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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

At today’s reopening of the Altadena library, Levar Burton read us a story & every adult cried & healed a little bit. Blair Imani (!) painted 8yo’s face, helping her live her feline dreams! What a morning for library love, especially with so many of us librarians under attack these days. 🥰🌈📚

Levar Burton reading a book with trees in the background

Blair Imani paints the face of a girl wearing cat ears

A young smiling girl who is wearing cat ears and has her face painted as a cat

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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

For my book people: the sliver of the nerd population who would appreciate the joke of this button made at my library is so narrow and I’m right in the middle of it. Drop an emoji if you knew both references without me explaining, which I’ll do in the comments. 📖 🐬

Picture of a button with a brightly colored dolphin wrapped around an anchor and the word “Aldus” all in a Lisa Frank style

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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

In honor of Gorey’s 100th birthday, here is my giant orange cat I named after him.

A massive orange cat lounging on a fur blanket

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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Anyone ever read Irvine Welsh’s MARABOU STORK NIGHTMARES? I’d be like put me back in

Screenshot of a tweet by @JoeHolder_ that reads “OH BOY is she in for some surprises” reacting to an image from ABC News that reads “Woman wakes up after nearly 5 years in a coma”

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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

So I pivoted to the LOVE statue. Did I mention literally no one asked for this? Consider this my audition tape for #nailedit.

An exceedingly wonky green cake with an attempted approximation of the LOVE statue in white Airheads

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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Storytime: I plan to go to a low key Super Bowl party, because even though I don’t care about football, I’m still from Delco / Philly so #gobirds. Anyway I got this vision in my head that I’d do a more modest riff off of an ELGSES cake I saw, referencing the Philly mayor’s recent spelling gaff meme.

An attractive dark green cake with “ELGSES” on it in white lettering, a reference to the Philly mayor’s recent misspelling of EAGLES during the team’s chant

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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

If you wish to dissociate, and who doesn’t, I highly recommend this world to visit. What a fantastic book Susanna Clarke’s PIRANESI is.

The book cover of Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi

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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane…”

Jaden Smith at the 2025 Grammys wearing a black house as a hat

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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Baby’s First Grammys 🥹 (That’s my husband, he’s baby. And has a job that is sending him.)

A man in a suit at a front door of a house. He’s holding one of those chalkboards kids hold on the first day of school that reads: “First Day of: The Grammys, My name is: Etan, My School is: Rock, I am in: a suit, I am 42, I’m excited to learn about: best metal performance of the year”

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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

1/ Angelenos right now: oh thank goodness it’s going to rain. I can’t wait for it to rain. But not too much, or there’ll be landslides.

A screenshot of the iPhone Weather app showing rain in the forecast for Altadena this weekend and also next

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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Me every time I see any news even by accident

A meme by @robslitquotes of Special Agent Dale Cooper from Twin Peaks, in the red curtained Black Lodge with a concerned look on his face, and the text “Where am I, and how can I leave?”

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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I haven’t liked how little time I’ve gotten to spend with 8yo since the surgery so we decided to have a reading tea party on the foldout couch in the den. Hey whatever works

A messy but cozy scene of a blonde child on a foldout couch bed reading with an orange cat and a tray with tea, brie, & apple slices.

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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Got to go to an advance screening of NIGHTBITCH with a bunch of other moms and it was really the best way to see it (& hear their reactions). I read the book & while some elements are toned down, I think they made a weird, darkly relatable, funny movie about motherhood which is not so easy.

A movie theater hallway with a poster of a woman’s face that reads Amy Adam’s Nightbitch

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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Proud of 7yo kiddo and me, feel like we nailed this one! Hocus Pocus human skin spellbook brownies for a party we’re going to today. What does it say about me that I had all of these ingredients including the candy eyeballs just in my house already?

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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 28/05/2024

Been feeling nostalgic lately and digging into my past (for a project that for now remains #secretreasons) & came across my old WKDU college radio station paper playlists circa 2002, which prompted me to create a Spotify playlist from them. open.spotify.com/playlist/2Xl...

A paper playlist from WKDU 91.7fm Philadelphia by Megan Curran in 2002

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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

Gothest first grader in sunny Los Angeles 🖤🦇

A small blonde girl in a sunny yard dressed in all black goth gear with a black frilly umbrella

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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 03/08/2023

Just your normal Rare Book School history of bookbinding class session where everyone is huffing a reindeer leather that was saved from a 18th century shipwreck nbd

A classroom of adult students in masks inspecting a large animal leather hide on a table

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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 09/07/2023

Still crazy about mine. Really benefits from a close look.

Book cover of Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 09/07/2023

Had a fun time galvanting around the Mr. Brainwash art museum today on the mean streets of Beverly Hills

A man and a girl stand in a graffiti and mirrored hallway at Mr. Brainwash Museum

A girl stands in a giant version of a David Hockney pool painting at Mr. Brainwash Museum

A girl strikes a fierce pose in a mirrored hallway full of sunflowers at Mr. Brainwash Museum

A girl stands inside a set made to look like a Van Gogh painting at Mr. Brainwash Museum

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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 08/07/2023

Sometimes your kid asks for a bespoke cape for their non-binary sloth Edamame and you drop everything and knit them one.

A cute stuffed sloth toy wearing a knit cape

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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 06/07/2023

Love this poster in our library’s preservation lab. “The Enemies of Paper”: heat, humidity, light, insects, atmospheric pollutants, & I think the last one translates to “badly made frames”

Photo of a French poster on a wall listing the various enemies of paper

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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 06/07/2023

This woman on the embroidered bookbinding of The Genealogies Recorded in the Sacred Scriptures (1618) is a mood, a vibe, the moment, whatever the youths are saying these days, it’s she.

Image of an old embroidered bookbinding with an annoyed looking goddess type figure

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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 06/07/2023

Mirjam Foot did not come to play with this ivory bookbinding pic of a guy getting stabbed in the neck… does that say “Libido?”

An image of an intricately carved and jeweled ivory bookbinding including a depiction of one character stabbing another through the neck

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Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social · 06/07/2023

Doing pre-reading for a long-awaited History of Bookbinding course at Rare Book School. How charming is this embroidered binding on The Whole Booke of Psalmes (1633)?