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sirosenbaum.bsky.social
@sirosenbaum.bsky.social
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The atlas-eater with a jaw for news :: journalism, art and comics :: Formerly: Providence Journal, Tampa Bay Times, Boston Phoenix, Boston magazine, Bloomberg, Flaming Hydra :: married to @josie.zone :: EMAIL ME: si AT arrr DOT net
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Shrinathji with arm, still detached -- but it's definitely the arm from this exact murthi all he needs is the application of a little superglue ... Shrinathji, now whole and back on my windowsill
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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He's been on my windowsill ever since I found him. But yesterday ... at the same beach ...
Shrinathji's MISSING ARM
November 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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The Grandeur That Was Rome
Panel 1: I was sobbing at the ruins of the Roman Forum. This has been happening to me more and more often: I see something ancient, I start boohooing. Panel 2: My poor 84-yr-old dad didn't know quite what to do with me. Panel 3: It was the bricks that did it. Somoene had to make them one by one in the hot sun and go home anbd argue with their parents or have sex with their wife or boyfriend or whatever it was that seemed so important and when they died they left a hole the size of the world in the world Panel 4: And the bricks were still there. Which meant the hole was still there. Sometimes I have a problem with time. Panel 1: me and my dad on a stone bench. me: Sorry. I guess I've always been like this? remember how weird I was when I was little? dad: I remember you having a temper when you were little. me: ...I used to tear books apart. dad: You had a temper about things you didn't umderstand. Panel 2: dad: But you know what do remember from when you were a little girl? Do you remember the time we were on that airplane-- Panel 3: me: Oh god I remember that. I mean I actually remember it, from my point of view, not just from being told the story. dad: We were landing and they said over the loudspeaker that you could ask the pilot if you had any questions -- and you said, can I ask them -- me: "HOW DID THE UNIVERSE BEGIN?" dad: "How did the Universe begin." Panel 1: from behind, silhouettes, looking out at tourists milling in front of the Colosseum: me: I definitely remember I was trying to be cute. Like, it was a bit. dad: But you did think about that kind of thing all the time. me: Yeah, I actually really did want to know how the Universe began. -end for now-
November 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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ok i finally understand Cranston
the trevi fountain with me in the foreground
November 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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I hate that I did this. but at least it's not very good
it's Loss, but Ozymandias. Panel 1: traveler in a desert Panel 2: looks at some feet on a plinth Panel 3: reads the words on the plinth Panel 4: looks around and just sand
October 30, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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it's a ring now
my hand (white, middle-aged) with a pretty big ring on the first finger. It's part of a turquoise-blue glass Nueva Cadiz bead I found last week on the beach, dating to 1500-1550ish. Set very simply in sterling silver, it;s about as long as the space between my hand-knuckle and lowest finger-knuckle.
October 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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it happened again
half a bright blue Nueva Cadiz bead. 500-something years old. I found it on the river bank. It was just sitting there. end-on, you can see the typical blue-white-blue layering on the bead. It would have been a long brick shape with the whole lengthwise; this one broke lengthwise down rhe middle. These are some of the earliest trade beads Europeans took with them to the New World and Afrida. here, you can see how it used to be a big square tube. Just sitting there on the sand. I had to lie down.
October 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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whatever you do, don't get off at 271th cthuluvenue
a stop on the ChatGPT subway map just reads 271 and some cryptic symbols
October 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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the pigeon lady
an elderly lady feeding SO MANY pigeons out her upper story window an elderly lady feeding SO MANY pigeons out her upper story window
October 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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the tesla split screen display plus two phones??
October 15, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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nice job algo
my last skeet followed by a post of a gif of Stephen King in CREEPSHOW, trying to drink some kind of smoothie
October 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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it's pizza with pineapple dried tuna cheese and herbs fools
October 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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K-Pax, starring Kevin Spacey
October 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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today's river find: tiny saint (Mary?) in a little plastic pouch!
so tiny! some lettering i can't make out entirely
October 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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also great: Han Solo, as played by Peter Falk
Background: some kind of ship, but not one we've ever seen before; Middle ground: Luke, in fighter pilot/cosmonaut kit with his helmet under his arm, is pleading with Han to stay and fight. Foreground: Han refuses, standing with his back to Luke and his arms folded, wearing a heart pendant around his neck (!), and looking for all the world like a Lt. Colombo who's been through some shit
October 5, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Yep, that's Leia all right
An image from the Chinese comic. Foreground is Vader's broad, caped back; background is a swarthy, bearded Tarkin who looks a bit like he just rode off the Manchurian Steppe, holding a gun. Between them is Leia; we can just see her face and shoulder, her dark hair is a bit mussed, she's wearing an embroidered gown, beads, and earrings, and she's staring right at you like she's about to sock you in the jaw.
October 5, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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with a rebel yell
she cried
moa moa moa
September 28, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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apropos of absolutely nothing
classic RED MEAT strip. First two panels: a silent flaming skull hangs in the air behind a haunted-looking dude in a bolo tie. Third panel: Dude addresses the reader: "Is it still there?" Classic RED MEAT strip. In the first panel, the flaming skull says, "I LIVE." The dude in the bolo tie does not react. second panel. There's the skull. There's the guy. Third panel: skull still there. Bolo tie guy addresses the reader: "It keeps sayin' that, but I still ain't lookin'"
September 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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excited for my possible outfit for a friend's wedding
steel grey telepresence bot. Hoping they have one in this color
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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I really like how I drew me and @josie.zone after a particularly stressful immigration meeting
me and Josie in profile, both looking bluescreened
September 22, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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heading out to infiltrate the Michigan Womyn's Festival circa 1993
Josie in a short leather motorcycle jacket and a big colorful hippie skirt
September 22, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Does anyone recognize this type of amulet or what's inside? River find. I'm going to make it a new cap of silver. Some kind of taweez?
unknown amulet about the length of the last joint of my finger, in the form of an unadorned, smooth round cylinder of brass (?) with a copper (?) loop soldered to it halfway down the lenght of the cylinder. unknown amulet seen from the other side, where it's missing the other end of the cylinder (or a cap?) looking into the cylinder, there's the suggestion of a rolled-up filling that's perhaps been sealed with wax? white and a little red color toward the middle. This substance starts a few mm into the cylinder. As found the rest was filled with sand.
September 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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I'm working on a piece about our immigration and the history of European colonialism and I think it's coming out good
three panels strip: panel 1: VO: At the same time, Portugal began to build caravels-- SI, hunched over in panic on the phone with immigration law office: She's at LUNCH? Immigration worker, implacably: We will be unable to process your application without this document panel 2: VO: -- ships that could sail south into the winds protecting the Coast of Africa. Josie is concentrating feircely on her phone. Phone: Please enter your national identity number. panel 3: VO: They hoped to buy gold, spices and slaves. All they had to offer was beads. Josie's phone: Error, no internet connection. Please close application and sign in again. Josie, completely losing her shit: FFFFFFUUUUUUUCKKKKK
September 20, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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close up of jellyfish
September 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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they were many
September 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM