Susan DuBose

Sat, Nov 1, 2025 – Sun, Nov 2, 2025
Dia de los Muertos by Jason Cordova

The sterling silver skull watch that Mary Stuart queen of Scots, carried with her.
The inscription says: "Pale death visits with impartial foot the cottages of the poor and castles of the rich." ~ Horace

“From me all things proceed, and unto me all things must return; and before my face, beloved of Gods and of men, let thine innermost divine self be enfolded in the rapture of the infinite.” ~ Doreen Valiente, Charge of the Goddess
'Night' by Edward Robert Hughes
#Witchsky

"It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws."
~ The Red Badge of Courage
Born on this day novelist, journalist & poet Stephen Crane born 1871
#Booksky

“And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!”
~ Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Born on this day novelist Susanna Clarke 1959
Her latest book, Piranesi, came out in the fall of 2020.
#Booksky

Right?!

#caturday

It was on this day, seven years apart, that two of Shakespeare’s plays were performed for the first time: Othello in 1604, and The Tempest in 1611.
Daver Morrison plays an emotionally war-wounded Othello by Patrick Weishampel

For those who participate, remember to fall back in time this weekend

'Some People's Dinner'
Look at it. This print not for sale.
Buy someone a sandwich instead.
~ Daniel Donche Jr.

“She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets.”
~ Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Broken Promise: Mourning Necklace Vintage Assemblage by MorticiaSnow
#Bookssky #Witchsky

Nile Nightshade: An Egyptian Culinary History of the Tomato
by Anny Gaul
Shows how Egyptians' embrace of the tomato & the emergence of Egypt's modern national identity were both driven by the modernization of the country's food system & driven by predominantly woman cooks.
#Booksky

Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit!
Hail & welcome November!
#Witchsky

Y'all have fun this evening & be safe!

we have a rogue president starting a rogue, illegal vanity war with Venezuela for no reason other than the fact he’s dying for relevance and power as he’s literally dying. note: he’s killing Indigenous bodies.

the final swan song. a treasonous one.

Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳@chefjoseandres

Just landed in Jamaica with the @USEmbassyJA, joining @WCKitchen teams already feeding people. We will increase our food and water distribution! #ChefsForJamaica

Linton Kwesi Johnson Jamaica-born (1952) British-based dub poet and activist. In 2002, he became the only black poet to be published in the Penguin Modern Classics series. His performance poetry involves the recitation of his own verse in Jamaican patois over dub-reggae. #BlackHistoryMonth ✊🏿

“She couldn't be the prince, and she'd never be a princess, and she didn't want to be a woodcutter, so she'd be the witch and know things.” ~ Terry Pratchett
#terrypratchett #witch #witchbaby #knowthings #madamepurrla #bewitch #bewitching #bornawitch
#witchblood #beawitchandknowthings #Witchsky

'Melancholy'
Selma Gürbüz, 2006

"I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed. Every where I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded."
~ Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness."
“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
Born on this day English poet John Keats, London, 1795
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Edgar Allan Poe, self-portrait, date unknown

YouTube video by BlueOysterCultVEVO Blue Oyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper (Official Audio)

"Love of two is one
Here but now they're gone
Came the last night of sadness
And it was clear she couldn't go on
Then the door was open and the wind appeared
The candles blew and then disappeared
The curtains flew and then he appeared
Saying don't be afraid..."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy4H...

YouTube video by Marco Regali Sarah Jarosz - Annabelle Lee (Transatlantic Sessions)

"For many years I've wandered through
This kingdom by the sea
I've laid myself beside the bones
Of my beautiful Annabelle Lee
I'll make my bed near the rising tide
In her tomb by the sounding sea..."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_El...

'la familia'
Anastasiya Dobrovolskaya

Art by Daniel Ryan

"In fact, Mr. Fitzgerald — I believe that is how he spells his name — seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.”
~ Zelda Fitzgerald, The New York Tribune

Daguerreotype of a man wearing tinted glasses and holding a cat, c. 1850
#Caturday