Cory

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putting one foot in front of the other is the best I can do right now

2 small handmade journals featuring salvaged materials and pages from Richard Scarry. The larger is 6 by 4.5" and the illustrations are humorous etiquette lessons about how to behave in a castle. The smaller is 4.5 by 4" and has endsheets featuring a pickle truck, and a ribbon bookmark.
Cover of the book A Brief History of the Dead, by Kevin Brockmeier
grubby desk with 7 different handbound books in a variety of colors and sizes
time lapse video of a Monarch butterfly caterpillar crawling across cement. Just before it leaves the video frame, it hoists its behind jauntily and poops
round cake of soap in a pretty blue wrapper and box; label says Roger & Gallet Bois de Santal
The front cover of a book called The Pencil, a History. The author is Henry Petroski and it has an illustration on the cover of a yellow #2 pencil
Comic by the GOAT Kate Beaton depicts Catwoman being all sexy and evil and then nonplussed when a very coy and buff Batman responds in kind with sexy posturing and innuendos right back
Cover of Heather McGhee's great book The Sum of Us which goes into masterful detail about how white people in America will happily sign up for a shittier life if it ensures that they don't have to share anything good with anybody who isn't white
Above a blue sofa with various pillows and stuffies on it, a garland made by pinning long pieces of string across the wall displays approximately 40 or so zines that are hanging over the strings like clothes on a clothesline
still from the video of the song Where It's At, by Beck. The still shows Beck in business wear holding a microphone on some kind of impromptu outdoor stage, and the captioned lyric is "I got two turntables and a microphone"
Cover of band Poco's 11th studio album, named Legend. Album art features a minimal calligraphy-styled drawing of a horse galloping toward the viewer. It has incongruously demonic red eyes.
young tabby cat is asleep on her back cradled in the lap/arms of a child. Only the hands and wrists are visible; the cat is sleeping with her little paws folded over and the face has the characteristic tabby smile
Photo of laptop computer displaying this message; there is a plate resting on the keyboard holding a half-eaten piece of tasty tasty double-chocolate banana bread
Book propped on black leather sofa. Dustjacket reads 'Blackfish City', by Sam J. MIller. The design on the dustjacket has visual references to neon signage; there's a city skyline, ocean waves, the book's title and a circular design that is reminiscent of NW coast Native American artwork with perhaps a salmon or a killer whale and a human person with some kind of spear.
Lidded plastic tumbler of water with red straw poking through the lid. A table lamp is lighting up the right side of the photo but the daylight outside is visible through a window. Not visible in the photo is the bed in which the photographer's father is busy dying.
Poster from the anti-Vietnam war movement shows three girls sitting demurely on a sofa under the words 'Girls Say Yes to Boys Who Say No' implying that these girls are will be the reward for young men who adopt the correct political position, i.e. transactional objects.
The cover of the Talking Heads album Remain in Light; it has black and white photographs of the four members' faces in a grid, overlaid with large red blotches that obscure all but their eyes, noses and mouths
Actor Walton Goggins as Uncle Baby Billy in The Righteous Gemstones
Photo of the exterior door that leads into the Oval Office of the White House, showing the really bad signage to the right of the door that seems to have been printed on office paper and stuck up with a gluestick
A person wearing multicolored striped tights is enveloped in a costume that makes them very tall and conceals the upper part of their body. The costume is made of long fur in blotches of various bright colors, and the person is jumping or dancing so that the fur flies around in all directions
A mosaic-covered wall stretches down a tiled hallway, curving away to the left. The mosaics feature larger-then-human sized images of costume sculptures made by the artist Nick Cave (not the musician of the Bad Seeds). They typically cover the body entirely, and feature accumulations of materials like fur, mirrors, buttons or childrens' toys, and they are designed to make sounds as one moves, and to amplify the bodies' movements in ways that are celebratory and ritualistic. In the mosaic, the translation into tiny bits of tile is spectacularly achieved, creating a really magical effect. The figures are surrounded by rings of colored tiles that evoke both energetic emanations and the layered colors in a geode.
Lit candle in a dish on the sidewalk. The shadow falling over the candle shows that someone is sitting on the sidewalk, watching the candle as it burns down.
Rolled beeswax candle flame against a dark background
page of lined paper torn from a spiral-bound notebook has the lyrics to the Prince song Purple Rain in quite lovely handwriting. Prince clearly was taught oldschool US penmanship and stuck to those very formal and conservative letterforms in a way that's surprising given that he was such an iconoclastic innovator in music
Five-year-old Liam Ramos is wearing a bunny hat as ICE agents kidnap him to use him as bait to be able to arrest and detain his parents prior to sending them from their home is Minnesota to Texas.
A font of 10 point Bodoni
Gradated blue-green square, dark at the top edge and light at the bottom edge. The Merriam-Webster logo is in the top left corner with the words 'your 2026 word' to the right. In the middle of the square is my word for 2026, in black type: bougie
Cover of the 1995 album Train a Comin' by Steve Earle; depicts Earle with Roy Orbison-style sunglasses and a cigarette, playing the guitar, all of it in a very scratchy and battered-looking poster style of sepia ink and clumsy vernacular typography
Picture of an indoor curling facility withe the stones ranged on the ice. The photo also shows two of the 'houses', round target areas on the ice, including one that says 'Black Lives Matter' and one with the colors of the LGBTQ flag
screenshot of the streaming archive from radio station KEXP with Larry Mizell, Jr.'s December 4th show highlighted
The yellow cover of a book entitled 'your heart is a muscle the size of a fist' by Sunil Yapa. The cover features also a rough, slightly graffiti-style, image of a human eye with a drip of paint that looks like normal graffiti paint dripping but also evokes a tear
Thermos-brand lunchbox from the 60's, metal in the shape of a barn with an open door and happy farm animals
Actress Louise Fletcher, who played the venomous Kai Wynn on DS9 and Nurse Ratchett in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. This image is of her as Kai Wynn; she's wearing a yellow brocade hat and a complicated silver earring on her left ear. Her blonde hair is wound up in an intricate bun and she's wearing an expression of fake concern covering real dismay.
I have no idea what's going on here but it's a black and white photo of a person's upper body and head wearing what seems to be a helmet made of food and plumbing supplies? There's a caption but I don;t know what language it is, lots of z's and k's and diacritical marks all over the place
Painting by Maxfield Parrish of ladies wearing vaguely toga-ish robes lounging under a tree with a lake (or maybe field) and mountains in the distance. The colors are all very heightened, from the dappled amber sunlight falling on the ladies in the foreground to the blue and orange and purple mountains in the distance and the turquoise water or maybe grass in the middle.
two monarch butterfly caterpillars on milkweed stalks, one big and one little
three wire-handled tools in the background; each has a round pompom of wool at the end. Superimposed in the foreground is an enlarged image of the wool pompom
Booklet reading How to Report Ice is stapled to a telephone pole inside a little plastic bag. A middle school is visible in the background
cartoon by the fantastic fabulous Kate Beaton titled 'Dude Watchin' with the Brontës". 8 black and white panels with Charlotte and Emily ogling grumpy douchebags ("so passionate" "so mysterious" ) while Anne points out that all the guys Charlotte and Emily like are jerks. They respond by saying with her taste in men no wonder her books don't sell
Poster from the 60's of three young women sitting on a sofa, bare-legged and wearing slouchy hats and coy looks. The text reads "Girls Say Yes to Boys Who Say No"
The cover of the 1980 album by X, Los Angeles. It shows a flaming X on a black background, as if it is a cross being burnt on someone's lawn but turned 90 degrees to be an X instead
Photo from Jan 6th 2021 shows noose hanging at US Capitol and crowd wearing/flying Trump flags
Mackerel tabby perches in way that is obviously way too small for her
Flyer advocating for CalPERS and CalSTRS to divest from Tesla stock, with a QR code for more information
Image of a someone with long blond hair, from behind. Interspersed among her natural hair are a few filaments of sparkly rainbow/gold strands of fine tinsel that sparkles
Image of the front cover of a book titled Warriors Cats of the Clans with the heads of four determined-looking cats glaring out from avery orange skyscape
Mackerel tabby kitten, sleeping on her back. One paw is curled up near her face and the other flops onto her chest showing her white toe floofs. She looks as if she is smiling
close-up photo of some knitting. There is a lumpy and wonky but functional darned patch about an inch wide
Mason jar labeled with jaunty lettering "Eggo Brunch in a Jar Sippin' Cream" and to its right a coupe style cocktail glass filled with yellowish opaque liquid with a tiny waffle and strip of bacon for garnish
Photo from the book above. It shows a B & W photo of two acrobats; a man is standing in a pair of trunks and decorative chest harness, hoisting a lady who is standing on his shoulder on one foot and raising the other in the air while she bends over in an extravagant backbend, trailing her hair down and smiling brightly. The caption identifies them as Lieutenant V T Artinelli and Nina Arensky, followed by a bunch of Russian I can't read.
View from above of a large book sitting on a desk. It has silver hardwadr over the corners, and boards covered in alligator-textured brown and black paper. There is silver fancy raised lettering in Cyrllic on the cover; I'm guessing it says Russians of Shanghai but I'm not sure
View from above of a desk with a Russian-language publication on it. I can't read Cyrllic so I don't know what it says. I'm repairing it apparently because of the pictorial cover? You can see that the volume's been bound by threads going vertically through the stack of signatures; those threads have been taken out and the signatures are now loose. There is a small metal box with needles, binder clips and a lump of beeswax above the stack of signatures.
Photo from above the desk looking down at a bunch of disbound signatures of brownish paper printed in Russian. A ruler lies across the signatures to keep them from curling as they dry. Visible on the desk is a roll of very thin Japanese Tengujo paper, scissors, micro-spatula and beat-up Stanley knife. At the top left is a pile of mended signatures with weights on top.
More dustjackets, spread out on a desk with weights and a gauzy layer of spun-bonded polyester. The three dustjackets are all Rex Stout/Nero Wolfe titles; we can see two, Before Midnight and And Be A Villian. The third dustjacket is face-down so the title can't be seen.