James Mitchell
@plainfeather.bsky.social
Retired book publisher and author, medievalist, photographer, Soto Zen student, early musician, San Francisco resident since 1967, unrepentant hippie. Like Bluesky, life is plenitudinous.
Classic New Yorker cartoon.
#SundayFunnies
#SundayFunnies
December 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Classic New Yorker cartoon.
#SundayFunnies
#SundayFunnies
December 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
December 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Hendrick Avercamp, 1615, Winter landscape on a canal. Note hockey player bottom center, behind the flat boat.
#oilpainting
#oilpainting
December 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Hendrick Avercamp, 1615, Winter landscape on a canal. Note hockey player bottom center, behind the flat boat.
#oilpainting
#oilpainting
So here's my idea for a new start-up: we manufacture exact reproductions of Egyptian canopic jars from environment-friendly ceramic material, for use as burial urns to hold cremation ashes. If you can't live like a pharaoh, why not die like one. Could 3-D printers provide production models?
December 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
So here's my idea for a new start-up: we manufacture exact reproductions of Egyptian canopic jars from environment-friendly ceramic material, for use as burial urns to hold cremation ashes. If you can't live like a pharaoh, why not die like one. Could 3-D printers provide production models?
Xmas shopping began with ordering a tinned fruit cake, as shown in this 1947 Sears Roebuck catalog. The Rum and Brandy version for $2.98 was so stuffed with alcohol, sugary fruits, nuts and butter (with hot vanilla cream sauce added on top) that you couldn't get down more than a couple mouthfuls.
December 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Xmas shopping began with ordering a tinned fruit cake, as shown in this 1947 Sears Roebuck catalog. The Rum and Brandy version for $2.98 was so stuffed with alcohol, sugary fruits, nuts and butter (with hot vanilla cream sauce added on top) that you couldn't get down more than a couple mouthfuls.
NYC in wartime, looks like Broadway around 46th or 47th. If the clock is right, the crowds are probably gathering for a two o'clock movie matinee. I remember the Horn & Hardart Automats, and the big heavy overcoats people wore in those days.
#NewYorkCity
#NewYorkCity
December 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
NYC in wartime, looks like Broadway around 46th or 47th. If the clock is right, the crowds are probably gathering for a two o'clock movie matinee. I remember the Horn & Hardart Automats, and the big heavy overcoats people wore in those days.
#NewYorkCity
#NewYorkCity
Photo: Nima Sarikhani, The Guardian.
December 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Photo: Nima Sarikhani, The Guardian.
December 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
This creature is called an aak grasshopper and aside maybe from reproductive urgency, I seriously wonder just what message it is trying to send forth into the world.
#entomology
#entomology
November 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This creature is called an aak grasshopper and aside maybe from reproductive urgency, I seriously wonder just what message it is trying to send forth into the world.
#entomology
#entomology
An early depiction of the Trojan Horse.
Mykonos vase, Archaeological Museum of Mykonos, Inv. 2240.
#archaeology
Mykonos vase, Archaeological Museum of Mykonos, Inv. 2240.
#archaeology
November 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
An early depiction of the Trojan Horse.
Mykonos vase, Archaeological Museum of Mykonos, Inv. 2240.
#archaeology
Mykonos vase, Archaeological Museum of Mykonos, Inv. 2240.
#archaeology
Octopus hiding from a fisherman. Detail from a drinking cup ca. 500 BC. Thx: @archaeologyart.
#archaeology
#archaeology
November 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Octopus hiding from a fisherman. Detail from a drinking cup ca. 500 BC. Thx: @archaeologyart.
#archaeology
#archaeology
Gustav Klimt, tarot card, 1907.
#oilpainting
#oilpainting
November 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Gustav Klimt, tarot card, 1907.
#oilpainting
#oilpainting
I like to think Armani would have loved this Larson cartoon.
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#SundayFunnies
November 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I like to think Armani would have loved this Larson cartoon.
#SundayFunnies
#SundayFunnies
Getting ready for winter.
"This year we'll do everything different. This winter we'll chip in together and buy a bright-as-day lamp. Then we'll produce lots of seratonin and share it equally."
(Comic artist: Lukas Jüliger, Le monde diplomatique.)
"This year we'll do everything different. This winter we'll chip in together and buy a bright-as-day lamp. Then we'll produce lots of seratonin and share it equally."
(Comic artist: Lukas Jüliger, Le monde diplomatique.)
November 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Getting ready for winter.
"This year we'll do everything different. This winter we'll chip in together and buy a bright-as-day lamp. Then we'll produce lots of seratonin and share it equally."
(Comic artist: Lukas Jüliger, Le monde diplomatique.)
"This year we'll do everything different. This winter we'll chip in together and buy a bright-as-day lamp. Then we'll produce lots of seratonin and share it equally."
(Comic artist: Lukas Jüliger, Le monde diplomatique.)
Reposted by James Mitchell
November 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM