“Hallucination, cauchman, ectoplasm” (“Finnegans Wake”, 133.24): A mantra for an evening, a possible phrase for a T-shirt

At tonight's meeting of the Finnegans Wake Reading Group in Basel, we came across one of the many triplets based on the initials of the novel's main character, Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker: "hallucination, cauchman, ectoplasm" (133.24). Last year, I made two tie-dye T-shirts with expressions from the Wake on them

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I made these tiedye handkerchiefs with our friend Heike back in May 2005. #Basel #Switzerland #TieDyes #2005
Literary tie-dyes from Taylor Swift and Emily Dickinson to James Joyce and Elizabeth Bishop

For my Taylor Swift seminar in spring 2024, I made a tie-dye T-shirt with her name and the course number. For my Emily Dickinson seminar in ...

New design: the Stealiegon! This Grateful Dead x King Gizzard crossover design is meant to pay homage to the intergenerational nature of psychedelic music and transient communities of benevolent weirdos.

Available as stickers and Gizz-album-themed tie dyes!

All profits go towards helping me build my hippie-Hearse-camper!

#kinggizz #kglw #kgatlw #dead #gratefuldead #deadandcompany #tiedye #tiedyes #forsale #diy

As a Swiftie Deadhead or a Deadhead Swiftie, I love this comparison here: “[T]he mass of visual signifiers and concert rituals […] leave Swifties looking less like mainstream pop fans than Deadheads, albeit more prone to sequins and less interested in LSD than the Grateful Dead’s notorious travelling army of devotees.” Still, I would have compared sequins to tie-dyes not LSD!

#TaylorSwift #Swifties #TheGratefulDead #Deadheads #Sequins #TieDyes #LSD #Music #TheGuardian

https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/jun/07/taylor-swift-review-as-all-powerful-as-a-pop-star-can-be

Taylor Swift review – as all-powerful as a pop star can be

​The audience is overwhelmed by an astonishing, risk-taking, strangely intimate extravaganza – and Swift in turn is overwhelmed by them

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A baby sucks on the collar of his tie-dye jacket

When my son Miles was a baby, I made him a some tie-dye baby clothes. One of them was a jacket with a collar he would get into his mouth. Mu...