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Todd Robert Petersen
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PICNIC IN THE RUINS from Counterpoint Press. Pater Familias. Novelist. Professor of Creative Writing and Film. Repped by: Sobel/Weber.
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Ha. We're living parallel lives.
A copy of the book a long game by Elizabeth McCracken behind a Christmas tree and painting of a storm cloud
December 6, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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This cat is a nincompoop.
Black cat trying to sit in a basket. Only his butt fits inside. Two paws and the whole head are outside.
December 2, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Some Barthes for Thanksgiving.
A copy of Roland Barthes's THE RUSTLE OF LANGUAGE on a wooden table.
November 27, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Bikes plus first aid kits on display. What are you telling us Walmart?
Two bikes in a store display with a bunch of first aid kits mixed in.
November 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Dinner music for tonight's homemade cream of mushroom soup and sourdough bread. Paul Desmond's EASY LIVING.
Record cover with a 60s lady in a gown reclining on a tiger skin.
November 25, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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I can add this one to the flow.
Another borealis photo
November 12, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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Here's a moment from Friday's guest guitar moment. The guy to my right is my daughter's boyfriend and the scorching wah pedal rhythm is my son off screen.
November 10, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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I'm teaching Calvino's Invisible Cities, and the ending stunned me, again. "[S]eek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space."
A book passage that reads: "He said: "It is all useless, if the last landing place can only be the internal city, and it is there that, in ever-narrowing circles, the current is drawing us." And Polo said: "The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space."
November 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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He is the utterly ridiculous Prince of this house.
Cat in a box muffin top.
November 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Oh Courtney, my daughter did a magazine spread on this a while ago. It's on her personal website now, so it's fair game for sharing.
illustrated images of people doing brave things: making a phone call, holding a baby, getting a hair cut, making a left turn, wearing something your mom doesn't like.
October 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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My kid just did some cool work for a Salt Lake Bakery. Everyone should hire her. She burns AI stuff to the ground.
A pile of stickers for a bakery. Cakes, forks, desserts.
October 27, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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My wife is the Halloween hero. 14yo presented his vision, and she helped him realize it. That's an art education professor mom mvp.
Scary pumpkin ghoul with pumpkin head and black cloak with a sketch of the same in the foreground.
October 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Back on my sourdough baking, me hearties.
Sourdough loaf with tiny plastic skull.
October 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Just found my copy of TMNT #1 2nd printing (1984) in the storage unit. And I checked the current prices. Wow.
October 19, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Happy People Don't Live Here by the amazing @ambersparks.bsky.social is here. Happy book birthday, Amber.
A screaming skeleton holding a book by Amber Sparks called happy people don't live here
October 14, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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This is Jerry.
A skeleton laughing. Behind him a drawing of the moon that says look up.
October 13, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Sound on: I love working at a university, because on your way back from teaching a storytelling class some unseen trombonist is practicing.
October 11, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Found this wonderful message on campus.
A post it that says your outfit slays stuck to some marble.
October 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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She does not care.
Tuxedo cat crammed into a box on the floor, the ends of her spilling over the side.
October 6, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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The kid and I were trying to get a cool lo-fi kalimba sound today for a song, and I think I got it. Archtop plus homemade rubber bridge plus Ibanez Super Metal plus MXR analog delay plus Ocean's 11 plate reverb.
October 6, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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A nice moon out the front door tonight.
Sunset on the red rocks. Moon rising. Pine tree in the foreground.
October 6, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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My 14yo sent this photo he took to the family group text, and we all did successive spit takes.
A sticker that says climate change is real you f---s.
October 3, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Let the Candy Corn Death Pageant begin.
Fall leaves starting to turn. Golden leaves on a mature tree. Campus buildings in the back ground.
October 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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My wife got them all!
September 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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It was pretty nice up there on the mountain this afternoon.
Fall foliage on a steep hillside, puffy clouds, lone pickup to the left.
September 28, 2025 at 2:08 AM