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Randall Jay
@randyjay.bsky.social
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Artist & online book dealer. I live near Palm Springs, California. Friend of cats, birds, nature. Art, books, movies, music, history, paper... I'm on AbeBooks as Randall's Books https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sortby=0&vci=61552643
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 2d
They're bad people doing bad things. We don't have to meet them halfway.
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Randall Jay @randyjay.bsky.social · 2d
Beautiful. And now I want to keep saying "Ninfarium of Aberglasney".
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Randall Jay @randyjay.bsky.social · 2d
Books I'm shipping to new homes this morning 👇
#bookselling #booksky #EdwardGorey #JacquesCousteau #oceanography #BernardRudofsky #architecture #AlbertCamus #fiction
A small square book by author and illustrator Edward Gorey entitled 'The Wuggly Ump' Cover illustration shows three children on a hill looking down into a cave where the title character lives. A slithering tail is seen receding into the darkness of the cave. The tail is curled around a closed umbrella. A yellow border surrounds the image. Book cover of 'Jacques Cousteau's Calypso'. The cover image shows the oceanographer's research ship floating on the water against a blue sky. We can see beneath the ship in this composite image; the lower portion shows hammerhead sharks swimming beneath the vessel. 'Architecture Without Architects' by Bernard Rudofsky. A square softcover book with a photo image in black & white. It shows an ancient civilization's large multi-tiered structure built into a hillside. The book 'A Happy Death' the first novel written by French author Albert Camus. The cover shows a black & white image of his face in profile. He has a cigarette in his mouth. Titles are in white, red and yellow.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 4d
2nd in line to the presidency, yet consistently has no idea what’s happening in the country
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Q: Just last week a minister was shot directly in the face with a pepper round by a DHS agent that left his face bloodied. Are you concerned that this is a religious freedom issue?

MIKE JOHNSON: I can't comment on any of those instances. I haven't seen or heard any of those videos
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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 4d
Never forget that the oppression of intellectuals is the sign of a regime’s weakness, not its strength…

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Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Nobel laureate and Trump critic, says US visa revoked
Soyinka, 91, who recently compared US president to Idi Amin, says ‘I have no visa – I am banned’
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Randall Jay @randyjay.bsky.social · 5d
RIP Prunella Scales
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Randall Jay @randyjay.bsky.social · 6d
Currently reading 👇
'Saul Steinberg: A Biography' by Deirdre Bair (Doubleday, New York, 2012).
#booksky #books #biography #SaulSteinberg #artistsB
Book cover with a large teal blue horizontal panel at the top, over which alternating yellow and soft red letters spell out the title. A smaller lower panel has the author's name in white against a red background. The middle section shows a black & white photograph of Saul Steinberg, seated in a chair at left, wearing one of his hand-drawn white paper masks. It has a long white beard, and the face shows a disgruntled frown. Four other of his paper masks can be seen on the wall above and to his left.
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Randall Jay @randyjay.bsky.social · 10d
Vintage #sheetmusic shipping to new homes today.
'El Tamalero' by Principe Cubano & Luis Stalman, published in Argentina in 1931. and 'I'll Never Stop Loving You' by Sammy Cahn & Nicholas Brodszky, featured in the 1955 movie 'Love Me or Leave Me'. #bookselling #FoxTrot #Rumba #movies #DorisDay
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Estel Cooper @estel62.bsky.social · 11d
#DopeyDon 's Gestapo...
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Randall Jay @randyjay.bsky.social · 11d
“Seem to prefer”? This has been their m.o. for years. It created the MAGAs.
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 12d
I like how Joe Biden never demanded that I pay his legal bills.
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Randall Jay @randyjay.bsky.social · 12d
Quote of the year.
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“Apocalypticism has the capacity to rewire the brains of even the most reflective individuals and distort their vision to such a degree that even a bullying plutocrat with a deep fake tan can appear as the Messiah.” —Mark Lilla
Storm Warnings | Mark Lilla
The MAGA movement is not fed by conservative ideas but by a nihilistic, apocalyptic determination to stage a counterrevolution against the Sixties, against liberalism, against even democracy itself.
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Randall Jay @randyjay.bsky.social · 13d
Books I'm shipping to new homes this morning 👇
#bookselling #booksky #fiction #biography #movies #games #food&wine
A paperback of Iris Murdoch's first book, 'Under the Net'. The book 'Marvin: The Story of Lee Marvin' by Donald Zec The Japanese Game of "Go", published by the Japan Tourist Bureau Dionysus: A Case of Vintage Tales About Wine, edited by Clifton Fadiman
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Randall Jay @randyjay.bsky.social · 17d
It’s #GlobalCatDay.
Bring back the Lolcats!
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Randall Jay @randyjay.bsky.social · 18d
His words & deeds are ugly too.
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Randall Jay @randyjay.bsky.social · 18d
Nice. As I scrolled quickly, I briefly mistook the Mishmash on the upper right corner for a croissant.
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Randall Jay @randyjay.bsky.social · 18d
Currently reading 👇
'Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year', by Paul Alexander (Vintage Books, New York, 2024)
#books #booksky #music #BillieHoliday #singers #jazz #biography
A paperback book with a black background. The lower half shows a shaded photo of the face of Billie Holiday singing, lit from above. Her head is tilted up and her eyes are closed. She appears serene, lost in the song. Above the image are the book titles, in blue, gold, white and soft orange.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19d
ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert
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Randall Jay @randyjay.bsky.social · 21d
I'm a poor Paparazzo. Tried to sneak a photo of #DianeKeaton at the preview party of the 2012 San Francisco Fall Antiques Show (middle distance, brown hat). Blurry but I enjoyed catching a glimpse of her.
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The Drip @therealdrip.bsky.social · 27d
Stephen Miller Identifies Venezuelan Fish As Participants In Drug Trade.
"They're all in on it."
Stephen Miller speaking. 3 crazed looking fish are photoshopped on the wall behind him.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 23d
Yes, America - the president is telling you you’ll be paid to take your meds.

FFS
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23d
Trump: "Drug prices are going to be going down 100%, 400%, 600%, 1,000% in some cases."
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Randall Jay @randyjay.bsky.social · 26d
I love TJ’s.
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Randall Jay @randyjay.bsky.social · Oct 1
RIP Jane Goodall, one of my childhood heroes.
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Randall Jay @randyjay.bsky.social · Sep 30
I believe it’s ‘Blitt’.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Sep 29
I’ve been resisting posting this because I don’t think it’s helpful but I’ve just gotta say…

Everything is so bad.
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