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One of my favorites-nom!

Being able to spend time with these magnificent dinosaur birds the shoebill… 🥰
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You could nickname one Sally and the other Field 😉

Blindingly bright and beautiful-so cheering.

Then we had a mango taste test. With a Thai nam doc mai mango, an ataulfo (honey) mango, & a Tommy (atkins) mango. We voted the ataulfo the best by far. The nam doc mai shipped green & was soft but not ripe. Was meh. The Tommy is just a classic & great. But ataulfo won. So good

@annelouiseavery.bsky.social runs such generous competitions. I already own her books, but must admit a hankering for one of those gorgeous velvety foxes. 🦊

This is what not giving up looks like.

A stamp that reads “Not to be removed from the library”

10/10 tattoo idea right here

For 30 years now, I’ve listened to REM ‘Sweetness Follows’ on almost every flight I’ve taken, hundreds upon hundreds of flights across time & space. And for me, the message is the same

“It's these little things, they can pull you under
Live your life filled with joy and thunder”

green leaf art of a giraffe, a hedgehog, a rabbit, and a frog & mouse holding a rope, playing games

art cut into a brown leaf of a parental rabbit making a phone call with a crescent moon and dozen stars

art cut into a brown leaf of a bear with a bird on its head facing a rabbit & a frog holding a flower in a grass field with a smiling tree; stars are cut into the ground beneath them.

more leaf art by Lito

Ein grünes Blatt von einem Baum, aus dem ein Bild geschnitten wurde: Die eine Hälfte des Blattes ist noch komplett. Aus der anderen Hälfte wurde ein Kochtopf und eine Hasenfrau, die Essen an 3 kleine Waldbewohner verteilt, geschnitten, sehr detailliert.

Guten Morgen, habt einen schönen Sonntag 👋

work of Japanese artist Lito, known otherwise by his moniker Lito Leaf👇

Here are a few of the works of Japanese artist Lito, AKA Lito Leaf. He was born in 1986 in Japan and started his craft in 2020. He was diagnosed with ADHD at age 30 and turned to leaf art as a way to focus. A thread.

We appear to have gained 500 followers in the past couple of hours, so here’s a picture of our store, the oldest mystery fiction bookstore in the world. We ship — mysteriousbookshop.com

Lots of reasons for this good news, but a big one is, the company is now run by people who love books and actually read!

Randy Newman’s early songs taught me more about the different kinds of narrators than all the English classes I took in high school.

#1 in the 🌎

For the second year running, Los Angeles Public Library is the number one lending library in the world on Overdrive/Libby with over 14 million items borrowed in 2024.

We couldn't have done it without you 🫶📚🎉

The covers of conversations with Mark Frost, Laura’s ghost: women speak about Twin Peaks, the secret diary of Laura Palmer, and wrapped in plastic: Twin Peaks.

The covers of a masterpiece and disarray (about the making of the 1984 Dune), blue velvet, Frank’s world, and ominous whoosh.

The covers of David Lynch, interviews, David Lynch, short films, Lynch on Lynch, and the cinema of David Lynch.

The covers of David Lynch: Someone is in My House, David Lynch: The Man From Another Place, David Lynch Nudes, and the Magical Act: Fellini, Lynch, and Jodorowsky.

David Lynch was the first director to get a dedicated section at MZS.press arts bookstore. Happy woulda-been 79th birthday, sweet prince. Link: mzs.press/David-Lynch-... cc: @mzspress.bsky.social

Did You Even Consider Every Possible Lived Experience Before Recklessly Posting Your Chili Recipe on Social Media? Look, I get it. You thought what you posted was innocuous. Still, did you stop to think about everyone who has ever lived and how it could make the...

One of my favorite unhinged places on the Internet is the NYT Cooking recipe comments, and this is the perfect distillation: "Is there a reason you didn’t mention cold food options? Do you think you’re better than other people just because you cook?"

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/did...

'And God grinds exceptionally fine, exceptionally fine.'

A very wise badger indeed...

“As for the secret language, he’d give me direction like “more wind” or “think Elvis.” Other times, after a take, he’d come stand next to me, and we’d just both look out into the distance and somehow — I can’t explain it — commune in that quiet space.”

This is a problem in media, too. Entertainment company executives who don’t watch movies or TV or read books. There are even book publishing execs who have no contact with their own products except as spreadsheet entries.

Look at this. Baby Kitty aka BK at his vet checkup this morning with Islands Feral Cat Project, and he’s purring and so chill. BK is a great and loving kitty and he’s going to have a great and loving life. Support IFCP to save many many more baby kitties
islandsferalcatproject.org

“away from the nightmares…running ever faster and in ever greater numbers toward those potions, powders, priests, and philosophies that promise to obliterate such fears and nightmares, and ask in return only slavish devotion.”

Caleb Carr
The Alienist

All that incredible work, and the David Lynch film I want to watch again right now is The Straight Story.

It has so much heart and who can resist Richard Farnsworth.

Here's your daily reminder that bookstores keep the love of reading alive — but they also keep neighborhoods beautiful. They are places to gather, to celebrate stories, to find community.

Please do your holiday shopping at your local independent bookstore, if you are lucky enough to still have one.

Happy Thanksgiving! Perfect opportunity to dust off and repost this photo of Astoria the wild turkey when she visited Saks Fifth Avenue in Manhattan several months ago.

#birds #birding #nature #wildlife