Can Mr. Bloom's cat forecast the weather?

Is Mr. Bloom going to lose his daughter as well as his wife?

Mr. Bloom reflects on having a teenage daughter.

What a delicious breakfast a kidney makes.

Mr. Bloom's soft porn stirs his thoughts of reincarnation.

Frank's bonus edition looks at the man who wrote The Odyssey. Or did he? And was it a man?

Mr. Bloom's interest is whipped up by Ruby, the Pride of the Ring.

Do we hear a different kind of chamber music?

Poor Mr. Bloom fears the local Don Giovanni.

Mr. Bloom prepares a tray and keeps it in the family.

Mr. Bloom has fond but slightly unhealthy memories of  birthday gifts.

Mr. Bloom prepares breakfast but will the cat eat pork?

Mr. Bloom delivers the mail and a pain to his own heart.

Bloom's mood changes: he seems to have a cloud over him... 

Bloom's mood changes: he seems to have a cloud over him... 

Mr. Bloom experiences a mood change - he's literally under a cloud.

Mr. Bloom reminisces about Jewish friends and their harvest festivals.

Mr. Bloom, walking along the street, contemplates the sale of olive groves in the Middle East. 

Mr Bloom thinks about the girl next door, but her boyfriend is a cop.

The twelfth of Frank's "Baker's Dozen" podcast mini-essays; and this time he gives some added background to the major characters in Ulysses. 

Who's telling this story - Mr. Bloom or Mr. Joyce?

A girl in the butcher's shop excites Leopold Bloom.

Leopold Bloom licks his lips at sausages and hears children singing.

Mr. Bloom calculates how a barman rises to own a pub.

A barman makes an astounding declaration to Mr. Bloom

Mr. Bloom ponders the sunburst, the bank of Ireland, and independence, among other things.

Mr. Bloom imagines sweet music, and we think of a sweet sad song.

Mr. Bloom is musing on exotic flavors of the east, and crusty hot bread from Dublin

Mr. Bloom leaves home, but how will he get back in again?

As Mr. Bloom prepares breakfast for his wife, he thinks of her father, the Major.

We meet one of literature's most famous and delightful characters, Leopold Bloom of Eccles Street Dublin. 

Frank casts a brief backward glance over ChapterThree.

Yet another Baker's Dozen edition: The Introduction from the brand-new eBook, re: Joyce Volume One, which contains the transcripts of the first dozen podcasts.

In which Stephen, his teeth bothering him, leaves Sandymount Strand as Chapter Three ends.

Here we have a delightfully tricky cluster of references that range from Satan to a horse race in France.

Stephen has a few zombie thoughts about how a corpse will be changed by the sea.

Stephen listens to the rhythm of the waves and thinks of weavers at the loom.

 Stephen makes a contribution to the seven seas. 

Stephen considers having put himself in other people’s shoes.

Stephen has an unhealthy thought for the Book of Genesis.

 Touch & Go, Stephen dreams of yellow stockings and apple dumplings.

In which Stephen, naughty boy, takes the meaning of “ineluctable” a little farther.

In chapter 3 Frank discusses emblematic illustrations, bishops, religion and Aristotle.

As Stephen continues to write poetry we learn of Cassiopeia, augurs and their flights of birds, along with Freud, Jung, and Telemachus.

Frank discusses two quotes, one simple, one opaque, the latter filled with hidden symbolism, sexual desire and the connections that make them sing.

 Frank talks about Sylvia Beach and her part in brining Ulysses to the world. 

Frank discusses Joycean phrases including "Pin it Down" along with actor Kevin Spacey.

Stephen still on Sandymount. "Omnis caro ad te veniet." A pale vampire, and Douglas Hyde. Hamlet's tablets.

Still Proteus, still on Sandymount Strand, Stephen watches the "gypsy woman" pass. The handmaid of the moon. Bride-, child-, and death-beds.

The couple passes Stephen on the beach, and he wonders if the woman wonders about him - or his hat. Saint James, Hamlet, and Eve.

A bit of song: The Rogue's Delight and The Canting Academy. Morose delectation. Stephen muses on monkwords versus roguewords.

Stephen contemplates the lingo of rogues, and Frank introduces us to Thomas Harman and Richard Head.

The cocklepickers become Gypsies in Stephen's mind. Bing awast to Romeville.

Stephen's dream, almost. Haroun al Raschid. Adverb becomes verb.

The dogs digs; Thomas Gray's Elegy. Spouse-breach and pards, and Brunetto Latini's Tesoretto.

Tatters, the cocklepickers' dog, encounters a fallen comrade on Sandymount Strand and is called away. In Memoriam.

Still on Sandymount Strand: a dog, depicted with a painter's eye, barks at the sea. Heraldry. Seamorse… or seamouse?