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Randall Jay @randyjay.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Hey Lady!” I lived over there for a few years. They liked Benny Hill too.

Randall Jay @randyjay.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My sports bookshelf is small compared to other subjects, but I acquire interesting ones sometimes. Sold these 3 in the last week. The Mantle book was signed his wife (the author) & son. #bookselling #booksky #sports #AncientGreece #AthleticFestivals #football #NotreDame #USC #baseball #MickeyMantle

A large folio from 1939 published by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. It is entitled "Greek Athletics & Festivals in the Firth Century". The front cover is black with with large red lettering

A copy of "Pigskin Review" from 1939. The dramatic cover painting shows a red-helmeted football player in a gold jersey running toward the end zone, ball cradled tightly in his left hand. An opponent in a darker uniform has just fallen on the ground behind him, trying to grab the player's left leg for a tackle. His face is a grimace. The ground surface appears white and the sky black, adding to the visual drama. All illumination appears to be from above as if this is a night game. This served as a cover for a football program, which is priced at 25 cents. The game featured Notre Dame University's team versus the University of Southern California.

A book entitled "A Hero All His Life", about legendary baseball player Mickey Mantle, who appears in the photo on the front cover. We are looking up at him, framed by a bright blue sky. His right knee is raised, perched on something below our view (presumably the pitcher's mound). He holds his New York baseball cap in both hands and his baseball glove is wedged under his right forearm. The title of the book is in a black band with white capital letters at about Mantle's belt level. A facsimile of his signature appears at lower right.

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Randall Jay @randyjay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You mean it failed to "rollick"?

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Randall Jay @randyjay.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In that boat now too. ("sniff")

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Randall Jay @randyjay.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

For #caturday, the cat friends of my adult life. Jerome, a grey tabby mix who loved to groom me. Sid & Bella, a bonded pair who came to live with us in San Francisco. Bella appears here on my #Bluesky avatar. Finally, Andy, our current housemate. He's always eager to help me with my book biz.

A picture of my head and shoulders seen from behind, on a couch looking at a laptop. Jerome the cat sits on the back right edge, busy licking my grey hair on the back of my head.

Andy looks out and up at us from an open box of books on a tile floor. He's a solid blue-grey cat with yellow eyes. Another bagful of books can be partially seen in the background.

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Randall Jay @randyjay.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Like childhood, when the summers seemed to last forever. School let out and it was like being freed from prison. Good times.

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Randall Jay @randyjay.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yes he is. And whenever I see his name in print or hear it I think of "Merkin Muffley", the slow-witted president of the U.S.A in the movie "Doctor Strangelove". (And whenever I think of slow-witted presidents, I...)

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Randall Jay @randyjay.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's 1966 and here's the large family Robert F. Kennedy Jr. grew up in. He's 12 years old. No smile from this sibling. (5th from the right in the big photo, wedged between brothers in the detail image) www.abebooks.com/servlet/Sear... #photography #Kennedy #RFKJr. #HealthSecretary

A black & white family portrait of Robert F. Kennedy, Ethel Kennedy and nine of their children, seated together near an outdoor fountain. The children are arranged in birth order, with the youngest on the left. Six boys and three girls. The parents are at the far right. The boys (except for 2 toddlers) wear jackets, white shirts and narrow ties like their father. The girls are wearing dresses. We are seeing them from above; the family is looking back up at the photographer. Some reflections are visible in the shallow water of the pool at their feet. The two visible corners of the pool are decorated with stone cherubs. It appears to be a beautiful summer day in a park-like setting.

A detail image of the five oldest Kennedy children. RFK Jr. is the only one without a smile.

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Imagine looking at a monument to a slain president and announcing: "You know what this needs? My first and last name, in enormous letters, before the slain president it was named for. My name comes first."

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Randall Jay @randyjay.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"The Writing Life" is also inspiring to creatives who are not writers. There is something clear, fresh and incisive on every page.

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Randall Jay @randyjay.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Will read! "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" changed my brain. I was a high school senior the year it came out, in soon-to-be-post-industrial N.E. Ohio. Then off to art school in Pittsburgh (her birthplace, I later learned), where I praised it to fellow students - to no avail. I re-read her often.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Garden photo shoot. From a glass plate negative in my collection, no date/info.

black and white photo of a young light skinned woman with her hair up in a neat bun. She's wearing a striped blouse with puffy sleeves and long skirt. I am not an expert but her style seems Edwardian to me. She is sitting on a grass lawn holding a shorthaired ginger tuxedo tabby cat in her lap. She is also looking down at a black cat sitting in what appears to be a cat bed made of rags beside her. Like a rag rug but small and round and cat-sized.

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Republicans bringing back the Red Scare reminds of those oldies concerts where the song’s the same but the group’s original members have all died

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

How about we have two separate tracks in college, an AI-allowed track and an AI-not-allowed track and we put the one you choose on your transcript and see what shakes out

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Karl Schamotta @karl-schamotta.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

God-level badassery: Canadian Constable Sukhvinder “Suki” Singh Sunger, Drum Major of the Vancouver Police Pipe Band making history at the Edinburgh Military Tattoo: timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-o...

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Randall Jay @randyjay.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Calls to mind the MAD magazine parody, "Voyage To See What's On The Bottom".

The first panel from a cartoon parody. A black & white drawing by Mort Drucker of the submarine traveling down below. A goofy-looking fish swims in the foreground. The subtitle: "This Week's Episode: "The Attack of the 1000 Foot Glop".

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Randall Jay @randyjay.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Thank you. Sanity is a virtue.

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"We are privileged to influence and perhaps control our future. I believe we have an obligation to fight for life on Earth—not just for ourselves” — Carl Sagan