Cleavon Leaf

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“Life is a path lit only by the light of those I’ve loved” - Tom Waits He/Him

Hand holds a copy of the new Colson Whitehead book, “Cool Machine,” which has an amazingly designed cover with a B&N shot of NYC & a flyer from Northshire Bookstore in it as well.
A pint of Boddington’s Pub Ale sits on a floral tablecloth, with the signature yellow and black can beside it, which sports a barrel and bees.
A long tall dark pint of porter stands next to a 16 oz/1 pint can of Frog Alley Brewing Captain Ellis Porter. Both are set side-by-side on a black metal table.
The actor David Strathairn stares, dumbfounded. Still image from one of the Bourne movies.
Front cover of the book Dragon Fall, by Lee Hindle. It portrays a young man in a t-shirt & jeans, lying on the ground drawing in a sketchbook, while three dragonesque humanoids creep down a flight of stairs towards him.
A black and cream colored Shih Tzu lying on a bed, a stuffed drumstick in her front paws. She is jaunty and smiling with her tongue out.
The hardcover version of Carpenter’s book, with a black & white photo of Tolkien at his desk. From the top of the book, my bookmark peers out, which is a Welcome to Night Vale sticker, the visible part of which is a telephone pole against a starry night and an eyeball with crescent moon in the sky.
A black & cream colored Shih Tzu sits in a car, wearing a green neckerchief printed with four leaf clovers. She looks impossibly adorable.
Calendar entry for March 13th reading “Frodo & Sam meet Shelob “
A copy of Tea with Tolkien/Kaitlyn Facista’s new book “Into the Heart of Middle-earth” sits on its mailing envelope on a blue side board, with wooden floorboards below in the background. The book’s cover is a beautiful illustration of two trees and a lovely background behind. (Possibly the Two Trees?!), and to quote Liz Lemon, I want to go to there.
GIF of Kermit and Vincent Price. They sit side by side. Kermit has fangs and lunges at Price’s throat, in a Muppety vampiric fashion.
A small Shih Tzu sits, looking at the camera, sporting a black hoodie, with the hood up, one ear poking out the side of the hood. Impossibly cute.
Side view of a curled up Shih Tzu pup, laying on a pair of stretched out legs.
A screen cap of a Bluesky post. Beneath it is a small link that reads “that.is” I am not sure what that link is about. Weird as all get out.
A short video of a dead autumn leaf, brown, dry, & crisp (an oak leaf, I think), dangling from the skeletal branch of a bare bush. The wind blows the leaf this way & that. The bush is half-covered in a snowbank.
Picture of the Electric Mayhem, posed with their instruments, looking cool as hell.
A screenshot of Marian-Webster’s Your 2026 Word, screen capped on the word “prosperous.”
A two-page spread from the Billy Collins book, Dog Show. The left page is a lovely watercolor of a black&white dog against a red background, their head tilted to the side. The right page is the poem, A Dog on His Master, which reads: “As young as I look, I am growing older faster than he, seven to one is the ratio they tend to say. Whatever the number, I will pass him one day and take the lead the way I do on our walks in the woods. And if this ever manages to cross his mind, it would be the sweetest shadow I have ever cast on snow or grass.”
Close up of a page in a poetry book. The title of the poem is “To a Stranger Born in Some Distant Country Hundreds of Years from Now.” The inscription beneath the poem’s title reads, in italics, “I write poems for a stranger who will be born in some distant country hundreds of years from now. - Mary Oliver” This made me exclaim aloud in joy upon turning to this page.
My hand holding the hard cover edition of Dog Show by the poet Billy Collins. The front illustration is a beautiful watercolor of a beagle by Pamela Sztybel, whose paintings fill the book. The dog is looking in profile, its brown eyes sharp and soft, its ears forward. One cannot help but want to give it scratches under its li’l chin.
A small black and tan coated Shih Tzu stands on her hind legs at a window, her paws on the window sill, as she watches the neighborhood. Like a little Rory Calhoun.
Grinch, sending out his eyebrows to flutter around & terrorize Whoville on Halloween night. Grinch is singing in the background & his eyebrows are flying directly at the screen.
A black and tan colored Shih Tzu with Dobie markings stands at attention on the back of a couch, with a slight head tilt. She is sporting a neckerchief adorned with Santas. In the background, an out of focus Christmas tree with multicolored lights shimmers around her outline.
LP cover displayed above the record player, is the front side of the album, featuring a Nat King Cole portrait
Front cover of the John Denver & The Muppets album, sitting displayed over the LP as it plays. On the album cover, John is looking festive tipping a top hat, surrounded by Miss Piggy, Kermit, Fozzie, Gonzo, Robin, & Animal
Picture disc version of the album A Charlie Brown Christmas! The album front cover and the first side of the LP are displayed, which is a picture of Charlie Brown, Lucy, & Linus dancing in front of a Christmas tree, with Snoopy perched atop it, naturally.
Next album playing, Christmas with Nat King Cole. The album image is a portrait of Cole inset beside a picture of an advent wreath.
Same li’l portable record player as before, this time, the album sleeve displayed is The Christmas Spirit by Johnny Cash. The photo on the album cover is a snowy winter scene.
Little record player, with the Fishbone EP It’s A Wonderful Life (Gonna have a Good Time) front cover displayed over the spinning disc.
Aragorn forgiving Boromir at his death, and holding him as he passes.
A dark hat blows aimlessly through the woods, over a carpet of fallen leaves.
Bill Hader as James Carville on SNL Weekend Update, doing a self-satisfied little shimmy-shouldered shake.
A black & tan shih tzu with Dobie markings is standing on a wooded trail. Behind her, a small wooden bridge crosses over a brook towards a green sunlit hill. The sky is blue with puffy clouds.
Bossk, Bounty Hunter from Empire Strikes Back
Man in front of a bookcase wearing a blue cardigan and a white shirt with a line drawing of John Brown.
Grinch, sending his eyebrows out to flutter around and terrorize Whoville on Halloween night.
Your man is lounging on the couch in a cozy blue cardigan because it’s Fall, and his sweet shih tzu friend is curled up on his shoulder, sleepy and adorable.
Gigantic pumpkin sits on a stoop in front of a red house beside a blow-mold style decoration of a mouse in a mummy costume, holding a candy corn that lights up with twinkle lights.
An adorable wee shih tzu lies in the crook of a man’s leg, her eyes drowsily open, because her human is in the background delightedly reciting the intro to Prince’s Let’s Go Crazy, because honestly, who wouldn’t?
Black and cream colored shin tux standing against a grassy background, sporting a very autumnal orange plaid neckerchief.
Screen cap of a text conversation. Random scammer texts, “Where are you?” My reply is a screenshot from the movie Hellraiser, with Frank Cotton’s message from Hell written in blood on a white wall, reading “I am in Hell Help Me”
Close up photo of a katydid in profile. It’s vivid green, and is standing on a black garbage pail lid with a red house in the background.
Derek, from The Good Place, in a classy tuxedo, with a martini glass filled to the rim with nothing but olives.
A vivid yellow caterpillar with tall black spines against an asphalt background
Screen cap of music app playing the beautifully perfect song, “Billy Away,” by Chaser.
Photo of a mandoline, kitchen slicing tool, with assorted sliced vegetables on a cutting board.
A mostly black shih tzu lays, sacked out on a hardwood floor, her chin resting comfortably on a stuffed lamb plushy.
Black and grayish shih tzu pup sitting in a car, looking pleased as punch to be going for a ride.
Tom Reagan, from the film Miller’s Crossing. Man standing in a forest, staring out from underneath a gray fedora.
Backpack with a Gilly & Billy enamel pin, along with a Luigi flag pin and a No Kings button.
Toad on a brick pathway, in the foreground. In the background, a shih tzu stands oblivious to its presence.
Five year old boy in a Kiss t-shirt and moccasins, squinting into the sunlight at a playground circa 1980. The picture has a sepia tone feel to it, as it’s a scan from an old Polaroid.
An adorable wee shin tzu peers out from the front opening of a dog carrier.