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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Mel Brooks great advice: "You say yes, and you never do it." :)

Book cover, "Mel Brooks All About Me" with a big photo of Brooks laughing hard.

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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

I really like this idea for a documentary and just the prompt of three songs you'd tell a story about.

Call for stories: share three pieces of music which have affected you in times of challenge, triumph, joy or personal discovery. Send your name, 3 favortie songs and contact informaton to MUSICDOC2025@GMAIL.COM

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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

#BookSky #AuthorChallenge Choose 20 women authors whose work you admire, post one a day in no particular order Zorz Neale Hurston 20/20

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, a novel. The cover illustration is a wood -cut picture of a man laying in the green grass, nestled under the branches of a shrub with rolling fields in the distance. The sky is blue. There is also a quote from Alice Walker in small type, "There is no book more important to me than this one."

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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

#BookSky #AuthorChallenge Choose 20 women authors whose work you admire, post one a day in no particular order Shireen Abu Akleh 19/20

Photo of the slain journalist overlooking the old city of Jerusalem.
AL Jaseera Media Network https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0

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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

#BookSky #AuthorChallenge Choose 20 women authors whose work you admire, post one a day in no particular order Patricia Polacco18/20

Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco. Cover illustration is a painting of two boys in the American Civil War era, one white one black. They are close together the black boy is holding a Bible and they seem to be pondering a passage.

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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

#BookSky #AuthorChallenge Choose 20 women authors whose work you admire, post one a day in no particular order Ruth Wilson Gilmore 17/20

Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation by Ruth Wilson Gilmore. A brown cover with a pink pattern of clusters joined by stems. Perhaps fruiting bodies of a plant, or perhaps a graph of clusters of people.

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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

#BookSky #AuthorChallenge Choose 20 women authors whose work you admire, post one a day in no particular order Elinor Ostrom 16/20

Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action by Elinor Ostrom. A Gray cover with the title and author in white. The cover art is a ring of paper doll cutouts in several colors, red, orange, green, blue, purple and magenta.

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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

#BookSky #AuthorChallenge Choose 20 women authors whose work you admire, post one a day in no particular order Elizabeth Povinelli 15/20

The Inheritance by Elizabreth A. Povinelli. The cover illustration is a painting of an old tree with two low branches such that children could climb up into it. Boards have been nailed to the tree to assist in climbing as well as a platform between the forked branches with ropes attatched. There are five blond children in the tree and a toddler on the ground holding a rope perhaps making ready to climb.

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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

#BookSky #AuthorChallenge Choose 20 women authors whose work you admire, post one a day in no particular order Mariame Kaba 13/20

Fish-In & Black/Native Solidarity in the 1960s by Mariame Kaba, The cover are is a photo of a Black man and a Native man in a fishing canoe.

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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

#BookSky #AuthorChallenge Choose 20 women authors whose work you admire, post one a day in no particular order Lynda Barry 12/20

Making Comics by Lynda Barry published by Drawn & Quarterly. Elaborlately drawn images. A curtain supported by two painting pallets with the words "Celestial Activity" and a key-stone shape in the center with the words "Hand /Eye" above and below the infinity symbol. The central cartoon show two figures one holds a lit torch above a sacred fire.

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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

#BookSky #AuthorChallenge Choose 20 women authors whose work you admire, post one a day in no particular order Ursula Franklin 11/20

The Real World of Technology by Urusula M. Franklin. A white cover with a square image of an etching of a clock movement showing the mainspring and wheel train.

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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

#BookSky #AuthorChallenge Choose 20 women authors whose work you admire, post one a day in no particular order Bell Hooks 10/20

black looks: race and representation by bell hooks (title and author without capitalization). The cover is a black and white photograph of a middle-aged person with long hair wearing a short sleaved dress sitting in a chair on a porch. Their race seems indeterminate to me, an old white man, but my impression is thry're not white.

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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

#BookSky #AuthorChallenge Choose 20 women authors whose work you admire, post one a day in no particular order Shailja Patel 9/20

Migritude by Shailja Patel. The cover art is a cropped photo of two people with dark skin. It appears to me it's a women wearing a sleaveless shift of patterned cloth holding a child who is probably 6 or 7. No clothing is visible on the child. Their arms in embrace form an X centered in the image with the title and author superimposed. Just above the title is a patterened paisley figure.

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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

#BookSky #AuthorChallenge Choose 20 women authors whose work you admire, post one a day in no particular order#BookSky Mary Catherine Bateson 8/20

Angels Fear: Towards An Epistemology of the Sacred by Gregory Bateson and Mary Catherine Bateson. The cover art is a painting of a grey day with rays of sunlight illuminating three areas in the field of vision. In the background one area is a group of trees and understory plants. Next to it the view extends to a distant horizon. In the forground is a plan in flower with a trowel next to it.

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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

#BookSky #AuthorChallenge Choose 20 women authors whose work you admire, post one a day in no particular order Toni Morrison 7/20 www.nobelprize.org/prizes/liter...

Toni Morrison Nobel Prize in LIterature 1993. The photo is a head shot of Morrison.

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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

#BookSky #AuthorChallenge Choose 20 women authors whose work you admire, post one a day in no particular order Deborah Bird Rose 7/20

Shimmer: Flying Fox Exuberance in Worlds of Peril by Deborah Bird Rose. The cover is a picture of the sky which is a very soft violet color. High in the sky are many fruit bats in flight.

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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

#BookSky #AuthorChallenge Choose 20 women authors whose work you admire, post one a day in no particular order Ellen Dissanayake 6/20

What Is Art For? by Ellen Dissanayake. A black cover with author and titile in white. The cover image is a Fauvist painting depicting eight figures. Three of the figures are sitting togethe and there is a fourth reclining whiose size is much smaller. A figure is reaching to grasp something in hand. Another seems to be sitting in water with a hand to head. Two figures stand closely together in a cave or dark area. I think I see a cat in the picture. The vegetation and setting are dream-like.

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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

#BookSky #AuthorChallenge Choose 20 women authors whose work you admire, post one a day in no particular order Ntozake Shange 5/20

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange. An early edition with a red cover and type writer lettering. The cover art is a line-drawing of a cut rose with leaves wired to the stem.

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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

#BookSky #AuthorChallenge Choose 20 women authors whose work you admire, post one a day in no particular order Arundahti Roy 4/20

The Alegebra of Infinite Justice by Arundhati Roy. I am not sure what the cover image is. Perhaps an Abstract painting, perhaps part of an image from the Hubble space telescope, perhaps a photo under an ocean looking up tothe surface. The image conveys a feeling of infinity.

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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

#BookSky #AuthorChallenge Choose 20 women authors whose work you admire, post one a day in no particular order Carol Gilliam 3/20 In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development

In a Different Voice by Carol Gilligan. There is a picture of a preteen aged child sitting at a table with a bowl on it, behind her is a bookcase with books. Sun rays are flooding the room and she has her head tilted back with her eyes closed and left arm raised all to catch the feeling of the sun.

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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

#BookSky #AuthorChallenge Choose 20 women authors whose work you admire, post one a day in no particular order Sandra Boyton 2/20

Some of the letters in the title are colored in their negative spaces against a white background. Thre is a cropped line-drawing of a hippopotamus's head looking to the right. The way the hippo's head is cropped makes it seem urgent to open the book.

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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

#BookSky #AuthorChallenge Choose 20 women authors whose work you admire, post one a day in no particular order 1/20 Munya Andrews

Aboriginal rock painting, spirit figure in red ochre.

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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Siddartha 20/20 #BookSky

Siddartha by Herman Hesse translated by Joachim Neugroschel. A Pink Cover with the title in a golden yellow towards the top left. The pink ia printed with block cut leaves in orange. A blue curve stripes across the middle with light blue snail shapesprinted on top. It's clear water.. Two large cranes stand opposite in the center of the image.

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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Values and Teaching 19/20 #BookSky

Values And Teaching by Louis E. Raths, Merrill Harmin, Sidney Simon. The names and title are in a white box a the top of th ecover. The rest of the cover is a blurry or mottled pink iwith a similarly blurry image of an apple in the middle. The apple shape is made by stripes of lines of a slightly more vermilion shade of pink. The effect created demsionality for the apple.

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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Smalll Is Beautiful 18/20 #BookSky

Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered. A white covers with the cover artwith photographs simplified, colorized and layered in a collage. The central image is Gandhi in a portal, a mature tree in leaf superimposed as if he is carrying it in one arm. There are planets and plants as well as a butterfly. Above the butterfly is a man in a bowler hat riding a velocipede.

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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Another Way of Telling 17/20 #BookSky

Another Way Of Telling by John Berger with Jean Mohr. The Cover is mostly taken up with a photograph taken my Jean Mohr of a country woman wearig a headscarf and looking directly at the picture taker. There is a brown border with the titile split between the top and bottom.

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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Angels Fear: Toward An Epistemology Of The Sacred #BookSky

Angels Fear: Toward An Epistemology Of The Sacred by Gregory Bateson and Catherine Bateson. Cover illustration is a painting of a lancscape. In the foreground a trowel with a plant bearing two red flowers. IN th ebackground breaks in heavy clouds allow rays of light to illuminate the wooded landscape.

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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Radical Technology 15/20 #BookSky

Radical Technology edited by Geofrrey Boyle and Peter Harper. Blue cover with the word Technolgy in white lettering. In the cetenr is a square turned to a diamond shape With words on each side of the square: Food-Energy, Tools-Materials, Autonomy-Community, Energy-Communication. In the cover illustration the sun, water and land are represented along the diamond axis a red curve extends beyond the square. The word "Radical" is in red at the top of the book cover.

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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. The Chalice and the Blade 14/20 #BookSky

The Chalice & The Blade: Our History, Our Future by Riane Eisler. A red cover with the Title and author in white lettering. In the center is a black section with a photograph of a white sculpture from teh Cycladic culture in the Bronse Age Aegean islands. The sculture is a very stylized woman with her arms crossed under her breasts, The face is smooth with a very prominent nose.

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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4 13/20 #BookSky

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend. White cover painting with a thin brushed border which looks like twine, The scene is a yellow-tilled bathroom sink with a glass with a pixie-handled toothbrush and a tube of toothpaste in it. Beside the glass is a shaving brush and safety razor.

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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. The Oregon Experiment #BookSky

The Oregon Experiment by Christopher Alexander, Murry Silversten, Shlomo Angel, Sara Ishikawa, EnnyAbram. Buff colored book jacket with black lettering and a thin red line framing th cover. In the center is a medalian with an image in red of a bird's eye view of a section of a city. The pattern revealed is not a street grid but organic like the looking up to see the leaves in the canonpy of a forest. The medalian is embossed in gold on the read cloth os the book as well.

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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Design ForThe Real World #BookSky

Design For The Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change by Victor Papanek with an introduction by Buckminster Fuller. Cover is is a black and white photograph of a child about 3 or 4 years old sitting next to a basket with eggs in it. Thechild is not in the USA or Europe..

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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Sounder #BookSky

Sounder by William H. Armstrong. A White cover with lettering in gold.In the top half of the cover is a black and white photograph of a dog sitting and looking out across a farm field. There is an early morning mist and trees in the distance. The book cover has a Newberry Medal.

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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous 9/20 #BookSky

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, A Novel by Ocean Vuong. A close black and white photograph of two engaged in an embrace. A side view only the their body cores are visilble. By their short sleeves the weather is warm. The jearsy shirt of the closest figure ripples with the embrace of the other, whose arm show minor scratches and abrasions. The title is superimposed on the photo in white lettering.

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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. The Snowy Day 8/20 #BookSky

The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. The cove illustration is simple, almist as if the figures are cut from paper. A yong boy in a red snow suit looks back at the tracks he's made in the snow. An urban environment is shown by three rectangles, a brown one, a slightly more orange red than the boy's snow suit and a yellow one. There is a trafic signal on a pole aand an undulating line of white.. The title in white lettering is in the red rectangular shape. The book has a gold Caldecott award.

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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Candide 7/20 #BookSky

Candide or Optimism by Voltaire. The cover art show a young man in the center of the image wearing blue breeches, a red frock coak and styling a tricorne hat. He isholiding in one hand a potted amarylis and in the other a watering can with which he is watering some flowers at his feet. Behind him an urban scene of catastophe from an earthquake. To his right a woman and a pig struggle under rubble. To the man's left an old woman leans out of a window of a building in collaspw with both arms extended. Beneath the window a man wearing a sword and a Fez with an enormous feather assaults a young woman in a red dress with one breast bared.

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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Custer Died For Your Sins 6/20 #BookSky

Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto. A vermillion cover with yellow lettering. The cover art is a Bald Eagle hoding a tomahawk in its beak. The tomahawk is adorned with two eagle feathers.

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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. The LIght in the Forest #BookSky 5/20

The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter. Children's Classics. An olive green cover with an ink-drawn illustration of a young buck looking towards the viewer, knowing he's been seen.

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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. How Buildings Learn 4/20 #BookSky

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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. I Learn From Children by Caroline Pratt #BookSkyCaroline 3/20

I Learn From Children. Ten children, most around five or six engaged in play outside. There are saw horses boxes of different sizes --some fairly big-and boards to build with. Some of the children are working together, others singularly, but all are in an environment shaped by their play.

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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light by William Irwin Thompson #BookSky 2/20

Blue Cover with the Title in Gold lettering. The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light: Mythology, Sexuality & the Origins of Culture. The cover art is an illustration by William Blake, "The Reuion of the Soul and Body. The soul desends into the body first with a kiss.

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John Powers @protoslacker.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky 1/20

Blue cover of Be Here Now, A chair in a cicle with with intersecting line radiating from 12 poins around the circle. The blue cover is the ground and the figures and words in white. The word "rember" at the 4 cardinal points and the words "be here now, here be now, be now here, now be here, now be here now" aroound the perimeter of the circle.

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