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Happy Valentine’s day!
Good luck with cupid today.

From Harper’s, 1879.

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#valentinesday2021 is almost upon us. Remember to make sure your Super-smooches are consensual 🤗 ❤️#Supergirl #valentines https://instagr.am/p/CLQat76gIB5/

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Happy Valentines day!

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“… books in the running brooks”

From In the Forest of Arden by Hamilton Wright Mabie, 1891.

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From The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum, 1917

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Reminds me of life in South Florida back in the day (not me… but for some folks)

From Lustige Blätter, 1917

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Carrots Celebrate (1936) Art by James Vaughan

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the average color of the french mole

[image description: a screenshot of a search result preview for the wikipedia page for the color taupe. it shows two image thumbnails, one of a mole and one of a blotch of the color. it reads, “taupe is a dark grey-brown color. the word derives from the french noun taupe meaning ‘mole.’ the name originally referred only to the average color of the french mole, but beginning in the 1940s its usage expanded to encompass a wider range of shades.]

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Another doodle and flash writing from back in 2002.

Here comes the Snickitty-Snackitty Man. His services are whispered of half as threat, half as promise. For the Snickitty-Snackitty Man can reach inside your head with those long, long fingernails of his, and *snick* *snack* there goes a memory.

Want to relive the first time you tasted pistachio ice cream? *snick* *snack* there goes the first time.

Want to reread Shakespeare, or Mark Twain, or Bob Wilson for the first time, to experience that sense of wonder again? *snick* *snack* and the books are an unknown land to you.

Want to experience the rush of first love? *snick* *snack* and you’ve never loved before.

There you are, free to experience these things again. Of course, you can’t quite remember the name of the little girl who had strawberry when you had pistachio, or the smell of the cut grass in Central Park on that hot summer night when he read Othello’s part with such majesty, or the name of your wife and children.
But that’s not important. *snick* *snack*

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Mumble mumble “reason for the season” mumble

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#swampwalk quarantine social isolation day 333

Brisk again this morning, snow is melting away for the most part but the still water is thinly frozen in places.

#bogsafari critter count – three nicely tubby squirrels, a few big turkey vultures, smokey the cat ( as opposed to @smokeybear ) and fluffernutter the cat in a window on my way home. I wonder how panda and alien are doing? I hope and imagine they are comfortably hunkered inside (where I probably should be.)

Vonnegut update – I finished reading Jailbird. First time for me and it was in my opinipn worth it, but certainly a dated work, but well written despite the usual issues with women and racism. Some funny bits and the recurring themes / running gags of his writing are getting more than a little repetitive. Character names, headstones and other literary tics are making it so I might take a breath and come back later to the rest, lest some great literature become tedious. Time for a sidebar into some other flavors to cleanse the palette. Maybe reread Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison to stay in this story theme but in a very different framework.

Postscript- did the superbowl halftime show and commercials stink extra bad this year? I don’t know anyone that was very impressed by either.

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“I have a sick head.”  From Kittens and Cats by Eulalie Osgood Grover, 1911

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#MaryBlair concept art for #AliceinWonderland, 1951.

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