Andrea Cesari

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A yellow lightbulb mascot is stuck in a doorway.

Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:

it is truly one of the treasures of nature that they look so elegant from every angle except this one

Sounds similar to Vermont Country Store

From a triptych known as “Cats for the 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō” by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (ca. 1847) — a spoof of the popular Japanese prints subject depicting the Edo to Kyoto coastal road.
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I solved the Sunday 11/23/2025 New York Times Daily Crossword in 46:44! The title isn’t very helpful but the trick becomes clear pretty early on.

Digital ink drawing on a toned paper background. Taken from a famous photo of Woody Guthrie, standing and looking straight into the lens of the camera with a cigarette extending from pursed lips. One hand is resting on the body of his guitar and the other of holding a harmonica. Rough hand lettering around the front of the guitar reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

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I hope that someday soon nobody will ask this question anymore because the answer is so blindingly “yes”

We have allowed superstition to become a word loaded with negative judgements. Is someone who believes in the ghosts of felled trees, the persistence of Wood Sprites and their revenges against the axe superstitious? Yes, but this should not be assumed as a bad thing. – Dr. M. Benn #FolkloreSunday

A bunny sitting on a park bench shares a pizza he bought with a small flock of pigeons. Each pigeon takes a slice of pizza from a small box on the street

Daily bunny no.3147 got everyone a slice

Congratulations on entering the era of being able to eat powdered sugar coated pastries without anybody being able to tell

This is very true. Some of the oaks around here have mistletoe growing in them and you ESPECIALLY don’t want to annoy those oaks.

Given the number of them that I seem to need in one way or another, I think C clamps should come in prettier colors

IT SHOULD NOT BE THIS HARD TO FIND A REPLACEMENT SHOWER DOOR KNOB!*

*The tricky part is that the base can be no more than 3/4" in diameter.

Good point! I like Bandon, but I wish they sold it in smaller put-ups. A 2 pound brick is more than I can get through before it molds.

Two columns of packages of cheese. On the left on red and white packaging is Cabot Creamery’s “Vermont Seriously Sharp Cheddar Cheese” On the right in red packaging Tillamook Sharp Cheddar

Noticed a local skirmish in the #CheddarWars

I’m thrilled to be giving this year’s Kelmscott Lecture, the annual lecture hosted by the William Morris Society. I’m excited to be dipping my toe into the world of the Arts and Crafts movement. Join us in person or online! Tickets are here: williammorrissociety.org/events/the-k...

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Barrington Pheloung was 33 when he started composing for the Inspector Morse series, with an incredibly distinct theme.

THE FUTURE OF STORYTELLING DEATH OF THE AUTHOR & NOYEL Nnedi Okorafor NER YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Death of the Author By Nnedi Okorafor After being fired and facing yet another novel rejection, aspiring author Zelu writes a futuristic epic about Al and robots, unknowingly setting herself on a path to literary stardom that could change the future of humanity.

💃🏿And another one…

The New York Public Library has named my novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR a Best Book of the Year. 😃.

Full list here: www.nypl.org/books-more/r...

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The farmer turns into an rock formation at dawn and reemerges at sunset. I see no other way to interpret this. He’s smiling for the camera but you’d be forgiven for not seeing this. #TinyStory

'Schools Are The Seedplots Of All/Learned Arts And Doth Enrich/ Our Heads Our Tongues Our Hearts'

22 Nov 1692 6 Feb 1695

Elizabeth Eyls (The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)

The sailor reviving the lost art of canoe building in New Caledonia Dozens of traditional boats made as part of a project to reconnect with culture and ‘start of conversation’ on ocean rights

Traditional canoes and relearning sea lore

Mayflower II Visit Mayflower II, Plimoth Patuxet's full-scale reproduction of the tall ship that brought the Pilgrims to Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620.

Coming next week...I speak with author Richard A. Stone about the Mayflower II, the 1956 replica of the 1620 ship that brought the original settlers of Plymouth, Massachusetts. The ship has been at Plimoth Patuxet, a living museum, ever since.

#history #americanhistory

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As I expect Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Josh Hawley will. It’ll be sort of entertaining for a while.

Opening tonight in NYC at @soi128.bsky.social is the portrait exhibit ‘About Face’ If you’re in the city, come by and say hello to Virgil and all the other great work in the show. ‘Virgil in the Doyle Library’ was created for author @silviamg.bsky.social based on her novel ‘Mexican Gothic’

Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

It's Friday.

Most of my dreams are about getting lost in unfamiliar cities, but last night’s dream included shape shifting, alchemy, vast underground cities, and complicated power dynamics with lethal outcomes. Yeah, I dunno