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“The undertaking was impossible from the very beginning and of all the impossible ways of carrying it out, this was the least interesting.” - Jorge Luis Borges

Grey-haired white woman smiling upward with a pair of cardboard eclipse glasses on.
Two cyanotyped collages: pensive woman with vulture; exquisite framed snail.
Tiny skull, wasp nest, driftwood, very tiny shell on aged leather and rust.
Rectangular box full of rust and warped glass.
Close-up detail of assemblage sculpture with rusty barbed wire, melted bottle glass, rose petals, and a rat shinbone.
Porcupine sacrum bone (sort of rectangular with holes and protuberances), looking taupe-brownish on a white background.
Troy & Abed from “Community,” smiling up at something in the sky
Rosalind Russell looking fantabulous and shiny, plus awkward little boy.
Christopher Plummer in “The Sound of Music“ tearing a Nazi flag in half.
Beautiful grey mackerel tabby, all stretched out though still preferring the rug over the wooden floor. Her back feet are on the floor. Maybe like when I stick just my feet outside the bedclothes.
Phone icons: battery 56% and temperature 100 degrees
Blue sky, white fluffy clouds, blue river, dockside cafe tables, and waving palm fronds in the foreground despite the Maryland hills in the distance
A Small Needful Fact by Ross Gay Is that Eric Garner worked for some time for the Parks and Rec. Horticultural Department, which means, perhaps, that with his very large hands, perhaps, in all likelihood, he put gently into the earth some plants which, most likely, some of them, in all likelihood, continue to grow, continue to do what such plants do, like house and feed small and necessary creatures, like being pleasant to touch and smell, like converting sunlight into food, like making it easier for us to breathe.
Grey mackerel tabby curled up in a bathroom sink. She is looking at the camera, and her front paws are resting on the sink edge like she is chatting with you over tea.
The croquet scene from Alice in Wonderland: b&w engraving of a girl holding a flamingo, with two hedgehogs at her feet.
Tall purple and green flowers in front of a weathered grey fence (actually compost bins made of old pallets).
Beautiful grey mackerel tabby in chiaroscuro sunlight and shadows
Interactive sculpture by Chris Combs, “Insert 25 cents to feel something”
6/2 at Rhizome: a fire eating training by dykes for dykes
Extreme closeup of a grey mackerel tabby cat looking like she wants to eat your face.
Quiz result: Unitarian
Star Trek original series title screen, with the Enterprise above a pretty blue planet. Yellow title text says “LAST NIGHT I DREAMT I WENT TO MANDALORE AGAIN.”
Leslie Knope, glowering
3 books: Laurie Anderson “All the Things I Lost in the Flood,” Erica Waters “The River Has Teeth,” and Amal El-Mohtar “The River Has Roots”
Beautiful grey mackerel tabby on a grey and ivory rug with a nearly noir movie amount of latticed shadow and sunlight.
The Google logo except it has been crudely cut-and-pasted to say G I G O
Tattoo coverups: “How to cover yang” (photo of a forearm with just the outline of half a yin/yang on it, like a big open comma)
Luigi Mangione giving smoldering gaze to the camera
Postcards of Richard Nixon with a tag “Dick Pics $5”
Remedios Varo painting where the woman’s hat is an extension of her boat, or vice versa… “Exploration of the Sources of the Orinoco River”
Waters. John Waters.
It’s a long quote from Karl Marx that has a line about going to balls, and then the secretary from Workaholics just saying “BALLS.”
When snails are not on the soil or in the soil, they are on plants which grow in the soil. So, the soil must also be good for the kinds of plants that snails need. (Line drawing of snail on plant)
Extremely rusty and corroded partial filter thing found in Shenandoah bottle-dump, posed on a piece of wood in front of my herb garden, prior to probably destroying it trying to spray varnish it.
Tin Woodsman, Dorothy, Scarecrow & Cowardly Lion above a banner that says I HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE
Salvador Dali photograph of a woman cosplaying St. Lucy. She has two cooked egg whites on a plate to represent her eyes, and her actual eyes are also covered with slices of boiled egg white to make them look absent.
Screencap from instagram re: Earth Day event at Finders Keepers show
Black doormat covered in sort of fluffy long pale-brown seedy things presumably off a tree, but not one of our trees.
Brightly colored mosaics and/or paintings on two walls & blue statuary in background, at the Museum and Gallery of Ahmad Nadalian, Hormuz Island (photo from Wikipedia)
Sticker with picture of Frederick Douglass & the words FUCK THIS SHIT #FreeDC on a gray surface with a sliver of very blue sky visible above it.
Illustration from “Alice in Wonderland” of Alice being attacked by the whole deck of cards.
Crocheted gnome with orange hat, white beard, perched on a gnarled tree (OK, a cherry tree; a few blossoms are visible overhead).
Zack Budryk @BudrykZack The single most important thing a man can do to be an ally is give his woman friends permission to give dudes at the bar his number so when they call he can angrily say that's not funny because she died 15 years ago that very night
Cher tweet “I’m here” to which Alanis quote-tweeted “to remind you.”
Tiny triangle of greenery and daffodils, between 3 crossing streets. It has eight blue Mayor signs, about one per ten daffodils.
Handmade sign that says NO KINGS BUT DRAG KINGS. Top right corner features a gold crown inside a red circle and slash. Bottom of sign sports a poorly drawn but flamboyant moustache.
Huge pink magnolia flower against a gray sky
My favorite animal (a beautiful grey mackerel tabby cat) lying on the sill of an open window (screen is closed) because it is spring, with just a sliver of Mr. D’s car visible below.
A sticker (on the back of a street sign) showing Trump’s weirdly tanlined head on the body of a spotted lanternfly, above the words FREE DC in red.
Front of packet for “DOTTI” estradiol transdermal system (estrogen patch) twice weekly — delivers 0.025 mg/day
Fighting apple tree from The Wizard of Oz
Floral print (wallpaper?) inspired by William Morris, with several kinds of flowers and vines
The little girl saying Why don’t we have both? in I think a TV commercial I haven’t seen.
A small gargoyle-using-a-laptop statuette under a tree, with blooming purple crocuses in the foreground
A beautiful grey mackerel tabby is showing her floofy belly.
Boston from the air (Jan. 30th)
Toy horse with real rat skull for a head, posing in front of a wall of snowcrete.
Text (white on black) “Written by JOHN PAUL BRAMMER” “Legends tell of a place beyond the feed. They say if you scroll far enough, you’ll reach that Elysian land. Your thumb will drag across the glass and hit the top. Nothing new will appear. The timeline will end. You will have reached the terminus of the algorithm. Free. At this peak, ascension awaits.”
Willem Dafoe but the caption says “You know, I’m something of a lesbian myself”