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Feathers McGraw
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A librarian of the South, vinyl records enthusiast, posting from my remote wooded compound. Ad hoc Committee on Accountability. Practicing Resurrection.
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We get reviews
A child's drawing of a smiling face with huge eyes. Text across the top says "Dear Library I love your books and place it quiet and makes me happy. Briane" "quiet" has 3 scratched out attempts preceding it.
November 8, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Foggy notions
Fog over the water. Trees can faintly be seen on opposite edges of the frame.
October 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Inside a 30s era CCC Water tower looking up through braces to the sky above
October 28, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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The Arkansas River doubles back
October 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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October 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Looking out my back door
October 23, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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born unto us this day, 135 years ago, Dwight D.
October 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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we get reviews
a small girl has written "I <3 your liberey so much" in red marker"
October 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Please enjoy this little centipede relaxing on a big red mushroom
October 13, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Please enjoy a small femur and a large mushroom.
October 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Jeebus, thatsa looong sentence. #ShadowTicket
“Under the Curse of the Dago Bowling Ball, rolling forever down the alleys of fate, doomed to less time colliding with maple than off in the gutters, at best unlikely to pick up even easy spares, Detlef found himself reaching beyond the station house walls that had proved so frail, and out to higher levels of police, state and after a while federal, as Prohibition deepened, as the gunfire down in Chicago reached peaks unheard of, as even more G-boys came pouring into SMEGMA (Semi-Military Entity Greater Milwaukee Area), which by then had become a staging grounds for frontline operations in Chicago.”
October 11, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Ever have the need, when everyone is asleep and the house is quiet, to go pull William Blake off the shelf and dive in the deep end?
William Blake's print of a figure on their knees at a forge, about to swing a hammer. Above the image is the short poem "A Divine Image" Cruelty has a Human Heart And Jealousy a Human Face Terror the Human Form Divine And Secrecy, the Human Dress The Human Dress, is forged Iron The Human Form, a fiery Forge. The Human Face, a Furnace seal'd The Human Heart, its hungry Gorge.
October 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Scenes from a fair
Bunny
September 30, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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asking the tough questions
Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge posts that "male lions can not be neutered otherwise they will loose their mane" above a photo of a full-maned lion. I asked in comments "Did a male lion write this post?" Please Support TCWR they do great rescue work.
September 26, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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"As centuries of dictator have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope." --Alberto Manguel
September 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps, Larry.
An old illustration from a kids book, showing a pair of dogs stumbling upon a young girl curled up asleep in the snow. The lead dog looks puzzled and has crazy eyes. The caption at the bottom reads "Lost on the Alps."
September 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Went down to the dam before it is replaced. Two persimmon trees there on the bank unlikely to survive a dam replacement. The persimmons predict a winter of knives.
Clear knife shape in the white persimmon seed inside a sliced fruit. Cold winter.
September 22, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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we get donations
ridiculously long plastic dino, some three feet or more snoot to tail
September 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Safety first
September 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Sunchokes
September 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Dogtownin'
Argenta library is a renovated brick postoffice. Circular stairs lead up to four columns holding up a half-circle porch. Midcentury neon sign reads D R U G S Argenta Drug Co.
September 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Silver age Doctor Strange is homoerotic AF, but maybe that is all the tarted-up Lovecraftian Shuma-Gorath saga.
A man perspires and asks "have i inherited his evil taint?"
September 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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We are approaching consensus.
September 6, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Good morning
September 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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There's a groundswell
The original recommendation for lots and lots of cats, followed by Jenny underlining her "YES CATS" assertion and another concurrence of "CATS!!!"
September 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM