I feel the bow tie is one of those very good or very bad binaries.

@djinnandtonic.bsky.social I have to thank you. I used your cleaned up image of the eagle from the Albany newspaper headline announcing Lee's surrender to print this sign for today's protest.

Sorry to bother you, but a cool Civil War design for a pin is an American flag stirred by the breeze with a liberty cap atop the staff. I know you do a lot of work with a plethora of designs. but I would buy 20 of those next payday.

A modest proposal for the new Beech Grove flag:

On the other hand railroads won us the Civil War.

I support the Penguin's Liberation Front of Antarctica in their noble struggle for freedom.

Something I whipped up.

A cool symbol from the Civil War is an American flag with a liberty cap atop the staff.

I admit that painting gives me the creeps, but that's more the inherent nature of the thing being depicted. I like the rest of Vereshchagin tho, particularly his Russo-Turkish war stuff, but I don't mind an anti-war message being hammered home with the subtlety of a sledgehammer.

There is a Vereshchagin painting of a naked slave boy that is so stereotypically orientalist that I saw it as the cover art for a later edition of Said. But his Central Asian work is very ethnographic, rich in detail, concerned with the pattern of a robe or depicting the right kind of matchlock

A second vote for John K. King Books. One million volumes in an abandoned glove factory, what's not to like?