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Pages From a Lost Sketchbook
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Found my old sketchbook from circa 2012. (Me: US expat, gay, left progressive, past middle age; he/him)
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Today’s mood: stirring the pot? #sketch #domestic
B&W sketch of a scruffy buzzcut man with black glasses and black socks, in an apron and standing, stirring something in a bowl in his hand. To his left in the background is an electrical outlet, to his right beside him can be seen the edge and one leg of a table.
December 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Winter day in Oak Park but you still get tiles!
Beautiful vintage tiles outdoors on a wintry day, at the entrance to a building in Oak Park, Illinois
November 29, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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I up you one with refrigerator sign seen last weekend at an art school in Barcelona
Refrigerator at art school with sign reading: Warning! Please do not store your paintings in the fridge or freezer. It’s for food use only.
November 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Today’s mood: feeling fit (ish) #sketch #exercise #feelingfittish
B&W sketch of a man with a buzz cut and stubble doing situps with his toes under a sofa and the word “EXERCISE” at the upper left.
November 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Today’s mood: Clearly whatever better angels we have have abandoned us, so I give you a worse angel #sketch #worseangel
B&W aketch of a monstrous angel with tiny wings holding a lily.
November 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Perplexed by this headline. I was expecting maybe something about medieval women and bloodletting? Trad wives and the renewed fascination with bile? @bcdreyer.social am I wrong to be confused?
Headline: Why Big Wellness Loves Middle Age Women to an op-ed by Jessica Grose in the NYTimes
November 3, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Today’s mood: Happy Halloween from everyone’s favorite opera villainess! #queenofthenight #sketch #halloween
B&W sketch of a flying woman in a long dress with a ruffled top, mutton-chop sleeves and a crescent moon on her head. A text at top left reads: Queen of the Night.
October 31, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Today’s mood: Jam today #jamtoday #lewiscarroll #throughthelookingglass #whatalicefoundthere
B&W sketch of a woman sprawled out with her hand in a jar that is between her legs. The jar has a label with two cherries on it. She is licking a spoon in her other hand. In the upper left is a text reading: jam today.
October 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Today’s mood: Fall, and not in a brightly colored leafy good way #vasedress #sketch #yikes
B&W sketch of a tiny woman who appears to be rolling off a table, her bell-like long dress, instead of showing her feet at the bottom, has flowers as if it were a vase. There is a key and a thimble on the table, and in the background an electrical outlet. A text at upper right reads: “vase dress”
October 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Really, that’s the pangram you’re going with #NYTBee? Plus that KE6? And two of the PU4s? Are these real words real people use? #spellingbee
Queen bee image for today’s NYT spelling bee with center letter L plus E I K Y U P
October 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Today’s mood: Sometimes I wish I lived in a bubble #sketch #belljar
B&W sketch of a grand house and a tree on a table, covered by a bell jar, with two little men in the left corner carrying a ladder to get up to it and my signature electrical outlet in the background on the right, and a text reading “the bell jar” in the lower right.
October 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Today’s mood: autumnal and a bit of a struggle #sketch #autumnleaves #autumn #tinypeople
B&W sketch of a tiny man and woman in vaguely 19th-century dress each grasping a leaf that is bigger than they are and hauling them up a diagonal walk
September 27, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Today’s mood: Remembering Sundays past (I had no idea until now that those were pink Canada mints? I only remember they tasted like wintergreen and there were white ones also that tasted like regular peppermints) #nostalgia #sketch #pinkpeppermints
B&W sketch of a surface with a box of little discs, three of them on the surface, as well as a pair of wire-rimmed glasses and a text: My grandmother had a tin full of pink peppermints, chalky and sweet, from which we could take one to bring along to church…
September 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Love! I bought this in a souk in Marrakech in 1997. I live in an apartment, so it’s sitting on a shelf in my library where I can admire it from time to time.
Photo of an unmounted dark metal door knocker in the shape of a hand holding a ball
September 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Today’s mood: homage to my sister’s little good boi Pippin, who’s living his last day today (brushing a tear away as I write this) #doggos #doggies #pippin
B&W sketch of a woman in a dress sitting on a poodle and a man in a suit sitting on a dalmatian on a winding road, a dandelion to the left and text that reads: dog sitters
September 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Today’s mood: Wait, what is that alarm clock doing on the floor…? #sketch #table #alarmclock
B&W sketch of a raw chicken on a platter, a lemon, a rolling pin and a small bowl on a fat-legged table with a window in the background, a chair in the foreground on the right and an alarm clock on the floor in the foreground on the left.
September 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Today’s mood: frog princessish - would you kiss her? #sketch #frogprincess #platee #froggy
B&W sketch of a (toad-like) frog princess ca. 1780 in a wig with a feather, décolletage, a cinched waist and holding a dripping waterlily
August 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Today’s mood: Watch out, that thing could eat you up! (It’s giving ecclesiastongue) #sketch #Odenplan
B&W sketch of a domed church surrounded by trees and an iron fence at the left, an enormous tongue thrust out the front door instead of steps
August 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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I did doublecheck that it wasn’t St Nicholas Church in Prague, which is by far the most over the top baroque church I’ve actually been to, it’s very swirly and pink (the photo doesn’t fully capture the pink swirliness of it!)
The interior of the baroque and very ornate St Nicholas Church in Prague
August 15, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Today’s mood: back at it - vacation’s over! #sketch
B&W sketch of a man in shorts, t-shirt and black-framed glasses with scruff, sitting at a desk and typing on a laptop computer, with a box on hus left and two decorative enamel jars on his right. As usual in my sketches, there is an electrical outlet, here on the back wall at the right.
August 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Today’s mood: thickheaded #mortar #pestle #sailor #thickheaded
B&W sketch of a sailor with a mortar for a head holding a pestle, standing next to a table with another mortar holding a sailboat. There is a picture of flowers hanging on the wall behind and an electrical outlet on the back wall on the right.
July 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Today’s mood: surviving #coffee #survivalkit
B&W sketch of a mug of coffee and a French press with a text reading: survival kit
July 23, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Today’s mood: The heat is about making me faint #sketch #faintingsofa #faintingcouch
B&W sketch of a settee falling down in a faint under a hanging lamp while an easy chair looks on
July 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Today’s mood: craving something sweet #sketch #angelfoodcake #angels
B&W sketch of flying angels, one holding a plate with a layer cake missing one piece, the other holding the missing piece
July 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Today’s mood: So hot. Time for a cooldown! #sketch #pool
B&W sketch of a woman, man, dog, ball, table and chair in a swimming pool with a lifeguard chair and the feet of the lifeguard visible, a chainlink fence in the background
July 3, 2025 at 11:34 AM