I realize that pub crawls are quite popular, but I truly believe that the concept of a library crawl is long overdue.
Brahms1975
@brahms1975.bsky.social
Poet and musician, also an unapologetic lover of books and our future among the stars, Ad Astra.
Sunset over Marin County several weeks ago. Taken from Emeryville, California. #sunset #sky #eck #eastcoastkin
Currently reading Galahad and the Grail by @malcolmguite.bsky.social This is such a wonderful book, i can’t for volume 2 in this Arthurian cycle! #books #booksky
This promotional PSYCHO pre-release marketing photo (designed to satisfy demand and mislead from the film’s actual plot) always makes me smile.
I truly believe that the normalization of nighttime bookstores would change the world.
Gazing out as the Elves draw close to Minas Tirith, Frodo sees Arwen riding on a grey palfrey in their midst. ‘At last I understand why we have waited! This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed and all its fear pass away!’
“The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.” Carson McCullers, "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter," published on this day in 1940
🎩 Visit MOROCCO from anywhere! 🌐 Even if you can't attend our in-person screening, you can watch this iconic Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper romance on the Internet Archive! Get your popcorn 🍿 & enjoy this 1930 classic, newly in the #publicdomain this year! 📽️ archive.org/details/moro... #PreCode
Flight Into Space https://pulpcovers.com/flight-into-space/ Covers, Paperback, Sci-Fi, Space Ship, Terry Maloney
Ok, it’s a quick #OceanDevotion today, on this glorious and windy spring day. Here’s your minute of peace and calm.
Morning lights above an icy cove at Iceland's Þingvallavatn lake.
A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity
A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity
Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...
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Good morning! Sunrise in Pictou county Nova Scotia photographed by Don Scott Jeffery..
I don't pretend to know the science behind it, but it's beyond dispute that coffee and tea taste at least 63% better when you're drinking them from your most cherished mug.
Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere universe is coming to Apple TV, and he's apparently already 50% through writing the first movie's screenplay. https://bit.ly/417GgzG
I don't know who needs to hear this, but one day, you will pull a loose book from a bookshelf and that hidden door will finally open for you.
This piece of music is playing continuously without repetition until the year 03000. In 02000, composer Jem Finer created Longplayer, a 1,000-year composition generated by an algorithm and performed on a set of singing bowls. The piece is evolving slowly over a millennium-long performance.
"Rod Serling's stamp on a script has consistently spelled 'quality,' and this seasonal debut of his created series is no exception." — The Hollywood Reporter (October 3, 1960) on Twilight Zone's "King Nine Will Not Return"
Hagia Sophia, Blue Mosque (Sultanahmet Camii) and the Marmara Sea at sunset
Currently reading By Night in Chile, by Roberto Bolaño. Wow, this book hits hard! [#BookSky](skeets://tag?tag=BookSky)💙📚 [#Books](skeets://tag?tag=Books)
“Rings of fire” by Francisco Negroni. A pair of circular clouds is illuminated by lava from the Villarrica volcano in Chile as night falls. The scene was captured by photographer Francisco Negroni, who takes regular trips to the volcano to monitor its activity.
A Meditative Tour of Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Architectural Masterpiece
A Meditative Tour of Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Architectural Masterpiece
Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater is a 'house museum,' first designed as a residence, and now open to the public.
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I only had one credit this year, and I’m damn proud of it. Closing out this challenging year, I extend my deepest appreciation to the editors and staff at @rhppress.bsky.social for the opportunity and to the talented 15 writers who made On Fire and Under Water a success. tinyurl.com/46z7cvx6
Van Gogh’s lines swirl, twist, and double back—movement made visible, as if time itself refused to stand still.
