Jonathan Bohan

@jonathanbohan.bsky.social

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Data Librarian and wannabe Historian. Reader. Baseball fan. 2006 Time Magazine Person of the Year.

Stage at Weird Al concert
The grave marker for Harriet Tubman. Several items are strewn about in front including flowers, a red shawl, and a number of oranges.
The Goose Girl by William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Email touting "upcoming live shows" near me, including an apparently resurrected John Coltrane.
Screenshot of current weather conditions in Ithaca, NY showing a temperature of 95 degrees F, feels like 104.
Photo from a book of a man writing "Writing repetitive data by hand is wasteful," on a chalkboard, over and over again.
Picture of Trump holding a giant greeting card from North Korea in 2018
Image of page from Iron Kingdom by Christopher Clark with the name of "East Prussian nobleman Dodo von Knyphausen" circled.
Cover of Why the West Rules--for Now by Ian Morris. Title and author name with abstract shapes of color and a somewhat surreal painting of what I assume is Neptune (with his trident) and a lion staring down a group of gods/people/horses, some of whom are reaching out towards him.
Cover of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig. Title and author name superimposed on an artistic image of a rocky landscape with a wildly-starry sky above.
Cover of Conquest by David Day with the title and author name sumperimposed over a painting of armored soldiers and horses marching towards a - city? ziggurat? Not entirely clear to me.
Cover of Trilobite! by Richard Fortey. Title and author name on a black background, centered by a photograph of a trilobite fossil.
Cover of Trapped in the present tense by Colette Brooks. Blue with the title and author name, and three round windows mimicking cutouts with the author's personal photographs visible through them.
Cover of Diary of a Man in Despair by Frederich Reck showing a painting of a person lying in the street with trains and train tracks behind them.
Cover of Sam Patch, the Famous Jumper by Paul E. Johnson. A contemporary painting of Niagara Falls with several people admiring them framed by the title and author.
Cover of The Wandering Mind by Jamie Kreiner. Orange background with the title and author name, and a set of eyes with one being partially covered by what appears to be the hand of a zombie.
Cover of The Medieval Imagination by Jacques Le Goff. A line drawing of a medieval building, roofless, with a background of a cloudy sky.
Copy of a Banksy graffito showing four pigeons on a wire holding signs reading "migrants not welcome," "go back to Africa," and "keep off our worms" while staring menacingly at a tropical bird further along the wire.
A picture of Van Gogh's "A Pair of Shoes" on display at the Metropolitan museum of Art in New York City.
Cover of Who Owns This Sentence? Shows a mock copyright page for the book itself.
Cover of Too Big to Know by Ann Blair. Title and Author name above an image of a Renaissance-era scholar surrounded by piles of paper and other materials.
Cover of Dynasty by Tom Holland with the title and Author name superimposed on an image of the burning of Rome from behind an arch.
Cover of A History of Science, Magic, and Belief by Steven Marrone showing a scene from a Hieronymus Bosch image showing a king or religious figure on a throne with three human/animal hybrids at the base of his throne with a headless demon on a platter and other fantastical creatures lying about.
Cover of How Do We Look by Mary Beard. Author name and book title surrounded by a circle of miscellaneous patterned images.
Cover of the Myth of the Strong Leader by Archie Brown showing a black and white image of a man from behind, standing at a lectern, raising his arms in the air, with a gigantic outdoor crowd in front of him.
Cover of Great Adaptations by Kenneth Catania, with images of eels and moles on a cream-colored background, along with he title and author name.
Cover of Enchanted Creatures by Natalie Lawrence, images of green and gold cryptids, most prominently two dragons, on a black background with the title and author name.
Cover of the Discovery of the Past, illustrated with several images of early archeological finds, a map, and an image from an illuminated manuscript of a bearded man digging into the side of a hill.
Cover of Savage Girls and Wild Boys by Michael Newton, showing two young children staring into the camera with distant looks in their eyes.
Cover of Algospeak by Adam Aleksic, showing dozens of various facial emojis with varying expressions.
Cover of Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris, an artistic image of Roosevelt in his later years.
Front page of The Boston Post of January 16, 1919 reporting on the previous day's terrible news - "Huge molasses tank explodes in north end; 11 dead, 50 hurt"
Headlines saying "Search for More Victims During the Night" and "No Escape From Gigantic Wave of Fluid"
Cover of Enshittification by Cory Doctorow showing a poop emoji with cartoon curses overlaid (&$!#%)
A slack-jawed wide-eyed Teenage Mutant ninja Turtle at Mar-A-Lago.
Cover of After the Future. Brown with a generic image of a city from above.
Cover of The History of Surrealism by Maurice Nadeau showing Salvador Dalí's 1934 painting, "The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used as a Table." which shows a man from behind, dark and looking like a Spanish knight-errant in front of a desert scene. He is holding a sword in one hand and is kneeling on one knee. His other let is wildly elongated and has what appears to be a bottle and another small object placed atop the upper leg.
Cover of The Book of Marvels, red with gold lettering and designs, with a half globe/sky map at the bottom.
Cover of Humanly Possible by Sarah Bakewell showing a drawing of a man and woman before an abstract image, roughly star shaped.
Screenshot of Merriam Webster "Your 2026 Word" gif on the static word "swampy."
Cover of The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History showing illustrations of Huey Newton and several other Black Panther Party leaders.
I never knew until then what the emotion of pure anger was like, how it felt to be sore enough to want to hit somebody in cold blood. A lot of people I knew were shocked that I was so shocked. Nothing would really come of the dictator's threats, they said. His act was nothing more than a bad imitation of that other comic, Mussolini. I knew better. I had seen faces, those faces in Germany that most other people had not seen. And now I remembered: I had been tipped off even earlier than that. It was Sam Harris, sweet, gentle Sam, who had opened my eyes to this evil thing festering in Germany, before I sailed for Hamburg in the fall of '33. Sam had been reading the news from there, every word of it in every paper he could get a hold of, and he had come to a conclusion. "Harpo," he said, "that Hitler is not a very nice fellow. It was the most vicious thing I had ever heard Sam say about another living person.
Cover of Medieval Bodies by Jack Hartnell, showing a man's leg being amputated and replaced with a new one.
Image of a blooming Darwin's Orchid. The flower has delicate white petals.
The President’s Requested Budget and Enacted Level in Real (inflation-adjusted) FY09 Dollars for the Combined Budget or Non-cyclical Budget Lines, 9 Federal Statistical Agencies, FY09–FY26, showing a huge drop in requested funding over the last year.
Back cover of a book showing four different price stickers from resellers, including ThriftBooks twice, Goodwill, and Savers. Adding the original sale indicates that this book has been owned by five different people in seven years since its publication.
Album cover of Peter Case's "The Man With the Blue Postmodern Fragmented Neo-traditionalist Guitar."
From the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, August 2023 Annenberg Center survey question: How accurate is it to say that the First Amendment's protection of freedom of speech must permit all Americans to freely express themselves on Facebook pages? Results 18% very accurate, 35% somewhat accurate, 28% somewhat inaccurate, 21% very inaccurate.
View of Cornell and Cayuga Lake from the top of the clock tower.
Long-sleeved T-shirt with a U.S. flag, bald eagle flying, and "Land of the Free Home of the Brave" in stylized lettering.
Image of a long sleeve T-shirt with a U.S. flag and a flying bald eagle with "Land of the Free Home of the Brave" in stylized lettering.
Screenshot of a T-shirt for sale on Amazon with the line from Trump's birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein, "ENIGMAS NEVER AGE."
A quite striking night sky with streaky clouds backlit by the full or nearly full moon.