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Elizabeth Metz
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Illustrator, writer, nonprofit staffer, Reds fan, bookworm, pedestrian, houseplant and voting rights enthusiast. She/her. What, people who like baseball can't like books?

📍Cincinnati, OH

https://www.elizabeth-metz.com
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Elizabeth Metz @thefinestmuffins.bsky.social · 15d
Happy last #KidLitArtPostcard day of 2025! For this snowy Ohio December, please enjoy a punny lil sketch pair.

I'm an #unagented author-illustrator seeking representation. I ❤️ colorful textural art, funny stories for kids, and Cincinnati chili (...but I prefer coneys!)

🎨: www.elizabeth-metz.com
An illustration promo postcard, featuring a limited palette throughout: silvery blues and dusty pinks, overlaid with dark blue sketchy lines. An image at the top features a girl in a striped turtleneck with a bob haircut shivering and hugging herself while looking out into a dark snowy night. Overlaid hand-written text says "Chilly." Bottom image features the same girl now chowing down on a Cincinnati chili three-way (noodles, chili, and cheddar cheese). Overlaid text says "Chili" with a smiley face emoji. In the bottom right, additional text notes "author + illustrator Elizabeth Metz, www.elizabeth-metz.com."
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baseballobserver.bsky.social
We asked Joey Votto to read the best stories about himself. Watch him react
We asked Joey Votto to read the best stories about himself. Watch him react
Votto played 17 seasons in MLB, winning an MVP and a Gold Glove. Here he shares stories about the mindset that helped him achieve that.
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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bookshop.org
While Amazon is investing billions of dollars to expand AI, independent bookstores are hosting community events, personally recommending books to readers, and providing a space that is safe and welcoming during a time when we need them most.

Never underestimate the power of a local bookstore.
December 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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conductress.bsky.social
I encourage you to listen to Cary Elwes' memoir "As You Wish." Yes, listen. Cary and Rob and do many others read to you the making of "The Princess Bride" and it's so lovely, maybe equally lovely to the film...

#SpreadLove
December 15, 2025 at 10:22 AM
thefinestmuffins.bsky.social
The Princess Bride is my favorite movie. I don't think most people saw the "home movie" filmed during COVID. It's a joy and showcases how widely loved the film is.

As we're mourning Rob Reiner today, I wanted to share it. Watch to the end--he's in the final scene. 💔

www.youtube.com/watch?v=29s1...
December 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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jamellebouie.net
the people of this great republic yearn for locomotive transport
December 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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thefinestmuffins.bsky.social
Happy last #KidLitArtPostcard day of 2025! For this snowy Ohio December, please enjoy a punny lil sketch pair.

I'm an #unagented author-illustrator seeking representation. I ❤️ colorful textural art, funny stories for kids, and Cincinnati chili (...but I prefer coneys!)

🎨: www.elizabeth-metz.com
An illustration promo postcard, featuring a limited palette throughout: silvery blues and dusty pinks, overlaid with dark blue sketchy lines. An image at the top features a girl in a striped turtleneck with a bob haircut shivering and hugging herself while looking out into a dark snowy night. Overlaid hand-written text says "Chilly." Bottom image features the same girl now chowing down on a Cincinnati chili three-way (noodles, chili, and cheddar cheese). Overlaid text says "Chili" with a smiley face emoji. In the bottom right, additional text notes "author + illustrator Elizabeth Metz, www.elizabeth-metz.com."
December 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
thefinestmuffins.bsky.social
Happy last #KidLitArtPostcard day of 2025! For this snowy Ohio December, please enjoy a punny lil sketch pair.

I'm an #unagented author-illustrator seeking representation. I ❤️ colorful textural art, funny stories for kids, and Cincinnati chili (...but I prefer coneys!)

🎨: www.elizabeth-metz.com
An illustration promo postcard, featuring a limited palette throughout: silvery blues and dusty pinks, overlaid with dark blue sketchy lines. An image at the top features a girl in a striped turtleneck with a bob haircut shivering and hugging herself while looking out into a dark snowy night. Overlaid hand-written text says "Chilly." Bottom image features the same girl now chowing down on a Cincinnati chili three-way (noodles, chili, and cheddar cheese). Overlaid text says "Chili" with a smiley face emoji. In the bottom right, additional text notes "author + illustrator Elizabeth Metz, www.elizabeth-metz.com."
December 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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amlibraryassoc.bsky.social
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.

This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!

Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
ALL IMLS grants restored in every state & territory. In response to a ruling from a federal judge in Rhode Island, the Institute of Museum and Library Services reinstated all previously canceled grants in every state and territory. It's a huge win for libraries and our communities. "The reinstatement of all IMLS grants means that libraries across the country will be able to resume vital services for learning, imagination, and economic opportunity. We are breathing a sigh of relief, but the fight is not over." ALA President Sam Helmick. Show up for our libraries, American Library Association.
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
thefinestmuffins.bsky.social
Category 1: O Holy Night
Category 2: Silver Bells... or maybe The Christmas Song

Adding my own category 3, obscure original only-on-one-album song: Elf's Lament by the Barenaked Ladies
ericmgarcia.bsky.social Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 18d
What is your favorite "Christian" Christmas song and what is your favorite "Secular" Christmas song?

I will probably always adore "O Come All Ye Faithful" and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" for Christian.

And "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" for secular.
December 1, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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mollyknight.bsky.social
In retrospect it’s pretty fucking terrible for my mental health that the sun starts setting at 4 pm every year right when the baseball season ends.
November 19, 2025 at 1:14 AM
thefinestmuffins.bsky.social
Bel Canto & The Kite Runner helped me re-learn how to read novels, after college killed my childhood spark.

Then just before COVID, Evvie Drake Starts Over re-taught me how to read FOR FUN. My book total in 2020 was almost triple 2019, and this book (+ discovering the Libby app!) kickstarted that.
runwithskizzers.bsky.social Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · Nov 11
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!

tell me about a book that changed you

for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 13, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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thefinestmuffins.bsky.social
Hi #KidLitArtPostcard! As we turn back the clock and face down winter, now is the time for satisfying answers to age-old questions, no?

I'm an #unagented author-illustrator seeking representation. I ❤️ colorful textural art, funny stories for kids, and chickens. More 🎨: elizabeth-metz.com.
An illustration postcard! Pastel-like artwork depicts a crazed chicken running across a road... just barely dodging a puzzle-looking piece of the sky, crash-landing just behind them. Hand written text asks "Why did the chicken cross the road?" and "Because!" with an arrow poitning at the puzzle piece. Text at the bottom notes "Author + illustrator Elizabeth Metz, www.elizabeth-metz.com."
November 6, 2025 at 12:10 PM
thefinestmuffins.bsky.social
THIS. This right here is why the arts matter and we can’t concede any ground to AI. Poetry setting the stage for a landmark judicial ruling. That’s all human creativity, all real-person imagination.

(This whole thread is worth a read. ❤️ to beautiful Chicago, where I recently spent some time.)
November 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
thefinestmuffins.bsky.social
Hi #KidLitArtPostcard! As we turn back the clock and face down winter, now is the time for satisfying answers to age-old questions, no?

I'm an #unagented author-illustrator seeking representation. I ❤️ colorful textural art, funny stories for kids, and chickens. More 🎨: elizabeth-metz.com.
An illustration postcard! Pastel-like artwork depicts a crazed chicken running across a road... just barely dodging a puzzle-looking piece of the sky, crash-landing just behind them. Hand written text asks "Why did the chicken cross the road?" and "Because!" with an arrow poitning at the puzzle piece. Text at the bottom notes "Author + illustrator Elizabeth Metz, www.elizabeth-metz.com."
November 6, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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kwcollins.bsky.social
A pro-affordability, anti-Trump-corruption message unites the party. Every candidate can run on that, and every candidate can have their own take to fit that to their constituents. There's really no need to find fights to pick when the party agrees on more than it disagrees
jenvictor.bsky.social Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · Nov 5
Came here to say this, but Jamelle Bouie has this covered. 👇
When the Democratic tent includes candidates like Spanberger and Mamdani, there is no crisis, or fight, for the party. IT’S A COALITION, NOT A POINT ESTIMATE.
jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Nov 4
i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist
November 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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colindickey.com
Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight
November 5, 2025 at 2:09 AM
thefinestmuffins.bsky.social
"I want to smell the onions and the mustard" is how I'm going to order cheese coneys from now on.
mollyroberts.bsky.social Molly Roberts @mollyroberts.bsky.social · Nov 4
The officer Sandwich Guy is charged with assaulting testifies that he could feel the impact of the sandwich through his ballistic vest, and it “exploded all over my uniform.” He says he could “smell the onions and the mustard.”
November 5, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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kashana.blacksky.app
Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.
November 5, 2025 at 1:48 AM
thefinestmuffins.bsky.social
Cincinnati hasn't elected a Republican mayor since the 1970s, so this was always how it was going to go.

But the justice, 'tis indeed poetic, so by all means enjoy yourselves people of bluesky. 😂
taniel.bsky.social Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · Nov 5
JD Vance's half-brother has lost by an overwhelming margin as he tried to become the mayor of Cincinnati.

Democratic incumbent Aftab Pureval wins reelection.
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 AM
thefinestmuffins.bsky.social
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
Jack Black, mustachioed and playing Vincenzo Peruggia, in a Drunk History skit about the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911.
October 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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leahgreenberg.bsky.social
Folks who are rightfully frustrated at the indefensible NYT coverage, please do note: in terms of actually reaching people, this is way more important
brianstelter.bsky.social Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · Oct 19
I scrolled through the @1stforall.bsky.social's gallery of print front pages for local coverage of "No Kings" protests. Here are some of the standout papers, starting with the Daily Sentinel of Grand Junction, Colorado:
October 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM
thefinestmuffins.bsky.social
I couldn't go to a #NoKings protest today, but I'm so proud and inspired by all of you who showed up.

So is the tiny reading frog statue that lives in my bathroom. 🐸🙌

We both thank you for standing up against fascism!!
Photo of a greenish metal statue of a frog reading a book has been drawn on top of. The book now has the title "Hop on Pop," the frog has a pink tongue and wild crazy eyes, and a speech bubble declares "No Kings," with a crossed out crown icon.
October 19, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
www.wweek.com/culture/2025...
Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest. There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day. What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid. It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.
October 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
thefinestmuffins.bsky.social
Still enjoying browsing this post's quotes today.

But I see so many Picasso mentions, which I think is mostly about the cultural hive mind lumping him in w/ other "museum" artists (Van Gogh, Vermeer, da Vinci) even though they're all WILDLY different eras.

Picasso's a 20th c guy! Yay art history!
raxkingisdead.bsky.social rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · Oct 7
you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones
October 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
thefinestmuffins.bsky.social
Here's one for my Reds fan followers: Edd Roush could have seen Barry Larkin play.

(No idea if it happened, but he lived in Bradenton when he died in 1988, not far from the Reds' Sarasota Spring Training home.)
raxkingisdead.bsky.social rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · Oct 7
you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones
October 8, 2025 at 3:12 AM