Happy new year, everyone!
What a ride 2025 has been, eh?
Looking at my past year's photos, a person might think I was into politics. In fact, I'd prefer not to think about politics.But with the inauguration of DT's second term,
this year was not a year for that,
so I'll start with . . . my favorite image of 2025:
Strategic Silliness
—photo by Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle
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One year ago: January 2025
They pulled their knee ligaments!
Just like me (at work, L to R: David, Mary and Big Boss behind me).
We hobbled around for MONTHS...
MARCH 2025
bink ; me & Em hang my "You Are Made of Stars" prints
on the fence enclosing the mini-park by the thrift store
bink ; me & Em hang my "You Are Made of Stars" prints
on the fence enclosing the mini-park by the thrift store
BELOW: Target's mascot (stuffed bull terriers) protesting Target for caving to Trump, outside corporate headquarters––
"Cone of Shame 4 Target"
April 2025
"No Kings" rally at the State Capitol. (My sign was inspired by having read Bulgakov's Master and Margarita, with its black demon cat.)
JUNE
June 14, with friends/family (far left) at the third Pro-Democracy rally. We're smiling but it was somber:
Hours earlier, an assassin had murdered MN State Rep. Melissa Hortman, her husband, Mark, and their dog, Gilbert.
AUGUST
Making God's eyes by the Mississippi River (trip to Winona w/ bink)
BELOW: Some of my best work at the thrift store
"Do-it-Yourself Proustian Moment! Madeleine TINS"
Right: "Peek at Your Own Risk!"—under the electrical tape, one wrestler is gripping the other’s penis
BELOW: 125 God's eyes got hung on the fence by work, with a little help from my friends.
(And I got my hair buzz-cut for free in the thrift store parking lot.)
OCTOBER (This blog turns 18 years old, 2007–2025…)
My 2-sided sign for the biggest NO KINGS rally yet—a mash-up of Kermit the Frog (for the Portland frogs) and Hamilton/George III
BELOW
bink: "I will send a plague of frogs into your palace" --Exodus,
and & KG: "Queens Trump Kings"
NOVEMBER
Marz on break from UM-Duluth came down for Thanksgiving
DECEMBER
Jester, AM, me, Em, and the Girlettes light the Hanukkah menorah in the thrift store's parking lot
ABOVE: The sideways yellow heart (on the board to the left) was the O in 'HOPE'
JUNE
June 14, with friends/family (far left) at the third Pro-Democracy rally. We're smiling but it was somber:
Hours earlier, an assassin had murdered MN State Rep. Melissa Hortman, her husband, Mark, and their dog, Gilbert.
BELOW
Left: "Dictators are never as strong as they tell you they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are." --Accidental Czar: Vladimir Putin, by Andrew S. Weiss
and, Right >
My print "No tengas miedo/Don't be afraid" on Denise's door
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Summer Doll Camp involved stick-raft and God's Eye making
And––Toys Recreate Paintings
The Raft of the Medusa, by Théodore Géricault
("It's just pretend."--Penny Cooper)
AUGUST
Making God's eyes by the Mississippi River (trip to Winona w/ bink)
BELOW: Some of my best work at the thrift store
Right: "Peek at Your Own Risk!"—under the electrical tape, one wrestler is gripping the other’s penis
SEPTEMBER 2025
At the Source of the Mississippi, Itasca, MN, (trip w bink)
On the day of the nearby Annunciation School shooting, a young man hands me carnations as I sit making God's eyes in the backyard
. . . inspiring me to invite people to a bonfire:
At the Source of the Mississippi, Itasca, MN, (trip w bink)
On the day of the nearby Annunciation School shooting, a young man hands me carnations as I sit making God's eyes in the backyard
. . . inspiring me to invite people to a bonfire:
BELOW: 125 God's eyes got hung on the fence by work, with a little help from my friends.
(And I got my hair buzz-cut for free in the thrift store parking lot.)
OCTOBER (This blog turns 18 years old, 2007–2025…)
My 2-sided sign for the biggest NO KINGS rally yet—a mash-up of Kermit the Frog (for the Portland frogs) and Hamilton/George III
BELOW
bink: "I will send a plague of frogs into your palace" --Exodus,
and & KG: "Queens Trump Kings"
NOVEMBER
Marz on break from UM-Duluth came down for Thanksgiving
DECEMBER
Jester, AM, me, Em, and the Girlettes light the Hanukkah menorah in the thrift store's parking lot
ABOVE: The sideways yellow heart (on the board to the left) was the O in 'HOPE'
in the 'Faith Hope Love' that I'd painted on the plywood over on the broken windows during the George Floyd uprisings, 2020.
Now it covers a hole in the chain-link fence.
Now it covers a hole in the chain-link fence.
BELOW
Top row: coworkers; my PINE CONE print card at my kitchen table
Bottom row: Alice, Annette, & Chomm at Christmastime
Top row: coworkers; my PINE CONE print card at my kitchen table
Bottom row: Alice, Annette, & Chomm at Christmastime
Mending…
And on we go, into the NEW YEAR...
Chazak ve'ematz/ Be strong and of good courage!
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Previous Year-End Reviews (2013–)
A busy year!!
ReplyDeleteAnd it expect the next one will be too—so much political upheaval
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