Keith Chaffee

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Retired librarian. Love books, movies, TV, music. He/him.

Toddler-sized crochet blanket showing a monster truck crashing through, with chunks of wall flying everywhere; sort of a Kool-Aid Guy “oh yeah!” vibe. Bright purplish red on a grayish cream background.
A crocheted twin-size blanket of bright multi-colored pinwheels on a white background.
A large afghan is draped over a chair so that you can see everything from the center to the edge. The design ("Something Different," designed by Ineke Mooijenkind) is mostly made up of square corners and sharp angles, with a zigzag edge. Colors are white, medium gray, and two shades of muted blue.
A "100 Best Movies of the 21st Century" Reader's Choice ballot, listing Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Hundreds of Beavers, I Saw the TV Glow, Inside Out, Melancholia, Mysterious Skin, Parasite, Tears of the Black Tiger, and Up.
Book cover: "Lessons in Magic and Disaster," Charlie Jane Anders. The author/title, written in large bright yellow letters against a muted photo of tree branches against a dark purple background. A few bright white and yellow daisies drift down in front of the lettering.
Book cover: "The Dream-Quest of Unkonwn Kadath," H. P. Lovecraft. A grotesque tangle of screaming mouths and beady red eyes against a pale gray background.
Book cover: "Dead Men Don't Ski," Patricia Moyes. An illustration of a ski resort. Two people stand at the front, both dressed in warm winter clothing and wearing goggles that hide their eyes -- a slim blonde woman and a burly man with a dark beard. Behind them, a ski lift stretches down the mountain.
Book cover: "The New Voices of Science Fiction," Hannu Rajaniemi & Jacob Weisman, eds. An adorably clunky robot sits facing us; behind him is a blue background and a list of some of the authors included in the book.
Book cover: "Time and Again," Jack Finney. Concentric circles showing images of New York in the 1880s (black and white winter scene of people in the park) and the 1970s (color photo of the same area, now dominated by taller buildings).
Book cover: "The Big Bite," Charles Williams. A woman leans out of the front passenger window of a car, facing away from us; the background of the cover is a bull's eye in shades of teal, getting lighter towards the center. Her head is silhouetted against the white center ring.
Book cover: "Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 5 (1943)," edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Grenberg. The title in large letters on a teal background. A relatively small illustration of a spaceship soaring away from an asteroid at the bottom, with the editors' names below it.
Book cover: "Fast Company," Marco Page. A red background. A stern-faced stone bust looms in the foreground, with several books scattered behind it. Centered on the horizon, the silhouette of a running man.
Book cover: "Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show," Tommy Tomlinson. A woman in a purple jacket and skirt, seen from the chest down, holds the leash of the dog standing to her left, a beautiful and majestically silly-looking Afghan hound.
Book cover: "The Alchemy of Stars," ed. by Roger Dutcher & Mike Allen. In the upper left corner, a large round object with light escaping around its edges, perhaps a planet eclipsing its star. A smaller rock -- an asteroid, or a meteorite? -- floats nearby against red and white clouds of space dust.
Book cover: "Jackalope Wives and Other Stories," T. Kingfisher. The background is an ornate wallpaper-style print in muted shades of brown and gray. Against it is a bordered panel showing a desert landscape, from that panel, a jackalope leaps out, breaking the borders of the landscape.
Book cover: "The City & the City," China Mieville. The background is a mottled sky-blue, interrupted by a white stripe containing the author's name. Below that, the title; the second "THE CITY" is written in reverse, with backwards letters reading from right to left. At the very bottom of the cover, the skyline of an older city -- lower buildings, mostly made of wood and stone. At the very top, the upside-down skyline of a more modern city, with more metal and taller skyscrapers.
Book cover: "Let Me Clear My Throat," Elena Passarello. A solid black cover; the title and author's name are in relatively small white text, right-justified, about 1/4 of the way down the cover. In the lower left corner, a photograph of a woman, from the abdomen up. Her head is tilted back and her mouth is opened very wide; she appears to be screaming, or perhaps hitting a particularly impressive musical note.
Box set of three large hardcover books: "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes," Bill Watterson. The books and the box are a dark brown; the side of the box is orange/rust. Centered on the side is an image from Watterson's comic strip showing Calvin and Hobbes (a small boy and his stuffed tiger, brought to "life" by his imagination) relaxing under a tree.
Book cover: "Stories of Your Life and Others," Ted Chiang. A blue sky, pale at the bottom with fluffy white clouds; darker with scattered stars at the top. The book's title and Chiang's name form a large circle, in which we see the three hands of a clock, set to 11:10 and 32 seconds (as best I can eyeball it without numbers on the "clock").
Book cover: "The Little Women," Katharine Weber. The top two-thirds of the book is an orange-rust background, on which the author/title are written in a lightweight type. At the bottom, a painting of three young women. At the left, one sits in a chair, focused intently on her reading. At the right, one leans against a sofa, curled almost into a fetal position. The image is dominated by the middle woman, who takes up most of the sofa -- one foot on the sofa, the other on the floor; her dress is an orange that echoes the cover's background color.
A boxed set of two books; together they make up the collected lyrics of Stephen Sondehim. "Finishing the Hat" is a bright blue book with the author/title in large white block letters; "Look, I Made a Hat" is bright pink. They are packaged in a dark gold box with both book titles on it in the same typeface.
Book cover: "Two Boys Kissing," David Levithan. A close-up photo of the faces of two teenaged boys, eyes closed as they gently kiss. The title of the book, in large lower-case letters, is laid over the photo; the author's name is in the empty space above the head of the boy on the right.
Book cover: "Alternate Oscars," Danny Peary. Photos of Hollywood actors are strewn across a black surface. On top of them, an Oscar-esque statue stands, but it is holding its spear above its head, preparing to bring it down like a club. At the base of the statue, a small tub of popcorn is spilled across the photos.
Book cover: "Cherry Ames, Student Nurse," Helen Wells. An illustration of an attractive young woman in a mid-20th-century nurse's outfit; she holds a clipboard as she looks at us. Over her shoulder, we can see a woman in a hospital bed, with a vase of flowers on an end table next to the bed.
Book cover: "Le Ton Beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language," Douglas R. Hofstadter. An illustration tightly centered on a faded ivory-colored cross, on which is written a short 15th-century French poem which is at the center of the book. In the distance behind the cross, there is a pastoral landscape -- fields, a few trees, dark clouds looming overhead -- in muted greens and grays.
Book cover: "Blue Heaven," Joe Keenan. Illustration: A stuffy-looking middle-aged woman is seated on a small statue of a dog. Behind her stand two younger women, a demure blonde in a long blue dress and a brunette femme-fatale type in a chic striped hat. In front of her are two young men, leaning forward towards her. The taller man has his arm around the shoulder of the shorter, whose fingers are crossed behind his back. Through a window in the background, we see a New York city skyline.
Book cover: "Let's Talk About Love: Why Other People Have Such Bad Taste," Carl Wilson. On a mottled pink background, the author's name and title in large letters; in smaller print, a list of about a dozen authors who have contributed essays to this "new and expanded edition."
Book cover: "Tales of the City," Armistead Maupin. A pale, multi-colored background on which there is a blue box containing author/title info; within that box, an illustration of an outdoor wooden staircase, perhaps slightly rickety. We can't see either the bottom or the top of the staircase; it connects two unknown places.
Book cover: "Dreyer's English," Benjamin Dreyer. No illustrations. Above the title, the subtitle "An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style;" below the author's name, "copy chief of Random House." Text is red and white on a black background.
Book cover: "Tigerheart," Peter David. A pirate ship on a choppy sea; in the foreground, a mermaid, a large squid, and a sea serpent swim. All this in dark blue/teal, with the night sky in a slightly lighter blue, with the suggestion of sunrise in a line of yellow on the horizon.
Book cover: "The Anything Box," Zenna Henderson. A young girl with pigtails and wide eyes stares directly at the viewer. Her hands are held in front of her chest, and between them floats a small image of a hilly, wooded landscape.
Book cover: Mark Merlis, "An Arrow's Flight." The background is a light rust color. In a horizontal band across the cover are arrayed a variety of figures -- soldiers, a horse, a young man wearing only a small loincloth -- drawn in the style of classical Greek art.
Book cover: Howard Frank Mosher, "A Stranger in the Kingdom." In the background, a small New England village; in the foreground, autumn-colored leaves drift downward.
Book cover: David Rees, "How to Sharpen Pencils." Bright yellow cover with a sharpened pencil at the left; rest of the cover is filled with text, including the long subtitle "A Practical and Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for: writers, artists, contractors, flange turners, anglesmiths, civil servants, with Illustrations Showing Current Practice."
Book cover of Susan Palwick's "The Necessary Beggar;" a photo of a hand gripping a chain-link fence
Crocheted cable panel in cobalt blue, part of the body of a sweater in process. The cables form a vertical chain of overlapping hearts, with 2 thin vertical stripes on either side of the hearts.
"Ziggy's Odyssey," a large square crocheted afghan with a central mandala, in white, gray, and shades of blue
"Espiritu del Sol," a brightly colored, intricately patterned crochet blanket
A 29-inch wide circular crocheted piece, in many bright colors and intricate stitches; it will eventually be the center of a large square blanket.
Brightly colored crochet piece, a floral mandala that will eventually be the center of a larger blanket.
two crocheted temperature blankets, one in shades of blue and purple, the other in browns, reds, and pinks
logo for the podcast BECAUSE LANGUAGE
A small trophy. A figure of a winged woman stands on a base which reads "The 2012 American Crossword Puzzle Tournament / Second Prize -- Rookie".