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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 · 10/09/2025

It looks like the view from the 500 block of Hyde Park Ave facing south towards Cummins Hwy. Really neat picture, love those houses with rounded tower features

View of 500 block of Hyde Park Ave, looking south. 4 lane road with curb divider.

Nap Factory @joshroberts.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

📚💙 Here's the books I finished in March. Discovered and got successfully lost in some fun worlds, learned about some neat people, and generally escaped from some of the anxiety...

6 Rows of books tiled upon the ground:
Amy Kurzweil - Artificial
Megan Kelso - Who Will Make the Pancakes
Joanna Moorhead - Surreal Spaces: The life and art of Leonora Carrington
Lisa Perrin - The League of Lady Poisoners
Karen Han - Bong Joon Ho: Dissident Cinema
Elaine Khosrova - Butter: A Rich History
Peng Shepherd - The Cartographers
Natalie Haynes - Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
Colson Whitehead - The Underground Railroad
Eileen Myles - Inferno: A Poet's Novel
Sindya Bhanoo - Seeking Fortune Elsewhere
Helena Rho - American Seoul
Alice Wong (Editor) - Disability Intimacy:Essays on Love, Care, and Desire
Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Gods of Jade and Shadow
Alexandra Petri: US History, Important American Documents
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore - Touching the Art
Victoria Chang - With My Back To The World: Poems
Maggie Smith - You Could Make This Place Beautiful
Felicia Berliner - Shmutz
Maggie Shipstead - You Have A Friend in 10A
Catherine Newman - We All Want Impossible Things
Laura Sims - How Can I Help You
Pik-Shuen Fung - Ghost Forest
Farah Ali - People Want To Live
Amy Tan - Backyard Bird Chronicles
Sarah Rees Brennan - Long Live Evil
Eve L. Ewing - Electric Arches
Becky Chambers - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - A Closed and Common Orbit - The Galaxy, and the Ground Within - Record of a Spaceborn Few - To be Taught if Fortunate - A Psalm for the Wild-built - A Prayer for the Crown-shy
Martha Wells - Fugitive Telemetry - System Collapse
Marjane Satrapi (Editor) : Woman Life Freedom
Li Chen - Detective Beans & The Case of the Missing Hat
Natalie Diaz - Postcolonial Love Poem
Kate Beaton - Bodies of Art, Bodies of Labor

Books procured from Papercuts, Hummingbird Books, Porter Square Books, Brookline Booksmith, Frugal Books, Grolier Poetry

Nap Factory @joshroberts.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

That's a Jenny

Jenny Nicholson, in a room full of plushies, text reads, "i slap everything, you just don't see it because I edit around it" from the 4 hour video https://youtu.be/T0CpOYZZZW4?si=Ro0wU-Fa5d_VGgAm

Nap Factory @joshroberts.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Almost forgot about this one from Lights

Lights - Same Sea [Official Music Video]

YouTube video by lights

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Nap Factory @joshroberts.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Not sure this counts, but the song does get the karaoke treatment at the 1 min 20 second mark

Troye Sivan, Kacey Musgraves - Easy ft. Mark Ronson

YouTube video by TroyeSivanVEVO

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Nap Factory @joshroberts.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Definite karaoke activity occurring around the 3 minute mark

Carly Rae Jepsen - Run Away With Me

YouTube video by CarlyRaeJepsenVEVO

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Nap Factory @joshroberts.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

The Bandit Queens had such great characters and growth, Gumbo Ya Ya & Homie were breathtaking and did amazing work in text formatting/layout that I loved, Murderbot series was pure anxious robot just wants to watch TV episodic fun, Our Missing Hearts & Mexican Gothic haunted me in the best way

Nap Factory @joshroberts.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Bonus cat

Mila, a calico cat walking across pile of books

Nap Factory @joshroberts.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

📚 Here's the books I finished in February, thanks to all of the authors for creating characters to care about, worlds to get lost in, and for presenting perspectives I hadn't considered before

Books read in February laid out in rows
The Message - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Sy Montgomery - Of Time and Turtles
Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott
Pageboy - Elliot Page
The Middle Daughter - Chika Unigwe
Small Fires - Rebecca May Johnson
I Keep my Exoskeletons to myself - Marisa Crane
Witch King - Martha Wells
Iron Widow - Xiran Jay Zhao
Heavenly Tyrant - Xiran Jay Zhao
The Disordered Cosmos - Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
H is for Hawk - Helen Macdonald
The Year of the Flood - Margaret Atwood
Maddaddam - Margaret Atwood
Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng
There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job - Kikuko Tsumura
These Ghosts are Family - Maisy Card
A Visit From the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
Ragged - Christopher Irvin
Cold Nights of Childhood - Tezer Özlü, translated by Maureen Freely
Severance - Ling Ma
Architectural Styles a Visual Guide - Margaret Fletcher
Syllabus - Lynda Barry
How Women Made Music - edited by Alison Fensterstock
The Wind Knows My Name - Isabel Allende
Woodworking - Emily St. James
Daughters Of the New Year - E.M. Tran
Kick and Run - Johnathan Wilson
Mother Nature - Jaime Lee Curtis, Karl Stevens, Russell Goldman
Gullah Geechee home cooking - Emily Meggett
Mamacita - Andrea Pons
Firelei Báez - Firelei Báez, ICA

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 · 14/02/2025

I saw this flier months ago and had no idea this was a whole narrative arc for Sonic. Life comes at you fast

A flier for Sonic Adventure 2: Custody Battle, a Sonic Drag show. I imagine there was a lot of hysterical giggling during the creation of this, and that gives me a lot of joy

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 · 10/10/2024

They did rename Parker Hill Avenue to Donna Summer Avenue, www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

'I Feel Love': Photos from Boston's dance party in honor of disco queen Donna Summer

Before Donna Summer became a disco legend, she was a girl from Boston.

Nap Factory @joshroberts.bsky.social · 23/05/2024

Picture of a pole, caption reads, "I'm just filming a pole"

Nap Factory @joshroberts.bsky.social · 20/05/2024

I think it is from a school, but no clue which one.

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Nap Factory @joshroberts.bsky.social · 19/05/2024

Bonus points when they write a little essay

Former coworker decided to let us all know a bunch about themselves in 2015. Sad how this is rather tame in comparison to how far things have slid since then. This coworker had a theory that English royalty had "king size" beds because they used to procreate with giants and need the extra space for activities, truly a beautiful mind. Also not transcribing this, it's a bunch of stickers on the back of a Kia Sedona

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

The expression and colors on that are incredible! I saw this more muted one earlier today.

Lobster effigy vessel - Moche, phase II - IV, AD 200-600 earthenware with slip paint. Fluffy looking little guy.

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

I guess this could be worse, walkin' out the door with your bags

Banners that read, 'Human shield S', 'HUGE HOLES', AND 'Moral Geometry?'

A children's book titled, 'Don't make me go back mommy - A child's book about ritual satanic abuse' from the Cambridge antique market. Seriously wtf

Roni Horn - Key and cue No 258. An aluminum pole with the words, "I'm nobody who are you?" dripping off the edges

Red line train at Porter. I love the barrel roof and nautical looking ventilation pipes here.

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 · 18/03/2024

Little Jigglypuff

Mila, a bobtail calico, has a moment of contemplation mid bath. I found her in my parent's front yard 9 years ago, she was a very friendly 2 lbs kitten. Perpetual lap cat and my favorite coworker.

Nap Factory @joshroberts.bsky.social · 16/03/2024

Yellow shoes I saw today.

Minju Kim, Pair of shoes, 2013. Museum of Fine Arts Boston. An ornately decorated pair of shoes with a yellow lower, white leather top. Red and gold details. I thought these were pretty neat.

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 · 11/03/2024

I love this little guy

Jaguar effigy from Mexico on display at the Museum of Fine Art, Boston. What a cute little guy.

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 · 26/02/2024

I present the bestest Red Shell

Calcite sample from the Harvard Museum of Natural History. This thing would thump hard in maro kart. Naturally, it is placed beside a Hematite stool sample.

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 · 07/02/2024

This one?

Medford Supercollider, 4.6 stars on Google maps.

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.

Nap Factory @joshroberts.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

Tiny terror tots, all of them, wonderful fluffy things.