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NYC broadcast journalism & english student from norcal. work in the aerospace industry primarily. I write, take pictures, & opine on baseball, airplanes, books, movies etc. Currently drafting a novel about the death of the Wild West. header pic is my own!

Close up of jon Stewart’s desk on the daily show from the second row
Activists at city hall in New York City. Focus on a cardboard sign with the words “REJECT Project 2025” and a man speaking in a beanie to the bottom right.
Kelly’s Heroes (1970) dir Brian button
Interstellar 2014 by Chris Nolan
how the grinch stole Christmas 1966
view of late autumn Washington square park, NYC, from a few floors up on the south side of the park. It’s too misty to see uptown—too misty to see the Empire State Building.
you’ve got mail 1998
Bluesky profile of an account which appears to be that of retired army general Richard clarke (commander of USSOCOM.). Probably not real.
Screenshot of Luigi mangione’s LinkedIn page with his job experience as a counselor at Stanford precollegiate studies (which i attended in 2018 and 2019)
Richard Barthelmess on the poster of The Dawn Patrol (1930) dir Howard Hawks
Page from Ivan Butler’s 1974 book The War Film with colored tabs sticking out (a different color for each war)
Fourth row UBS stadium in Long Island kraken-islanders game December 6 2024
OMG WERE AT CORNER ICE AT UBS 🏟️stadium
My friends in kraken gear
T-38 Talon on the flight deck of the USS Intrepid, with the New York skyline in the background
still from the BBC’s The War Game (1966)
From vox: “On November 21, 1922, the New York Times published its very first article about Adolf Hitler. It’s an incredible read — especially its assertion that “Hitler’s anti-Semitism was not so violent or genuine as it sounded.” This attitude was, apparently, widespread among Germans at the time; many of them saw Hitler’s anti-Semitism as a ploy for votes among the German masses.”
From Vox: “On November 21, 1922, the New York Times published its very first article about Adolf Hitler. It’s an incredible read — especially its assertion that “Hitler’s anti-Semitism was not so violent or genuine as it sounded.” This attitude was, apparently, widespread among Germans at the time; many of them saw Hitler’s anti-Semitism as a ploy for votes among the German masses.”
Robin Williams as USAF AN Adrian Cronauer in Barry Levinson’s Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
SFO terminal 1 apron
cranberry sauce right out of the can, still ridged and everythang
Cooked turkey breast except it fell over in the process of cooking so it’s laying on its side and is unevenly cooked in a most regrettable fashion
my cat Charley lying on my couch in such a manner that it would appear she has neither any dignity nor will to live
JFK airport from the wing of a B767–sunset & a delta plane across the apron
Life magazine, civil war issue, plus my suitcase in background
Ukrainian chocolate cream candy “шарм”
Madagascar 2005
fancy pigeons in a cage in a parking lot in jersey city
Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge and Roosevelt Island on the East River, New York City, at golden hour
Twitter person saying “btw you don’t get more dick to suck if you prefer gladiator over wicked” in response to someone saying “I survived glicked 2024”
paths of glory movie poster
the joby eVTOL platform at one of the manhattan helipads!
back to the future
Panel of aircraft energy specialists working on expanding liquid hydrogen infrastructure in the US. From L to R: Jeff Norman (Air Products), Francisco cuellar (Houston airport system), Glenn llewellyn (airbus), Val miftakhov (zeroavia)
my old ass (2024) dir megan park
mountain of sock yarn in 25g skeins on my bed
President-elect Trump’s statement nominating Dr. Mehmet Oz to administrate the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
tom cruise’s p-51D mustang
me (brown early 20s woman) with a USAF SR-71 blackbird in the American wing of the Imperial War Museum Duxford.
Kitten in a window
Long live the democratic dictatorship of the national salvation council under the leadership of chairman Milley!
Robert Deniro in Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) in a Yankees uniform
Shiva Baby (2020) dir. Emma Seligman