Mike Westphal
@mfwestphal.bsky.social
Biologist, writer, father of three, anti-fascist. he/him
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael_Westphal/publications
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael_Westphal/publications
I‘ve seen one of those shacks depicted somewhere…
November 7, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I‘ve seen one of those shacks depicted somewhere…
Choosing THE WOODS ALL BLACK by @leemandelo.bsky.social for my Hallowe’en purchase at the (awesome) Legendarium in Salt Lake City!
November 1, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Choosing THE WOODS ALL BLACK by @leemandelo.bsky.social for my Hallowe’en purchase at the (awesome) Legendarium in Salt Lake City!
Happy Hallowe’en to all who observe, direct from the Great Saltair, the original Carnival of Souls!
October 31, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Happy Hallowe’en to all who observe, direct from the Great Saltair, the original Carnival of Souls!
So stoked to be @bookshopsantacruz.bsky.social to see @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social !!!
October 21, 2025 at 3:33 AM
So stoked to be @bookshopsantacruz.bsky.social to see @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social !!!
Today’s purchases. As the storm rolls in.
October 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Today’s purchases. As the storm rolls in.
So stoked to be in attendance @litquake.org with @annaleen.bsky.social and @soleilho and Lee Lai at Mrs. Dalloway’s in Berkeley!!
October 13, 2025 at 1:21 AM
So stoked to be in attendance @litquake.org with @annaleen.bsky.social and @soleilho and Lee Lai at Mrs. Dalloway’s in Berkeley!!
More mid-century modern Gorey! The typography for both of these books is credited to Edward Gorey. Biographical sources suggest that he was not well-versed in classic typography, and he found it easier to develop his own lettering style. The rest is history.
September 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
More mid-century modern Gorey! The typography for both of these books is credited to Edward Gorey. Biographical sources suggest that he was not well-versed in classic typography, and he found it easier to develop his own lettering style. The rest is history.
In my mailbox today: Cold War Gorey! It’s fairly well known that “Ted” Gorey was an illustrator and typographer for the Doubleday Anchor series in the ‘50s, but it’s less well known that he lettered their political series. Seeing his spidery hand on these modernist pamphlets is SO satisfying to me.
September 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
In my mailbox today: Cold War Gorey! It’s fairly well known that “Ted” Gorey was an illustrator and typographer for the Doubleday Anchor series in the ‘50s, but it’s less well known that he lettered their political series. Seeing his spidery hand on these modernist pamphlets is SO satisfying to me.
Crippa scratches my mid-century modern itch in the best way. He doesn’t get mentioned as an influence on Richard Powers’s SF illustrations (at least not in the material I have at hand ) but I see Crippa in several Powers covers, such as the first Ballantine ed. of Sheckley’s CITIZEN IN SPACE
September 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Crippa scratches my mid-century modern itch in the best way. He doesn’t get mentioned as an influence on Richard Powers’s SF illustrations (at least not in the material I have at hand ) but I see Crippa in several Powers covers, such as the first Ballantine ed. of Sheckley’s CITIZEN IN SPACE
wtf. Western Fresno County, Calif
September 14, 2025 at 1:29 AM
wtf. Western Fresno County, Calif
@datlow.bsky.social got mine in the mail today!!!
September 5, 2025 at 4:42 AM
@datlow.bsky.social got mine in the mail today!!!
My current collecting kick is the Anchor Goreys (Gorey did illustration & typography for Doubleday in the ‘50s) & I’ve been mostly finding them for a few $$ each. But the price of this one has been jacked up into the $100s bc the fucking Nazis are fanboys of Gobineau. I want them out of my life.
August 21, 2025 at 2:40 AM
My current collecting kick is the Anchor Goreys (Gorey did illustration & typography for Doubleday in the ‘50s) & I’ve been mostly finding them for a few $$ each. But the price of this one has been jacked up into the $100s bc the fucking Nazis are fanboys of Gobineau. I want them out of my life.
The new screensaver that greeted me this morning when I popped open my laptop. Windows appears to have gone full Prisoner.
July 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The new screensaver that greeted me this morning when I popped open my laptop. Windows appears to have gone full Prisoner.
So stoked to have some of my books on display at the SFO Museum for their Women of Afrofuturism exhibit! www.sfomuseum.org/exhibitions/...
July 13, 2025 at 3:49 AM
So stoked to have some of my books on display at the SFO Museum for their Women of Afrofuturism exhibit! www.sfomuseum.org/exhibitions/...
Happy Father’s Day, to all who celebrate
June 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Happy Father’s Day, to all who celebrate
Honored to be resisting today in San Juan Batista, California alongside Luis Valdez and Lupe Trujillo-Valdez!!
June 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Honored to be resisting today in San Juan Batista, California alongside Luis Valdez and Lupe Trujillo-Valdez!!
To wander the wide open deserts of the West Mojave is now a tour of vast solar farms. The rapidity with which they are tiling over Antelope Valley with solar panels is astonishing. Soon it will be a near-unbroken sea of black glass.
June 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM
To wander the wide open deserts of the West Mojave is now a tour of vast solar farms. The rapidity with which they are tiling over Antelope Valley with solar panels is astonishing. Soon it will be a near-unbroken sea of black glass.
Real estate signs in the West Mojave are a mood
June 5, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Real estate signs in the West Mojave are a mood
omg I could literally pair them with my Fiesta ware (obtained cheap bc red mug missing, which I have subsequently obtained)
May 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
omg I could literally pair them with my Fiesta ware (obtained cheap bc red mug missing, which I have subsequently obtained)
Roads in the Mojave are named after orcs
May 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Roads in the Mojave are named after orcs
Wow, the TV in my hotel room at the Days Inn near Edwards Air Force Base in Ridgecrest California has a channel that shows me what color the sky above the port was
April 26, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Wow, the TV in my hotel room at the Days Inn near Edwards Air Force Base in Ridgecrest California has a channel that shows me what color the sky above the port was