Adalena Kavanagh
@mamiyaroid.bsky.social
Writer, Photographer, Librarian, Red Panda Enthusiast
https://adalenakavanagh.com/
https://adalenakavanagh.com/
G is looking up his Irish grandparent's marriage certificate and came across this groom's name
February 18, 2026 at 12:34 AM
G is looking up his Irish grandparent's marriage certificate and came across this groom's name
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Love for Katherine Dunn and Halldor Laxness, seven curses on our overlords, Bugonia is a documentary, & a just exactly perfect Bob Weir memorial playlist
You are who eats you
I know thee not, chopped unc
my19thcentury.substack.com
February 16, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Love for Katherine Dunn and Halldor Laxness, seven curses on our overlords, Bugonia is a documentary, & a just exactly perfect Bob Weir memorial playlist
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Hey writers! March 14 I'm bringing back From Research to Draft, where we'll talk strategies for organizing and writing from research that will make you a happier and better writer. Early bird pricing through 2/8! jaimegreen.net/classes
February 3, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Hey writers! March 14 I'm bringing back From Research to Draft, where we'll talk strategies for organizing and writing from research that will make you a happier and better writer. Early bird pricing through 2/8! jaimegreen.net/classes
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The question is not who is the sexiest Muppet (Rowlf) but how is it that so many of the Muppets are sexy.
February 10, 2026 at 12:10 PM
The question is not who is the sexiest Muppet (Rowlf) but how is it that so many of the Muppets are sexy.
Artsy people like avant garde dogs like borzoi, etc, that look like they were dreamed up in a salon in Paris in the 1920s. I prefer dogs that look like they were invented by five year olds and drawn in crayon. (Goldens, Alaskan Malamutes, Beagles, Samoyed, Great Pyrs, native mutts of Asia, etc.)
February 8, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Artsy people like avant garde dogs like borzoi, etc, that look like they were dreamed up in a salon in Paris in the 1920s. I prefer dogs that look like they were invented by five year olds and drawn in crayon. (Goldens, Alaskan Malamutes, Beagles, Samoyed, Great Pyrs, native mutts of Asia, etc.)
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ON EATING book launch April 16 at Powerhouse Arena I am announcing this wherever I am speaking to very few people lol events.ticketleap.com/tickets/powe...
Book Launch: On Eating by Alicia Kennedy
With lush prose and evocative storytelling, Alicia Kennedy shares her journey “from eater to cook,” exploring how we can eat for both joy and justice in a warming, overworked, and globalized world. ...
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February 6, 2026 at 10:04 PM
ON EATING book launch April 16 at Powerhouse Arena I am announcing this wherever I am speaking to very few people lol events.ticketleap.com/tickets/powe...
Agree
Novelistic in scope and a structural marvel, THE SECRET AGENT (Kleber Mendoça Filho, 2025) is by far the best film I’ve seen from last year. It’s especially clever in how it doles out both the traditional movie pleausres and the bleakest truths of life under dictatorship. A masterpiece.
February 3, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Agree
"If I Had Legs I'd Kick You" makes an interesting choice to keep much of the film in closeup of Rose Byrne's face. Rather than feel voyeuristic, like many films feel when centered on women, it (to me) felt more like an attempt at the interiority that fiction does better than film.
February 1, 2026 at 5:30 PM
"If I Had Legs I'd Kick You" makes an interesting choice to keep much of the film in closeup of Rose Byrne's face. Rather than feel voyeuristic, like many films feel when centered on women, it (to me) felt more like an attempt at the interiority that fiction does better than film.
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For Christmas @martinseay.bsky.social got me SALVAGE by Hedgie Choi & it’s funny & great.
January 21, 2026 at 2:19 AM
For Christmas @martinseay.bsky.social got me SALVAGE by Hedgie Choi & it’s funny & great.
The Pavement algo hit, Harness Your Hopes, is one thing but I wonder if it's discovered their weird song Greenlander yet.
January 20, 2026 at 8:54 PM
The Pavement algo hit, Harness Your Hopes, is one thing but I wonder if it's discovered their weird song Greenlander yet.
This is horrible but also...most photographers would just say they threw their camera but a Leica user HAS to let you know it's a Leica.
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 9:55 PM
This is horrible but also...most photographers would just say they threw their camera but a Leica user HAS to let you know it's a Leica.
In the fall I was interviewed by the UFT newspaper on how the school phone ban has affected the library & said our circulation is up. I finally ran the circ stats yesterday & learned not only is it up, we've already circulated 100 more books than all of last year.
January 17, 2026 at 12:48 AM
In the fall I was interviewed by the UFT newspaper on how the school phone ban has affected the library & said our circulation is up. I finally ran the circ stats yesterday & learned not only is it up, we've already circulated 100 more books than all of last year.
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Writers, it's time. Scrivener for Creative Writers is back! Join me 1/31 for a 90-minute class that will give you a powerful start to your writing year. Info and signups (and student discount) at jaimegreen.net/classes
January 12, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Writers, it's time. Scrivener for Creative Writers is back! Join me 1/31 for a 90-minute class that will give you a powerful start to your writing year. Info and signups (and student discount) at jaimegreen.net/classes
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Today’s march took the same Fifth Ave route as the 1917 anti-lynching Silent Parade, one of the first American civil rights protests. Both started at 59th, by General Sherman’s statue, and headed downtown. For more on the Silent Parade: hyperallergic.com/naacp-silent...
January 11, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Today’s march took the same Fifth Ave route as the 1917 anti-lynching Silent Parade, one of the first American civil rights protests. Both started at 59th, by General Sherman’s statue, and headed downtown. For more on the Silent Parade: hyperallergic.com/naacp-silent...
My mom showed me how to sharpen a knife with toothpaste and the bottom dull edge of a ceramic plate (and also the edge of my stone topped sink). She'd survive in a post-apocalyptic world.
January 11, 2026 at 5:48 PM
My mom showed me how to sharpen a knife with toothpaste and the bottom dull edge of a ceramic plate (and also the edge of my stone topped sink). She'd survive in a post-apocalyptic world.
Check on your deadhead friends today.
January 11, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Check on your deadhead friends today.
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@greatplacebooks.bsky.social courses are back! With a seminar on the short novels of Muriel Spark.
www.greatplacebooks.com/spark
www.greatplacebooks.com/spark
Reading Muriel Spark with Emily Adrian — Great Place Books
Join author and GPB cofounder Emily Adrian in reading the dazzling fiction of Muriel Spark. This class will meet four times to discuss four of Spark’s most original, ambitious, and tightly constructed...
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January 11, 2026 at 4:17 PM
@greatplacebooks.bsky.social courses are back! With a seminar on the short novels of Muriel Spark.
www.greatplacebooks.com/spark
www.greatplacebooks.com/spark
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One time I had to send in an ID photo to visit an archive in Brazil but I accidentally attached a photo of Jessica Fletcher having a virtual reality experience instead
January 10, 2026 at 2:05 PM
One time I had to send in an ID photo to visit an archive in Brazil but I accidentally attached a photo of Jessica Fletcher having a virtual reality experience instead
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I'm launching a literary journal of food writing this year. The sections are specs and prompts. Here are the pitch guidelines: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
TOMATO TOMATO Pitching Guidelines
TOMATO TOMATO is a literary journal of food writing. Publishing occasional digital digests of reporting and essays, and an annual magazine of essays, cultural criticism, fiction, and whimsy. Work in...
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January 10, 2026 at 1:40 PM
I'm launching a literary journal of food writing this year. The sections are specs and prompts. Here are the pitch guidelines: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
The Mice, a band out of 1980s Cleveland, OH have a song, "Not Proud of the USA," that is always, unfortunately, relevant. youtu.be/UDRfbEPaqDQ?...
The Mice - Not Proud of the USA
YouTube video by Sacramento Punkshows
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January 3, 2026 at 11:10 PM
The Mice, a band out of 1980s Cleveland, OH have a song, "Not Proud of the USA," that is always, unfortunately, relevant. youtu.be/UDRfbEPaqDQ?...
Saw a great film with a friend earlier; I'm listening to early R.E.M. before bed; and I've already got my camera gear and hand warmers packed for photographing the Coney Island Polar Bear Plunge tomorrow. Happy New Year wherever you are!
January 1, 2026 at 3:39 AM
Saw a great film with a friend earlier; I'm listening to early R.E.M. before bed; and I've already got my camera gear and hand warmers packed for photographing the Coney Island Polar Bear Plunge tomorrow. Happy New Year wherever you are!
Me reading a Scottish novel and learning about foods served on Hogmanay and whispering "what the fuck?" over and over.
December 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Me reading a Scottish novel and learning about foods served on Hogmanay and whispering "what the fuck?" over and over.
Americans cosplaying celebrating Boxing Day--come on now.
December 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Americans cosplaying celebrating Boxing Day--come on now.
My mom treats a visit to my apt like a trip to the best thrift shop. Eyeing my red leather gloves- "Do these still fit you?" As if my hands had suddenly bulked out. "Yes, do you want them?" The happy gleam in her eye the only answer I needed.
December 27, 2025 at 7:33 PM
My mom treats a visit to my apt like a trip to the best thrift shop. Eyeing my red leather gloves- "Do these still fit you?" As if my hands had suddenly bulked out. "Yes, do you want them?" The happy gleam in her eye the only answer I needed.
Love this description of a party from OUR SHARE OF NIGHT by Mariana Enriquez. Sure, they're living through the ravages of a brutal dictatorship, but they still know adult pleasures.
December 20, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Love this description of a party from OUR SHARE OF NIGHT by Mariana Enriquez. Sure, they're living through the ravages of a brutal dictatorship, but they still know adult pleasures.