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Artist; writer; work: publishing, higher ed, theatre; volunteer w marine animals; curious about everything. Children's Illustrated Clausewitz: helios.house/books/childrens-clausewitz Lists: limulus.ghost.io Is it OK if I bring my dog?

Ink drawing of a weedy sea dragon next to the words "fascism will never love you back"
Ink drawing of a weedy seahorse with "Fascism will never love you back" written beside it.
Digital cartoon line drawing of a horse from behind. Backside, legs, ears and part of head drawn in a bay tone, mane, tail, and hooves in black.
Stuffed rooster with a white head and white wing tips, a black body speckled with white, a red comb and peach colored break, and very funny little human sitting style legs with funny little peach feet.
Classic xkcd comic "Duty Calls" showing a stick-figure person sitting at a computer having the following dialogue with someone out of frame: -Are you coming to bed? -I can't. This is important. -What? -Someone is *wrong* on the internet.
Incredibly badass logo for the Boston Banshees. Navy background with most text and image picked out in two silver tones Crescent moon at the top, then a screeching banshee face, then the words Boston Banshees and then xv at the bottom. Trim, banshee eyes, and Boston highlighted in red.
A white curtain covering a window, with the lower halves of two cats, one black, one dilute tortoiseshell, visible below as they stand on their hind legs looking out the window
On the right, a new tray of Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolors, 48 colors (pan). On the left, the inside of the lid, with a chart of all the colors, with the names and numbers of the colors already printed on the chart in Japanese and English, each name at the top of a square on which I have painted a dab of the named color.
Soccer pitch with players running across, the opposite side of the stadium horseshoe behind them with the lights making bright diagonal slashes across the top of the image. Everybody watches women's sports.
Watercolor of the earth, showing Africa, Antarctica and the Middle East, overlaid with the following poem in ink: Earth is the source of ever song you've ever heard, every feather on every bird, every poem ever written, every puppy, every kitten, every leaf on every tree, all the honey from every bee, every painting ever made, every egg ever laid, every snail in every shell, every wish in every well, every page ever turned, every campfire ever burned, every bird that has ever sung, every fish that has ever swum, every flower, every petal, every vine and every nettle, every lion, bear, and tiger, every fox, raccoon, and spider, every zebra, elk, and moose, every otter, deer, and goose, every walrus, shark, and whale, every manatee, seal, and snail, every play ever performed, every castle ever stormed, every wild animal and pet, every person you've ever met, every daughter and every son, you, and me, and everyone: everyone who has ever washed a car, fed the ducks, wished on a star, everyone who has ever brewed some tea, everyone who has ever snored or coughed or sneezed, everyone who has caught frogs in a pond, everyone who has hugged their mom, everyone who has watched a sunrise, everyone who has laughed or smiled or cried, everyone who has danced or sung, kicked a ball, or missed someone, everyone who has rowed a boat, fixed a motor, or cracked a joke, everyone who has yawned or yelled, made an omelet, or climbed a hill, everyone who has taken a bath, built a house, or practiced math, everyone who has knit a sweater, watched a movie, written a letter, everyone who has kicked a ball, made a friend, or climbed a wall, everyone who has made a new start, or loved someone with all their heart.
Brown and white hound dog in the center of the frame sniffing his way across a meadow of tall dry grass. Tall yellow grass tufts come out of shorter green grass in the foreground mixed with some bare dark shrubs. In the background is a treeline of pines mixed with bare deciduous trees. Overhead is a cloudy sky.
Highlighted text which reads: "Every CEO who is so horny for savings should prove that they fly coach or take a bus when they travel city to city, if they care so much about not spending money. Or, hell, have just one house. No? Not happening? Surprise! It's always other people who have to suffer when the folks at the top decide to prioritize savings."
Photo of "The Embrace," a large-scale bronze sculpture depicting the embracing arms of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King which stands in the Boston Common, with a heart drawn around it. There are white tents, blue skies, and bare trees visible in the background.
Coonhound mix dog in a bright orange jacket walking down a shoveled sidewalk with deep snow on either side towards a yellow fire hydrant
Text saying, "Bunker Hill works the math in a back-of-a-napkin calculation, estimating that the legal liability for poisoning five hundred children would amount to a mere “6–7 million.”[107] If Gulf and Bunker Hill decide to keep running the smelter flat out, increasing production, they’ll come out $10 million or $11 million ahead, even if compelled to pay an inflated $12,000 per child. The choice is children or profits. Guess which they choose."
A tall, roughly oval clear glass jar with some protruding shapes near the base and a slightly fluted rim, full of fairy lights, with the battery packs just visible in the background. The jar sits on a dark green stained wooden crate against a peach colored wall. The lights are on. The jar has a hole in the bottom (not visible in the photo) because it would have been on a rope in the octopus habitat, available for the octopus to squeeze into as part of its enrichment in the exhibit.
This is my collection of winter scenes, on the wall right next to my desk. It makes me so happy. I buy myself a piece of original art for my birthday every year, and three of these have been some of those birthday presents. Top left: the most beautiful landscape in the world, a snowy Massachusetts wetland, by chrisplunkettstudios.com; top right bighorn sheep photo by @solexposure.bsky.social; middle left is one I bought after seeing it on #ArtAdventCalendar last year, a watercolor of cabins in a snowy scene by @jessmscience.bsky.social; middle right an oil painting of birches in a winter wood by juliaspowell.com; bottom left an intaglio print of a snowy walk by katja-lang.com; bottom right a print of my favorite Edward Gorey image, a writer sitting at his desk surrounded by crumpled-up papers, wearing a Sox jersey. On the page in his hand, it says "it had begun to snow." Images are all in different kind of frames on a peach colored wall over a lamp made from fairy lights and an old octopus jar which sits on shelves made from wooden crates stained deep green. Hanging from a hook above the wall is a flat metal horse in sort of a weathervane style.
Highlighted text: "In its initial response to the lawsuit, Phoebe argued that because the health system did not employ “any nurse, physician or advanced practice provider” involved in Dr. Parker’s care, it was not liable for his death. It’s an argument that many hospitals make when they are sued and traveling nurses and doctors are involved."
Close photo of a large planting of a dry yellow grass plant shimmering in morning sunlight with pinks, golds, and peaches. Not pictured: the area around this planting which is, in fact, an Applebee's parking lot.
On the left side of the frame is a devastatingly handsome brown and white coonhound dog in a brown harness and a red and brown collar, turning over his right shoulder toward the camera. He appears to be sticking his tongue out. The right side of the frame shows the top of a derelict free newspaper box made of bright pink heavy plastic. Someone has scrawled "Fuck ICE" on it in whiteout or white paint marker.
Pencil drawing of a striped skunk looking at you with it's tail curled upwards with "crepuscular motherfucker" written next to the image
A pile of drawings, some just in pencil, some inked, of different kinds of monkeys.
Ink drawing of a weedy sea dragon with the words "Fascism will never love you back" handwritten alongside it
A collage showing a dark sky filled with stars of all colors made of tissue paper, a large white moon (with a face on it) made of scrap paper with quotes from literature and poetry about the moon and a trail of bi-colored hearts made of French drawing paper of a variety of colors going out to the moon and back. One word is written on each heart that put together say "I love you to the moon and back."
Ink drawing of a weedy sea dragon alongside a hand-written message saying "Fascism will never love you back." (It won't. It can't be appeased or reasoned with or ameliorated or accommodated. All it knows how to do with accommodation is to move the goalposts again and again until it is all that remains, which is why it must only and ever be opposed in every way we can at every chance we get).
Ink drawing of a weedy sea dragon alongside a hand-written message saying "Fascism will never love you back." (It won't. It can't be appeased or reasoned with or ameliorated or accommodated. All it knows how to do with accommodation is to move the goalposts again and again until it is all that remains, which is why it must only and ever be opposed in every way we can at every chance we get).
Screenshot of a US State Dept tweet saying "Our nation was founded on the recognition that moral virtue and a steadfast faith in God are necessary preconditions of freedom. Yet under the Biden Administrations, U.S. foreign policy belittled Christianity and weaponized government against faith. That era has ended. Under @POTUS's leadership, the State Department will eradicate practices that devalue and demean the Christian faith. [incomplete fox news link]"
Ink drawing of a weedy sea dragon, a type of seahorse with fins that look like seaweed to help camouflage it in its native waters. Each dragon has a completely unique pattern of leafy fins, like a fingerprint.
Bust of a young Charles Sumner in white marble, from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston
Block of watercolor paper sitting on a dark blue ottoman. The open page shows a full-page pencil drawing of a weedy sea dragon, partially inked, and there is a Sakura pigma micron pen resting on the pad.
The words from the sign in the embedded post styled like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles logo: Felon Rapist Pedo Golf Cheat
Extremely handsome hound mix dog (who also happens to be standing next to a newspaper box that says "FUCK ICE" on top.
A diagram from Gorka's thesis. It shows a black arrow with "Peacekeeping" at one end and "Thermonuclear war" at the other. Below the arrow is the word "Terrorism" circled with arrows pointing at question marks on either side.
Cover of Nas' album Illmatic - shows a photo of a young Nas superimposed with a city street and housing project
Gold chains with two halves of a split gold heart saying "best friends" with diamond looking stones around the rim
Handsome brown and white hound dog looking back at the camera with his tongue sticking out who happens to be standing next to a red/pink free sidewalk paper dispenser which has the words "FUCK ICE" written on top in white lettering.
Screenshot of the following text: The countries listed in the memo as facing bans are: Angola; Antigua and Barbuda; Benin; Bhutan; Burkina Faso; Cabo Verde; Cambodia; Cameroon; Côte D'Ivoire; Democratic Republic of Congo; Djibouti; Dominica; Ethiopia; Egypt; Gabon; The Gambia; Ghana; Kyrgyzstan; Liberia; Malawi; Mauritania; Niger; Nigeria; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia; Sao Tome and Principe; Senegal; South Sudan; Syria; Tanzania; Tonga; Tuvalu; Uganda; Vanuatu; Zambia; and Zimbabwe. Nations already fully banned on June 4 are: Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. Those partially banned are Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.
Screenshot showing the Boston, MA No Kings Event info with the title "NO KINGS, but YAAAAS Queen!" Additional text on it says: No Kings Nationwide day of defiance June 14, 2025 Time: Saturday June 14 11am-3pm EDT Location: Boston Pride Copley Square Boston, MA 02116
Lime-green Swatch twin-phone with pink cord and purple cord and buttons, vintage c. 1989.
Gif of Marlo Stanfield from The Wire saying "You want it to be one way. But it's the other way."
Meme of the car screeching off of a highway exit. Straight ahead sign says, "Watching any of the half dozen great new shows I genuinely want to watch." Exit sign says, "Watching all 12 seasons of "Bones" for the seventh time." Label on the car says, "Me."
Meme '30 Helens agree...' from Kids in the Hall. 30 women stand in a field. The text at the top says '30 Helens agree...' with 'Helens' crossed out and replaced with 'Jonathans.' Bottom text says '...you should order the Philly biodiversity zine.'
"An unspeakably dismal choice is being made before our eyes and without our consent: machines over humans, inanimate over animate, profits over all else. With stunning speed, the big tech megalomaniacs have quietly rolled back their net-zero pledges and lined up by Trump’s side, hellbent on sacrificing this world’s real and precious resources and creativity at the altar of a vampiric, virtual realm. This is the last great heist, and they are getting ready to ride out the storms they themselves are summoning – and they will try to defame and destroy anyone who gets in their way."
Screenshot of the text "The changes are intended to combat fraud and waste within the system, which President Donald Trump and officials in his administration have claimed are widespread." With the first clause of the sentence highlighted.
Screen shot of text from Reddit about DOGE shutting down the Institute of Museum and Library Services
Caravaggio's Conversion of St. Paul on the Road to Damascus
Hound in the snow wearing a jacket, work snow all over his face.
Screenshot of AI character "LeBorn Jamies" wearing a "Lышkers" jersey and smiling. Its intro says "what's good? it's king jamies, let's get it! BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM! 💥"
Two copies of "you didn't hear this from me" by Kelsey McKinney
Screenshot showing the following paragraph from the article: "Just nine days before his DOGE team visited CFPB, Musk’s X — the former Twitter — announced that it had struck a deal with Visa to process peer-to-peer payments. Musk has publicly mused about expanding into payment-services since he first took control of X in 2022. Entering that business could bring CFPB oversight under rules the agency finalized in November. The records DOGE can now access would include sensitive and potentially competitive information."
Screenshot from ProPublica with this section highlighted: “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down so that the EPA can't do all of the rules against our energy industry because they have no bandwidth financially to do so.
Collage, 24" x 36", tissue paper, colored drawing paper, and assorted scrap papers, with ink, matte medium and glue. A field of multicolored stars, with a large moon made of scrap papers in various shades of white with quotes about the moon written on them in silver ink. Two-color paper hearts go from the foreground to the moon and back with one landing on the moon's cheek like a kiss. 😘
24" x 36" collage made with tissue paper and matte medium on heavy cotton rag, currently showing stars in a range of bright colors and combinations in a dark sky
Toht from Raiders of the Lost Ark, a man in a black fedora with a Nazi lapel pin and a medallion branded into his palm
Ink drawing of an octopus squid, arms reaching up, head at the bottom of the image, orange/tan tones
Partially finished collage made with tissue paper and matte medium on heavy cotton rag paper. 24 x 36". A patchwork of bright colors makes up the bottom layer, and the half finished second layer consists of pieces of black, purple, and deep blue tissue with star shapes cut out of them to allow the bright bottom layer's colors to show through.