InstaPunk Returns

This was buried in the tomb of Facebooks Past and in my 40,000-some image files. It was a Christmas project I put together for fun in 2018, when it looked like we had at least a chance to save the country from Satanic lefties. Issue still in doubt, as some of the graphics below will indicate. But it’s still okay to laugh. The FBI doesn’t SWAT you just for laughing yet. You’ll notice a significant percentage of Old World and Celtic content, but it’s an old song after all, and those of us who still know all the words tend to be more Celts than not. So no apologies. For you youngsters, the “Partridge in the Pear Tree” below is Alan Partridge, aka Steve Coogan, who has attracted notice since 2018 only for embarrassing himself by signing some absurd pro-Hamas letter from gay UK actors (!?) to all us Jew lovers. Oh well. It’s not my practice to edit my own past, and I haven’t done it here, although I did have to recreate a couple of the graphic references I couldn’t find. Blame technology....

  The current version was introduced in the year of my own birth, 1953. Background : Yes, there really is something called The Harvard Book . Compiled by a fittingly hyphenated Harvard man named William Bentinck-Smith who ran the Harvard Alumni organization in the late 1940s. The edition shown above was his brainchild and went on to transform what had been a tradition into an institution. It has its own Facebook Page to this day, the point of which is to describe the venerable crimson volume as a prestigious book prize distributed by approximately 2,000 secondary schools, as   follows: <<The Harvard Book Prize is awarded to an outstanding junior year student selected by the faculty of each participating high school, based on unmistakable excellence in scholarship, exceptional strength of character and significant contributions to school and/or community. Each winner receives a personally inscribed copy of "The Harvard Book," a Prize presented annually in nearly 2,000 hi...

  An On-Line Book This is one that can’t be exported to Amazon print or Kindle e-books because of the kind of writer I am. I use links and graphics and videos the way other writers use punctuation, italics, and boldface, for the purpose of enhancing the experience of reading. The pieces included here were actually chosen by the search functions at three of my websites, lists that were summoned by a single word, “consciousness.” In the case of this app, I did not use all the pieces listed and I did a second search for the word “generations” because consciousness evolves or devolves or otherwise changes through time. Only a couple titles were added because of the second search. That explains what’s here. It’s by no means everything I have written on the subject, but I have always relied on external limiting functions because I can’t stop connecting and connecting things in my head and need outside agency when it comes to selecting content for collections. Why the content of this book...