Happy Flannery O'Connor's birthday!

CHARLES BURCHFIELD Road In Early Spring, 1938

Morning lakeside walks have truly improved my life. How did I ever live without being situated between 145,628,829 bodies of water?

["This rapacious new breed prowls both alone and in packs, operating at any level! Any time! Anywhere! And with anybody! Who are they? One might be your secretary! Your doctor’s receptionist! Or a dancer in a go-go club!" Happy birthday, Lori Williams!]

someone once pointed out that the classic cartoon ghost is actually a representation of a body in a funeral shroud. I'd never realized this! but can't unsee it.

I spent some time today browsing through the hundreds & hundreds of new (to us) image cuts at Skeuomorph & pulling out my favorites. There are so many options, but the winner may be this little frog riding his velocipede

Sound on if you’re a weirdo like me and enjoy the sound of 93 years of ink-crud being picked out of a type slug with a needle 🔊

I think Canada geese are rather pretty; that is, when they’re not actively hunting you for sport.

Seems as good an excuse as any to share that one Brautigan poem that lives permanently rent free in my head.

search your camera roll for “Hell”

uhhh it’s not like this usually

Morning hikes and March blooms

Here’s the obit: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...

I was craving some great poetry today and ended up devouring @brendanconstantine.bsky.social latest volume in a single sitting. Loved every word!

Traditionally mass market paperbacks have retailed at about the same as one hour of minimum wage work. These retail at $17.99, which is what minimum wage SHOULD be (at least) if minimum wage had kept pace with inflation. So I think the price is right but our wages aren’t.

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New cube decoration, from our local (and kinda famous) local wood type/letterpress shop, ft one of my favorite modern groups:

"The body is like a sentence that invites us to rearrange it, so that its real meaning becomes clear through a series of endless anagrams." -Hans Bellmer #BOTD Untitled 1935 by #HansBellmer

After a few months of chaos, work schedules are finally aligned for the rest of the year. Looking forward to future travels together and some well earned time at home.

If you see this, post a robot.

Finally plucked Lolly Willowes off the top of my TBR pile and I am not regretting it!

I remember showing an intern my big ass rolodex (you entire career for a publicist). She said what does it do? It's my iphone address book I struggled, spun it around, picked out a card and threw it in the recycle bin. "Who was that?" Oh, he's dead.

Tom Waits recording Bone Machine (1992)

Happy adoptaversary to my gentle giant ginger beastie 🐈

During his early childhood, my grandfather was quite literally raised in a barn

In case you wanted help with farmating!

I might be a tiny bit biased because I work there but I think Merrymac does some of the finest timeline cleansing on bluesky. A+ follow IMO.

Ida Lupino portrait for “The Hard Way” (1943)

I’m once again leading on online workshop for Brooklyn Poets, if you’re into that sort of thing.

My brand new calipers arrive today and I’m so eager to find the right replacement crank 🎶

Author Robert Greene on A Violent Life. Freshly restocked, link in bio.

It’s warm enough to get back to garage projects! I am thisclose to getting the victrola working again, but I bought the wrong size replacement arm and all the teflon tape in the world couldn’t fix it. However, it held long enough so I could crank it and hear sound, so I’m feeling hopeful.

The Ex-Files—a survey of some of the Ex-titled books (Ex-Husband, -Mistress, -Racketeer, -Judge, -"It," -etc.) inspired by (or leeching off) the success of Ursula Parrott's 1929 novel, Ex-Wife. neglectedbooks.com/?...

Good morning! 🦴

[The sketchbook of a Victorian girl, Emily M. Madden, featuring the adventures of her cat, Mouton.] wellcomecollection.org/works/rzwecsjy

L.A. local? Untamed, Danse Macabre, and A Violent Life are restocked and available for purchase at Stories Books and Café (find them right across from the register) 📚

Aren't they all.

Marta Hegemann Untitled c. 1919-20

Spotted the first signs of spring returning today, as the last of the snow melts and the daffodils are just beginning to sprout 🌱

118 days later 🎃

No. Really. I will be insufferable (and extremely flattered) by this blurb for a good long while…

Had the luxury of a lie-in this morning. Nothing beats kitten cuddles and a good book before getting the ball rolling.