Male Luna Moth. Measuring approx. 4.5” from antennae to the elongated tails of the wings. Each wing was roughly 3”, and the wingspan would have been roughly 6”. #lunamoth

Misted Alocasia Zebrina stem, illuminated by a cast spectrum of light. #rainbow #spectrum #alocasia

Expanding the distorted, refracted spectrum of light. (Slowly opening the old glass door through which the light from crystals in the front window was passing).

Toad, Katherine Dunn. Purchased when released but put off reading due to negative reviews claiming that none of the characters are likeable. I really enjoyed it, nearly as much as Geek Love. The story of a struggling, flawed, lonely, awkward woman. Felt a real connection to the main character. Bk6&7

Spectrum of colour on baseboard through old glass pane. #rainbow #spectrum #refraction

Had a visitor for a bit more than a week, it went by far too fast. Our last night with Shadow. (I’m repairing the teeth on the anatomical skull, and she likes to be involved in everything)

Another slightly shorted Nereid Worm. Found at Duck Pond Beach in the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick Canada. Near the end of the video the worm appears to get stuck under a piece of seaweed, and inflates part of its body, under the head, to free itself. #nereidworm #bayoffundy #tidalpool

A 3 inch Nereid worm, also know as bristleworms, swimming at Duck Pond Beach, in the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick Canada.

Two by Dr Seuss. The Seven Lady Godivas. An adult oriented book about 7 naturist daughters, seeking horse facts. Fun-ish but lacked the whimsey of Seuss’s more childish works. Horton and the Kwuggerbug. Some stories & minimal art released posthumously. More money-grab than something essential. B3&4.

Project Lambda - Paul O’M. Welles, ‘79, & Queer Free - Alabama Birdstone, ‘81. Genocide of queer people by the religious right in the US. Lambda is well written but w straightwashed “masc” wealthy gays, Queer Free needed an editor and a rewrite but had more believable, sexual, queer characters. B1&2

Another Repair. Things went more smoothly this time, this clay is better suited to sealing cracks than sculpting. Bossons, Legend Products Chalkware. King Henry VIII. #Bossons #Chalkware #LegendProducts #KingHenrryVIII

Bossons Chalkware, titled “Syrian”. My aunt gifted me 20 of these busts. As a child her wall of heads terrified & excited me. Many are chipped. Not perfect repair, the air dry clay shrinks considerably but with some wood glue and acrylic paint it will do for displaying them. #Bossons #Chalkware

Notes from a Marriage, by Gavin Geoffrey Dillard. So-so. Read in less than half an hour. Photos are mediocre, poems meander and had me wanting to be finished with it sooner. Written in 1983 and rereleased for some unknown reason. Thankfully inexpensive. Book 25 and last one for the year.

I’d have defected too. Nothing sounds sadder to me than a conga line at a conservative Christmas part. #michaelma #cpc #lpc #liberalparty #conservativeparty #jamiljivani

Last Summer at Bluefish Cove by Jane Chambers. A great play. Close-knit group of lesbian friends are surprised to find that a recently divorced straight woman has rented a cabins in their usual summer vacation spot. Together they face insecurities, jealousy, preconceived notions, & cancer. Book 24

“Can you Imagine, the Art and Life of Yoko Ono” by Lisa Tolin artwork by Yas Imamura & “Ono-isms” by Yoko Ono edited by Larry Warsh. Can you Imagine was charming, simple & pure with beautiful art. Ono-isms should have been better, there are hundreds of far more interesting Yoko quotes. Books 22 & 23

“Moritz” Bob Herron “Slashed to Ribbons in Defense of Love and other stories” Felice Picano. Queer books from ‘82. Nostalgic for another time. Moritz a light hearted sex comedy about a big dicked country boy moving to NY. Slashed to Ribbons a variety of tales some dark, some emotional. Books 20 & 21

The Official Sex Manual by Gerald Sussman nearly broke my brain. I had expected a prim & sterile book written in 1965, not a sex guide for an unknown life form. Part of me thought it was a modern hoax made to look like an older book. It makes sense only when you consider hallucinogenics. Book 19.

Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy Halloween 2025 - Superhero Party. DIY costumes. From SpongeBob SquarePants #mermaiman #barnacleboy #spongebob

The Normal Heart and Destiny of Me - Larry Kramer, Poems for Lost and Un-Lost boys - Michael Lassell. Plays and poetry on gay life in the 80s/AIDS. Loved the Normal Heart, I’ll look up the film. Turns out poetry may not be for me, I was lost and drifted durning most of Lassell’s. Books 16, 17 & 18.

Studio Ghibli booth at Umami Kid. Best meal out I’ve had in a long time. Delicious! #umamikid

“Mona of the Manor” was enjoyable, last book in the Tales of the City series. “Misadventures in the (213)” tried so hard to be in the same vein as Tales of the... It suffers from dull humour, bad writing, pomp & racism. Jam packed with a list of celebrity names no one cares/ed about. Books 14 & 15.

THE WAR INDUSTRY AND THE PEACE INDUSTRY Yoko Ono at the 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia, 30 May 2007. #powertothepeople

Plants are thriving in all this sunlight.

“Mom! He called me a Queer Again!

Order or disorder. Everything depends on your perspective.

Found lamps in a box on the curb, 1 had a small piece broken off. Made a quick mould with putty, froze it, filled it with J-B Weld Steelstik & stuck it on using Gorilla Glue. Not a perfect match, but after some trimming, shaping & mixing a few shade of metallic paint, it will do. Now to find Shades!

My mother gifted me her childhood tricycle, it now sits on the hearth of our fireplace draped in heart-leaf philodendron.

2 weeks grows, from just poking through to a 10” leaf. Little red arrow showing the leaf starting to poke through on the 29th of May. Monstera Deliciosa.

The birds and the bees and the Michaels with cotton swabs. Pollinating my reverse spider plant.

Late evening sun makes constatations in the crystal web I made using old discarded chandelier crystals.

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe Minicomic Collection. At 1200+ pages a painfully heavy book to read. The content started off promising & nostalgic, but quickly spiralled into lazy writing to sell increasingly stupid products. A handful of She-Ra and later He-Man comics thrown in. Book 13.

Decade Dance - Michael Lassell. Queer 80s Poetry. The attached poem, How to watch your Brother Die, makes me weepy every time. Book 12

Desperate Visions - Interviews & Essays by Jack Stevenson. Stand out chapter, the interview of Jean Hill, so much life! We Need a full biography on her life. John Waters, Divine & Mary Vivian Pierce were decent, Mink Stole was pompous & full of herself. The Kuchar Bros were ok, but sluggish. Book 11

The Venus Complex - Barbie Wilde. Disgusting and disturbing. Written as though it were the diary of a serial killer/rapist. I stopped reading in disgust a few times and had to remind myself it was written by a female author, not by a psychotic, misogynist, incel, before getting back into it. Book 10

Trans rights are human rights. PM Mark Carney dedicated to defending access to healthcare for ALL Canadians. This includes our transgender family friends and loved ones. #lgbtq

PM Mark Carney will defend the rights of all Canadians, without exception. #markcarney #liberalpartyofcanad #lgbtq #canada #lpc ca.news.yahoo.com/lgbtq-groups...

The Power of Judyism - Judy Tenuta. Wanted this to be better Judy is best heard/seen & doesn’t translate well to written word. I could hear her voice clearly while reading but her disjointed rants/outburst come off more confusing than charmingly odd. The book/humour did not age well. A+ Cover Book 9

Armistead Maupin. Omnibus of 3 books - Michael Tolliver Lives, Mary Ann in Autumn, The Days of Anna Madrigal. Finishing out the series, and may end it here, on a high note with everything nicely wrapped up. The reviews for the new book are not positive. Books 5, 7 & 8.

When ever I see this billboard around town these two always pops into my head. I don’t mean this in a terrible way, they both just look like such big personality characters. #labyrinth

A lovely little love song to ourselves. youtu.be/QjoMj37NF8c?...

Last interview All we are saying – John Lennon & Yoko Ono. David Sheff Surprised I enjoyed this, I’m not a Lennon fan but he doesn’t come of smarmy here. Read it because David Sheff is soon releasing a book on Yoko. Two months before his murder, they seem like a normal, slightly kooky couple. Book 6

The plight of the Saint John Polar Bear. #polarbear #trash #garbage #trashtreasures #sjnb #saintawesome

You believe that you live in the land of the free & the home of the brave HA! You live in the most controlled society on this planet! This is the ultimate tyranny against humanity! You have been controlled like sheep by those who think they own you You have been deprived of knowledge #ninahagen #USA

A gift from the sun. A little light play on the ceiling. Some projection, reflection and refraction.

Zen Flesh, Zen Bones. A collection of Zen and pre-Zen writings I was enthralled by 1/2 of this book & the last 1/4. Poems/fables/stories to provoke enlightenment. 1/4 of it is dedicated to Koans, which as it turns out I’m not enlightened enough to even find interesting. I won’t delve deeper. Book 4

Siblings & significant others.

Friday night, spinsteresque activity. Arrange and whittle down dried white roses to fit into the barrel of the musket that we have mounted over our mantel.

Found this ivory figure, missing an arm, in a box with others. Moulded her one with J-B Weld Plastic Weld epoxy putty. Then carved it with an exacto knife. Used sharpie markers, thinned with rubbing alcohol, to make a closer colour match. She now lives in my bonsai #diy #jbweld #sharpie #plasticweld