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And it's you and me in the summertime, mall walking with a ghost, a quiet day out with the goths at the water park. Here to 💜 stuff and share pictures sometimes He/Him, real human bean in a small bean town StoryGraph: joshroberts

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Nap Factory @joshroberts.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Black and White print of a guillotine. Text reads, "A better world is possible!" Print by Amy Mendelsohn @Coopsy.art

Nap Factory @joshroberts.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

For January I decided to read a book a day to keep the anxiety away, thanks to all of the authors who helped keep me distracted

Books tiled out on the floor, cat sitting in upper right silently judging
Natasha Pulley - The Half Life of Valery K
Alex Espinoza - The Sons of El Ray
Jennette McCurdy - I'm Glad My Mom Died
Chloe Gong - Vilest Things
Parini Shroff - The Bandit Queens
Jing Gao - The Book of Sichuan Chili Crisp
Melissa M Martin - Bayou
Januar Rianto - The Southeast Asian Types No.1
Sigrid Nunez - The Friend
Samantha Irby - Quietly Hostile
Laura Zigman - Separation Anxiety
Miranda July - No One Belongs Here More Than You
Min Jin Lee - Pachinko
Mary Roach - Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Mexican Gothic
Kazuo Ishiguro - Klara and the Sun
Saeed Jones - How We Fight for our Lives
Aurielle Marie - Gumbo Ya-Ya
Martha Wells - All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy, Network Effect
Phuc Tran - Sigh, Gone
Talia Lakshmi Kolluri - What We Fed to the Manticore
Julia Alvarez - How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accent
Claire-Louis Bennett - Checkout 19
Claire Oshetsky - Poor Deer
Rebecca Roanhorse - Black Sun, Fevered Star, Mirrored Heavens
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah - Chain-gang All-Stars
Celeste Ng - Our Missing Hearts
Kathleen Alcott - Emergency
Anne Garreta - Sphinx
Ariana Brown - Sana Sana
Toshikazu Kawaguchi - Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Terry Mudge/Tyler Thrasher - The Universe in 100 Colors
Elizabeth Strout - Lucy by the Seas
Gregory Murphy - Categories we live by
Betty Gilpin - All the women in my brain
Gwen E. Kirby - Shit Cassandra Saw
Andrea Cohen - The Sorrow Apartments
Danez Smith - Homie
Anne Carson - Autobiography of Red
Abby Neale - Gay Ghost Zine
Books are from Papercuts Bookshop, Rozzie Bound Co-op, Just Book-ish, Lovestruck Books, Grolier Poetry, Katherine Small Gallery, Brookline Booksmith, Porter Square Books, Frugal Bookstore, Parkside Bookshop.

Nap Factory @joshroberts.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

This is Mila, I'm off to stare at some art and try to forget this week occurred for a bit

Mila, a calico cat sits on a blue rug next to a garbage can covered in stickers.

Nap Factory @joshroberts.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

Better distractions

Mila, a calico cat, sits on a subwoofer and stares out the window. Spring in Boston is lovely, everything pops with green. The birds have been especially vocal, which Mila enjoys.

A brick archway with the Harvard arboretum visible in the distance. The overpass carries the Needham commuter rail line. It was a very long day of bleh and I needed some fresh air. Grabbed a Cubano from Tostado and walked up Peter's Hill to eat and stare at the longwood/back bay buildings in the distance. Stopped by Fornax on the way home so now I have English muffins for breakfast.

Nap Factory @joshroberts.bsky.social · 03/05/2024

I went and touched grass, then fed some to my cat, Friday accomplished

Mila, a calico cat, sits on a window ledge, green trees visible in the background wearing their finest spring garments. In front of Mila is a hello kitty pet grass container. She truly loves eating grass. She does not excel at shoveling it into her toothy maw

Shop window display with Calico Critters figures, cottage, and tree house playsets. I haven't seen or thought of these in ages. Was walking home through West Roxbury and saw this time capsule

Alexander the Great park in Roslindale. This place is all bark and no park. It looks like roughly 1000sq ft. Statue in the middle is a gift from the city of Athens to Boston.

Red Jeep Commanche, maybe 1989 or later. What looks like a Puerto Rican flag hanging from the antenna. I love this truck (not mine). My first vehicle was a heavily used 86 Dodge Ram 50 that essentially was a rebadged Mitsubishi.

Nap Factory @joshroberts.bsky.social · 28/04/2024

Take my money, wreck my sundays

Cafe au lait from Pavement coffeehouse near symphony. The bag to the left contains a cinnamon raisin bagel. I like the layout inside. There was a constant stream of folks stopping in with fun musical instrument cases.

Cute little nugget, purple Suzuki tiny truck used by the Noca spiked water company. There's another one like this by the arboretum with cool wheels I've been meaning to get a picture of.

Tandoori momo Nepalese dumplings from Momo Masala. These are delicious and combine several of my most favorite things. Toasted in Himalayan spices and masala, delightful.

Nap Factory @joshroberts.bsky.social · 14/04/2024

So much for a home run with some blue bloods

John Galliano - evening dress, 1999. As worn by Cate Blanchett at the Oscar's. A bare backed dress with delicate embroidery of birds and flowers.

Nap Factory @joshroberts.bsky.social · 13/04/2024

And it goes on and on and on when you hear this song

Pathway over rail line with new mural. Pretty orange, yellow, and red. A blue circle highlights the mighty opossum.

The goal for the morning, achieved egg and cheese bagel sandwich. Picked up some Asiago and jalapeño cheddar bagels to freeze for later.

Every time I see this old Volkswagen van, I think it looks like it's a little stoned and drooling. Perfect location for paint cracks, also the color is great.

Commuter rail line, overpass in the distance. Sign reads, " DANGER WILL NOT CLEAR MAN ON SIDE OF CAR"

Nap Factory @joshroberts.bsky.social · 06/04/2024

I had a much more colorful day than the weather would have suggested

Kim Seo Ryong - long floral jacket and velvet trousers ensemble. Autumn/winter collection 2019 is displayed at the MFA Hallyu! Korean wave exhibition. Kim was originally a painter. A version of this jacket was worn by Jin from BTS.

Nap Factory @joshroberts.bsky.social · 06/04/2024

Mass romantic fool, separated by sheets

Firelei Báez - Retablo (españa en las Americas). A severed arm covered in delicately inked tattoos on a wooden background. The detail in her work is incredible

Firelei Báez - given the ground (the fact that it amazes me does not mean I relinquish it). An unusually shaped framed canvas centered around the portrait of a woman with kaleidescape skin, piercing eyes, and an ornate head wrap with dangling feather accessories

Firelei Báez - A motor with medicinal functions. A regimented man stands on a hill with his sword held out to beckon the army waiting in lines below him. His torso broken out in fire, belching smoke

Firelei Báez - Madeleine (rupture rapture maroonage) An arched doorway into another world, a figure in the center with an indigo headdress adorned with elaborate designs indicative of the black liberation movements and practices

Nap Factory @joshroberts.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

Scratchers for Simba

Simba, a majestic and friendly half ginger and white cat, waits patiently on the counter. Plastic bins in the background hold reels of scratch off lottery sheets. He is usually found curled up on a stool behind the register.

Nap Factory @joshroberts.bsky.social · 10/03/2024

Makin' bad decisions, based on temporary thoughts

Orange line was down this weekend, took the bus to Andrew, then headed to Alewife. I'm going to have to spend a lot more time in Alewife before it makes sense. There were so many ramps and stairs going off in every direction. Neat bike trails nearby though so I started walking to Belmont.

Belmont books, I was surprised to learn they open at 7 some days. Neat shop, picked up Beaver Land: How one weird rodent made America by Leila Philip. The creek behind my parents' house had beavers, so I'm excited to learn more about them. Then headed off to Watertown to visit Sophia's Pantry to check out Greek groceries.

Sophia's Greek Pantry, place was packed, acquired ouzo hard candy and Ajvar. Then headed off to Allston to have shawarma at Garlic N' Lemons.

My favorite local bookstore, Papercuts. Took a little bit to walk from allston, but the weather was nice, so it was enjoyable.

Nap Factory @joshroberts.bsky.social · 08/03/2024

I took the train to the great escape

Blue Nile Ethiopian restaurant. A view from the back table looking across the tables. A TV up near the ceiling plays footage of scenic Ethiopian landmarks. It's a really charming space.

This is called Veggie Revenge, served on a square plate on top of Injera, a fermented crepe like Flatbread. Sides of tikil gomen wat, gomen wat, shir o wat, yekik alicha, misir wat, yatakilt wat, and a side salad on the Injera. The Gomen wat was really delightful, I haven't had collards in 5 years and I really missed it.

View of the Pru on a foggy night. I loved the haze around the lights.

Mila, a bobtail calico, peeks through the railing. We go through a routine every time I leave. This is stage 1.

Nap Factory @joshroberts.bsky.social · 03/03/2024

The maid needs a maid

Kennedy's coconut, from the JFK Library/Museum. I didn't know about this, but the Museum thinks it is important enough to warrant showing the original, a dupe that you can touch, and a plastic replica you can buy in the gift shop.

View from the glass enclosed pavilion at the JFK Museum looking out across the old harbor. I thought the space was really pretty, though it does look a little imposing from the outside.

Designed by I.M. Pei and located in Dorchester next to UMass the JFK library and Museum is the fifth presidential library to have been built. So, presidents getting a library is more of a modern thing.

Flock of birds hunkering down while the wind was whipping about at Kelly's landing. None of them were moving or worried about humans. They were just doing bird things and trying to stay warm.

Nap Factory @joshroberts.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

Pedestrian at best

The proximal origin of merpeople. 1 part fish + 1 part primate, neat.

Cobalt 60 sauce, DO NOT DRINK

Tough times for the ninja turtles

Pretty view from Longfellow Bridge on a friday.

Nap Factory @joshroberts.bsky.social · 26/01/2024

Mila, my favorite coworker, sleeps through another 2 hour Teams meeting.

Neat Touraine Paints sign illuminated by nearby green tone streetlamp.

Buildings lit up at night as seen from the nearby Greenway. Wandered for 6 miles before I decided my dinner would be a donut.