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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#Swampwalk quarantine isolation day 332

“Hey everybody, it’s me and it’s fricking cold outside… so, I’m going back in the house. Holy Macaroni”

Weather was chilly, so only a brief video update. 34f, but feels like 27. My windbreaker will have to be swapped for something heavier should I do this weather for my walk again.

I rather wish he hadn’t come to that decision once I was already at the midpoint of my walkabout. Or am I lucky to get my full mileish journey in?

#bogsafari critter count – three turkey vultures, a big flurfy dog of unknown breed, I think elderly… walked by a small smoother human of unknown breed, probably a juvenile. Both were covered in pretty full coats of natural and synthetic materials accordingly.

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From Artful Anticks by Oliver Herford (1894)

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#superbowl #jackkirby #classiccomics #vintageillustration #blacklightart

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The Tibetan Scorpion Protection Yantra, which is generally associated with the practices of Guru Dragpo, a wrathful form of Padmasambhava, who holds the creature in the outstretched left hand. Protection against demons, obstacles, negativity. (Block Print, 17 c.)

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Beastor-9 is coming to glyos? Sign me up!

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Pyewacket and I are delighted by the snow.

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Pyewacket being a kitten-faced little geezer. I love this little cuss.

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William Stout
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From Der Bärenspiegel, 1923

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How I look when I go out on a #swampwalk vs how it feels.

Quarantine isolation day 329

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