The Magdalen Writing

@nebroadwe

I have a doctorate in English literature and work in a library, which probably explains everything you are about to read. Proud member of Vatican II's Lost Generation.

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The Magdalen Writing@nebroadwe· 15d

Two words: Magnifica Humanitas. (Aaand blocked. Urgh.)

Front page of Bluesky account fatherthomas.bluesky.social which is AI slop.

The Magdalen Writing@nebroadwe· 20d

This is one version:

St. Brigid on a cart handing a sword to a kneeling leper.

The Magdalen Writing@nebroadwe· 25d

Best Bond villain; wrong answers only.

Raymond Massey as Jonathan Brewster and Peter Lorre as Dr. Einstein in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

The Magdalen Writing@nebroadwe· Jul 31

Robert Fitzgerald’s translation! I still have my copy which is in better shape than this one. I read … carefully.

The Anchor Literary Library paperback edition of The Odyssey translated by Robert Fitzgerald with a ble cover illustrated with a white line drawing of the protagonist.

The Magdalen Writing@nebroadwe· Jun 24

TOC for a friend’s self-review for the past academic year. 10/10, no notes.

First-Year Review and Portfolio <information redacted> Assistant Professor <information redacted> Academic Year 2025-2026 Table of Contents 1. Reflections on life as a superior being. 2. Lamentations that you are not like me 3. Suggestions for your improvement 4. My life story, your inspiration 5. Musical interlude 6. Course evaluations: records of the heights I effortlessly fly to 7. A philosophy of me-ness 8. New institutional learning goals (based on me) 9. Outro feat. me

The Magdalen Writing@nebroadwe· Jun 20

On a table covered with a white crocheted cloth, an ivory bowl with a fluted edge and foot, both trimmed in gold, containing three pine cones.

The Magdalen Writing@nebroadwe· May 29

BREAKING: The Rutles have also withdrawn from the Freedom 250 Celebration.

The fictional band The Rutles in early Beatlesesque garb.

The Magdalen Writing@nebroadwe· May 24

TNG Enterprise flying way too close to an asteroid beneath caption: “You Are Interrogating This Text From the Wtong Perspective”

The Magdalen Writing@nebroadwe· May 23

So I agree that modern book-breaking makes itself a scandal and a hissing, but I am a hypocrite to the extent that I collect leaves of Anton Koberger’s 4-volume 1486-1487 Bible (ISTC ib00614000) because I love incunables and showing off early printing. And this leaf has early manuscript notes!

Leaf 2t1r of Anton Koberger’s 1486-1487 Latin Bible with text of IIII Regum (2 Kings) chapter 4 in two columns surrounded by commentary. With red initials, capital strokes and paragraph marks. Early manuscript note in Latin at foot of text columns.

Leaf 2t1v of Anton Koberger’s 1486-1487 Latin Bible with text of IIII Regum (2 Kings) chapters 4-5 in two columns surrounded by commentary. With red initials, capital strokes and paragraph marks. Early manuscript note in Latin at foot of text columns.

The Magdalen Writing@nebroadwe· May 17

Some pictures of my rose bush for a timeline cleanse.

In front of a gray tree trunk a rose bush with red roses and green leaves.

Close up of a partly open red roses with green leaves and other more open roses in the background.

The Magdalen Writing@nebroadwe· May 16

Rose bush out front is going nuts this year so I picked my mom a bouquet.

Red roses and buds with green leaves in a white sculptured porcelain vase on a white tablecloth.

The Magdalen Writing@nebroadwe· Apr 15

Drop your crime-fighting Catholics. (The two on the ends.)

From Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files, three Knights of the Cross (Michael Carpenter, Shiro, and Sanya, the first two in full regalia) and Michael’s wife, armorer, and sparring partner Charity.

The Magdalen Writing@nebroadwe· Apr 3

My cherry tree bloomed! And the pear, too!

Against a blue sky, dark branches with pale blossoms: cherry and pear trees!

The Magdalen Writing@nebroadwe· Mar 28

FINALLY managed to take my sign out for a spin! #nokings

A person in a dark hood, glasses, and an N95 mask holds up a sign with an American flag and text that reads: My country, right or wrong. If right, to be kept right. If wrong, to be set right. Senator Carl Schurz (R-MO) 1872

The Magdalen Writing@nebroadwe· Mar 5

I have questions.

From the title leaf of a collection of Dali prints: LES BIBLIOPHILES DE L’AUTOMOBILE CLUB DE FRANCE

The Magdalen Writing@nebroadwe· Feb 23

Snow. Again. I am actually happy about this. 😁

The Magdalen Writing@nebroadwe· Jan 17

Ordinarily this is my kind of day, but it’s keeping the contractors from doing stabilization work on my house, so 😬.

The Magdalen Writing@nebroadwe· Jan 3

Kyrie eleison. Christe eleison. Kyrie eleison.

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, we implore you to stop the hand of Cain. Enlighten our conscience; let not our will be done; do not abandon us to our own doing. Stop us, Lord, stop us, and when you have stopped the hand of Cain, take care of him also. He is our brother. Stop us, O Lord. Stop us. O Lord, stop the violence. Stop us. Amen.

The Magdalen Writing@nebroadwe· Dec 29

More sheep for the manger scene! Also two shepherdesses and another member of the Magi’s caravan! I love adding detail to the Christmas story.

On a cherry hunt board in front of a green-curtained window in a wall papered in cream with a pattern of nuts and leaves, a Willow Tree nativity set. Joseph and Mary holding Jesus in a wooden stable with sheep and a cat sitting on a block. An angel holding a 6-pointed star above the table. Three angels, five shepherds with sheep, goats, a donkey and a dog at left. Four bottle brush trees, three Magi, two attendants, an ox and a camel at right.

The Magdalen Writing@nebroadwe· Dec 14

Snowed a bit

Cloudy sky between snow-covered tree branches

The Magdalen Writing@nebroadwe· Dec 13

I found the Best Tag on the parish Jesse/Giving Tree. Here’s hoping some nerdlings have as happy a Christmas as I would have had! Can’t go wrong with Tolkien, Lewis, Juster, Jones, Cooper, @diane.dianeduane.com, @benhatke.bsky.social, and @tkingfisher.com, et al., right?

Red and black candy-cane-shaped paper tag with printed white label that reads, “Children’s Books”

Pile of juvenile SF books, to wit: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Lewis), So You Want to Be a Wizard (Duane), Harriet the Invincible (Vernon), Dealing With Dragons (Wrede), The Thief (Turner), The Hobbit (Tolkien), The Lightning Thief (Riordan), Dinosaurs Before Dark (Osborne), Time at the Top / All in Good Time (Ormondroyd), The Phantom Tollbooth (Juster), The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm (Farmer), The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles (Edwards), Over Sea, Under Stone (Cooper), The House With a Clock in Its Walls (Bellairs), The Book of Three (Alexander), Steel Magic (Norton), The Sheep, the Rooster, and the Duck (Phelan), Dogsbody (Jones), A Wizard of Earthsea (LeGuin), and Zita the Spacegirl (Hatke). Gateway drugs for the young reader!

The Magdalen Writing@nebroadwe· Nov 29

Pope Leo’s Alma mater shellacking Larry Summers’ employer is the college football energy I need this weekend.

Score bubble for round 1 of the FCS Championship. Harvard (9-1) 7 versus Villanova (9-2) 45, with 6:42 left in the 4th quarter. Villanova possesses the ball.

The Magdalen Writing@nebroadwe· Nov 23

So, about that leopard frozen on Kilimanjaro … ?

Very large dead cricket stuck 7/8 of the way up an interior wall.

The Magdalen Writing@nebroadwe· Nov 11

Obviously not the same thing but any time anyone brings up cats and Christmas I remember this one.

Tumblr post begins with a picture of a tiger with a gift-wrapped box in its mouth. Comment by werewolfjokewar: Santa is on strike due to global warming. All presents this year will be delivered by Sasha the Christmas Tiger. Milk and cookies may not be sufficient. Comment by thefingerfuckingfemale fury: "MUST BRING PRESENTS TO GOOD CHILDREN" "Yes good" "AND EAT THE BAD ONES" "Wait no" "EAT THEM" "sasha no" Cartoon of clawed hands holding a list (DUPREE NAUGHTY YOO YEONG NAUGHTY (TASTEY) MAN WHO BRINGS STAKES - NICE) and a quill pen. Cartoon of a tiger in a santa hat holding the list and quill pen.

The Magdalen Writing@nebroadwe· Oct 18

My fabulous but alas unused #nokings sign. My mom is on antibiotics courtesy of Medicare and should make a swift recovery. Take that, fascists!

Large sign on a stick. Next to a flying US flag are the words: My country, right or wrong. If right, to be kept right. If wrong, to be set right. Senator Carl Schurz (R-MO) 1872.

The Magdalen Writing@nebroadwe· Oct 18

I am getting a fair bit done on this silly cross stitch project, though.

Partially finished cross stitch version of the NO STEP ON SNEK meme: black and yellow snake in half-stitch between patches of full-stitch green grass above motto in black. Yellow background in progress.

The Magdalen Writing@nebroadwe· Oct 5

We are permitted to bring 2 extra books from home to be signed! I have my copy of “A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking” and a godchild’s copy of “Whiskerella.”

The Magdalen Writing@nebroadwe· Sep 12

Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:

Catherine Tate and David Tennant as Donna Noble and The Fourteenth Doctor

The Magdalen Writing@nebroadwe· Jul 8

Unfortunately when this happened I was not awake to yell, “GET OFFA MY LAWN!”

At night, an SUV (still idling) sitting on a lawn between two trees next to a small picket fence it has knocked over.

Daytime, a sidewalk bordered by scattered pieces of a low masonry retaining wall and a collapsed white picket fence.

The Magdalen Writing@nebroadwe· Mar 14

Happy Pi Day!