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Call me Ishmael.

2:48 PM December 17th from web

Have decided to go see watery part of world. Wish me luck!

4:09 PM December 17th from web

Rooming for night at Spouter Inn. Nice place. Popular, too. Needs better lighting tho.

6:21 PM December 17th from web

Dumplings for supper!

7:08 PM December 17th from web

Holy &?@%!!! Somebody's in my &%$ ROOM!!!!

9:59 PM December 17th from web

New guy's name is Queequeg. Not a bad dude. Righteous tats. My new BFF? (Joke.)

7:04 AM December 18th from web

Me and the Queeqster taking job on whaling ship Pequod. Cool beans!

12:46 PM December 20th from web

Anybody seen the captain around here?

1:16 PM December 23 from web

Saw Capt. Ahab today. Big scar. Peg leg. Cellini's cast Perseus, all bronze-like. What a character!

8:23 AM December 25 from web

The whale-fishery furnishes an asylum for many romantic, melancholy, young men, disgusted with the carking cares of earth. I'm just sayin'.

3:41 PM January 3 from web

Captain A. has major resentment against big white whale. Thinks we should, too. Whiskey Tango --?

2:06 PM January 5 from web

Am beginning to grok what Elijah meant about a man's soul being like a fifth wheel to a wagon. I think.

10:47 PM January 11 from web

Stubb killed a whale today!! http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21l/21l.705/f03/studymaterials/melvilleimages/garneray1.jpg

5:19 PM January 13 from web

Stubb is a killing MACHINE!

4:08 PM January 15 from web

Want to give a shout-out to all my followers. You guys ROCK!!

11:08 PM January 16 from web

No big lecture, but at one time greatest whaling people in the world, Dutch and Germans, are now among least. Truth.

9:23 AM January 17 from web

Famous whalemen: Perseus, St. George. "Thou art as a lion of the waters, and as a dragon of the sea," saith Ezekiel. (Dragon = whale.)

8:15 PM January 17 from web

You ain't smelled nuthin' til you've smelled blasted whale on open sea. Worse than Assyrian city in the plague. Boom-shaka-laka!

9:21 AM January 23 from web

This is going to sound funny, but I spent the entire morning squeezing sperm with my shipmates.

12:31 PM January 25 from web

Let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness, I say.

12:32 PM January 25 from web

Biscuits again for lunch. Urp!

1:01 PM January 26 from web

Take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe. Put a bunch of people together and they suck.

7:31 PM January 27 from web

We're all having a 'whale of a time' here! (That's right, I WENT THERE. Sue me!)

11:49 AM January 28 from web

Queegster's not feeling too hot.

9:33 PM January 28 from web

Tuesday is snoozeday? Not on a whaling ship! There's always something to do around here. Right now I'm swabbing.

7:14 AM January 29 from web

Queequeg is having a coffin made. No joke. This is serious s---.

8:21 AM January 29 from web

Someone needs to have a heart-to-heart with Capt. Ahab. He is totally OCD on this white-whale thing. #mobydick

12:44 PM January 30 from web

The Queegster back in fighting trim. Mad props to all of you who sent him wishes!!!

2:02 PM January 30 from web

If I hear 'Hast seen the White Whale?' one more time . . . . #mobydick

9:19 PM January 31 from web

ICYMI: I'll be on GMA to talk about my whale book deal Friday. Get me MAKEUP!! (LOL)

5:15 AM February 2 from web

Meet strangest people on high seas. Ask me about gay Bachelor commander. Not what you think!

8:37 PM February 3 from web

Hast seen white whale? Squawk! Hast seen white whale? Squawk! (Makes parrot noises.) Dude, give it a REST! #mobydick

5:16 PM February 4 from web

Capt. A. has been whaling 40 years now. Biblical!

10:27 PM Februry 5 from web

Capt. A and Tashtego spotted M-B! http://media.photobucket.com/image/Capt.%20Ahab%20and%20Tashtego/thidarat2006/Jun06/mobytype.jpg #mobydick

6:08 PM February 8 from web

oh crap stove boat #mobydick

8:41 PM February 8 from web

OMG M-B just killed Fedallah #mobydick

3:21 PM February 9 from web

OMG M-B just sank Pequod #mobydick

4:09 PM February 10 from TwitterFon

Ahab last seen lashed to M-B serves him right crazy old coot. #mobydick

4:11 PM February 10 TwitterFon

It's like that Gloria Gaynor song -- I will survive. Peace out 4 now.

8:15 PM February 10 from TwitterFon

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

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