Pages From a Lost Sketchbook

I feel like most of the World Cup powerhouse countries would be stupid to allow their teams and staff to travel to the US as things stand right now.

Yes

Love this! I walk by just that spot (I’m pretty sure) a couple times a month, sometimes more…

The fact that the US is the only member of the UN that hasn’t ratified the Rights of the Child Convention tells you a lot about our so-called “family values”

(I’m a bit of a Salieri stan myself tbh)

Other favorite older gay books are E.M. Forster’s Maurice (the movie is also great) and Mary Renault’s historical gay fiction set in ancient Greece (Madeline Miller’s 2011 The Song of Achilles, also great, follows in Renault’s footsteps)

The first gay book I read was Rubyfruit Jungle, in 1975 when I was 14, a book my sister brought back from college (U of M Ann Arbor). It changed my life.

Imagine my surprise when I clicked to look at the responses and it’s basically all Salieri stans

Whoa, you just showed up on my discover feed and I’m blown away! I have no words for your art… the titles alone make me guffaw but then the art, yes I guffaw, but I’m also in awe!!!!

I totally forgot it was Ida Rubenstein who commissioned Boléro! What an incredible person she was!

B&W sketch of a grand house and a tree on a table, covered by a bell jar, with two little men in the left corner carrying a ladder to get up to it and my signature electrical outlet in the background on the right, and a text reading “the bell jar” in the lower right.

Today’s mood: Sometimes I wish I lived in a bubble #sketch #belljar

The tiny hands 😝

I remember Judy Collins singing this!!!

Moosewood! That and the Silver Palate were such go-tos when I first learned to cook in the early 80s…

Where is the time warp when you need it? Just a twist to the left

Remember when we brought the stinky clams back from the beach in a pail?

Clearly with that list, you should be in charge here!

I’m old and from the midwest too, ha ha! I guess I always thought it was Yiddish (I’m not Jewish but I grew up in a heavily Jewish Chicago suburb), like schmaltz and chutzpah?

I forgot about that book(s?)! I liked them but it was never on my read it again and again list!

I’m not even in the US (though I’m from there) but yes, the US is totally stressing me out (and creating chaos for everyone else)

I realized my own word blindness with the bee is a personal canary in the coal mine that I’m actually a bit exhausted/stressed…

B&W sketch of a tiny man and woman in vaguely 19th-century dress each grasping a leaf that is bigger than they are and hauling them up a diagonal walk

Today’s mood: autumnal and a bit of a struggle #sketch #autumnleaves #autumn #tinypeople

A very compelling argument for not working remotely

I’m American and I found it a weird one for Wordle, it feels very… regional? Slang-y? I also wonder if people even use it anymore (I haven’t lived in the US for 27 years so I guess I wouldn’t really know)

Sometimes dissociating with a lil tiger with penultimate art in the background is what it takes to make it through the day

I do love how so many of your art posts are such a comment on the times (thinking about a certain health secretary rejecting global health goals on chronic diseases).

Awww! Little Pipperoni was always my fave of his many monikers…

Malvarrosa!!!! Love the beaches in Valencia, they’re so broad!

My grandmother, whom I loved dearly, was warm but also a bit scary, sharp and with a great sense of humor but didn’t stand for any nonsense. Grandma’s church was pretty awful though, those peppermints were a necessity.

B&W sketch of a surface with a box of little discs, three of them on the surface, as well as a pair of wire-rimmed glasses and a text: My grandmother had a tin full of pink peppermints, chalky and sweet, from which we could take one to bring along to church…

Today’s mood: Remembering Sundays past (I had no idea until now that those were pink Canada mints? I only remember they tasted like wintergreen and there were white ones also that tasted like regular peppermints) #nostalgia #sketch #pinkpeppermints