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Well-meaning grouch.

Charlie Parker record Bird at the Roost (The Savoy Sessions) Perched atop the record being played
Friday 1:20 baseball at Wrigley Field
Did somebody say…. Eustachian tube?
A statue stands for the courage, strength, and defiance of Mamie Till-Mobley outside of Argo Community High School. Flowers wreath the hero. Sun dramatically breaks around clouds, casting discernible beams of light that radiate beyond the confines of this one picture
A finely-feathered pigeon-dove sitting on a wire. Some cloud. A utility pole “T”-shaped, many wires hither and thither.
A firework-like burst of yellow ejecting from green stems transposed over darkened green and pink splotches of coneflower
Garage mural, a colorful serpent with coneflowers
Wheel of Fortune, signed by Dr. Richard Garfield
Mr. Man, first name Bat. Earlier iteration of the caped crusader before his goth phase (from which he hasn’t yet seemed to grow out)
Goofin with long exposure, unnatural sky light
Cubs up 6-0, top second
The cover of Daniel Kraus’s “Whalefall”
Odometer reading of 126666
Cast iron bust of Jean Baptiste du Sable
The start of another death-laced day in Chicagoland.
Air quality level: gas mask
A few spotlights of sun doppled in the center of the frame, the gray-blue of the water and the blue- grey of the cloud-over form one greay expanse
The fat heap he married is a nice old phenomenon with a back on her like a ballalley.
Fat-ass volume of the 2026-2027 CIA world factbook
Sunflower forming its radiant crown. Utility wires criss-cross in the background
Last winking of a red sun wayyyyyy off in the distance over an uneven horizon (trees) and and expanse of Lake Michigan that laps up at your feet
A young sunflower, still all green, doing its best to grow in the foreground. The background a tangled web of the trappings of modern life.
Bee seeks jollies atop an echinacea
Black swallowtail checkin’ out the echinacea
Reflection in a glass pane of a door
Benny peering over his bifocals
The Mackinac Bridge seemingly leading to nowhere.
Paperback Elmore Leonard, “LaBrava”
Water and sky appreciated from a quiet balcony. A bird in flight as a silhouette over Houghton Lake. The sun is only a couple hours into its ascent, and is hiding up in the top right 3% behind some clouds. Docked boats stretch towards a vanishing point we never will see..
A vanilla crème Faygo held up midframe, an expanse of half-lake half-sky everywhere else. Houghton Lake, Michigan
Marquee of Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Blooming echinacea. Dazzles with panoply of color, outmost crown of pink-petalled bling, the inner-nova a green vortex, a purple pointillism transition into scarlet tipped whorls of nature’s geometry, flecked along its circumference little golden lighthouses beckoning weary travelers. Or something like that. Just the word soup guy
Fry my patriotism into a donut hole and roll it up in a buncha sprinkles and stars and shit
“Wary Farmers”, a M:tg card
A wide view of about 15 empty lanes at a bowling alley
Typewriters
An excerpt from “The Jazzmen”
Shadow of a fella next to a sunflower and its shadow
A sealed package of Super Star Collectible Action Marbles (set #1) that includes MLB stars Jim Abbott, Jose Canseco, Ken Griffey Jr., Kirby Puckett, and Nolan Ryan. c1991.
Peeping towards Buckingham Fountain while driving north on DuSable
A picture of a b&w underwood typewriter from level of the tabletop
A coupla lapel pins, the one on the left a jingoistic mash-up of cubs and patriotism, the 250th year being a thing, naturally. Slapping “exclusive” across the top makes it neigh irresistible for this collector. The pin on the right is a interleague pin for this series with the Toronto Blue Jays, over the weekend of June 19, 20, 21
Wrigley Field, as seen from Sheffield avenue.
A Welcoming Vampire promo, a draft booster pack of “Unfinity”, a set booster pack of Lost Caverns of Ixalan, and Italian pack of Dominaria
A story-tall mural of shaman and leopard (as I see it)
A panorama of mostly Lake Michigan, and clouded sky, with a finger of skyline poking out the lower (not lowest) left corner.
Hardback Modern Library edition of “Ulysses”, the author, James Joyce looking like a headfirst collision of pirate and dandy,
A bunch of Topps 2026 series2 baseball cards in a replicated sequence. Unfortunately it’s a handful of “who cares”?and not a godpack grip