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thinking about how when you experience a lot of shame in your formative years (indirectly, directly, as abuse or just as an extant part of your environment) it becomes really difficult to be perceived by other people in general. the mere concept of someone watching me do anything, whether it's a totally normal activity or something unfamiliar of embarrassing, whether I'm working in an excel spreadsheet or being horny on main, it just makes my skin crawl and my brain turn to static because I cannot convince myself that it's okay to be seen and experienced. because to exist is to be ashamed and embarrassed of myself, whether I'm failing at something or not, because my instinctive reaction to anyone commenting on ANYTHING I'm doing is to crawl into a hole and die. it's such a bizarre and dehumanizing feeling to just not be able to exist without constantly thinking about how you are being Perceived. ceaseless watcher give me a god damn break.

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Celestial Seasonings: Iconic Artworks

Lori Anzalone: Bengal Spice (2007)

Mike Wimmer: Candy Cane Lane (2004)

Robert Giusti: Tension Tamer (1991)

Braldt Bralds: Mint Magic (1986)

Tom Newsom: Red Zinger (2004)

Beth Underwood: Sleepytime (1973)

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sweet $$$ from DoD contracts

Don Rosa: carefully avoiding to have Scrooge around during World Wars to not have him profiting from global conflicts.

Italians: Yes, I manifacture the missiles and I sell them to the Army.

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as a cheap manual focus lens boy, I can relate

What are your opinions on birds as a subject for photography.

hold still you little fucker

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just some of the the changes in design for the Penguin Symbol on old Penguin Paperbacks 

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It’s Fine Press Friday!

This Friday we highlight another book by Gaylord Schanilec and Midnight Paper Sales, out of Stockholm, WI. It’s Come to This, by Twin Cities writer Patricia Hampl, was printed in 2023, in a limited edition of 70 copies signed by Hampl, Schanilec, and Lila Shull – who drew and printed the cover lithograph of ginkgo leaves. The wood engravings are by Schanilec – the large river panorama based on a photograph by Hampl. Typefaces used include Oldrich Menhart’s Monotype Menhart,Hermann Zapf’s Michealangelo, and an italic cast by Nick Gill. Molly Brown assisted the printing “in the wilds of Western Wisconsin,” on the Vandercook Universal III. The paper was handmade in the mid-20th century, at the Velke Losiny Paper Mill in what is now the Czech Republic. According to the colophon, this was when the formula included more sizing, and the formidable paper therefore "retains its pleasing 'rattle.'" Matthew Lawler Zimmerman bound the edition at Studio Alcyon.

“Life’s a journey—no wonder it’s our most ancient metaphor. A platitude, but only truth can harden into cliché.” Written during Covid isolation at her home in St. Paul, It’s Come to This explores escape – that “Midwestern birthright, the desire to be somewhere else” – as well as the significance of a long pandemic: “At your age, a year is a serious percentage of what’s left.” With the background of Midwestern summer storms, the George Floyd protests, and menacing Boogaloo Bois, Hampl walks her dog along the Mississippi feeling both isolated from and deeply connected to the events around her. The text first appeared in The American Scholar in October of 2021. “What exactly, has come to what?” Hampl wonders to her dog. “What is this it I sigh into, what is the this I keep falling upon? What distress and what comfort does this muttered mantra express?”

Shull’s rich pattern of ginkgo leaves across the cover speaks to the dog’s favorite spot to stop along their walks. “I get it.” Hampl concludes to her companion. “And now, standing by the side of the moving water, apparently we have achieved our destination, the ghostly This.”

View more work by Gaylord Schanilec and Midnight Paper Sales.

View other Fine Press Friday Posts.

--Amanda, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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Mutual 1: guys we should all be listening to this Czech Electro-ska band that released a single album of seven songs in 1995

Mutual 2: here's 7000 words on french socks 1886-1891

Mutual 3: I think I hauve covid

Mutual 4: obsessed with War and Peace currently literally incapable of thinking about anything else

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law review/social sciences version:

Seeking to address problem X, [the institution] promulgated the 2024 Guideline on Dilly-Dally Management.

The Guideline introduces a set of provisions dealing with dilly-dally management.

Dilly-dally management is defined, as per article 1 of the Guideline, as the practice of managing all organisational aspects of the practice of dilly-dally performed by actors specified in article 2.

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The darkest nights are over. May your new year be filled with guiding light and good stories.

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213 (more) days in America

the 2024 sun has carassed me one last time.

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214 (more) days in America

well, it might no longer be 214 (gutted on a few levels)

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215 (more) days in America

all thaw no Khrushchev

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216 (more) days in America

ANALOG SDV. we had a blast!!!

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217 (more) days in America

an exploratory walk

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218 (more) days in America

the sourdough levained panettone boys

(we called them Huey, Dewey and Louie)