel #Fiction https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/04/on-first-reading-doris-lessings-fifth.html

andrewjshields.blogspot.comOn first reading Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” (1988)On a Sunday in October 1990, I went to the library at the University of Pennsylvania to do some reading and studying for classes that week (...

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