Brad B.

@bradb26.bsky.social

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Runner, reader, writer, and gardener who loves a good cocktail. Not a Republican. Metal. Fitness. Plant-based. Dodgers! Elvenar. Potatoes. God I love potatoes.

Disembodied hand holding photogenic bunch of grapes, with color ranging from light purple to green at the bottom, against a backdrop of an evergreen shrub.
A half-full carafe of pour-over coffee with a filter in the top, sitting on a black glass-top stove, with a caption: "Making a nice pour-over coffee requires patience. Before coffee. We call this "The Chemex Paradox."
Wide shot of the inside of an arena filled with people, with Bernie Sanders on the stage, speaking, in front of an American flag.
A female mallard duck floating at the edge of a small pond, facing left, next to some rocks while the male mallard stands on a rock at the edge of the pond, facing right. The email is mottled brown and white, while the male has a silver and grey body, bright orange feet, a dark brown chest, purple-black neck separated from his torso by a white ring, and a bright green head and yellow beak.
Four cedar waxwings sitting on rocks near the outflow of a small backyard pond.
A meme with a dude at the top left in an orange jacket, looking away and holding his hand as if to reject the written word "eggs" on the right. Below, same dude on the left, smiling approvingly and pointing to the text "chicken caviar" on the right.
A Negroni in a frosted coupe glass. The drink is deep red in color, with a twist of orange peel floating. The glass sits on a white hexagonal tile coaster atop a wood-grain table. There's an acoustic guitar in the background.
A red squirrel sitting in a tree branch, tail curled under him, looking toward the camera with an inquisitive look on his face.
Picture of a negroni, which is a deep red-orange cocktail, in a heavy glass with mountains etched into the bottom, steel ice cubes, and a strip of orange peel on top. The background looks to be a yule tree with white lights. The drink is sitting on a stone-slab coaster, on a wooden table top.
Freddie Mercury, lead singer for the band Queen, in white pants, no shirts, and. crown, saluting from the stage with lights behind him.
Book cover for "A People's History of the United States, 1492-Present" by Howard D. Zinn. The cover is dark blue. The top two-thirds of the cover is taken up by the title, in off-white, all capital letters. Across the top, it reads, "More than 350,000 copies sold." A green stripe below the title indicates this is the revised and updated edition. The author's name is at the bottom, also in all caps.
Book cover for "The Monkey Wrench Gang" a novel by Edward Abbey. Cover is off-white with a drawing of large red-handled monkey wrench lifting a yellow bulldozer. A person is hanging off the front end of the dozer. The book title is in all-caps at the top of the cover, with the author's name at the bottom.
Cover of Christopher McDougall's book, "Born to Run." Mostly blue sky, with a man who appears to be native North American standing on a rocky peak looking toward a distant mountain range. Title of the book in yellow across the top, followed by, in white, the subhead: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen." The author's name in yellow below that.
Cover of C.S. Lewis' book, The Chronicles of Narnia. The cover is the face of Aslan, the lion, with the title in yellow lettering at the top.
Book cover for "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer. It shows the protagonist of the book, Chris McCandless, sitting atop the bus where he lived in Alaska. The bus is tan on top and green below. The book title is in block letters in blue near the top, followed by the author's name, Jon Krakauer, in black.
A whiskey cocktail in the foreground - a maple old-fashioned if you must know, with a craft ice cube floating at the top containing cranberries and rosemary and a twisted orange peel. A bottle of 1792 bourbon is behind, next to a classic steel cocktail shaker, although this particular drink was stirred. Various other libations are behind, including a bottle of Jameson's Irish whisky, a bottle of Cabernet, and a green bottle of Molly Pratt sweet vermouth. A black stone mortar and pestle can be seen to the far right.
Book cover of "Finding Ultra" by Rich Roll. Cover is of the author wearing only shorts, running barefoot from right to left. Title in yellow at the top of the cover.
Book cover for "Encounters with the Archdruid" by John McPhee. An off-white cover, with a large photo of Yosemite National Park at the top, and the lower two-thirds of the cover taken up by the author's name in grey, and in much smaller type, the title of the book in dark blue.
Cover of the book "The Tortilla Curtain," by T. Coraghessan Boyle. The cover is orange, with a gradient to yellow in the center, with the title and author's name overlain in very brilliant varying colors.
Pink book cover with an image of a red wrench at the top and the title and author's name in black: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, by Robert M. Pirsig.
Cover of the book "The Overstay" by Richard Powers. An evergreen forest, with three concentric circles overlaid.
A book cover of "Ishmael: A Novel" by Daniel Quinn. A cream-colored background with an orange oval in the center, longer from top to bottom, overlaid by a leafy branch of some kind. The book title in red above the image and the author's name in dark green below it.
Small image of a carved Mongolian warhorse atop a walking staff, alongside a description of the current song, which is Yuve Yuve You by the Mongolian metal band The Hu.
Green and yellow background with text advertising WeedMan lawn care, with website (reedman.com) and an offer for 50% off first service.
The cover of the Anthony Burgess novel "A Clockwork Orange." Orange and yellow rectangles comprise the background, behind a cartoon drawing of a character whose only facial feature is his right eye, which appears made of a cog, perhaps from a clock. He's wearing a dark derby hat, a green shirt, and there are blue straps from overalls. The author and book title are at the top of the image, in yellow, over the orange background.
Book cover for "Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness" by Edward Abbey, showing a southwestern U.S. desert landscape under blue skies with wispy cirrus clouds.
An image of a small Asian man with a thin mustache, a flat black cap covering the very top of his bald head, and his fingers interlaced with index fingers pointing upward. It is Akiro the Wizard from the movie Conan the Barbarian.
Book cover of "The Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien. Black background with gold lettering to match the large image of the One Ring of Power.
A hand holding a cocktail glass with a delicious amber-colored drink, topped by a slightly charred orange rind atop an ice cube that has frozen orange pieces and rosemary sprigs in it.
Cover of the book "One Palestine, Complete" by Tom Segev.
Misfits "Legacy of Brutality" cover
Clouds reflecting off the Snake River running through Hells Canyon.
White-tail buck deer standing in the edge of a river.
Bumblebee on an orange marigold blossom.
Emerson, Lake and Palmer album cover