Daniel Rafinejad

@dannoway.bsky.social

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writer, translator, theatrist, teacher, liquorice lover, dyspraxic, Iranian New Yorker misfit. he/او 🌈☮️🐈‍⬛

A three-inch figurine of Cathy the comic strip character.
A drawing of hands in rainbow solidarity.
Funky Jan the Mouse from the cartoon THE DEVIL AND DANIEL MOUSE
Ann Miller dancing fabulously…on a rooftop in Culver City?
VHS tape of Debbie Reynolds’s aerobics video from the 1980s
The playbill for the 1978 Broadway musical BALLROOM: a mirrorball with the title written in neon-sign cursive script.
The eighth edition of E.M. Forster’s A ROOM WITH A VIEW, opened to the signed title page, and the possibly AI-designed cover of the romance novel THE PUMPKIN SPICE CAFE, with a 20% off sticker from Target on it.
A TV Guide ad from 1987 for the first animated special of Cathy Guisewite’s CATHY comic strip.
Poster for International Women’s Day, with quotations in English, Arabic, Spanish, and Persian
A promotional still from Robert Altman’s THREE WOMEN (1977)
A black tomcat looking longingly into the camera from a bed with champagne-colored satin sheets and a white coverlet.
A close up of the deep pink stalks of forced rhubarb from Yorkshire, England.
A tabby cat wearing a tam o’shanter and tartan shawl.
A cottontail squirrel in San Francisco on its hind legs, peering with curiosity at the camera.
Grover Monster from Sesame Street singing in gold top hat and tails: “Oh, and it’s going to be a great year, too.”
Foghorn Leghorn, a cocky, well, cock, crosses his legs and sips a cup of tea.
My listening age, according to Spotify, is 82, “since I was into music from the late ‘50s.”
An engraved stone Jack O’Lantern on a decorative column near Bethesda Fountain in NYC’s Central Park.
The warning signs of fascism: racist, religious nationalism, scapegoating, disdain for free speech and equality, protected corporate power, supremacy of the military
A baby okapi looking behind its right shoulder. Such an adorable giraffe/zebra hybrid.
THE MUPPET MOVIE (1979), James Frawley
"Faith" by Kevin Young (2025), with its distinctive spacing and punctuation.
Joan Crawford strikes a triumphant pose on a table.
A young Joan Crawford dancing in a ballroom as onlookers clap.
The eminent black warrior cat Nigel attacks my right hand on floral bedclothes.
Nigel T. Cat, sleeping
A photograph of woman from the early twentieth century with an enormous bow on her head
A photo by Weegee of a clown backstage, slumped in a chair, makeup fixed, wig removed, and soul adrift.
Morris Hirshfield’s painting “Girl with Pigeons,” 1943. A textural painting of a woman lying supine on a striped sofa, communicating with a pigeon. Lauded by surrealists, Hirshfield was a self-taught painter who began his career in textiles.
The illustrated cover of a 1971 Little Golden Book showing Lassie, a squirrel, and a blonde boy near a lake.
A symbol of a mouse asleep in crescent moon, its tail twisting downwards
An adorable black cat sitting on a white cupboard, twinkling his green eyes.
A line of Hafez’s poetry in Persian calligraphy. With tulips!
Edward David Byrd’s poster for the 1971 musical FOLLIES, depicting an Art Nouveau-like bust of Marlene Dietrich cracking in psychedelic colors against a background of stars.
A cat wrapped wearing a Tam O’Shanter cap and a tartan shawl.
A wobbly photo of me wearing purple glasses and a t-shirt that says “Carrie: She’s not like the other girls.” Taken a bathroom in Los Angeles.