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Saturday, March 29, 2025

The White Whale: A BotchuLit

Call me Ishmael, 
a clam shlemiel --  
as opposed to, say, a mussel shlimazel 
(though neither's a kosher meal). 

   -- Ulysses Poe and Herman Melville

Of Pontiffs and Potables

Each verse in the  poem  below selects  from two to four  beverages, (pick'd  poisons), the  last- mentioned of which  is always crème d...