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Lobby of 11th Ave Hostel in Denver, featuring 10-foot mushroom
Instagram bio of ArnieTex Segovia
Cover of the novel The Lion Women of Tehran, by Marjan Kamali. Green with gold trim and a pink-red-purple-gold mythical creature.
The cover of "Act of Oblivion," by Robert Harris. Parchment-colored background styled as an old sheet of paper. Ink drawing of a man fleeing on horseback at speed with a trail of red blood behind. "They killed the king. Now they must flee across America." Text is in Poor Richard or similar font.
Cover of the audio edition of PERVERSION of JUSTICE: THE JEFFREY EPSTEIN STORY, by Julie K. Brown, the OG reporter.
Retro exterior of Marfa Public Radio, the greatest radio station of all time. Though obviously I could never have survived high college without XRock 80, Juarez.
NY Times movie ballot: Roma, Moonlight, Winter's Bone, Slumdog Millionaire, Master & Commander, Ocean's 11, Gosford Park, Rachel Getting Married, Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger/Hidden Dragon
Cover of said album, green with a photo of a nice lady with brown hair, dressed in Whipped cream, putting her finger in her mouth to have a taste. All the dads had this! Rumor had it that it was shaving cream, though.
Bucky Dent of the 70s NY Yankees, dressed in a way that I guess we thought was alluring? Ripped baseball top, hairy belly, short-ish shorts. Bat over his shoulders. Was he any good? He must've been ok to get a poster.
A derelict airplane hangar labeled Parachute School. Three men in their underwear jump and cheer someone in the distance as a plane flies overhead and 25-yr-old Suzy Amis holds their clothes.
Three chicks of Big Bear Lake eagles Jackie and Shadow
Keith Carradine in Altman's "Nashville," playing guitar and looking remarkably handsome in leather vest, swoopy bangs, and '70s facial hair.
Pat Buchanan
A photo of the THIRD try at my daughter's birthday cake (red velvet), streaking out of the pan upside down on the floor
A meme from 30 Rock. Lemon (Tina Fey) says, "What a year, huh?" And Jack (Alec Baldwin) says, "Lemon, it's January."
The cover of Katie Kitamura's "Intimacies," a hot pink background with abstract-seeming black lines that actually depict a couple embracing.
The cover of Claire Messud's "This Strange Eventful History." Photo of a man lighting a cigarette on a pale turquoise background of mountains, covered in red passport stamps.
Top photo: A translator (blonde woman, not her first rodeo) looks at DJT with disbelief when he says the U.S. and Italy have been allies since the Roman Empire. Of course, he doesn't know she's alive. Bottom photo: She looks at someone off screen for confirmation that she's not insane - she's simply encountering something as dusturbing as it is baffling. And she might lose her job for reacting. What career could she do after this? Can she retire? Trump's just waiting for the accolades that will surely come after she's translated his genius thoughts.
The cover of Marcie R. Rendon's "Where They Last Saw Her," a gorgeous portrait of a beaten face backdropped by woods. Beside the cover is a bookmark with directions to Louise Erdrich's bookstore, Birchbark Books in Minneapolis.
The cover of TC Boyles's "Tortilla Curtain," a huge, magnificent, spiky succulent, pale green on a background of of pale yellow cloud and pale green sky.
The cover of Jane Smiley's vastly underrated "The Greenlanders" shows a woman in profile, backgroundedby water, hills, and a viking ship. It's given the cracked-paint effect of ancient paintings. The woman is young but determined.
Stolen photo of Zach McGowan as dread pirate Charles Vane in Black Sails. He is quite fit and come-hithery, but also dirty and sweaty and maybe grumpy. His body language suggests we had not better be wasting his time.
Screenshot of my Libby account, where the new Attica Locke (Guide Me Home) and the new Marcie Rendon (Where They Last Saw Her) have both achieved Ready to Borrow status today.
Saskia Reeves as Standish in "Slow Horses playing chess
The cover of Paulette Jiles's "News of the World, a wide green hill with some brush. Near the horizon, a figure waits or walks toward a horse and cart. Behind is a vast blue sky with clouds.
The cover of Louise Erdrich's "Antelope Woman." A blue background with an antelope woman's face.
The cover of Larry McMurtry's "The Last Picture Show." Forest green ombre dark at the top and light at the bottom. Text in white. Drawing of a movie theater with an empty marqee in the center. In the front a blode girl with shoulder-lengh hair drive a convertible.
Cover of the García Marquez novel "100 Years of Solitude." It depicts forest and angels from above.
The cover of Daniel Woodrell's Winter's Bone, a gray snowscap with laundry hanging on a line stretched from a battered house, a slight figure in the foreground holding a rifle.
The cover of Kate Atkinson's "When Will There Be Good News?" , a photo of red-haired girl running with a red-haired dog.
Aaron Rupar text from last night, bemoaning the mystery of how a convicted sex felon and failed ex-president could be reelected
The hijabi girl in the Iranian movie "A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night." Her mouth is bloody.
Fifties-era party with reverse in the background and a fish tank-size jello mold of am aquarium. It's a magazine ad for Hellman's Mayonaise.
The purple and yellow cover of Téa Obreht's novel INLAND