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Cleavon Leaf
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“Life is a path lit only by the light of those I’ve loved”
- Tom Waits

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Sounds good, thanks!
A screenshot of Marian-Webster’s Your 2026 Word, screen capped on the word “prosperous.”
January 1, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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This afternoon, I finished the book. Oh, I loved it, and truly recommend it, if you love dogs, or poetry, or especially if you love both. This one was beautiful.
A two-page spread from the Billy Collins book, Dog Show. The left page is a lovely watercolor of a black&white dog against a red background, their head tilted to the side. The right page is the poem, A Dog on His Master, which reads: “As young as I look, I am growing older faster than he, seven to one is the ratio they tend to say. Whatever the number, I will pass him one day and take the lead the way I do on our walks in the woods. And if this ever manages to cross his mind, it would be the sweetest shadow I have ever cast on snow or grass.”
December 30, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Aigh! Alert alert! One of my favorite poets, Billy Collins, has begun this poem with a reference to a line from one of my other favorite poets, Mary Oliver! I am in heaven.
Close up of a page in a poetry book. The title of the poem is “To a Stranger Born in Some Distant Country Hundreds of Years from Now.” The inscription beneath the poem’s title reads, in italics, “I write poems for a stranger who will be born in some distant country hundreds of years from now. - Mary Oliver” This made me exclaim aloud in joy upon turning to this page.
December 30, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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About to start reading one of my favorite Christmas gifts, Dog Show, the new collection of poems by Billy Collin’s. I’ve been so excited for months, waiting for this to come out! Been a rough year, looking forward to Collins’ writing to buoy my spirits.
My hand holding the hard cover edition of Dog Show by the poet Billy Collins. The front illustration is a beautiful watercolor of a beagle by Pamela Sztybel, whose paintings fill the book. The dog is looking in profile, its brown eyes sharp and soft, its ears forward. One cannot help but want to give it scratches under its li’l chin.
December 30, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Standing on her hind legs, like a little Rory Calhoun
A small black and tan coated Shih Tzu stands on her hind legs at a window, her paws on the window sill, as she watches the neighborhood. Like a little Rory Calhoun.
December 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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I love that @pattymo.com referenced Halloween is Grinch Night on this week’s episode of @whatatimepod.bsky.social !
We showed it to our son this past Halloween. I hadn’t seen it since high school. I’d remembered it was surreal but had forgotten how wildly weird. Grinch brows played a big part!
Grinch, sending out his eyebrows to flutter around & terrorize Whoville on Halloween night. Grinch is singing in the background & his eyebrows are flying directly at the screen. Grinch proclaiming it’s a great night for eyebrows as his own impressive brows flutter off his face. Grinch is singing while his eyebrows hover over his head.
December 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Here’s our Nami, in front of the Christmas tree, patiently awaiting dinner time last night. She visited the groomer earlier in the day, hence the jaunty Santa neckerchief!
A black and tan colored Shih Tzu with Dobie markings stands at attention on the back of a couch, with a slight head tilt. She is sporting a neckerchief adorned with Santas. In the background, an out of focus Christmas tree with multicolored lights shimmers around her outline.
December 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Next up, playing & making the season perfect, is The Magic of Christmas by Nat King Cole & Ella Fitzgerald. So good, oh my lord so good!
LP cover displayed above the record player, is the front side of the album, featuring a Nat King Cole portrait Second picture is the back side of the album, featuring a portrait of Ella Fitzgerald! ❤️
December 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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And of course, one of the best Christmas albums ever recorded, John Denver & The Muppets, A Christmas Together!
Front cover of the John Denver & The Muppets album, sitting displayed over the LP as it plays. On the album cover, John is looking festive tipping a top hat, surrounded by Miss Piggy, Kermit, Fozzie, Gonzo, Robin, & Animal
December 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Next up of course, is A Charlie Brown Christmas, because Christmas just ain’t Christmas without the Vince Guaraldi Trio
Picture disc version of the album A Charlie Brown Christmas! The album front cover and the first side of the LP are displayed, which is a picture of Charlie Brown, Lucy, & Linus dancing in front of a Christmas tree, with Snoopy perched atop it, naturally. Side two of the LP picture disc is displayed here, which is Charlie Brown & Linus at the Christmas tree lot, picking out the perfect li’l Christmas tree.
December 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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In need of rescue, Nat King Cole, please buoy these spirits again.
What a voice, my goodness. Nothing makes me feel more safe and remember childhood Christmases than Nat King Cole. The best to ever do it.
Next album playing, Christmas with Nat King Cole. The album image is a portrait of Cole inset beside a picture of an advent wreath.
December 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Next up, Johnny Cash. A record from my Dad’s collection. I think most likely my first introduction as a young child that music could break your heart and make you feel good all the same time. “Ringing the Bells for Jim” is such a devastating and touching song.
Same li’l portable record player as before, this time, the album sleeve displayed is The Christmas Spirit by Johnny Cash. The photo on the album cover is a snowy winter scene.
December 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Soundtrack for today’s Christmas decorating, starting with @fishboneband.bsky.social
#YoHo
Little record player, with the Fishbone EP It’s A Wonderful Life (Gonna have a Good Time) front cover displayed over the spinning disc. Backside of the EP sleeve, which is a great photo of Angelo Moore, singing in front of the shot, tinted in blue. Closeup of the backside of the EP sleeve, with the Fishbone symbol wearing a Santa hat and saying Yo Ho, a Christmas greeting that has stuck with me ever since I got this album back in 1987
December 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
Aragorn forgiving Boromir at his death, and holding him as he passes.
December 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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December 7, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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November 29, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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I can’t think of Carville without thinking of Bill Hader’s impression of him.
November 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Beautiful Fall day today, took this one on a good long walk & now she’s all tuckered out
A black & tan shih tzu with Dobie markings is standing on a wooded trail. Behind her, a small wooden bridge crosses over a brook towards a green sunlit hill. The sky is blue with puffy clouds. That same pup, home now, is sacked out, sprawled on a wood floor at the base of a flight of stairs. Totally eschewing the comfy dog bed and couches in the room (not pictured), preferring instead a hard floor. Go figure!
November 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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With Bossk Scaggs on lead guitar!
Bossk, Bounty Hunter from Empire Strikes Back
November 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Celebrating, attired appropriately today
Man in front of a bookcase wearing a blue cardigan and a white shirt with a line drawing of John Brown.
October 16, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Not sure, but I can state definitively it was *not* the Grinch.
#HalloweenIsGrinchNight
Grinch, sending his eyebrows out to flutter around and terrorize Whoville on Halloween night. Grinch proclaiming it’s a great night for eyebrows, as his own impressive brows flutter off his face.
October 11, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Bestbest friends
Your man is lounging on the couch in a cozy blue cardigan because it’s Fall, and his sweet shih tzu friend is curled up on his shoulder, sleepy and adorable.
October 11, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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I am all about Spooky Season, but I also cannot deny the draw of Adorably Spooky vibes, too. Here is my favorite of our Halloween decorations
Gigantic pumpkin sits on a stoop in front of a red house beside a blow-mold style decoration of a mouse in a mummy costume, holding a candy corn that lights up with twinkle lights.
October 4, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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When your human is loudly reciting the intro to Let’s Go Crazy by Prince, & you’re just trying to sleep in his leg nest
An adorable wee shih tzu lies in the crook of a man’s leg, her eyes drowsily open, because her human is in the background delightedly reciting the intro to Prince’s Let’s Go Crazy, because honestly, who wouldn’t?
October 4, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Here’s our Nami, both adorable and freaky.
Black and cream colored shin tux standing against a grassy background, sporting a very autumnal orange plaid neckerchief.
September 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM