Melissa Hartman

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Editor of a higher-ed magazine. Loves: science, words, live music. When in doubt, delete it.

A gray tuxedo cat scratches a keyboard-themed cardboard scratcher. I think he’s playing Unchain My Heart
A great and white tuxedo cat is stretched out on a window sill in the sun. A rose of Sharon is in bloom out the window behind him.
Two shelves of Pyrex. Top: Cinderella 4-bowl sets: yellow gooseberry (the one that started my collection because my mom had one bowl of the set), blue butterprint, pink gooseberry. Bottom: primary fridgie set, primary mixing bowls, primary dot bowls, 4 blue barcode casseroles.
The Wonders, the fictional band at the center of the movie That Thing You Do
Handmade sign that says "Out, damned twat! --Shakespeare, kind of" with a crossed-out image of a smirking Trump wearing a crown
Inside the cabinet of an Ampeg Mercury, showing tubes, wiring, and speaker.
A 1960/61 Ampeg Mercury M-12, with tremolo footswitch and a cord from 1961 on top.
A gray tuxedo cat in a crocheted bed on a fireplace hearth. The fireplace is lit, and the cat has his front paws crossed and one back leg extended over the edge of the bed, looking completely elegant and blissed out.
A photo of a journal page with this poem by Charles Rafferty: The Problem with Early Warnings People don't like to leave a party unless the house is actually on fire. Even then, if the flames are far enough away to be pretty, they'll finish their drink, take one more pass at the hors d'oeuvres. How things happen has always been unclear. Hurricanes begin in a place where no one lives. Agents of the government start to wear masks. "Fascism" is a word my neighbors won't use yet. They are following the law, they say, and the sirens are coming for someone else.
A display of pyrex casserole dishes, with a blue space saver casserole dish with white snowflake circled in red.
A gray tuxedo cat and a black cat suit on a window sill. Outside the window are trees turning orange and gold.
Peter Hotez stands at a podium against a backdrop that says Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Album cover with an eagle on a white background, the words "Democracy Forward" coming from its open break.
A gray tuxedo cat curls up in his crocheted cat bed in a spot of sun, with one back paw stretched out of the bed, revealing pink toe beans.
A black cat sits close to the camera next to a Black Cat overdrive effect pedal, while a gray tuxedo cat glares at the camera behind the attempted tableau
A gray tuxedo cat sits with his tail around his paws on a green chair. He's looking off to the right of the camera.
Poster with an inverted American flag. Text says, Dear World, We're sorry. We're scared, too. We're trying to get him out of power as quickly as possible. The Majority of Americans
A drum kit with Fantastic Cat written in script and 4 anthropomorhized cats under that on the bass drum, each representing a band member.
Poster with bold black "HANDS OFF!" over red and blue words including medicaid, Medicare, social security, LGBTQ rights, vaccines, CDC, Veterans Affairs, FDA, museums, universities, and many more agencies and concepts this administration is trying to destroy.
A hardcover copy of 'The Boy, the mole, the fox and the horse' by Charlie Mackesy. The illustration on the cover is a drawing of a horse bending over a boy, who is holding a mole, with a fox sitting at his feet
A gray tuxedo cat curled up in his crocheted bed with his head turned upside down and a paw over his face
A gray tuxedo cat lying on a green chair with his face smashed into a pillow
Cover of The Connells album One Simple Word, which has all of those words, or parts of them, mixed up around the cover
Screen shot of email headers from Proud Patriots with subject lines advertising "Trump Bear - 2024 Edition" and "Join the Collector's Club"
A picture of a paragraph that reads: In the new morning of today's fourth earth orbit the Saharan dust sweeps to the sea in hundred-mile ribbons. Hazy pale shimmering sea, hazy tangerine land. This is Africa chiming with light. You can almost hear it, this light, from inside the craft. Gran Canaria's steep radial gorges pile the island up like a sandcastle hastily built, and when the Atlas Mountains announce the end of the desert, clouds appear in the shape of a shark whose tail flips at the southern coast of Spain, whose fin-tip nudges the southern Alps, whose nose will dive any moment into the Mediterranean. Albania and Montenegro are velvet soft with mountain.
A cake frosted with marshmallow icing, ringed with sugar-frosted cranberries and topped with a small pile of frosted cranberries and rosemary sprigs
A gray tuxedo cat asleep with his head on his paw, in his cat bed, surrounded by presents under a christmas tree.
screenshot of a cancelation confirmation that reads, We're sorry to see you go. You will receive an email confirming your cancellation. We thank you for your time, and hope to welcome you back in the future.
A gray tuxedo cat looking grumpy while lying on his side with his paws in the air
Pink and purple aurora light up behind a border of silhouetted trees.