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Randall Jay
@randyjay.bsky.social
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Artist & online book dealer. I live near Palm Springs, California. Friend of cats, birds, nature. art, books, movies, music, history, paper...

I'm on AbeBooks as Randall's Books https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sortby=0&vci=61552643
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We have to listen to bigoted handwringing about how we have to abandon trans people and marginalized communities and immigrants while the clearest election winning message is right there.
usapolling.bsky.social Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 6d
"Do the rich have too much political power?"

Yes: 80%
No: 8%

YouGov / Dec 8, 2025
December 9, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Books shipping to new homes this morning.
#booksky #bookselling #puppets #art #Secession #ExhibitionCatalog #plants #CarnivorousPlants
Book entitled Puppetry: A World History by Eileen Blumenthal. The cover shows the head and shoulders of a Japanese marionette against a black background. He has a startled=looking face and wide open eyes. The title word Puppetry appears above his head, in black letters, each letter on variously colored backgrounds in a playful font, appearing to descend on strings. A German exhibition catalog from 1913, its cover designed in black and gold. The top half is an artwork against a black background. In profile, a gold a charioteer guides four rearing horses. The show took place in Munich. The titles, translated into English: "Munich 1913 11th International Art Exhibition, KGL Glass Palace, Illustrated Catalog, Artist's Cooperative - Secession. A book entitled The Carnivorous Plants, by Francis Ernest Lloyd. The cover shows an 18th century decorative and somewhat fanciful painting of a pitcher plant. Titles are in white on a red panel.
December 15, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Vintage pics of Old Hollywood & Silent Film thespians, anyone? Recent finds, now posted on #AbeBooks #PatsyRuthMiller #WalterMcGrail #GeorgeFawcett #AnitaLouise #cinema #MovieHistory #SilentMovies #actors #actresses #booksky #Hollywood
An inscribed photograph of actress Patsy Ruth Miller. An inscribed photo of silent film actor Walter McGrail An inscribed photo of silent film actor George Fawcett An inscribed photo of actress Anita Louise.
December 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Current conditions
#PalmSprings
December 1, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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"We invented phonetic writing so we could put our sounds down on paper and, by glancing at a page, hear someone speaking in our head—an invention that became so widespread in the last few thousand years that we hardly ever stop to consider how astonishing it is."

-Carl Sagan, Billions & Billions
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Photo I took through a window last night.
November 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Yuk. Just noticed my phone’s weather app radar map has ‘Gulf of America’ on it.
November 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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#ArtBooks I'm shipping to new homes this morning. 👇
#AlexanderCalder #JohnSingerSargent #MiltonAvery #TaosArtists #booksky #BookSelling
A bright yellow book cover with one of sculptor Alexander Calder's black wire pieces shaped as a trapeze artist hanging upside down. In his hands he holds the title of the book, spelled out in letters made of red wire. The title of the book is Calder's Circus. A book titled 'Sargent and Italy'. A detail from a John Singer Sargent painting shows a paved stone courtyard with a water well and several figures. A mysterious female figure dressed in white, but draped in large black shawl, appears to walk towards us. Her face is hidden. A book entitled 'Milton Avery' by Robert Hobbs. The cover is one of the artist's lyrical abstract seascapes, in shades of blue and black. A lighter blue color in the foreground suggests a shoreline. A book entitled 'Paintbrushes and Pistols: How the Taos Artists Sold the West', by Sherry Clayton Taggett and Ted Schwarz. The cover is an oil painting in warm colors of a Native American man wearing a red shirt and tall light brown hat. His left eye is only partially visible under the floppy hat's brim. A wall behind him is yellow-gold. Bright sunlight appears to be illuminating one side of his face. The other is in shadow. The shaded side shows his other eye clearly, looking straight at the viewer.
November 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Loved this early 20th C. photo I found even before I noticed the lady in the bonnet. She makes it even better. Taken by Andrew Putnam Hill (1853-1922). His efforts to save this forest from the sawmill helped jumpstart the CA state park system. #California #photography #redwoods #BigBasinStatePark
November 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Enjoying sorting through stacks of 20th century #photographs acquired over the weekend. Hollywood, fashion & more. #photography #bookselling #booksky #ephemera
A section of a desk showing a pile of photos. The largest shows a tall black fashion model from the 1970s wearing a mid-length white dress. Seen partially above is a photo of a blonde model wearing a puffy black hat for a hat advertisement, circa 1940s. To the left is a photo of an unidentified young movie actor whose costume is a cavalry uniform.
November 19, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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First snow of the season up on Mt. San Jacinto this morning.
#PalmSprings #CoachellaValley
An iPhone camera picture of Mount San Jacinto.
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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It's raining in the desert.
November 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis
November 12, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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#ArtBooks I'm shipping to new homes this morning. 👇
#GerritDou #RichardDiebenkorn #PaulPletka #ErnstFuchs
#booksky #bookselling #AbeBooks
An art book entitled 'Gerrit Dou 1613-1675'. A Dutch interior scene with a male musician seated in a chair holding a large stringed instrument. He is looking directly at the viewer. Light pours in from an open window on the left. The room contains books, a globe, a draped table and other objects A book entitled 'Richard Diebenkorn: Ocean Park' by Jack Flam. The cover contains one of the artist's paintings from a series named after the neighborhood where he lived at the time. The abstract work is in soft yellows and transparent blues, greens and occasionally red. A book about the art of Paul Pletka, simply titled 'Pletka' on the cover, in large letters on a black background. To the left is a painting by the artist representing a seated native American man. His unsmiling face is painted in red and white vertical stripes. This matches his trousers and appears to suggest an American flag. He wears an officer's black coat with red epaulets and a double row of brass buttons. His shoes are reminiscent of native American beaded ones, in multiple colors. In his left hand he holds a carved mace. His large right hand rests on his knee. He is looking straight ahead. An Abrams art book with an arresting image by 20th century Austrian artist Ernst Fuchs. A strange and perhaps god-like and alien figure in shades of blue, bold, green and orange. A flame-like aura flanks this personage and appears to be reflected in its surface. An intense image. The artist's name appears above it in Art Nouveau-style gold letters.
November 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Just grabbed this pic from an email sent by #FloraGrubbGardens (San Francisco & Marina Del Rey), taken at their wholesale nursery. #Stapelia plants are pollinated by flies, so these clever froggies are making this large flower their home. #nature #frogs #plants #flowers
Photograph: looking down on a large star-shaped flower containing four small watchful frogs.
November 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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DONALD TRUMP: [asleep, drooling on long red tie]

SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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thanking the gods
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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trump is only gonna pardon the turkeys that did frauds and schemes
November 6, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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I love waking up to coffee and good news. Thank you fellow voters.
#coffee #California #Prop50 #antifa #democracy
Image of a booklet entitled 'Fun with Coffee', showing an antique coffee pot with matching cups and saucers, on a background of coffee beans. Snacks and desserts made with coffee are also pictured.
November 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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They're bad people doing bad things. We don't have to meet them halfway.
November 1, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Books I'm shipping to new homes this morning 👇
#bookselling #booksky #EdwardGorey #JacquesCousteau #oceanography #BernardRudofsky #architecture #AlbertCamus #fiction
A small square book by author and illustrator Edward Gorey entitled 'The Wuggly Ump' Cover illustration shows three children on a hill looking down into a cave where the title character lives. A slithering tail is seen receding into the darkness of the cave. The tail is curled around a closed umbrella. A yellow border surrounds the image. Book cover of 'Jacques Cousteau's Calypso'. The cover image shows the oceanographer's research ship floating on the water against a blue sky. We can see beneath the ship in this composite image; the lower portion shows hammerhead sharks swimming beneath the vessel. 'Architecture Without Architects' by Bernard Rudofsky. A square softcover book with a photo image in black & white. It shows an ancient civilization's large multi-tiered structure built into a hillside. The book 'A Happy Death' the first novel written by French author Albert Camus. The cover shows a black & white image of his face in profile. He has a cigarette in his mouth. Titles are in white, red and yellow.
October 31, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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2nd in line to the presidency, yet consistently has no idea what’s happening in the country
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 29
Q: Just last week a minister was shot directly in the face with a pepper round by a DHS agent that left his face bloodied. Are you concerned that this is a religious freedom issue?

MIKE JOHNSON: I can't comment on any of those instances. I haven't seen or heard any of those videos
October 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Never forget that the oppression of intellectuals is the sign of a regime’s weakness, not its strength…

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Nobel laureate and Trump critic, says US visa revoked
Soyinka, 91, who recently compared US president to Idi Amin, says ‘I have no visa – I am banned’
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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RIP Prunella Scales
October 28, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Currently reading 👇
'Saul Steinberg: A Biography' by Deirdre Bair (Doubleday, New York, 2012).
#booksky #books #biography #SaulSteinberg #artistsB
Book cover with a large teal blue horizontal panel at the top, over which alternating yellow and soft red letters spell out the title. A smaller lower panel has the author's name in white against a red background. The middle section shows a black & white photograph of Saul Steinberg, seated in a chair at left, wearing one of his hand-drawn white paper masks. It has a long white beard, and the face shows a disgruntled frown. Four other of his paper masks can be seen on the wall above and to his left.
October 27, 2025 at 11:07 PM