Eli Edwards

@misseli.bsky.social

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Still a bibliothecary, lawyer, info policy geek, chocolate lover. Enthusiastically ambivalent about legal technology.

O&D’s goods and decor. I love that brick wall, don’t you?
Seating area with high ceilings, white walls with bold stripes of yellow, rust red-brown, light blue and dark blue. Wooden slat benches with blue and yellow frames/legs. There’s a DJ playing old-school soul. Also, a skinny, shallow bookcase with plants and knickknacks.
Storefront of Obet & Del’s in East Hollywood/Thai Town.
Plaque above empty fountain with image and epitaph for park’s namesake, Theodore Barnsdall
Empty fountain at Barnsdall Park in Hollywood. Definitely a place for reflection, yes.
Water pooled against a curb in Culver City, CA, with some of it splashed on the curb and sidewalk. The water is dirty with accumulated leaves and dirt and other ick. But is it that much worse than the current state of the Reflecting Pool in Washington DC? Let’s reflect on this …
A few simple stitch rows on a Tunisian crochet hook, which is extra long. The yarn is a soft, fuzzy metallic gray-blue. I have no business crocheting with such lovely yarn, but it is what it is.
A museum exhibit plate from the Wende Museum in Culver City, CA, describing the works of Anton Roland Laub, who has a current exhibit on how Nicolae Ceausescu actually moved 7 prominent houses of worship in Bucharest, Romania as a part of his “megalomaniacal folly” to put his stamp on the capital city. Sound familiar?
View to the south from the Venice Beach Pier. The day is slightly overcast and breezy, rather than a hellscape of heat.
Crowds gather in Culver City to watch USA vs. Türkiye World Cup match.
From The Ringer's article about The Gilded Age: Friend: Are you watching The Gilded Age? Me: No, should I be? Friend: I genuinely believe it is the worst show in the history of television. Me: Oh, that’s too bad! I guess I’ll skip it. Friend: It is my favorite show of the past decade. Me: Wait, so it’s … good? Friend: No. It is not good. I love it so much I sometimes almost start levitating. Me: I’m confused. Friend: It is the only thing that gives my life meaning. Some of the acting is decent.
A sign at Comet Coffee, displaying today’s espresso roast, “Painted Ladies,” with a lovely pastel background of Painted Lady Victorian houses in San Francisco. This is appropo because the coffee was roasted by Ritual Coffee in San Francisco.
A banner on a staircase declaring “World Wide Knit In Public Day, Saturday, June 13,” with two sheeting sitting on chairs and knitting, heads turned towards each other as if they were chatting.
Band playing “Ain’t Nobody at the African American Downtown Festival in Ann Arbor, MI
A vending machine full of African-American hair-care products and make-up at the student union building at University of Michigan, located in Ann Arbor. I am shook.
A handmade ceramic soup bowl in spackled olive and dark brown color with a brownish-purple rim, filled with rice porridge and toppings of slaw, ginger and baby corn.
Captain Wentworth (Ciaran Hinds) meets Anne Elliott (Amanda Root) on the streets of Bath after she's read his letter admitting his continuing love in Persuasion (1995).
The 3 members of HUNTR/X from K-POP DEMON HUNTERS on a box of Anua’s “Golden Honmoon” beauty masks, found at an Ulta beauty store.
A screenshot of an Instagram post from the Working Families Party, with a picture of Senate candidate Graham Platner against a black background, with the all-caps caption, "Working Families Party Endorses U.S. Senate, Main, Graham Platner," in orange and white text.
Kamala Harris in a speech from 2024, with her right arm outstretched to the crowd, and a caption reading “We’re not going back.”
Big Mama Thorton hearing the good news
Two groups of multi-ethnic musicians that are part of a Scottish pipe & drum corps warm up before the L.A. Chinese New Year Parade starts in downtown.
LAPD cordoning off Alameda between Aliso and Temple, behind the Federal Building and detention center, to keep back protesters Sunday evening. Photo taken from SW corner of Aliso & Alameda.
A chalked sign in City Lights bookstore, reading “Abandon All Despair Ye Who Enter Here”
A mesh statue of a tall nude woman facing the city at Market St., near Embarcadero Plaza, in San Francisco.
Whale sculpture with aquatic sounds next to the Ferry Building in San Francisco.
Painted on a white wall at the first floor of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, which reads, “Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine) - A Respite for the Weary Time-Traveler. Featuring a Rite of Ancient Intelligence Carried out by the Gardeners - Toward the Continued Improvement of the Human Species - by Kara Walker”
Protesters with signs protesting ICE at Palms overpass of Hwy 405 in L.A.
The supermoon peeking through clouds around 2:45 am during an unfortunate false alarm at my apartment building.
Menorah lit for the third night of Hanukkah at an outdoor celebration.
A very ashy hand holding a paperback copy of Terry Prachett’s Hogfather
Public domain image of the Krampus, a black-furred humanoid beast with giant horns, a long beard, a tufted tail and one hoof and one paw for feet; he's sticking out an enormous tongue as he shoves a naughty boy into a large wicker basket as a girl sets by holding a basket of fruit
Rainbow seen while at the Pomona Fairplex last Saturday at sunset. Looks very red in the picture but it was a traditional rainbow.
Strange Days movie poster, with pix of Angela Bassett, Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Lewish over a blue-filtered crowd scene of a Year 2000 street scene/mob/riot
A tamal con pollo with scattered cortado and a knife since there was only one fork in the bag and my geek’s pupusas had molten hot cheese inside, which is the way …
Man in inflatable unicorn costume with woman in inflatable emperor penguin costume, with the penguin holding a sign that reads, “Emperor penguin says NO KINGS”
At Boyle & 1st in Boyle Heights, looking west towards downtown
From "The Middleaged Bully and the Girl of Eighteen": The Ending They Didn't Film" by Bernard F. Dukore, The Shaw Review, v. 14, no. 3 (Sept. 1971, p. 103: "From the start, the movie version moved in the direction of Beerbohm Tree's interpretation of the end. As Donald P. Costello indicates, "Shaw was suspicious of [Leslie] Howard's screen image as a romantic idol. 'The public will like him and probably want him to marry Eliza,' said Shaw, 'which is just what I don't want.' Shaw wanted, instead, a determined antiromantic in the role. . . ." The playwright's particular choice was Charles Laughton. But Shaw lost. Howard played Higgins and, with Anthony Asquith, codirected the film. Octogenarian Shaw visited Pinewood Studios to celebrate the start of the filming, but part from that visit he was not present at the making of Pygmalion. As Beerbohm Tree did when Shaw left town, the film's directorial duo, Asquith and Howard, with either the assistance or abetting silence of the producer (Gabriel Pascal, to whom Shaw entrusted his work), seized the opportunity to sentimentalize the ending. Theoretically, Shaw had the right to approve the final shooting scrip, but Costello's assertion to the contrary notwithstanding, I have seen no evidence that he actually did." [Footnotes omitted]
Movie poster of the 1927 German silent film, Metropolis, with credits in German: "EIN FILM VON FRITZ LANG," the rest in smaller font
From the website Moviediva about the 1946 black & white French film La Belle et La Bete (Beauty and the Beast): "Or, as Cocteau wrote, 'My goal was to make the Beast so human, so likeable, so superior to man that his transformation into Prince Charming would be for Belle, a terrible disappointment, and would oblige her to accept a marriage of reason.' Greta Garbo attended a screening of the film and reportedly cried out, “Give me back my beast!” after the transformation (Paris)." https://moviediva.com/reviewpages/mdbeautybeast/
Actors Jeremy Piven and Paula Marshall in a teaser image for the one season show Cupid
Film poster of 1943 horror film “I Walked With A Zombie” with a pale woman standing like a statue, a large hand reaching out, one large eye with a yellow pupil, and someone screaming
A small red embroidery hoop with some black and yellow cross stitches.
View of the Willamette River, a bridge and part of East Portland from the upper station of the Portland Aerial Tram
A very loud bar in East Portland that is chockful of people who have to yell to be heard, and I really hope the back patio is open
A rare selfie of me, cropped to show off my emo mixtape cassette earring.
A green Lego typewriter, with moving keys and carriage return. Yeah, I made it!
3D mechanical puzzle that is a cutaway model of a zeppelin
Frida Kahlo sewn doll from a pre-printed kit, the front.
Hand-lettered poster with US flag attached; blue and red lettering reads “WHAT YOU DO TO THE WEAK YOU DO TO ME - JESUS” with “Matthew 25:40” in small black letters on the bottom left.
Unseen protestor holds a sign at a street corner of Culver Blvd and Duquesne Ave. The sign has a photorealistic closeup of the State of Liberty, but with her hand covering her face in apparent dismay.
Email header from Duolingo with the title "Nobody ignores me...for long."
Rolling band truck at Downtown LA labor march, with a bunch of banners and posters for immigrant rights and « Free Kilmar Now »
Picture for the show Farscape, with the characters Rygel (space muppet) and Scorpius (hybrid of 2 alien races dressed in a leather kink suit) at the top, astronaut John Crichton in the center (Earth human, holding weapons with lights at the barrels in both hands, well-meaning but kinda dumb sometimes), Pa'u Zotoh Zhaan to Crichton's right (hooded, blue, loves photogasms), bottom row: Chiana, Aeryn Sun (aiming a black revolver-like weapon) and Ka D'Argo (holding a very large sword/gun rather lovingly).
Promo picture for the show Cupid, picture of Jeremy Piven looking smarmy and wearing a black tee just over the shoulder of Paula Marshall, wearing a red blazer, with their names and the show title hovering above them and "The God of Love Has Met His Match" at the bottom.