Stopwalk

dance party of the absurd

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Listen/purchase: Darkest of the Days by Stopwalk

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Cognitively accelerated baby and a knife fighter cat I thought would be friends with her. What I mainly know about the baby is she's serious about sun protection. Please feel free to steal these characters; I have no plans for them. Plus it would be hilarious if "cognitively accelerated baby and knife fighter cat" became a subgenre with its own section in the bookstore.

Image Description: Black and white pen-and-ink sketch somewhat in the style of Maurice Sendak. A baby with elaborate clothing, boots, and bells reads underneath a parasol while a tie-wearing cat in small dark glasses and a toupee flourishes a knife attached to its tail. They are on the overgrown and litter-filled roof of a glass palace, above a Dutch-looking canal village near a jungle.

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You were never there to begin with, but I thought you would be.

Image Description: An eye and the edge of a face peeks from behind a black curtain; a flexed index finger pushes up the one visible eyebrow. Superimposed across the entire width of the image, all-caps glowing yellow letters with the text “I miss you so much.”

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Did You Know: Lion's mane mushroom clouds are the natural habitat of catbirds and flying pigs

Image Description: An adorable black-and-white papercraft creature with a cat face, stout body, bird beak, and wings, with a radiant star on its side, stands atop a plastic bag full of soil, from which erupt cloud-like, globular, multi-lobed white forms which resemble cauliflower but are mushrooms

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Still don’t know what this plant is. Bought as one scraggly shoot from a Massachusetts garden store, unlabeled, some years ago.

Image Description: a many-stemmed houseplant with small purple and green and yellow leaves, in a tiny antique teapot with irises handpainted on it, on an unfinished maple lintel next to a screened window

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Update: A cutting of the mystery plant which I put in a more commodious container. It appears to be arming itself with lasers.

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Scored an extravagant plastic necklace at a yard sale.

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Keep feeling the weight. Song's coming.

Image Description: A mirror-image symmetrical pattern of interwoven day-glo shoelaces and braided hair. Dominant colors are red, yellow, blue, green, black, brown, and peach. Overlaid on the image, text:

if it doesn’t matter

why fight so hard?

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Trying to blend in with the neighbors, who are trees.

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cavernous and horizontal, we choose not to emerge

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You have its attention; does it have yours?

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Shockingly visible ankles. A world out of balance.

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I think of the actual flower arrangement as being the werewolf form of the watercolor.

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I AM NOW FULLY IMMUNE.

Doubly mass: it's in Massachusetts. Doubly double: it's at a Doubletree Hotel. Everyone was very friendly and they played "Take Me Home, Country Roads" by John Denver for the first shot and Bob Marley’s “One Love (Let’s Get Together And Feel All Right)” for the second. I feel that I have traveled.

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Where have they been and what have they seen?

Image Description: Ink and colored-pencil drawing of a robot that looks like a cross between the Boston Dynamics robot “Spot”, NASA’s Mars rover “Perseverance,” and a reindeer with wheels, next to a person in a Sami-inspired bright-colored skirt and shawl and a space helmet. They are casting long shadows on a white surface. Text reads: “At The Edge, The Rovers.”

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Live-action anime. Invent the character and context.

Image Description: The upper half of a face with green eyes, shaggy brown fringe, and a bright red hairbow, on a red background.

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Because of the bandage, one toe looks like it has no nail polish. Secretly, under the bandage, it has no nail polish.

Image description: a pale left foot held in the air, side-lit, with toenails painted purple. There is a cloth band-aid wrapped around the fourth toe. Colorful model biplanes are suspended behind the foot.

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cold front vibes

Image Description: A collage of a wet or frozen pink zinnia and a foamy coastline - turquoise water, pinkish beach. Cut-out collaged text reads “oh my it wouldn’t be chill”