Edward Alexander

@makemeamap.bsky.social

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Mapmaker of military history and historic sites, ska and punk music lift me up, Illini and Chicago sports bring me down

The top of page 123 of the Cedar Creek Battlefield and Belle Grove Plantation National Historic Landmark Nomination form. An entire irrelevant section is entirely redacted.
Email received from Brock Turner but presumably not that one
Sammy Sosa baseball card from this year's Topps set but feating the 1991 design. The back, not shown, talks about the 1998 season.
Baseball reference page for Steve Swisher showing a -0.1 WAR during his 1976 all-star season
Basketball hoop in a neighborhood
Fantasy baseball notification saying: "David Bednar is starting in your lineup but was downgraded to Paternity."
A blue skip card from the NFL branded Uno card set, featuring Cincinnati Bengals offensive lineman Ted Karras, who played college ball at Illinois
Rookie of the Year movie clip where a middle schooler lobs a pitch
Back side of an LSU football card giving a poorly thought through metaphor about drugs being an offensive line that you need to overwhelm
Image spoofing the upcoming cover of EA Sports Madden 27 where Caleb Williams is shown against a backdrop of the Chicago skyline, except this time that skyline is in the far distance with industrial northeastern Indiana shown instead
Screenshot from Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 - with a soundtrack featuring the song May 16 by Lagwagon, which takes place on a Saturday
A couple hundred sports cards packed in bubble wrap
Screenshot from the Bluey trains episode where Dad is all worn out by passenger Bluey's antics
Book covers for Rachel Shelden's The Political Supreme Court: A Forgotten History and William Blair's Arlington: An African American History
1990-1991 basketball card of Seattle Supersonics forward Scott Meents
Adjusting the troop movement arrow on the battle map to better fill the space, akin to what the president did in 2020 except I'm not defacing official government documents and messing with disaster response to appease my fragile ego.
Screenshot of Adobe Illustrator with a battle map I'm currently designing. There's unfortunately a bunch of empty space on the left side of the frame.
Cover of the book How to Lie with Maps by Mark Monmonier
Reuters article about Keurig Dr. Pepper trying to acquire JDE Peet's
Marge Simpson covering her face
Kevin Byard covering his face instead of jumping on a fumble
Photo of part of a page in Richard Scarry's Busy Busy People book, showing animals owning and operating various businesses
Illustration in a children's book showing a butcher, who is a pig, selling pork products
Poster for the Bad Time Records 2026 Tour at The Camel in Richmond, Virginia, on June 18--featuring Kill Lincoln, JER, and Bad Operation
Front side of upcoming release in the Bowman U Now basketball card set featuring Berry Wallace, noting "Illinois star fuels upset over No. 7 Maryland."
Google Maps street view showing the intersection of 10th Street and Broad Street in Richmond, VA. The vehicle traveling south on 10th has a green light but is not allowed to go straight, forcing a left turn onto Broad, over a crosswalk where a pedestrian has the go-ahead walk signal.
Three Matt Shaw baseball cards, including two inserts, pulled from a box of 2025 Topps Update.
Fans holding up MIZ ZOU signs at a Missouri Tigers game, except they have the ZOU upside down
Screenshot of article text saying: "Yesterday, it also produced the funniest thing I saw all day: a Bulldog carrying his cramping teammate to the sideline."
Screenshot of Google Maps navigation showing a police vehicle in the median up ahead
Illinois kicker James McCourt, in gray uniform, carried off the field after beating #6 Wisconsin on a last second field goal in 2019
Flyer for a Five Iron Frenzy show on February 28 at Richmond's Canal Club
Game probability chart showing the Bulls comeback win against the 76ers
PJ Fleck getting an oversized tub of Duke's Mayo dumped on him after winning a bowl game
Anthony Banda throwing a pitch in a Visalia Rawhide jersey while playing for them in the minor leagues
Waluigi playing baseball
photograph of my dog, Max, uncharacteristically sitting still with the word staying underneath him
The backside of several basketball cards for Terrence Shannon, Jr., highlighting that his 2024-25 NBA Hoops rookie card lists Texas Tech as his college instead of Illinois.
Screenshot of map software showing a blue GPS trail at the Hanging Rock Battlefield near Heath Springs, SC, on a shaded relief background. The path is jagged and jumpy where I walked and smooth along the road.
Interpretive markers for the Revolutionary War battle of Hobkirk Hill in Camden, South Carolina
Photo of just now fired Penn State head football coach James Franklin with the word "Breaking" overlaid in bold.
A dozen reporters taking photos of a single turned over trashcan with a lone flame flickering from it. Photo from the 2017 presidential inauguration in Washington, DC.
Chicago style hot dog from City Dogs (Richmond, VA) in all its poppy seed, neon relish glory
Cover Art for Goodnight Rockview, a lullaby cover album of Less Than Jake songs, showing a sleepy baby in a suit, alluding to LTJ's Hello Rockview
Newspaper advertisement offering a hundred dollar reward for a runaway slave named John. The key details is that a previous owner tried to sell him but couldn't, it is claimed, due to his very light complexion.
Portion of the box score from the 2011 Illinois-Ohio State football game, in which Buckeyes quarterback Braxton Miller only completed one stinking pass, but for a touchdown, at that
Empty Nick Castellanos jersey
Screenshot of a headline reading: "Acorns flooding your yard? There's a reason why"
AI generated depictions of West Virginia University's Mountaineer mascot. The faces are horribly mangled, a chilling reminder to not replace actual art with artificially generated slop.
National Park Service wayside exhibit showing a historic photograph of the Fredericksburg battlefield - see text here: https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=8663
The graphic showing the games needed to played to crown a baseball champion for the Big Ten Conference. I'd describe it further but the poor design does not warrant that. Also, contour lines in the background.
Screenshot of Tim Robinson singing during an I Think You Should Leave sketch
Screenshot from the ArcGIS Pro mapping software showing a very pixelated view of the USGS National Map centered on the city of Richmond, Virginia.
Google Maps streetview capture of Belt Boulevard in Richmond, Virginia, showing a pedestrian walking along a sidewalk until it suddenly ends at curb, leaving them to cut through parking lots or grass to continue on their way.
Store shelf showing a boxed children's game based on the Bluey episode Keepy Uppy, which sadly betrays the show's theme that simply bopping a balloon up in the air is more fun and conducive to creativity and stimulation than having to buy new specific toys all the time.
Autographed cards of Terrence Shannon Jr. and Jer'zhan Newton