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Hi all,

Today's header features some shots from Portugal's National Maritime Museum. More info and more pictures here: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/museu-de-marinha

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MARTINI BRINGS THE BOATPORMS!!!!

(thank you and welcome back! :] )

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No pics of Captain Reilly?

https://i.imgflip.com/2yqn6f.jpg

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It’s weird that the Portuguese don’t really feature him in their otherwise-thorough history of nautical exploration.

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"I'm on a boat motherfucker, don't you ever forget!"

https://youtu.be/k8F3UE9qFsg?si=1ug55tuda6nPMic_

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LOL!

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Welcome back! You were missed.

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Aw. thanks friend!

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Those are nice, thanks for them! Those maps are gorgeous and I’d like the open boat with the blue work on the bow, plz and ty.

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We're going to the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA, next week with ome of Mrs. Mild's college buddies and her spousal unit.

There's some exhibit we're going to see (I forget which), but I like looking at their model ship collection. They also have an entire house from China, with a center courtyard and rooms for several generations.

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That house is the best thing in Salem! Completely unexpected when we spent the day there a few years back, we've talked about it ever since. Anyone near there should v over to that museum and spend an afternoon. It's stunning!...

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Ah, the Yin Yu Tang house. That is an excellent museum and and the house an excellent exhibit.

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Ta, Martini, I couldn't pull the name from my brain.

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That globe is a killer.

WANT!

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I said the same thing when I saw it!

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I have been there! It is way, way cool.

It's also there that I first learned about Fernão Mendes Pinto, the nutty Portuguese explorer who apparently made up half the stuff that never happened on half the voyages he never took, thus creating Portugal's wildest work of speculative historical "fiction," "The Travels of Mendes Pinto." Okay, maybe not half. But still, very entertaining book.

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What incredibly beautiful interiors!

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The cabins look snug and cosy! Probably not for months at a time, though.

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I'm trying to imagine what it must have been like to have to spend weeks and perhaps months inside of those ships as they sailed across not always calm seas.

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I would have gone through my rum rations pretty quickly.

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I would've exhausted the rum rations all too swiftly.

I'm not particularly relaxed on boats.

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What a fascinating museum!! I love stuff like this.

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You might like the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. There is a cod fishing schooner and another more modern ship, lots of ship models, and good grief you would not want that job. https://fisheriesmuseum.novascotia.ca/

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Interesting, the friend we're meeting up with spent summers up in. St John's, Newfoundland. Mrs Mild would go up there, too.

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Go to the Crow’s Nest! It’s hard to miss it from the northeast end of downtown, it’s got a (real, from a u-boat!) periscope sticking out the roof. You may have to find a veteran to bring you in (it’s open to members or veterans of *any* allied military service). But it’s an officer’s club from WWII, for sailors that were literally fighting the Battle of the Atlantic as soon as they left the harbor. It’s really just a bar, but one decorated with original art from the ships that were fighting. And a periscope.

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Oh, that does look cool. Thanks!

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They call them "maritime museums" but how many of them are actually floating around on the ocean, huh? Huh? I'm starting a Change.org petition to rename each maritime museum a "landlubbers' museum" unless and until it's free floating and under sail.

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The map of Brasil is fun! So is Brasil.

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Henry the Navigator's birthday was yesterday, iirc.

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My son's nickname. Even as a preschooler, if he went somewhere one time, he never forgot how to get there. He was a second grader telling me where to drive in Fort Worth. He was pretty accurate.

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My Dad, may he RIP, used to have me “navigate” in the front seat (the copilot’s seat) of the car while my sibs slept in the back. This was usually on trips to the beach. Taught me to read a map and do time, speed, distance in my head. I can only read a map on the East Coast, when Mr S and I were traveling in CA, I whizzed us right through San Francisco because I had the ocean on the right, where it belongs.

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LOL! I am FINALLY getting ocean on left here after 32 years. Otherwise the beach is to the right looking north in my world typically.

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When we moved to LA from NY, the hardest part was remembering that the ocean was now on the left, rather than on the right.

Such things change a girl.

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Same here except I went to San Francisco. We’re only 20 minutes from the beach and East coasters marvel that we don’t go all the time. In LA it’s a little warmer so one WANTS to go to the coast but it’s usually pretty chilly especially in the summer.

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Oh, well then the timing is nearly perfect!

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Yep. 3/4/1394.

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On your recommendation we picked up a bottle of the pear liqueur. Dang that's tasty, and we plan to use it in hot toddy experiments this weekend. Thanks!

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Regarding the Atlantic thing on Evangelicals: " the evangelical subculture worked for decades to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism." A really old idea in historical Christianity, in hoc signo vinces, Crusades, whatnot.

Comparing that with this piece on liberal Zionism by Noah Friedman in the WaPo today. gift link https://wapo.st/48J3ddw read it for yourself

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"[W]omen (!!!) who buy houses (!!!!!!!) without even having husbands! … (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)"

No way! That can't possibly be legal, can it?

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First voting, then bank accounts and now buying houses! It's anarchy I tell ya! Jesus likely does not approve.

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I hate to break it to you, but I can assure you, as a title examiner, that the ladies have been doing that real-estate-owning thing all by themselves, whether or not they have a husband, for more than a century. This is not at all a recent society-going-to-hell-in-a-handbasket thing; we've been speeding on that path for so long. I don't know what's taking the chickens so long. Maybe the real-estate solo ladies are hiding the roosts.

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This is just to say

I have eaten

the tabs

that were in

the icebox

and which

you were probably

saving

for after breakfast

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Why is that voice … ah! Got it!

Billy Collins

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Huge roll of eyes from me over "gig tripping." Some Dead fans have been doing that since the late 60s. Then there's the Phish fans, the DMB fans, and every modern artist followed by people with rich parents, rich spouses, and trust funds to burn. PFFFFttt!

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Guess I'm a trendsetter. I bought my own house when I was 28, back when you could buy a house for $60k...

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i bought my house because i was sick of hearing my neighbor have sex thru the apartment walls i was renting after getting divorced.

also, that was in 1997 so way to go with the trending crap NYT.

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Yeah, bought mine in 1985.

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I posted this last week for last week's Primary - I'll post again for SUPER FRIGGIN' TUESDAY

https://substack.com/profile/5922399-paxpax/note/c-50467806?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=3ixr3

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Gift link to WaPo's Super Tuesday updates: https://wapo.st/49C7PU1

I'll repost if a topical article goes up. :)

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Quick story. Back in '17 my cousin's daughter was the lead in The Red Shoes at The Gate Theatre in Dublin. She was in it with her then-beau, none other than the aforementioned Paul Mescal.

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I know nunya care but Facebook is globally down this morning. EEK

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Evan, tour the distillery next time you are in the Bay Area. And try the absinthe.

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If you haven’t seen “All of us Strangers” I highly recommend you do. Aside from

Mescal you get the amazing Andrew Scott.

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I got myself up out of bed on Saturday to go to the movie theater for a 10:30 house of the (subtitled) Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba "movie" (last episode of current series arc, first one of the upcoming arc) because it was actually in a theater for more than a day in this silly little town and I wish to encourage this, with my money. So worth it to see that whole thing on a screen the size of the whole house I grew up in, completely alone because ain't no one else getting up during hangover time to go read a movie. This weekend I want to see "Drive Away Dolls" before it peels out; "All of Us Strangers" is already in my hulu list for so many reasons, I'll just bump it up the order a bit.

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The elderly gentleman who lives (lived, apparently?) across the street from us has not had his home aides visit in a bit and there are now a giant garbage bin and a "Caring Transitions" truck parked in his driveway. So either he died (I haven't seen an obituary) or he has moved into a care facility. He was a stickler for his lawn and home care, even at 97 years old.

We hardly ever saw him, but we were always friendly with the home aides. I wish him all the best, but we are sort of excited to see a nice family home come to market that hopefully will be bought by a younger family. Our street had a lot of older folks aging in place when we first moved here, and now there is starting to be some turnover.

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My neighborhood has been in a constant state of flux since before I moved here. Some families have been here for three generations, and one across the road from me is 2nd, 3rd and 4th generations all at once! The oldest house in town is four doors down, and still owned by the same family who built it in the 1860s. I've seen one house change hands four times since I've been here. I was the new guy in the hood when I bought mine in 2013. Now I'm just another cranky old guy with a lawn for you to get off of.

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Heritage Foundation Department of Life? This would be the Heritage Foundation that declared a few years back, that there were no real poor people in the United States because almost all people had indoor toilets, and most people had access to a refrigerator? Oh, perfect.

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