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E.J. Pryor

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The world is missing this morning

Foggy street view: yellow street lamps dotting a thick blue blanket of fog

February 15, 2026 at 4:33 PM

E.J. Pryor

@ejpryor.bsky.social

Ha, I was in the middle of typing this when I saw your reply

Screenshot from Bluesky drafts: “Sorry I didn’t respond to your email but I was busy creating a powerpoint to explain to my husband why I need a hammered dulcimer”

February 10, 2026 at 8:02 PM

E.J. Pryor

@ejpryor.bsky.social

Another score from the free Judaica table at shul. Perfect for those of us who feel like it’s just not Pesach without that certain ominous sense of impending doom.

Two packs of greeting cards. One is blood red, with a starkly lit silver goblet in front of a dark Magen David, and reads “Passover Greetings.” The other is pale blues and browns featuring a gold goblet and haggadah, with the words Happy Passover in a sickly fuchsia; in the background is a column of ghostly figures—women, men, children—looking over their shoulders as they retreat from something unseen.

February 9, 2026 at 4:01 PM

E.J. Pryor

@ejpryor.bsky.social

Unless your friends are directly involved, this seems like questionable advice

A bright green towel printed with the slogan:

SHAG
Where your friends live.

February 8, 2026 at 7:13 PM

E.J. Pryor

@ejpryor.bsky.social

The early bird gets the sunrise

Looking southeast at sunrise over darkened houses and treetops toward mountains on the horizon, under a sky showing a gradient from deep blue to fiery peach with wispy curlicues of gray cloud

February 3, 2026 at 4:01 PM

E.J. Pryor

@ejpryor.bsky.social

Unsolicited cat pic

Fluffy black cat wrapped in packing paper, sitting in a cardboard box. His ears are pointing in different directions and he is looking up with a look that clearly says “I am overstimulated!”

January 30, 2026 at 5:23 PM

E.J. Pryor

@ejpryor.bsky.social

Met someone on my evening walk

Night scene: totally not-creepy doll that is almost certainly not going to launch itself at my face with a mouth full of lamprey teeth, in a pink dress at the base of a tree. Eerie lighting is throwing long shadows of the tree and doll onto the grass.

January 25, 2026 at 3:55 AM

E.J. Pryor

@ejpryor.bsky.social

I saw this on the free table at shul and couldn’t resist bringing it home. It’s bright and ridiculous, and just look at the sly smirk on that face. You know that’s a gefilte fish who’s up to something.

January 14, 2026 at 3:31 PM

E.J. Pryor

@ejpryor.bsky.social

Sitting does not depend on fitting.

A fluffy black cat squeeze ridiculously into a small cardboard box on the table. Most of his legs and his tail are sticking out at odd angles

January 14, 2026 at 3:41 AM

E.J. Pryor

@ejpryor.bsky.social

Oops. Due to the relentless march of time—which, to be fair, I couldn’t possibly have been expected to know about—I missed yesterday.

Choose 20 paintings, etc.

Day 8. ‘Oranges and Lace Curtains at the Ezra Pound House in Hailey (The Pequod meets the Albatross)’, Susanna Bluhm, 2019.

Three bright oranges with green leaves rest on a tabletop in front of a window, painted in loose, expressive brushstrokes. Pale blue and lavender patterned curtains frame the window, through which the suggestion of a snowy field and trees can be seen.

January 12, 2026 at 7:27 PM

E.J. Pryor

@ejpryor.bsky.social

No new pictures—where are you mentally?

(sign says “I don’t want to go to work, I want to live in the woods”)

A starkly lit photo of a long haired tortoiseshell cat sitting beneath a sign made of letters strung together that says «не хочу на работу, хочу жить в лесу»

January 12, 2026 at 7:06 PM

E.J. Pryor

@ejpryor.bsky.social

A seat at the table

Black cat sitting in a chair, looking over dining table toward camera. Only his head is visible.

January 12, 2026 at 2:37 AM

E.J. Pryor

@ejpryor.bsky.social

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you - one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

Day 7. Spaced Out Orbit, Helen Frankenthaler, 1973

Abstract image: a pale cream background with a rough horizontal band of soft pink and yellow paint near the upper center and a green field along the top right corner.

January 11, 2026 at 3:45 AM

E.J. Pryor

@ejpryor.bsky.social

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you - one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

Day 6. Cityscape #1, Richard Diebenkorn, 1963.

Abstracted landscape painting with an aerial view of intersecting roads and fields; dark gray pavement cuts through blocks of green, tan, and blue.

January 9, 2026 at 6:29 PM

E.J. Pryor

@ejpryor.bsky.social

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you - one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

Day 5. Mummy portrait, unknown artist, Egypt, ca. 2nd century CE.

Portrait painted on a wooden panel of a young man with large dark eyes and a direct gaze, thin mustache, short black hair.

January 8, 2026 at 7:27 PM

E.J. Pryor

@ejpryor.bsky.social

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you - one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

Day 4. Cape Cod Morning, Edward Hopper, 1950.

A woman in a red dress leans forward in the window of a white house, gazing out toward sunlit trees and tall grass under a blue sky streaked with clouds.

January 8, 2026 at 6:55 AM

E.J. Pryor

@ejpryor.bsky.social

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you - one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

Day 3. ‘Marguerite Kelsey’, Meredith Frampton, 1928.

Realist portrait of a white woman with dark hair wearing a plain white dress and red shoes, reclining sideways on a small sofa, looking off to the side with a serene expression. There is a basket of large white flowers on a small table next to the sofa. All the colors are muted, so the red of the shoes stands out.

January 6, 2026 at 7:04 PM

E.J. Pryor

@ejpryor.bsky.social

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you - one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

Day 2. Black Square, Kazimir Malevich, 1915.

Black Square, by Kazimir Malevich.

A black square painted on linen. There are cracks in the black paint that make it look like there’s a ghostly image faintly visible in the black.

January 5, 2026 at 5:11 PM

E.J. Pryor

@ejpryor.bsky.social

[I’m going to do this because I want to see more art on my timeline. Not sure I’ll stick to my own rule, but I’m going to start by only sharing paintings that I’ve actually seen in person.]

Choose 20 paintings…

1. Old Woman Saying Grace, Known as ‘The Prayer without End’, Nicolaes Maes, c. 1656.

Painting of an old woman in a white cap praying with closed eyes and folded hands, sitting alone at a small table set with bread, cheese, fish, a jug and a bowl. In the bottom right corner, a gray tabby cat is reaching up to tug at the white tablecloth.

January 4, 2026 at 11:46 PM

E.J. Pryor

@ejpryor.bsky.social

I’d also be remiss if I didn’t mention Time’s Echo, by Jeremy Eichler.

I’ve been working my way slowly through it over the last few months and didn’t quite finish in 2025, but it’s one of the best books I’ve read in years.

The cover of Time’s Echo: the Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance, by Jeremy Eichler—

A black and white photo of the ruins of Coventry Cathedral, overlaid with a handwritten music score

January 4, 2026 at 11:02 PM

E.J. Pryor

@ejpryor.bsky.social

More 2025 reads that stood out for me:

Audition (Katie Kitamura)

The Wolves of Eternity (Karl Ove Knausgaard, tr. by Martin Aitken)

The West Passage (@vandroidhelsing.bsky.social)

The Safekeep, (Yael van der Wouden)

Grid showing the covers of

Audition, by Katie Kitamura
The Wolves of Eternity, by Karl Ove Knausgaard
The West Passage, by Jared Pechaček
The Safekeep, by Yael van der Wouden

January 4, 2026 at 7:32 PM

E.J. Pryor

@ejpryor.bsky.social

I’m not really a ranker of things, so I’m reluctant to make Best Of lists, but these were some of the books I read in 2025 that I’m still thinking about:

Notes From a Regicide (@isaac-fellman.bsky.social)

Honeyeater (@tanaudel.bsky.social)

The Antidote (Karen Russell)

Endling (Maria Reva)