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Bean (n): An edible, kidney-shaped seed borne in the long pods of a leguminous plant. Dad to two smol humans. Nonpracticing architect, sometimes poet, children's librarian. he/they
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This is from The Canarsie Courier, January 5 1967. It looks like it’s actually a surreptitious ad for Lionel racetracks. But has that title.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TOYS. Article/ad from The Canarsie Courier, January 5 1967. Begins: “Research by American psychologists, most of them with sons and daughters of their own, has furnished some interesting facts about the learning-function and the function of toys—two processes which in the mind of the child are one.” And ends with instructions for cleaning your Lionel Raceway set.
December 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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“Nighthawks” by Edward Hopper, oil on canvas, 1942.
A painting of a corner cafe at night. A man in white works behind the bar, looking to his right. To his left, a beverage dispenser sits on the counter. A customer in blue is on the near side of bar, leaning on his elbow. A small group on the far side of the bar nurse their drinks. It is bright inside, with light spilling into the dark street. Behind, and across the street is a storefront closed for the night.
November 4, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Eight years ago today, in Havana, I took what’s maybe the best photo I’ve ever taken.
A photo of a corner cafe at night. A man in white works behind the bar, looking to his right. To his left, a beverage dispenser sits on the counter. A customer in blue is on the near side of bar, leaning on his elbow. A small group on the far side of the bar nurse their drinks. It is bright inside, with light spilling into the dark street. Behind, and across the street is a storefront closed for the night.
November 4, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Drop an old person you are going to turn into in the future.
A diptych of Bernie Sanders sitting alone, masked and with arms and legs crossed, at the Biden inauguration, and a tweet from me on that day: “Every Jew comparing Bernie sitting alone to their dad, but my dad is super outgoing and gregarious. I just see myself in 30 years.”
September 2, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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No cheating, post your lock screen.
Lando, a plane in translucent squares and triangles.
July 26, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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So they read every tweet he posted since he was *a teenager* and they found what, a pic of one of his friends in this classic Threadless tee?
He champions communism (at least in one jokey photo) “The Communist Party” t-shirt from Threadless, designed by Tom Burns: On a red background, Stalin, Castro, Lenin, and Mao hold red Solo cups and toast Karl Marx who is flashing devil horns with both hands and has a lampshade on his head.
July 26, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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1. Parsnip (my storytime assistant and library rat extraordinaire). [Also worth noting: his twin sister Peony, childhood friend George, and namesake “Uncle” Parsnip—a mouse who was his grandfather’s buddy.]

2. Rizzo (Muppets).

3. Rat (Fantastic Mister Fox).

4. Todd (Achewood).
Parsnip, the library rat (puppet), in front of a desk with a laptop and books on it, with a speech bubble reading: “whatcha got against rats!?”
July 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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When I was 8 or 9 I picked up this book (library book sale? remainder bin at the local bookstore?) because I was fascinated by the cover. Pretty sure I never read it.
Book cover of “The Celestial Steam Locomotive” by Michael Coney. A chrome steam engine zips through space in a very 1980s pulpy manor.
May 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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What? No, I didn’t pull this particular board game off the shelf on this particular day for any particular reason.
A hand holding a board game box: “Beware the Ides of March” by John Theissen, published by Hollandspiele. The cover art is Vincenzo Camuccini’s 1806 painting “The Death of Julius Caesar”.
March 15, 2025 at 2:13 PM