Cuddlefist

I'm a 30-something living in Atlanta. Cuddlefist is a collection of things that I find, photograph, or write.

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Garden things. The squash photo is from last week. The rain is really getting to the squash plants in a sad way. It's about time to prune more leaves and consider culling some plants.

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Busy. maximumble.com

[itsbyrosie]

a guinea pig on a skateboard?

[startorialist]

Wednesday in the Wild: Evening Edition

Check out these far out looks on Buzz Aldrin and Bill Nye in Nick Graham’s 2017 Menswear runway show at New York Fashion Week! I’m impressed that Buzz has a “Get Your Ass to Mars” shirt that matches his silvery look perfectly. And Bill Nye’s blazer is most definitely out of this world.*

All the looks from the show are up on the New York Times Fashion Blog and Vogue has an interview will Nye about his runway debut here.

- Summer

*sorry, not sorry

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Leggy succulents.

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New plant friend.

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So I preached from Luke, chapter eighteen, verses one through eight: the parable of the importunate widow. It’s one I’ve always liked. A widow is so persistent in her demands for justice that she overcomes the resistance of a judge who fears neither God nor man. She wears him down. Moral: The weak can overcome the strong if the weak persist. Persisting isn’t always safe, but it’s often necessary.

Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler

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Fun with my furry vest and a costume piece.

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Black History Month!

2016 edit: a lot of teachers and librarians asked if there was a poster for this that they could buy.  Nope!  This post was made as an educational aid and teachers oughtn’t have to pay anything to get it in their classroom.  So here’s a link to download the poster’s print file to print it yourself: https://gumroad.com/l/Exvau I did include the series in my recent art book 555 Character Drawings, so if you want it in a book with a lot of other stuff, that’s available, too. http://crogan.bigcartel.com/product/555-character-drawings-preorders

My favorite parts of history (as might be obvious from my choice of subject matter when making books) are the ones that fall into easily-categorized genres, genres with associated visual iconographies. This is the sort of stuff I loved as a kid: pirates, knights, cowboys, explorers, romans and Egyptians and flying aces. Stuff you could find featured in a bag of toys or a generic costume. For Black History Month, I thought I might visit some of these adventure-leaning periods and pick a few historic black people from those eras to draw, just for fun. If you’re doing a project or report in school this month, you could do worse than to tackle one of these toughies.  Feel free to share some of these with youngsters that you know.  And call them youngsters, they LOVE that.

(longer write-ups under the break)

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Black History Month is just around the corner, so I wanted to reblog this in case any teachers want to have it on hand at February’s start.  Poster print files are up on gumroad, which should be easier than how I had ‘em for download last time.

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Carrie Fisher singing about addiction at Just for Laughs in Montreal. 

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I got a bright light to help with circadian rhythms. It arrived yesterday, but I'm convinced it already works-- the placebo effect is strong with this one.

[wexler]

I could go through a bunch of stories, wagging my tail, eager to please, all in a sometimes desperate attempt to get you to like me. Actually, I don’t want you to like me so much as be the greatest person you ever met. I want to explode in the night sky of your approval.

Carrie Fisher (via becketts)

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The river today.

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Prisma and old photos.