SEGUE, SEGUE, SATURDAY
From my Substack archives: Segue Segue, SaturdayCindy Phillips, Jun 28, 2025 I love a slooooow segue; the learning is the aphrodisiac, and I type my own em dashes – because I know where to use one – while I navigate…
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So long, WordPress, hello, Substack (for a while…)
I’ll be back soon, writing regularly on everything from history and culture to the odd bit of kitchen-sink philosophy. Need a distraction from the news? Yesterday’s piece covered the perfect album for a pending world war, how I came to…
Doughnuts and Dreams: Of Presidents, Pastries, and Presley’s Private Pain
Today's post unwraps a curious blend of faith, folklore, and that feeling of being just a little bit too clever for your own good. Featuring literary gossip, a nod to 90s rock lyrics, and a moral hidden in plain sight. 🍷📚
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You’re So Vain, You Probably Think This Blog Is About Pigs
My birthday calendar says we’ve got Orwell and Carly Simon on the same day? That’s literary-political sass and 70s self-aware sparkle rolled into one. Delicious! “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” That’s probably the…
Ambrose Bierce and Mick Ralphs, Wondernauts
“Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.” Ambrose Bierce I told Aggie I almost named him Ambrose, so many years ago, when I thought he was only going to be a fourteen-day foster. Ambrose Bierce was…
WHILE THERE IS STILL TIME
What do YOU need to write before it’s too late? From a happy author: “Cindy helped me produce an heirloom of incalculable worth to my extended family and future generations. I wanted to give it to them while there is…
CAN WE UNRAVEL THE BAMBOOZLE?
We’ve got ourselves a new cabinet, a brand new South African government; anything could happen. It’s all subjunctive, it’s all ‘what if this happens’, or ‘why didn’t they…’, that’s what history is, subjunctive. Like the course of any human life,…
MUSIC TO SLIT YOUR WRISTS BY?
It’s the anniversary of the death of Mahler. I’ve been ferreting out bits about his miserable messy life this week, because of Gropius, but I mustn’t digress to architecture here. Mahler did therapy with Freud, but he was scared so…
Chasing after Lijsbeth Arabus
Takes more than combat gear to make a man Takes more than a license for a gun Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can A gentleman will walk but never run If “manners maketh man” as someone said He’s…