Ezra Brooks

@ezbrooks.bsky.social

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I love music, movies, mystery stories, and food from around the world.

The "epic handshake" meme Left arm: Heads Right arm: Baseball fans The handshake: Dock Ellis trivia
A text thread. My friend: What's the odyssey about. No spoilers Me: Have you seen "Planes, Trains and Automobiles"? It's that, but set a really long time ago.
A paperback book. It's the English translation of Haruki Murakami's sixth novel, "Dance Dance Dance" from 1988. The cover image shows a large residential building at night. Above this is the closeup of a face, cropped so the person's eyes seem to be staring over the building. The title is written in red letters between the building and the face.
A can of sparkling water. The text on the can says "Naturally flavored with other natural flavors." What does that even mean?
A paperback book. It's the English translation of Haruki Murakami's fifth novel, "Norwegian Wood" from 1987. The cover is an abstract scene with an orange sky, yellow sun, green hills, and black lake.
A hardcover book. It's the new English translation of Haruki Murakami's fourth novel, "End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland" from 1985. The cover depicts a face split in half, in hazy shades of green, blue, and red. The title is written in white text.
The old VHS cover of Andrei Tarkovsky's "Stalker". The picture shows a bizarre, disturbing image of a man's head. It's quite creepy, to be honest.
A paperback book. It's the English translation of Haruki Murakami's third novel, "A Wild Sheep Chase" from 1982. The cover image is a collage of abstract shapes in various colors. The title and author's name are printed in thin white letters.
Lou Reed (born March 2) and Laurie Anderson (born June 5)
A paperback book. It's the English translation of Haruki Murakami's second novel, "Pinball, 1973" from 1980. The cover is black with an abstract illustration depicting overlapping blue, red, and purple circles, and a curving white dotted line. The title and author are written in white letters.
A bag of Watkins brand Fine Corn Meal. The bag is yellow with text in red and green, and an illustration of a partially shucked ear of corn.
A paperback book. It's the English translation of Haruki Murakami's first novel, "Hear the Wind Sing" from 1979. The cover is black with an abstract illustration depicting a white rhombus, a curving white dotted line, and vertical bars that gradually change color along their length.
A Zaxby's Chicken sign that says: BANANA PUDDING MILKSHAKE IS ACK
A screenshot of Richard Kind from Only Murders in the Building. He is wearing an eyepatch on his right eye, and a very sensible sweater over a button shirt. He is holding a pencil in his hand and is pointing with his index finger. He is grinning.
A book sitting on a table. The top third of the book's cover is white with black text: Encounters with Euclid: How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the World by Benjamin Wardhaugh. The bottom two thirds of the cover is made up of red, orange, and blues squares and rectangles intersected by black lines. It suggests the style of ancient geometric proofs and the paintings of Piet Mondrian.
A thin hardcover book lying on a table. The top of the cover has a pink bar with text that says "The English Understand Wool" in blue and "Helen DeWitt" in black. Below this is an impressionist painting depicting slices of cake on plates. The painting is "Boston Cremes, 1962" by Wayne Thiebaud.
A bag of Chana Dal
A book sits on a sofa. The cover depicts a hare (it is a closeup of "The Satisfied Hare", a painting by Kevin Sloan). On top of the images are red circles with white text. They read: "Helen DeWitt", "Some Trick", and "Thirteen Stories".
A book rests on a couch. Its cover is a white background covered in black and red text. It's Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff's new book, "Your Name Here".
The self-titled first album by the band Bowling for Soup. The cover is a black and white image of a bowl of soup. To the left pf the bowl are some crackers. To the right, a hand holds a soup spoon. The album title is printed directly in front of the bowl.
A bag of dried plums. The package depicts some fresh plums, some dried plums, and the label says "The Taste is in The Shape". Hylomorphism refers to Aristotle's theory that physical objects are composed of substance and form.
Two white books are resting on a black background. The smaller book, to the left, is titled "Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany" and it has a picture of a synthesizer. The larger book, to the right, is titled "Classic German Baking" and it has a picture of a cake.
A book. The cover background is white. There are squares of different colors arranged in a grid, like color swatches. Beneath each square is a small label in black text. The title of the book, "Color Scheme", is written in colored letters. Below that in black letters it says "An irreverent history of art and pop culture in color palettes". Below this is the author's name, Edith Young.
A copy of "Bea Wolf" by Zach Weinersmith. The cover shows a young child, arms crossed, dressed in a bearskin, surrounded by toys and mountains of gold. The title is written above the child in large gold letters.
A paperback book lying on a wooden shelf. The cover text reads "Tokyo Express" in bold white letters. The background has wavy bands of black, red, and green. There is an abstract illustration of a purple train engine on white tracks.
A single panel comic by Charles Barsotti, published in the New Yorker in 1994. It shows an anthropomorphic rigatoni noodle talking on the phone. The rigatoni says "Fusilli, you crazy bastard! How are you?"
A copy of "Somebody Owes Me Money" by Donald E. Westlake. The cover is a white background with text in black, pink, and green.
A sticker from the Georgia polls depicting an orange and red peach with a stem and green leaves on a white background. On top of the peach black letters read "I'm a Georgia voter" and underneath the peach it says "I secured my vote!"
A pile of "Now & Later" candies. Each candy is square shaped. The wrappers are red, purple, and yellow.
Tituss Burgess as Titus Andromedon in "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt". He is wearing a jersey modeled after the New York Rangers jersey, but instead of the team name, it just says "SPORTS". The jersey is blue with white and red stripes at the bottom. The lettering is bold and reads at an angle from the upper left to the bottom right of the jersey.
The cover of Herbie Hancock's 12th album "Head Hunters".
A hardcover book. The background is purple. In bold white letters it says "Wodehouse on crime" and underneath in orange letters "A dozen tales of fiendish cunning. By P.G. Wodehouse." Below the text there is an illustration depicting an English mansion, a car, and three people: two men and a woman, all dressed in the fashionable styles of the interwar era.
A black coffee mug with a white handle. There is a cartoon image of a frog. The frog has a speech bubble which reads "You are not alone in this abyssal darkness. I am here and we shall face the chasm as brothers."
Truman Capote playing Lionel Twain in the movie "Murder By Death" (Neil Simon, 1976)
A work of abstract art. There are sections of red and yellow surrounding a black center.
The picture shows a book sitting on a countertop. The book is titled "69 A.D. The Year of Four Emperors" by Gwyn Morgan. The book cover depicts four engravings, each a profile of a man's face. The word "iucundus" is a Latin approximation of the English word "nice".
A shelf stacked with cans of "G.O.A.T. Fuel" energy drink. The can in the center is aquamarine and says "gummy bear flavored".
A basket of cheese wedges at the grocery. In the foreground is a label reading "Saint Angel" with a description of the cheese.
A stack of doors leaning against a wall. Some are solid wood. Some are glass.
A parking lot. The tires of some cars can be seen in the background. In the foreground a crow is standing in an empty parking spot, next to a red metal pole. The crow is about to take flight.
The Manuscripts Club: The People Behind a Thousand Years of Medieval Manuscripts by Christopher De Hamel
An alarm with a red warning light mounted on a wall. The sign underneath reads: "CO2 Sensor!"
A German map of Istanbul, Turkey from 1937. The image is zoomed in on central Istanbul, and the Golden Horn.
A book sitting on a table. The cover background is a dull pink. The title and author name are in bold red letters. The cover depicts two houses, a person walking, and a person on a bicycle. There is a yellow bookmark sticking out of the book.
A book sits on the arm of a sofa. It is "The Final Curtain" by Keigo Higashino. The cover shows a man standing inside a dark structure, facing away from the viewer. He is staring at a city skyline in the distance. The title is written in bold white lettering.
A book sits on a table. The cover background is green. There is a sketch of a man's face. The text is white, and reads: Richard Brautigan, Essays on the Writings and Life, Edited by John F. Barber
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles logo, but the text is 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.
The label from a bottle of La Mer du Sud brand fish sauce. The background is a field of white on top and orange below. The brand text is in bold red letters over the white part, and the slogan text is in white letters on a red background over the orange part. The slogan in English reads: "Made with a lifetime of love for the sea." The slogan in French reads: "Fabriqué au travers d'une vie d'amour pour la mer."
A short Sabal Palm tree in a yard. There is green grass in the foreground, and behind the tree there is an old wooden fence and a red shed. One of the offending squirrels is running down the trunk of the palm tree. The other squirrel is hidden among the branches and fronds.
A copy of "Let's Make Ramen! A Comic Book Cookbook" by Hugh Amano and Sarah Becan. The cover depicts a black bowl of ramen with a variety of classic toppings. A set of hashi is lifting some noodles out of the bowl. The background is red, and the title text in black is above the bowl.
A still photo of Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory eating dinner together from the film "My Dinner with Andre." Wallace is facing the camera; balding, curly hair, wearing a brown dinner jacket. Andre is in profile, facing Wallace.
A photograph of a freeway taken from the passenger side of a car. A sign on the side of the road says "Welcome to Georgia". The sky above is blue, and there are some bare trees in the background.
The "Dale Cooper entering Twin Peaks" screen shot, but he says "entering the town of Stars Hollow."
Meme of three Spidermans pointing at one another. They are labelled "Steely Dan fans", "Sonic Youth fans", and "MBV fans". There is no deeper meaning here. Sometimes you just have to throw an idea out into the world and see what happens.
Snow with the tracks of birds (and maybe a squirrel) criss crossing like the writing of an ancient language.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles logo meme reading: "Please don't ask me how I got here".
A mid-sized dog is sitting on a couch. The dog is investigating a toy with its paws and snout. The toy is a disc with compartments. The dog is trying to figure out how to open the compartments to get the snacks hidden inside.
A graphic showing the earth and sun during the solstice. The text reads: Solstice > Date (2024) Sat, Dec 21, 2024 4:20 AM Eastern Time
A night scene. A very bright full moon shines through some trees. Above the moon some stars are visible.