Jennifer Messner
@occasionallyzen.bsky.social
Books, coffee, photos, nonprofit grant writer, Southside Chicago
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Loved this conversation, what a gift. So many gifts. Thank you, sir.
Rob Reiner's 'Spinal Tap' Still Goes To 11 : Fresh Air www.npr.org/2025/09/09/n...
Rob Reiner's 'Spinal Tap' Still Goes To 11 : Fresh Air www.npr.org/2025/09/09/n...
Rob Reiner's 'Spinal Tap' Still Goes To 11 : Fresh Air
Reiner's 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap sparked a new genre of satire. Now, more than 40 years later, the band is back in a new sequel, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues. "They have grown neither...
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December 15, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Loved this conversation, what a gift. So many gifts. Thank you, sir.
Rob Reiner's 'Spinal Tap' Still Goes To 11 : Fresh Air www.npr.org/2025/09/09/n...
Rob Reiner's 'Spinal Tap' Still Goes To 11 : Fresh Air www.npr.org/2025/09/09/n...
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Harley wonders if they feel as she does, a strange relief that the headline catastrophe has eclipsed everything else; relief that, for now, they can only speak of practical things and not yet have to sort through the smaller devastations of the night before.
G. O'Hare, Thirst Trap #sundaysentence
G. O'Hare, Thirst Trap #sundaysentence
Strong cover game in today's library book haul #booksky #amreading
December 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Harley wonders if they feel as she does, a strange relief that the headline catastrophe has eclipsed everything else; relief that, for now, they can only speak of practical things and not yet have to sort through the smaller devastations of the night before.
G. O'Hare, Thirst Trap #sundaysentence
G. O'Hare, Thirst Trap #sundaysentence
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Good morning, Chicago
Good morning, Chicago
December 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Good morning, Chicago
Good morning, Chicago
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Microsoft Outlook Wrapped
December 11, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Microsoft Outlook Wrapped
Hearing helicopters hovering overhead in Hyde Park -?
December 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Hearing helicopters hovering overhead in Hyde Park -?
Podcasts are my insomnia go to, so won't share how many hours 😯 😬, but this is totally correct 😊❤️
December 11, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Podcasts are my insomnia go to, so won't share how many hours 😯 😬, but this is totally correct 😊❤️
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I saw the lights on in the OPC tower for the first time and it was indeed the beacon they said they wanted, glowing in the cold winter night. In the future, those lights will be shining through the speech from the Selma Bridge--5 feet tall letters. A message we need. 1/2
December 11, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I saw the lights on in the OPC tower for the first time and it was indeed the beacon they said they wanted, glowing in the cold winter night. In the future, those lights will be shining through the speech from the Selma Bridge--5 feet tall letters. A message we need. 1/2
Gifted this lovely candle from my professional women's group! Sometimes a message comes from the universe when you need to hear it ❤️
December 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Gifted this lovely candle from my professional women's group! Sometimes a message comes from the universe when you need to hear it ❤️
Strong cover game in today's library book haul #booksky #amreading
December 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Strong cover game in today's library book haul #booksky #amreading
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Same, Peter, same
December 7, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Same, Peter, same
I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds - with God's help I catch some.
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
#Sundaysentence #booksky
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
#Sundaysentence #booksky
December 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds - with God's help I catch some.
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
#Sundaysentence #booksky
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
#Sundaysentence #booksky
December 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
December 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Sarah Evans, contemporary Welsh artist and landscape painter #womensart
December 6, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Sarah Evans, contemporary Welsh artist and landscape painter #womensart
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Everyone at the station can see their breath, everyone keeps their hands in their pockets, the man who lives beside the station is whistling in his garden, whistling and crunching his boots across the frost.
December 6, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Everyone at the station can see their breath, everyone keeps their hands in their pockets, the man who lives beside the station is whistling in his garden, whistling and crunching his boots across the frost.
Good morning, Chicago
December 1, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Good morning, Chicago
November 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
...if the place is legitimate there is no pool, there is no second floor, just leather against flesh, flesh against bone, rope slapping concrete, slapping earth, that machine gun fire of sideways fists against speed bag.
#sundaysentence Lucas Schaefer, The Slip
#sundaysentence Lucas Schaefer, The Slip
November 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
...if the place is legitimate there is no pool, there is no second floor, just leather against flesh, flesh against bone, rope slapping concrete, slapping earth, that machine gun fire of sideways fists against speed bag.
#sundaysentence Lucas Schaefer, The Slip
#sundaysentence Lucas Schaefer, The Slip
Out and about ❄️❄️❄️
November 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Out and about ❄️❄️❄️
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November 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Happy snow day, Chicago
November 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Happy snow day, Chicago
A few of the books I loved best this year
November 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
A few of the books I loved best this year
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