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DOLLY PARTON: STAR OF THE SHOW 🌟📖

Thank you for being such an extraordinarily generous, kind human being, Dolly Parton! 301 million books (and counting) gifted to kids all over the world through the Imagination Library 💛✨

Congratulations on YOUR new book! We are thankful for you 😊💜

Five bands I’ve seen more than five times:
Olivas-era Savatage
Tool
Refused
Puscifer
Bloodywood

An eki stamp imprint from Gotokuji Station depicting a group of lucky cats in red ink.

A tiny sample of the many, many statues in a variety of sizes at Gotokuji Temple, which portray a white cat sitting up and beckoning with its front paw.

A bronze statue of a seated cat raising its right paw at Gotokuji Temple.

A sign at Gotokuji Temple of a white cat sitting up and beckoning with its right front paw. It wears a red collar with a bell and has red inner ears.

I’m back from Japan, but my brain is not getting the message and I’m still sleeping about twelve hours off. Anyway, here are a few pics from the Lucky Cat Temple in Tokyo for #Caturday.

The Cross Shinjuku Vision LED billboard has a photo of Zohran Mamdani with Japanese text.

I’m in Tokyo (!) and just spotted Zohran Mamdani on the Shinjuku giant cat billboard. Good job to folks back home!

Share your favorite covers as a timeline cleanse.

(Any excuse to share Bloodywood.)

I had cornea transplants in both eyes, but I'm not sure I could go through with this surgery.

Indeed! And your "weird flower" and "potato" references made me laugh!

Uncomfortably accurate for fiction.

Your alt text is the best.

That song is such an earworm!

That is fantastic.

A framed split photo shows the front and back of a sleeve tattoo of scenes and characters from the movie What We Do in the Shadows. The bottom of the sleeve has characters from the movie Hocus Pocus. Artist: Aaron Ruby, North Main Tattoo Studio, Plymouth. Client: Amy.

Bert Grimm’s ink on paper piece “Flash,” ca. 1940, has rows of traditional tattoo designs. The sheet of flash is still covered in protective plastic and has price stickers listed next to each tattoo.

A full-room installation shows a typical tattoo parlor layout, with walls covered in flash.

A quote posted on a wall in black text says, “A tattoo is an affirmation: that this body is yours to have and to enjoy while you're here. Nobody else can control what you do with it.” — Don Ed Hardy

The Flint Institute of Arts has an exhibition “MI Ink: The Art of Tattoo” highlighting Michigan talent and tattoo history. It’s pretty fun and not what you’d typically see at an art museum. I was so excited to see a What We Do in the Shadows tattoo!

All three are stunningly beautiful! Wow!

We heard the emergency vehicles go by around midnight but couldn’t tell if they stopped anywhere nearby. I hope he’s doing alright.

That’s gorgeous!

Ah, I thought I missed some news!

Why?

I know what you meant! 😊

Nieces and nephews are the best.

They are really interesting looking!

Naps are pretty great, too!

😆 The raccoon was too fast for me to get a photo, but I’ll always post cute bees even if they’re irrelevant.

Nothing wrong with that! I’m kind of surprised they stayed together while he was gone.

Just working in the yard and the garden. Starting to thin out the plants. Did you make it to the waterfront?

Grasshoppers mating on a coneflower.

A bumblebee on an oregano flower.

A grasshopper and a small spider on a squash leaf.

I couldn’t decide which was funnier tonight, a grasshopper jump scaring me or catching a couple in the act, but I was just picking arugula leaves in the near dark when a raccoon came around the corner and we were almost face to face before it took off. I’m not sure which of us was more startled! 🌱

Yay! I hope you can go enjoy the water!

You definitely need to remedy that asap.

Wow! Now I’m hoping they can discharge you even faster so you can get back to enjoying that!

Never trust Apple’s app.

Unrelated, did you see Dream Theater’s coming to the Fox soon?

I’m glad it’s a nice place at least. Hang in there! I hope they let you go soon!