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Blake Kirk

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Blake Kirk @blakekirk.bsky.social · 18/05/2024
Leyendecker also illustrated a collection of Irish myths. Here is his vision of Queen Maeve:
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Blake Kirk @blakekirk.bsky.social · 06/05/2024
Only alternative I can think of is a panzer bear from the "His Dark Materials" trilogy.
A large white polar bear wearing armor. A character from the "His Dark Materials" trio of novels, and television series.
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Blake Kirk @blakekirk.bsky.social · 05/05/2024
Veal and ricotta meatballs. It was what there was for supper. Kneading 2 lb of ground veal, ricotta, grated Parmesan, panko, 2 eggs and seasoning obviated the need to do OT exercises for my neuropathy today. 2 meatballs, some warm homemade marinara, a salad, and a glass of wine made a nice dinner.
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Blake Kirk @blakekirk.bsky.social · 28/04/2024
Nice work. Here's a hooded crow, a common corvid in Europe, checking out the remnants of our breakfast of our hotel-room terrace in Rome two years ago.
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Blake Kirk @blakekirk.bsky.social · 26/04/2024
Live crawdad found in my back yard after a heavy rain a few years back. Our lot backs up on a branch of the Wheeler NWR with a backwater from the Tennessee River.
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Blake Kirk @blakekirk.bsky.social · 23/03/2024
The Venus Callipygos (Venus of the Beautiful Buttocks,) in the Farnese Collection in the Archeological Museum in Naples. And yes, she is positioned so her buttocks are the first thing one sees when one enters that gallery. Thought to be a Roman copy of a Greek original in bronze.
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Blake Kirk @blakekirk.bsky.social · 23/03/2024
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Blake Kirk @blakekirk.bsky.social · 21/03/2024
If you see this, post a bridge. Die Steinerne Brücke, in Regensburg, Germany. Constructed in the mid-12th Century, this was until the Industrial Revolution the only road bridge across the Danube between Ulm and Vienna.
A 900-year old bridge of cream-colored stone crosses the Danube River on multiple arches at Regensburg, Germany.
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Blake Kirk @blakekirk.bsky.social · 21/03/2024
On this spectrum and got that covered.
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Blake Kirk @blakekirk.bsky.social · 19/03/2024
And sometimes the void goes “Meerp?”
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Blake Kirk @blakekirk.bsky.social · 19/03/2024
“Meerp!” The void calls out to the void.
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Blake Kirk @blakekirk.bsky.social · 18/03/2024
This was the menu at a tiny sandwich place about a block from our hotel in Rome when we were there two years ago. Why can't we have this kind of sandwich joint in the US instead of endless iterations of Subway or other sandwich chains? The Autumnno, BTW, was totally awesome.
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Blake Kirk @blakekirk.bsky.social · 18/03/2024
Has anyone else noticed how certain busts of the Roman Emperor Vespasian resemble Lyndon Baines Johnson?
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Blake Kirk @blakekirk.bsky.social · 18/03/2024
A Boulevardier to finish off the evening: equal parts whisky, Campari, and sweet vermouth. I used Templeton Rye as the whisky. It is a smoother cocktail than the Negroni, of which it is a variation.
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Blake Kirk @blakekirk.bsky.social · 17/03/2024
Pictures from Wheeler NWR in Jan 2016:
Hundreds of tan Sandhill Cranes in a field at Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge.Several hundred Sandhill Cranes on a small island at Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge.
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Blake Kirk @blakekirk.bsky.social · 03/03/2024
The monk's scriptorium on the uppermost level of La Merveille.
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Blake Kirk @blakekirk.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
Viz.
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Blake Kirk @blakekirk.bsky.social · 05/01/2024
I'm going on 69, and I figured out years ago that I look like I have more hair if it's cropped short than if I try to grow it longer. These days I have the barber trim everything to 1/4 inch, and taper the back.
Balding man with mustache,beard, and slightly moth-eaten tan sweater sitting in French bistro.
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Blake Kirk @blakekirk.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
People entirely unclear on the underlying stories:
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Blake Kirk @blakekirk.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
Repost with your age and a recent pic. Age: 68 Not my best look. Had just completed 7 weeks of radiation treatments for cancer, and I start another round of chemo on Monday.
Balding 68-year-old male cancer patient with facial droop on right side of face after surgery to remove malignant tumor on jawbone, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy.
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Blake Kirk @blakekirk.bsky.social · 21/08/2023
As I've told Jerome already, he's got a real talent for finding the one or two photos in a shoot that tell you a whole story (or which make you want to write the story the photo is telling you.) Like this one:
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Blake Kirk @blakekirk.bsky.social · 15/08/2023
Here’s a picture of the type of gun intended for the fort on Spinnaker Island. They were leftovers from a class of battleships the Navy wanted to build in the mid-1920’s, but which were cancelled after the US signed on to a treaty limiting the size of the world’s major navies.
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Blake Kirk @blakekirk.bsky.social · 10/08/2023
@stjepansejic.bsky.social Saw this elsewhere on the web and immediately thought of some of your characters.
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