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Calamus 25 The prairie-grass dividing
Whitman's celebration of simple men, of men from "inland America", of those who are unimpressed by Presidents and Governors. It's a romantic sentiment but in 2025 also feels a little naïve or condescending.
But as always I'm here for the gay stuff. Which starts explicitly enough
[I] Demand the most copious and close companionship of men
Well OK then! Me too. Maybe you could read that in a non-sexual way but then Whitman gets lusty
[I demand] Those with a never-quell'd audacity—those with sweet and lusty flesh, clear of taint, choice and chary of its love-power
My goodness, is that hot! At least to start, it's a shame he tames it seeking out men "chary of love-power". At least he recognizes their love power! I'll take the taint, thank you.

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You saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own
New racoon
You knew just what I was there for
You heard me saying a prayer for
Someone I really could care for

Oh hey, speaking of awesome bands from Cleveland. One of my favorite 80s indie bands is from there. Got into them from a comp and quickly became a fan, getting whatever albums I could find.
I just love the singer's voice and style.
Here they are back in the day, doing a rocked out cover of “Sylvia Plath”, a song originally done by another local Cleveland artist named Peter Laughner.
#music

As web developer I am interested in learning more about Spritely Goblins but I think I need a better starter guide then this.
Would love to spin it up on DigitalOcean or Github codespace and play with some code and see if I could build something.
https://files.spritely.…

Top 2026 candidates for 'Madden NFL' cover: Bengals' Ja'Marr Chase, Packers' Jordan Love among possibilities

https://www.cbsspor…

William F Buckley was the leading intellectual architect of the modern conservative movement — indeed, he personified it for more than 50 years.
But by what reasoning could Trump rightfully claim a connection with him?
Outwardly, Mr. Buckley, with his patrician manner, salon wit and gold-plated vocabulary, his passion for Bach and connoisseur’s taste for fine writing, could not have been less like Donald Trump.
And in policy terms, Trump’s love of tariffs, defense of ent…

Opinion | How William F. Buckley Jr. Wrote Trump’s Playbook
William F. Buckley Jr. was also a revolutionary.

Cowboys land 'dynamic' RB in 2026 mock draft who could be missing piece https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/draft/dallas-cowboys-land-dynamic-running-back-2026-nfl-mock-draft-jeremiyah-love

Calamus 20 I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing
What a heartaching poem of loneliness and the need for the love of another! Just wonderful. I understand now why this poem is so popular, particularly as a gay poem. It is full of meaning and is quite clear about it.
I wondered how it could utter joyous leaves, standing alone there, without its friend, its lover near—for I knew I could not
There's a more cerebral interpretation of this work, particularly if you understand "leaves" to mean "pages in my poetry book Leaves of Grass". Whitman talking about his own poetic inspiration from lovers.
Which well enough. But I'm more interested in Whitman's expressed need for "manly love". Which is clearly on his mind constantly:
my own dear friends ... I believe lately I think of little else than of them
Also Whitman's own eroticization of nature and himself. Here speaking of the tree,
its look, rude, unbending, lusty, made me think of myself

A gallery on my website from today's book signing. I love the blue sky above the white clouds. It gives me hope. No one could feel alone under it.
Пролетен панаир на книгата 2025, ден 1, галерия:
https://petertoushkov.eu/bulletin/proleten…

Пролетен панаир на книгата 2025, ден 1, галерия - Петър Тушков
Събота, 31 май 2025 г. Среща с автограф от 12 до 13 ч. заедно с писателя фантаст Божан Божков, щанда на издателство „Ерго“, шатра 55, парка пред НДК.

This makes me a bit nervous as I really love this game. However some speculation I’ve seen is the Sasquatch could become a much-needed mascot for Apple Arcade.
https://www.macobserver.com/news/apple-acquires-indie-video-game-studio-rac7/

Could Cowboys 2025 UDFA WR make 53-man roster? https://insidethestar.com/could-cowboys-2025-udfa-wr-make-53-man-roster

#WordWeavers 22/5: If you could magically write a new genre really well, which genre would you choose?
You mean like multi-classing in D&D or do you mean switch genre entirely? I think I'll stick to fantasy, thank you very much. I love my genre, so if I could just get a few levels in "fantasy writing", that'd be great, thank you 🙂

Top 15 offensive underclassman prospects for 2026 NFL Draft class, including Arch Manning https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6466408/2025/07/03/nfl-draft-2026-underclassmen-arch-manning/

If I had a balloon, I could float places. "Dinner at six? Love to! I'll float by."

I love stories like this. If I could live life over again, I'd be a research historian to work on projects like this. The mural and the car fascinate me, and I wish there were a way to recover the mural. #WW2 #history

I just implemented librenms-agent and the certificate check on my systems.
I just love the way I can easily access information about a system across its configuration.
For the certificate check I need the domain/s of the system.
While I'm sure this could be further improved it is already a lot of fun to use.
```
az-librenms-certificate = {
enable = true;
domains = [
{ fqdn = "${config.services.freshrss.virtualHost}&qu…

The 4th really could use a little love, it seems like it hasn’t been applied in forever… https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/post/3lryhesroes2l

I have no clue how to play in a band, how to record and track, let alone mix a track. But I love music and I could listen forever to Rick Beato interviewing Eric Valentine about every little detail of his productions – this guy really knows and loves his stuff! Incredible! 😮 #music #audioengineering

Got to love Aliexpress:
"Hi andy user,
Your package has been collected by our shipping partner. It is getting closer to you every minute!"
They always call me "andy user" and I have no idea how that could have happened. They of course have my full name and even if they're trying to appear friendly why lower case it and put "user" in?

Language learning has been part of me since high school. I'm solid in 2 non-English languages, crappy but survivable in 2 others. I've played with & started learning others many times.
I'm real busy rn, but language learning could be a fun thing to do for myself & make me feel like I'm still me.
But I'm stumped about my language picks. I learnt the obvious European languages in school; later tried key Asian languages. What do I want to do now?
African languages? I won't be getting a chance to use them much in Aus, & I'm unlikely to get to a stage where I can read literature.
I tried Slovenian/Slovene on a whim & really love it, but I'll never go there. Is the practical but unfun answer grind out more kanji/hanzi? Or is whimsically learning a language spoken by only 2.5 million people reasonable? I will continue struggling through with Ukrainian, 'cause I think it's important.
#LanguageLearning

if i could make love with a grammatical error, it'd be a comma splice. like why's that shit even considered one in the first place, have you ever felt the ebb and flow and oh-so-zippy tempo of modern day american conversation, mr writerman?

#WordWeavers 22/5: If you could magically write a new genre really well, which genre would you choose?
You mean like multi-classing in D&D or do you mean switch genre entirely? I think I'll stick to fantasy, thank you very much. I love my genre, so if I could just get a few levels in "fantasy writing", that'd be great, thank you 🙂

Also, John Adams was cautioned by European royalty that his Constitution gave the President more power than any monarch of Europe ever had. Minor point, I know.
Crowned as king, Trump would become no more than a tourist attraction. He'd love that, and folks could toss peanuts at him!

#Austria had great staging (who didn't love a rising mast?) and impressive vocals, but I don't think even a rave storm could get that through #Eurovision

I have not played Remtach. This review is really interesting describing this as a team fighting game with soccer as more of a theme. And for the moment to moment game play that sounds great.
But it is funny that in another way that's just soccer. TBH this game is way more soccer then FIFA is where you control a whole team.
Personally I don't love these multiplayer games. I could like this with a single player mode and imagine doing a whole career!

Parsons responds to Durant's belief the Cowboy could join Commanders with some Quinn love https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2…

Calamus 45 Full of life, sweet-blooded, compact, visible
A remarkably effective poem for the end of the cluster. Whitman talking directly to us, the reader, about the import of his poems. And with some ambition: "To one a century hence, or any number of centuries hence".
But even better, he's horny for us:
Now it is you ... seeking me,
Fancying how happy you were, if I could be with you, and become your lover
The poet is imagining us, his future readers, thinking about how we will want to be his lover. What a lusty man! Whitman is not modest.
I love it. And it's a fitting end to this series. I've greatly enjoyed reading them. Over the past 45 days I've learned better how to read Whitman, to understand his poems. And to relate to them in at least one simple way, teasing out the gayest and sexiest parts of these poems. Making them fun for myself.
I'm not quite done yet. I hope to identify my favorites of the group. I may also try my hand at reading one or two aloud.

Sonnet 122 - CXXII
Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain
Full charactered with lasting memory,
Which shall above that idle rank remain,
Beyond all date, even to eternity:
Or, at the least, so long as brain and heart
Have faculty by nature to subsist;
Till each to razed oblivion yield his part
Of thee, thy record never can be missed.
That poor retention could not so much hold,
Nor need I tallies thy dear love to score;
Ther…

My Division 2 addiction seems to be cured. I'm absoutely falling love with DayZ right now. How could I ignore this gem for so long? Brilliant game, great atmosphere, interacting with strangers as a necissity... Just wow!

I’m currently playing Jedi Outcast on the #NintendoSwitch
I played it when I was around 15 I think so about 20 years ago.
It is still a lot of fun and I love the fact that there is no auto healing but you have to hunt for medi packs.
However I could do with a bit more auto aim.
My controller skills are still very poor.

I absolutely love coding in Go. When I started about 8 or so years ago, it had simple ideas and concepts but somewhere along the way it seems people lost track of what made it good.
I've rarely wanted to reach for something like a mock library and every time I did I could get away with something simpler yet some people insist on using mock libraries. No, you don't need a mocking library.

Calamus 37 A leaf for hand in hand!
I continue to have little patience for these Whitman entreaties to American unity. The recitation of place names does little for me. But I do appreciate that he's talking more about loving unity between men than some abstract political message.
You friendly boatmen and mechanics! You roughs! ...
I wish to infuse myself among you till I see it common for you to walk hand in hand.
That's the gay part there. It's pretty mild, but still seems striking of talking about two boatmen or mechanics walking holding hands. One might even see an appeal to rough trade.
I am beginning to understand this Whitman concept of "adhesiveness", a brotherly love that could unify a nation. I still prefer a more sexual gay reading but I think his poems work in both ways.

Dallas Cowboys predicted to fix RB room with Notre Dame Heisman hopeful https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-football/news/dallas-cowboys-predicted-fix-rb-room-notre-dame-heisman-hopeful/ed44365e…

2025 NFL MVP dark horses: Ja'Marr Chase, Travis Hunter, Baker Mayfield among potential candidates https://www.nfl.com/news/2025-nfl-mvp-dark-horses-ja-marr-chase-travis-hunter-baker-mayfield-among-potential-cand…