Nap Factory

6 Rows of books tiled upon the ground: Amy Kurzweil - Artificial Megan Kelso - Who Will Make the Pancakes Joanna Moorhead - Surreal Spaces: The life and art of Leonora Carrington Lisa Perrin - The League of Lady Poisoners Karen Han - Bong Joon Ho: Dissident Cinema Elaine Khosrova - Butter: A Rich History Peng Shepherd - The Cartographers Natalie Haynes - Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth Colson Whitehead - The Underground Railroad Eileen Myles - Inferno: A Poet's Novel Sindya Bhanoo - Seeking Fortune Elsewhere Helena Rho - American Seoul Alice Wong (Editor) - Disability Intimacy:Essays on Love, Care, and Desire Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Gods of Jade and Shadow Alexandra Petri: US History, Important American Documents Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore - Touching the Art Victoria Chang - With My Back To The World: Poems Maggie Smith - You Could Make This Place Beautiful Felicia Berliner - Shmutz Maggie Shipstead - You Have A Friend in 10A Catherine Newman - We All Want Impossible Things Laura Sims - How Can I Help You Pik-Shuen Fung - Ghost Forest Farah Ali - People Want To Live Amy Tan - Backyard Bird Chronicles Sarah Rees Brennan - Long Live Evil Eve L. Ewing - Electric Arches Becky Chambers - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - A Closed and Common Orbit - The Galaxy, and the Ground Within - Record of a Spaceborn Few - To be Taught if Fortunate - A Psalm for the Wild-built - A Prayer for the Crown-shy Martha Wells - Fugitive Telemetry - System Collapse Marjane Satrapi (Editor) : Woman Life Freedom Li Chen - Detective Beans & The Case of the Missing Hat Natalie Diaz - Postcolonial Love Poem Kate Beaton - Bodies of Art, Bodies of Labor Books procured from Papercuts, Hummingbird Books, Porter Square Books, Brookline Booksmith, Frugal Books, Grolier Poetry

📚💙 Here's the books I finished in March. Discovered and got successfully lost in some fun worlds, learned about some neat people, and generally escaped from some of the anxiety...

Jenny Nicholson, in a room full of plushies, text reads, "i slap everything, you just don't see it because I edit around it" from the 4 hour video https://youtu.be/T0CpOYZZZW4?si=Ro0wU-Fa5d_VGgAm

That's a Jenny

YouTube video by lights Lights - Same Sea [Official Music Video]

Almost forgot about this one from Lights

YouTube video by TroyeSivanVEVO Troye Sivan, Kacey Musgraves - Easy ft. Mark Ronson

Not sure this counts, but the song does get the karaoke treatment at the 1 min 20 second mark

YouTube video by CarlyRaeJepsenVEVO Carly Rae Jepsen - Run Away With Me

Definite karaoke activity occurring around the 3 minute mark

The Bandit Queens had such great characters and growth, Gumbo Ya Ya & Homie were breathtaking and did amazing work in text formatting/layout that I loved, Murderbot series was pure anxious robot just wants to watch TV episodic fun, Our Missing Hearts & Mexican Gothic haunted me in the best way

Mila, a calico cat walking across pile of books

Bonus cat

Books read in February laid out in rows The Message - Ta-Nehisi Coates Sy Montgomery - Of Time and Turtles Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott Pageboy - Elliot Page The Middle Daughter - Chika Unigwe Small Fires - Rebecca May Johnson I Keep my Exoskeletons to myself - Marisa Crane Witch King - Martha Wells Iron Widow - Xiran Jay Zhao Heavenly Tyrant - Xiran Jay Zhao The Disordered Cosmos - Chanda Prescod-Weinstein H is for Hawk - Helen Macdonald The Year of the Flood - Margaret Atwood Maddaddam - Margaret Atwood Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job - Kikuko Tsumura These Ghosts are Family - Maisy Card A Visit From the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan Ragged - Christopher Irvin Cold Nights of Childhood - Tezer Özlü, translated by Maureen Freely Severance - Ling Ma Architectural Styles a Visual Guide - Margaret Fletcher Syllabus - Lynda Barry How Women Made Music - edited by Alison Fensterstock The Wind Knows My Name - Isabel Allende Woodworking - Emily St. James Daughters Of the New Year - E.M. Tran Kick and Run - Johnathan Wilson Mother Nature - Jaime Lee Curtis, Karl Stevens, Russell Goldman Gullah Geechee home cooking - Emily Meggett Mamacita - Andrea Pons Firelei Báez - Firelei Báez, ICA

📚 Here's the books I finished in February, thanks to all of the authors for creating characters to care about, worlds to get lost in, and for presenting perspectives I hadn't considered before

Black and White print of a guillotine. Text reads, "A better world is possible!" Print by Amy Mendelsohn @Coopsy.art

A flier for Sonic Adventure 2: Custody Battle, a Sonic Drag show. I imagine there was a lot of hysterical giggling during the creation of this, and that gives me a lot of joy

I saw this flier months ago and had no idea this was a whole narrative arc for Sonic. Life comes at you fast

Books tiled out on the floor, cat sitting in upper right silently judging Natasha Pulley - The Half Life of Valery K Alex Espinoza - The Sons of El Ray Jennette McCurdy - I'm Glad My Mom Died Chloe Gong - Vilest Things Parini Shroff - The Bandit Queens Jing Gao - The Book of Sichuan Chili Crisp Melissa M Martin - Bayou Januar Rianto - The Southeast Asian Types No.1 Sigrid Nunez - The Friend Samantha Irby - Quietly Hostile Laura Zigman - Separation Anxiety Miranda July - No One Belongs Here More Than You Min Jin Lee - Pachinko Mary Roach - Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Mexican Gothic Kazuo Ishiguro - Klara and the Sun Saeed Jones - How We Fight for our Lives Aurielle Marie - Gumbo Ya-Ya Martha Wells - All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy, Network Effect Phuc Tran - Sigh, Gone Talia Lakshmi Kolluri - What We Fed to the Manticore Julia Alvarez - How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accent Claire-Louis Bennett - Checkout 19 Claire Oshetsky - Poor Deer Rebecca Roanhorse - Black Sun, Fevered Star, Mirrored Heavens Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah - Chain-gang All-Stars Celeste Ng - Our Missing Hearts Kathleen Alcott - Emergency Anne Garreta - Sphinx Ariana Brown - Sana Sana Toshikazu Kawaguchi - Before the Coffee Gets Cold Terry Mudge/Tyler Thrasher - The Universe in 100 Colors Elizabeth Strout - Lucy by the Seas Gregory Murphy - Categories we live by Betty Gilpin - All the women in my brain Gwen E. Kirby - Shit Cassandra Saw Andrea Cohen - The Sorrow Apartments Danez Smith - Homie Anne Carson - Autobiography of Red Abby Neale - Gay Ghost Zine Books are from Papercuts Bookshop, Rozzie Bound Co-op, Just Book-ish, Lovestruck Books, Grolier Poetry, Katherine Small Gallery, Brookline Booksmith, Porter Square Books, Frugal Bookstore, Parkside Bookshop.

For January I decided to read a book a day to keep the anxiety away, thanks to all of the authors who helped keep me distracted

Mila, a calico cat sits on a blue rug next to a garbage can covered in stickers.

This is Mila, I'm off to stare at some art and try to forget this week occurred for a bit

'I Feel Love': Photos from Boston's dance party in honor of disco queen Donna Summer Before Donna Summer became a disco legend, she was a girl from Boston.

They did rename Parker Hill Avenue to Donna Summer Avenue, www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

Picture of a pole, caption reads, "I'm just filming a pole"

I think it is from a school, but no clue which one.

Former coworker decided to let us all know a bunch about themselves in 2015. Sad how this is rather tame in comparison to how far things have slid since then. This coworker had a theory that English royalty had "king size" beds because they used to procreate with giants and need the extra space for activities, truly a beautiful mind. Also not transcribing this, it's a bunch of stickers on the back of a Kia Sedona

Bonus points when they write a little essay

Mila, a calico cat, sits on a subwoofer and stares out the window. Spring in Boston is lovely, everything pops with green. The birds have been especially vocal, which Mila enjoys.

A brick archway with the Harvard arboretum visible in the distance. The overpass carries the Needham commuter rail line. It was a very long day of bleh and I needed some fresh air. Grabbed a Cubano from Tostado and walked up Peter's Hill to eat and stare at the longwood/back bay buildings in the distance. Stopped by Fornax on the way home so now I have English muffins for breakfast.

Better distractions

Mila, a calico cat, sits on a window ledge, green trees visible in the background wearing their finest spring garments. In front of Mila is a hello kitty pet grass container. She truly loves eating grass. She does not excel at shoveling it into her toothy maw

Shop window display with Calico Critters figures, cottage, and tree house playsets. I haven't seen or thought of these in ages. Was walking home through West Roxbury and saw this time capsule

Alexander the Great park in Roslindale. This place is all bark and no park. It looks like roughly 1000sq ft. Statue in the middle is a gift from the city of Athens to Boston.

Red Jeep Commanche, maybe 1989 or later. What looks like a Puerto Rican flag hanging from the antenna. I love this truck (not mine). My first vehicle was a heavily used 86 Dodge Ram 50 that essentially was a rebadged Mitsubishi.

I went and touched grass, then fed some to my cat, Friday accomplished

Cafe au lait from Pavement coffeehouse near symphony. The bag to the left contains a cinnamon raisin bagel. I like the layout inside. There was a constant stream of folks stopping in with fun musical instrument cases.

Cute little nugget, purple Suzuki tiny truck used by the Noca spiked water company. There's another one like this by the arboretum with cool wheels I've been meaning to get a picture of.

Tandoori momo Nepalese dumplings from Momo Masala. These are delicious and combine several of my most favorite things. Toasted in Himalayan spices and masala, delightful.

Take my money, wreck my sundays

John Galliano - evening dress, 1999. As worn by Cate Blanchett at the Oscar's. A bare backed dress with delicate embroidery of birds and flowers.

So much for a home run with some blue bloods

Pathway over rail line with new mural. Pretty orange, yellow, and red. A blue circle highlights the mighty opossum.

The goal for the morning, achieved egg and cheese bagel sandwich. Picked up some Asiago and jalapeño cheddar bagels to freeze for later.

Every time I see this old Volkswagen van, I think it looks like it's a little stoned and drooling. Perfect location for paint cracks, also the color is great.

Commuter rail line, overpass in the distance. Sign reads, " DANGER WILL NOT CLEAR MAN ON SIDE OF CAR"

And it goes on and on and on when you hear this song

Lobster effigy vessel - Moche, phase II - IV, AD 200-600 earthenware with slip paint. Fluffy looking little guy.

The expression and colors on that are incredible! I saw this more muted one earlier today.

Kim Seo Ryong - long floral jacket and velvet trousers ensemble. Autumn/winter collection 2019 is displayed at the MFA Hallyu! Korean wave exhibition. Kim was originally a painter. A version of this jacket was worn by Jin from BTS.

I had a much more colorful day than the weather would have suggested

Banners that read, 'Human shield S', 'HUGE HOLES', AND 'Moral Geometry?'

A children's book titled, 'Don't make me go back mommy - A child's book about ritual satanic abuse' from the Cambridge antique market. Seriously wtf

Roni Horn - Key and cue No 258. An aluminum pole with the words, "I'm nobody who are you?" dripping off the edges

Red line train at Porter. I love the barrel roof and nautical looking ventilation pipes here.

I guess this could be worse, walkin' out the door with your bags

Firelei Báez - Retablo (españa en las Americas). A severed arm covered in delicately inked tattoos on a wooden background. The detail in her work is incredible

Firelei Báez - given the ground (the fact that it amazes me does not mean I relinquish it). An unusually shaped framed canvas centered around the portrait of a woman with kaleidescape skin, piercing eyes, and an ornate head wrap with dangling feather accessories

Firelei Báez - A motor with medicinal functions. A regimented man stands on a hill with his sword held out to beckon the army waiting in lines below him. His torso broken out in fire, belching smoke

Firelei Báez - Madeleine (rupture rapture maroonage) An arched doorway into another world, a figure in the center with an indigo headdress adorned with elaborate designs indicative of the black liberation movements and practices

Mass romantic fool, separated by sheets

Mila, a bobtail calico, has a moment of contemplation mid bath. I found her in my parent's front yard 9 years ago, she was a very friendly 2 lbs kitten. Perpetual lap cat and my favorite coworker.

Little Jigglypuff

Minju Kim, Pair of shoes, 2013. Museum of Fine Arts Boston. An ornately decorated pair of shoes with a yellow lower, white leather top. Red and gold details. I thought these were pretty neat.

Yellow shoes I saw today.

Simba, a majestic and friendly half ginger and white cat, waits patiently on the counter. Plastic bins in the background hold reels of scratch off lottery sheets. He is usually found curled up on a stool behind the register.

Scratchers for Simba

Jaguar effigy from Mexico on display at the Museum of Fine Art, Boston. What a cute little guy.

I love this little guy

Orange line was down this weekend, took the bus to Andrew, then headed to Alewife. I'm going to have to spend a lot more time in Alewife before it makes sense. There were so many ramps and stairs going off in every direction. Neat bike trails nearby though so I started walking to Belmont.

Belmont books, I was surprised to learn they open at 7 some days. Neat shop, picked up Beaver Land: How one weird rodent made America by Leila Philip. The creek behind my parents' house had beavers, so I'm excited to learn more about them. Then headed off to Watertown to visit Sophia's Pantry to check out Greek groceries.

Sophia's Greek Pantry, place was packed, acquired ouzo hard candy and Ajvar. Then headed off to Allston to have shawarma at Garlic N' Lemons.

My favorite local bookstore, Papercuts. Took a little bit to walk from allston, but the weather was nice, so it was enjoyable.

Makin' bad decisions, based on temporary thoughts