Howell Jenkins's Collarbones

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Howell Jenkins's Collarbones@erceldoune· 11d

Okay reports are coming in that he has emerged from under the bed

A kitten with HUGE EARS sitting at a bowl of food almost as large as himself and up and to his right

Howell Jenkins's Collarbones@erceldoune· 17d

She has had a fantastic day, we even gave her a churu to make up for missing out on fresh mouse meat

A calico cat asleep on a bag on a bed, with books spread about

Howell Jenkins's Collarbones@erceldoune· Jul 7

Claudia Jones and Betty Gannett on their way to jail. Who thought to take a camera in the police wagon?

Claudia Jones and Betty Gannett on their way to jail, beaming and wearing very elegant hats. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Claudia_Jones_and_Betty_Gannett.jpg

Howell Jenkins's Collarbones@erceldoune· Jul 7

it's Dorothy Ray Healey again, the woman in the middle of the photo above, two years earlier

Dorothy Ray Healey is a very smart skirt and blouse posing in front of a jail cell, Los Angeles, 1949. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dorothy_Healey_standing_before_jail_cell_in_Los_Angeles,_Calif.,_1949_Trim.jpg

Howell Jenkins's Collarbones@erceldoune· Jul 7

I've been down a wikipedia rabbithole about the Smith Act and the McCarthy Era, and by far the best thing I've found are all these photos of communist leaders being arrested that frankly look like glamour shots like, they couldn't have asked for better lighting

Title
U.S. Marshal escorting Rose Chernin, Philip Connelly, Dorothy Healey and Henry Steinberg after arrest for violating the Smith Act, 1951
Date created
July 27, 1951
Publisher
Los Angeles Times

found on wikimedia commons, originally from: https://digital.library.ucla.edu/catalog/ark:/21198/zz0002rw0k

Howell Jenkins's Collarbones@erceldoune· Jun 28

oh look the neighbours agree

Handmade yard sign reading:

SHAME ON PRESENTING
WAR AS
ENTERTAINMENT!!
STOP THE BLUE
"ANGELS," ET AL...

Howell Jenkins's Collarbones@erceldoune· Jun 9

נעכטן, כּדי צו פּראַװן פּורי (דער קעצס) געבוירן־טאָג, האָבן מיר אָפּגעפּרעגלט און אָפּגעגעסן פּוריס (די פֿלאַכברייטלעך)

A calico cat in the mid-background gazes up at a plate of very puffy pooris in the foreground

Howell Jenkins's Collarbones@erceldoune· May 27

never change, Boulder

Reddit post titled "Running witch". Text reads:
Did anyone else see the white clothed woman running just north of Iris between 19th and Folsom in the neighborhood, during the Bolder Boulder? She was dropping white powder every 20 feet and drawing calk circles with Xs at the corners. Is that a good sign?

Howell Jenkins's Collarbones@erceldoune· May 19

She sat on my hand as I was writing

A calico cat stretches out on a desk strewn with papers

Howell Jenkins's Collarbones@erceldoune· May 16

Boulder has an unofficial flag and while I don't *hate* it, it is giving Romania but diagonal

The new unofficial flag of Boulder. There are three rays emanating from the bottom left corner: one blue, one yellow, and one red. The border between the red and yellow is jagged, representing the mountains

Howell Jenkins's Collarbones@erceldoune· May 12

I want what she has (to be a Yugoslavian pop star)

Lepa Brena on a boat waving a Yugoslavian flag the size of her upper body. She is on a lake. Mountains fade into the background

Howell Jenkins's Collarbones@erceldoune· Apr 8

Robert Nozick was hot??? I'm so mad

Robert Nozick, in a black-and-white photo from the 70s or so, with a winning smile and eyebrows like caterpillars

Howell Jenkins's Collarbones@erceldoune· Mar 28

My parents' cat Atticus—who was also my cat from ages 16-18, and whenever I visited or lived with them—has terminal cancer and will be euthanised today. He was caring, sensitive, graceful, and profoundly kind, and I will be grateful for my time with him for the rest of my life.

Atticus this winter, curled into a ball on a light blue blanket.

Atticus in 2015 or so, staring down the camera

Howell Jenkins's Collarbones@erceldoune· Mar 6

I recall making a similar request for this cake, from Else Holmemund Minarik's "Little Bear", as a very small child

Pages from "Little Bear" by Else Holmemund Minarik, illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Little Bear is clinging to his mother's skirts and she is holding a Platonically ideal birthday cake

Howell Jenkins's Collarbones@erceldoune· Feb 17

Deleted my other response because wrong math. But yeah, it moves through the entire year!

Howell Jenkins's Collarbones@erceldoune· Feb 9

Oh my god look what I found in a Little Free Library. Soon I shall be free

a book called "teach yourself czech". cover art is a door behind a curly fence

Howell Jenkins's Collarbones@erceldoune· Feb 8

This is the boyfriend's cat Poori, who very generously allows me to live with them both. Sending strength <3

A calico cat with bright green eyes lounging in front of a picture of herself

Howell Jenkins's Collarbones@erceldoune· Feb 7

utterly delighted by this dedication what I found in the used bookstore today. perhaps I too could become very fashionable by reading, uh, Corruptions of Empire by Alexander Cockburn

Note on the first page of a book reading "Dearest Johnny—I do believe you could become very fashionable simply by reading this book. Perhaps you should try. Lots of love + happy Xmas. Vicky J Robinson. 1987"

Cover of the book. "Corruptions of Empire" by Alexander Cockburn. The cover art features Reagan and Thatcher holding hands amidst a crowd in front of the burning White House.

Howell Jenkins's Collarbones@erceldoune· Jan 21

currently stuck at "Message intended for anyone but the last (possibly confused) speaker?"

flowchart called "Speaking into Silence" from the Quaker magazine "Friendly Woman", Vol 9, No 8, I think from the 20s or something IDK. Flow goes
Enter Meeting for Worship -->
Center and Wait-->
Message input from within -->
Message intended for anyone but thee?-->
NO-->Return to center
YES-->Message intended for anyone but thee in this minute?
NO-->Return to center
Yes-->Message intended for anyone but the last (possibly confused) speaker?
YES-->Return to center
NO-->Others likely to mistake message for political announcement?
YES-->Return to center
NO-->Others likely to mistake message for lecture (academic or parental)?
YES-->Return to center
NO-->Message truly 'thee'?
NO-->Return to center
YES-->Message also 'not-thee'?
NO-->Return to center
YES-->Must thee speak?
NO-->Return to center
YES-->SPEAK

Howell Jenkins's Collarbones@erceldoune· Jan 16

I don't have any photos from 2016, but I do have one from 1926 (or so), will that do

Portrait of a Young Man by Yehuda Pen. I think it's from the mid-1920s, but I can't actually be sure it's from 1926. The National Gallery of Belarus had no helpful information to this end! The image is of a young man with dark wavy hair parted on the left. He is wearing a green jacket, yellow vest, black tie, and white shirt. He's sitting on some manner of balcony, and people are promenading beneath him under new? electric lines.

Howell Jenkins's Collarbones@erceldoune· Jan 15

how i'll be starting every meeting this year we are past pretending

an elegant little possums sits with his hands folded and says "How is everyone doing. I'll go first im doing bad"

Howell Jenkins's Collarbones@erceldoune· Jan 11

I agree that mountain snowpack levels are far too low

sticker on a graffiti'd wall reading
NO BILLIONAIRES
NO FASCISTS
MORE SNOW

Howell Jenkins's Collarbones@erceldoune· Jan 5

how, in all my years of living in Boulder, did I not notice that the hours of the local Natural Grocers are 7:57-9:06 (and 8:57-7:36 on Sundays)

Sign on a storefront reading
NATURAL GROCERS
HOURS
MONDAY-SATURDAY
7:57 AM-9:06 PM
SUNDAY
8:57 AM - 7:36 PM

Howell Jenkins's Collarbones@erceldoune· Dec 22

OMG I love cooking for a boyfriend (?). I typed it up in telegraphic style for someone several years ago. It's a variation on this, which is, unfortunately in Russian: lifehacker.ru/classic-bors...

Vegetarian borsht
Chop three medium onions and some garlic and sauté over medium heat, until the onion begins to change scent and texture and for as long as you wish after. Grate two large, or three small, beets, and one to two carrots, and add them to the onion. Keep sautéing. In the meantime, fill a large pot with 2 L. water or vegetable broth and bring to a boil, but leave room at the top for the many vegetables. Then add four small potatoes, diced, and, a little while after, half a head of chopped cabbage. I prefer red cabbage. Turn the heat to low and let simmer. In the meantime, add two tablespoons of tomato paste, the juice of half a lemon, a few bay leaves, salt, cayenne, and/or ground cloves to the sautéing vegetables. Stir to coat and then add them to the broth, and stir to integrate. Once they are integrated and have simmered a while longer, the soup is done. Garnish with dill. The recipe is adapted from here.

Howell Jenkins's Collarbones@erceldoune· Dec 22

Okay yes I am pleased. Our take on Padma Lakshmi's Biracial Latkes is on the left (regular latke ingredients plus ginger, green onions, green chilis, berbere, and a secret ingredient whose identity the boyfriend wishes the internet should not know)

Two plates of latkes, the left of which is slightly darker, between which is a tupperware container of mint chutney, and above and below which are two bowls of borsht topped with dill. A container of sour cream is standing above and to the left of the ensemble.

Howell Jenkins's Collarbones@erceldoune· Dec 2

it's true I do love to talk about myself

A word bubble of my most commonly used words On Here, prominent among them being:
boulder
property
city
yiddish
hope
course
students
colorado
myself
climate
happy
favourite
university
boyfriend
union

Howell Jenkins's Collarbones@erceldoune· Nov 29

Esquire Magazine trying to check its slide into irrelevance by courting the Young Hegelians, I see

A magazine rack with spaces for Dance Magazine and Esquire, where the space for Dance Magazine is occupied by Kant's "The Metaphyiscal Elements", and that for Esquire, by Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit"

Howell Jenkins's Collarbones@erceldoune· Nov 19

I swear by this recipe, from the 1960-something Joy of Cooking, which splits the difference and uses 1 cup

Howell Jenkins's Collarbones@erceldoune· Nov 16

EARS

Howell Jenkins's Collarbones@erceldoune· Nov 9

Same