Adalena Kavanagh
@mamiyaroid.bsky.social
Writer, Photographer, Librarian, Red Panda Enthusiast
https://adalenakavanagh.com/
https://adalenakavanagh.com/
Today realized I love this Birds of Maya song because it has slurred non-sense lyrics and just gets right into the guitar riffing like CAN's Mother Sky does.
youtu.be/XFWRpM0GrR4?...
youtu.be/XFWRpM0GrR4?...
Birds Of Maya - High Fly (Philadelphia,Pa) 9.13.16
YouTube video by markit aneight
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November 29, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Today realized I love this Birds of Maya song because it has slurred non-sense lyrics and just gets right into the guitar riffing like CAN's Mother Sky does.
youtu.be/XFWRpM0GrR4?...
youtu.be/XFWRpM0GrR4?...
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May as well tack this on here again. I've written some books and some of them are on sale, while others are merely, disappointingly, only for sale. bsky.app/profile/rkok...
Now until January 6: 45% off sale on all WSUP titles, including preorders of Dispatches from the Avant-Garage with code RHOLIDAY. Only like $23 for all that research and over 100 (!!) full-color images, truly a steal wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814350249/
Dispatches from the Avant-Garage
The innovative countercultural movement from one of the most notable twentieth-century presses.
In this long-awaited book, Rebecca Kos...
wsupress.wayne.edu
November 28, 2025 at 12:37 PM
May as well tack this on here again. I've written some books and some of them are on sale, while others are merely, disappointingly, only for sale. bsky.app/profile/rkok...
My mom said when my Taiwanese cousin asked why Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving, instead of saying she didn't know, true to form, my mom made shit up. She told her a turkey flew into a fireplace and got bbq'ed and ever since then Americans having been giving thanks to that sacrificial turkey.
November 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM
My mom said when my Taiwanese cousin asked why Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving, instead of saying she didn't know, true to form, my mom made shit up. She told her a turkey flew into a fireplace and got bbq'ed and ever since then Americans having been giving thanks to that sacrificial turkey.
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Grateful beyond words to have these gorgeous, generous blurbs from Charles Bernstein, Andrew Epstein, and @nicksturm.bsky.social with me on the back cover of Dispatches from the Avant-Garage + more beautiful blurbs from John Yau and William Barillas inside (copied into comments below) 😭
November 26, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Grateful beyond words to have these gorgeous, generous blurbs from Charles Bernstein, Andrew Epstein, and @nicksturm.bsky.social with me on the back cover of Dispatches from the Avant-Garage + more beautiful blurbs from John Yau and William Barillas inside (copied into comments below) 😭
I created a "library squad" of 9th graders & I'm already thinking of making them t-shirts. Wish I was better at graphic design. These t-shirts need to make the other kids SO JEALOUS.
November 26, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I created a "library squad" of 9th graders & I'm already thinking of making them t-shirts. Wish I was better at graphic design. These t-shirts need to make the other kids SO JEALOUS.
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Heads up to photo nerds, if you hate the default ios photo processing and you wish someone would make an app that eschewed the whole denoise-and-microcontrast philosophy that dominates phone photography in 2025, you need moment pro 2
Moment Pro Camera
We've been building...
www.momentprocamera.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Heads up to photo nerds, if you hate the default ios photo processing and you wish someone would make an app that eschewed the whole denoise-and-microcontrast philosophy that dominates phone photography in 2025, you need moment pro 2
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Now until January 6: 45% off sale on all WSUP titles, including preorders of Dispatches from the Avant-Garage with code RHOLIDAY. Only like $23 for all that research and over 100 (!!) full-color images, truly a steal wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814350249/
Dispatches from the Avant-Garage
The innovative countercultural movement from one of the most notable twentieth-century presses.
In this long-awaited book, Rebecca Kos...
wsupress.wayne.edu
November 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Now until January 6: 45% off sale on all WSUP titles, including preorders of Dispatches from the Avant-Garage with code RHOLIDAY. Only like $23 for all that research and over 100 (!!) full-color images, truly a steal wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814350249/
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I'm reading submissions of short solstice writing for the next few days, so hold up your candles and walk into the woods.
We've just opened submissions on a brief call for short solstice writing. Let's see what happens!
Necessary Fiction - Winter Solstice: Points of Light
When the winter solstice approaches and days contract, I often return to seasonal rereads — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Nina MacLaughlin's Winter Solstice, essays by Kathleen Jamie, or the fictio...
necessaryfiction.submittable.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I'm reading submissions of short solstice writing for the next few days, so hold up your candles and walk into the woods.
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In a couple of days I'm going to open a quick, experimental call for very short, solstitial submissions at @necessaryfiction.com, something I've wanted to do for the past couple of years but didn't quite get it together. Further details TK.
November 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
In a couple of days I'm going to open a quick, experimental call for very short, solstitial submissions at @necessaryfiction.com, something I've wanted to do for the past couple of years but didn't quite get it together. Further details TK.
Several men today might have believed I was giving them the smiley eye but dear Sirs, I only had eyes for your dog.
November 8, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Several men today might have believed I was giving them the smiley eye but dear Sirs, I only had eyes for your dog.
Been funny seeing people just learning that the NY Post is our campiest paper.
My sister and mine's biggest fear is f*cking up so badly at work (both teachers) that we land on the front page of the post with a devastatingly punny headline. I had a principal this happened to. He never recovered.
My sister and mine's biggest fear is f*cking up so badly at work (both teachers) that we land on the front page of the post with a devastatingly punny headline. I had a principal this happened to. He never recovered.
November 6, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Been funny seeing people just learning that the NY Post is our campiest paper.
My sister and mine's biggest fear is f*cking up so badly at work (both teachers) that we land on the front page of the post with a devastatingly punny headline. I had a principal this happened to. He never recovered.
My sister and mine's biggest fear is f*cking up so badly at work (both teachers) that we land on the front page of the post with a devastatingly punny headline. I had a principal this happened to. He never recovered.
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I am SO happy to be able to share the wonderful cover for DISPATCHES FROM THE AVANT-GARAGE: THE ALTERNATIVE PRESS coming in March from Wayne State UP. The cover has it all—postcards, letterpress, a bison. Beautifully designed, as it happens, by Lindsey Cleworth, who grew up in my/our hometown.
November 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I am SO happy to be able to share the wonderful cover for DISPATCHES FROM THE AVANT-GARAGE: THE ALTERNATIVE PRESS coming in March from Wayne State UP. The cover has it all—postcards, letterpress, a bison. Beautifully designed, as it happens, by Lindsey Cleworth, who grew up in my/our hometown.
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I’ve been saying!!
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 AM
I’ve been saying!!
I heard Yo La Tengo cover New York Groove in Central Park so I'm imagining them playing this to celebrate NYC/NJ's election results
youtu.be/C3VH06FC9W0?...
youtu.be/C3VH06FC9W0?...
New York Groove
YouTube video by Hello - Topic
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 4:18 AM
I heard Yo La Tengo cover New York Groove in Central Park so I'm imagining them playing this to celebrate NYC/NJ's election results
youtu.be/C3VH06FC9W0?...
youtu.be/C3VH06FC9W0?...
Hella divorced and loving it
November 4, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Hella divorced and loving it
You know how a cat will do something silly and then look around to make sure no one saw it embarrassing itself? I had that moment today when I forgot how to open the bellows of this camera (that one isn't mine).
November 4, 2025 at 7:17 PM
You know how a cat will do something silly and then look around to make sure no one saw it embarrassing itself? I had that moment today when I forgot how to open the bellows of this camera (that one isn't mine).
October 29, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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October 27, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Took photo club to Green-Wood Cemetery and we got to photograph a red-tailed hawk dining on a rat.
October 22, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Took photo club to Green-Wood Cemetery and we got to photograph a red-tailed hawk dining on a rat.
The obvious question when there is a heist in Paris is, "Where was Lupin?"
October 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The obvious question when there is a heist in Paris is, "Where was Lupin?"
One student said the lesson on composition seemed more like art class than photography so I said, "Photography is an art form." Then when I further explained that if you're a photographer you're most likely an artist another kid whispered, "that's *dope*."
October 16, 2025 at 12:59 AM
One student said the lesson on composition seemed more like art class than photography so I said, "Photography is an art form." Then when I further explained that if you're a photographer you're most likely an artist another kid whispered, "that's *dope*."
My mom watching Hitchcock's THE BIRDS:
"Oh my god! So many birds!"
"Oh my god! So many birds!"
October 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
My mom watching Hitchcock's THE BIRDS:
"Oh my god! So many birds!"
"Oh my god! So many birds!"
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I’m not even much of a poetry reader and I marvel at the incisiveness and erudition of Elisa Gabbert’s post mortem on BEST AMERICAN POETRY, which recently ended its 40 year run (gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...
What Was Best About the ‘Best American Poetry’?
www.nytimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I’m not even much of a poetry reader and I marvel at the incisiveness and erudition of Elisa Gabbert’s post mortem on BEST AMERICAN POETRY, which recently ended its 40 year run (gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...