Pages From a Lost Sketchbook
@sketchbook2012.bsky.social
Found my old sketchbook from circa 2012. (Me: US expat, gay, left progressive, past middle age; he/him)
Strangely enough, I thought about this and I remembered most of my teachers… maybe because I was very into school but also had more than my share of good ones? (I started kindergarten in 1966)
February 5, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Strangely enough, I thought about this and I remembered most of my teachers… maybe because I was very into school but also had more than my share of good ones? (I started kindergarten in 1966)
What the doctor ordered!
February 5, 2026 at 7:06 PM
What the doctor ordered!
Joni Mitchell!!!! 😍😍😍
February 2, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Joni Mitchell!!!! 😍😍😍
Starting with all the musical terms (continuo anybody?) and random food terms… but just yesterday, teleology was accepted but ethology was not? Wut?
January 30, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Starting with all the musical terms (continuo anybody?) and random food terms… but just yesterday, teleology was accepted but ethology was not? Wut?
Don’t get me started on words not recognized by the 🐝
January 30, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Don’t get me started on words not recognized by the 🐝
This administration’s hatred for the poor is never-ending, as it revels in its own actual corruption.
January 28, 2026 at 9:29 PM
This administration’s hatred for the poor is never-ending, as it revels in its own actual corruption.
Haha, no problem! Now it all makes sense!!!
January 28, 2026 at 7:06 AM
Haha, no problem! Now it all makes sense!!!
I meant that the music in this clip isn’t from the movie or even the soundtrack which seems weird to me because the original music was so great and well, iconic (yes, it was anachronistic and also Hamlisch did a nice job with the arrangements!)
January 27, 2026 at 8:48 PM
I meant that the music in this clip isn’t from the movie or even the soundtrack which seems weird to me because the original music was so great and well, iconic (yes, it was anachronistic and also Hamlisch did a nice job with the arrangements!)
This is great… but the music is all wrong, it should be ragtime Scott Joplin!
January 27, 2026 at 8:28 PM
This is great… but the music is all wrong, it should be ragtime Scott Joplin!
So true. We don’t have them here in Sweden and they’re the one thing I never fail to buy when I’m visiting my sibs in Chicago. I let other people eat them but it doesn’t make me happy.
January 26, 2026 at 7:04 PM
So true. We don’t have them here in Sweden and they’re the one thing I never fail to buy when I’m visiting my sibs in Chicago. I let other people eat them but it doesn’t make me happy.
Soul refreshers so very needed right now.
January 25, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Soul refreshers so very needed right now.
Yikes. But also, Jerusalem artichoke soup is the best soup! (Here in Sweden it’s called jordärtskocka which literally means, um, earth pea choke (?) but it seems to be a translation/transliteration from Arabic)
January 24, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Yikes. But also, Jerusalem artichoke soup is the best soup! (Here in Sweden it’s called jordärtskocka which literally means, um, earth pea choke (?) but it seems to be a translation/transliteration from Arabic)
Also a young Toni Colette, Ewan McGregor and Jonathan Rhys Meyers, amazing performances all…
January 24, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Also a young Toni Colette, Ewan McGregor and Jonathan Rhys Meyers, amazing performances all…
My sister reported from St Paul that almost all museums are closed (including the Swedish American Institute, to which I replied: they better be, their whole thing is immigration!)
January 23, 2026 at 5:02 PM
My sister reported from St Paul that almost all museums are closed (including the Swedish American Institute, to which I replied: they better be, their whole thing is immigration!)
Are you sure this is by her? It has an “R. Lang 2024” signature and a sign in English (and it doesn’t quite look like her Moomins)…
January 23, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Are you sure this is by her? It has an “R. Lang 2024” signature and a sign in English (and it doesn’t quite look like her Moomins)…
Hahahahahahahappy birthday!
January 22, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Hahahahahahahappy birthday!
It’s astounding - and depressing - how current this 1966 article feels. We’ve barely moved at all.
January 19, 2026 at 7:10 PM
It’s astounding - and depressing - how current this 1966 article feels. We’ve barely moved at all.
It’s legendary as one of, if not the best, scripts of all time (that’s what they taught us at NYU film school back in the mid ‘80s at least)
January 16, 2026 at 7:04 PM
It’s legendary as one of, if not the best, scripts of all time (that’s what they taught us at NYU film school back in the mid ‘80s at least)
Nutella
January 14, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Nutella
As a baroque opera fan, there are so many… but Dido and Aeneas might be my fave!
January 13, 2026 at 7:17 PM
As a baroque opera fan, there are so many… but Dido and Aeneas might be my fave!
Yes, its actual name is Brännkyrkagatan - burnt church street - and that hill is the steepest in Stockholm. They used to test drive cars on it in the early 1900s to see that the brakes worked.
January 9, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Yes, its actual name is Brännkyrkagatan - burnt church street - and that hill is the steepest in Stockholm. They used to test drive cars on it in the early 1900s to see that the brakes worked.