Lisa M. Bradley

@cafenowhere

Queer, disabled Latina spec-fic poet/author/editor. Work in LeVar Burton Reads, Fantasy, Lightspeed, Uncanny, & F&SF. Poetry Editor for Strange Horizons. www.lisambradley.com

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Lisa M. Bradley@cafenowhere· 3d

I started a new build this afternoon. I only want cafes and pubs for my book nooks. I might also add a bookstore for the Droste effect.

The early stages of assembling the interior of a corner tavern for my bookshelf. All the little furniture is dark brown and there are copious wooden “bottles” filling the shelves.

Lisa M. Bradley@cafenowhere· 7d

I experimented with the acorn again. This is three shades of blue ink with purple and black ink highlights.

An exploration of blue inks with purple ink and black pen outlines. It’s giving googly eyed, deep ocean life vibes. The mixed media paper is bordered by a swirly washi tape that reminds me of the trans flag.

Lisa M. Bradley@cafenowhere· 9d

Yesterday I painted with an acorn and it made this cute pattern.

On a green work table smeared with various colors of paint, a piece of white scrap paper is marked by blue circles, each with a bullseye at the center.

Lisa M. Bradley@cafenowhere· 18d

When I went to lunch with friends today, we saw the nearby apartments were having some turnover and lots of stuff was out for free. So I adopted these two plants. One is supposedly an orchid but I don’t know what the other is. Let’s see if I can keep them alive.

Beside a sliding glass door leading to a deck, two potted plants are sitting on a welcome mat. They have seen better days. The nearer plant is labeled Dancing Ladies, an orchid, but it’s only foliage now.

Lisa M. Bradley@cafenowhere· Jul 10

I ended up giving Undertone 3 stars, though it doesn’t show that here. A very meh week of movies. #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

Lisa M. Bradley@cafenowhere· Jul 9

View into an eat-kitchen. A dark-furred cat sits in front of an open patio door, head brushed by the leaves of a small Persian lime tree beside him. To the left is an ochre curtain and through the screen door one can see a covered propane grill.

Lisa M. Bradley@cafenowhere· Jun 29

On a cheerier note, today’s mail was a book bonanza. Two from an auction, and three for a geography reading challenge on StoryGraph.

Stack of 5 books beside a coffee mug. By coincidence, the bottom 3 have red and pink covers. The titles are: At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop; The Sad Part Was by Prabda Yoon; Four Minutes by Nataliya Deleva; There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven and Archive of Unknown Universes by Ruben Reyes Jr.

Lisa M. Bradley@cafenowhere· Jun 17

This flag used to fall down if you so much as looked at it wrong, but today with bursts of 80 mph winds, it’s rock solid. Happy Pride!

A stormy day in the suburbs. Viewed through a window, a very wet pride flag hangs limply outside a yellow house, its edges draped over a misshapen cedar bush. It is possibly pleased with itself for withstanding ridiculous winds and defying expectation.

Lisa M. Bradley@cafenowhere· Jun 12

This morning I took my coffee and a book out to read on the back deck and I found someone else already enjoying our backyard. We sat in companionable silence for about half an hour.

A very chill deer curled up in a corner of my backyard with yellowed rhubarb blossoms towering over it. The foreground looks overgrown because we had a large branch fall and the power company sawed it up.

Lisa M. Bradley@cafenowhere· Jun 11

A couple of years ago, I created a wind-catcher/chime during a manic phase. It’s time to swap out the colorful fabric I used then, but re-creating the chime has been more difficult than I expected. Manic Me seems to be a better engineer.

A jumble of colorful ribbons and an orange metal frame on a cluttered work table. It was/will be a wind catcher and wind chime if I can retro engineer it.

Lisa M. Bradley@cafenowhere· May 17

At the Figge art museum yesterday, I got to see some old friends, like the reasonably freaked out ray and Dulle Griet charging into Hell.

Detail of a painting by Matthias woothos from 1683 that portrays the fishing industry. On sale as part of the fisher’s catch is a ray lying belly up.

In an ornate golden frame on a red wall, a depiction of Dulle Griet charging into hell, much to the dismay of the fantastic creatures that live there. Dated 1650, David Teniers the younger

Lisa M. Bradley@cafenowhere· May 8

My #LastFourWatched for #LetterboxdFriday. It was a busy week so I only caught two new (to me) movies. Both were very good though.

Lisa M. Bradley@cafenowhere· May 1

My #LastFourWatched for #LetterboxdFriday. I didn’t rate “It was just an Accident” because I watched it last night and I’m still mulling it over.

Lisa M. Bradley@cafenowhere· Apr 29

Finished this secondhand puzzle of teal birds and oranges today while I was procrastinating on work. As you can see, it’s missing a good number of pieces and actually came with one piece from an entirely different puzzle.

Jigsaw puzzle with missing pieces. Design is of teal birds with black wings in a leafy orange tree with blossoms and ripe fruit, also bees

Lisa M. Bradley@cafenowhere· Apr 24

#LastFourWatched for #LetterboxdFriday. Was nice to see some movies in the theater last weekend.

Lisa M. Bradley@cafenowhere· Apr 11

My #LastFourWatched for #LetterboxdFriday 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, 4 & 1/2 stars Alien: Romulus, 3 stars Terminator: Dark Fate, 3 stars David Byrne’s American Utopia, 4 stars

Lisa M. Bradley@cafenowhere· Mar 21

There’s a jester in a gold lamé suit on stilts leading a line dance.

Lisa M. Bradley@cafenowhere· Mar 21

My niece’s quinceañera has got me unironically asking what the actual fuck?

Green lit robot dancing at a quinceañera

Lisa M. Bradley@cafenowhere· Feb 21

Latest puzzle is Moon Garden by Clara McAllister from eeboo. Sorry about all the glare. This was challenging because of all the brush strokes and because the wrong pieces would sometimes fit together and things wouldn’t match up for a while. But I loved the broody blues and maximalism.

Jigsaw puzzle of a proliferant moonlit garden with two owls, a horned one in the upper left and a barn owl close to the center. Four butterflies or moths also appear in the garden.

Lisa M. Bradley@cafenowhere· Jan 22

Yesterday was a good mail day. The Fall 2025 issue of Huizache plus a folio of Central American poetry, as well as hand stitched books from @the-ethelzine.bsky.social: “Origin Stories, Poetry” by Sarah Teresa Cook and “And We Are Far From Shore” by @martin65.bsky.social.

The four books described in the post arrayed on my couch. Huizache has a picture of plants loaded into the back of a moving truck. The Huizache folio is black with obscured white text. In the center is a bright red book with a collaged, hand stitched floral cover. To the right of it is another handmade book with an image of two skeletons facing each other with a red heart between them.

Lisa M. Bradley@cafenowhere· Dec 25

Just astonished by my first Christmas gift: @josejimenez.bsky.social found a replacement for my favorite coffee mug, which I broke months ago.

A cream colored coffee mug that reads “Nightmare before Coffee” under an image of a black cat arching its back with fleur de lis on either side. The mug is dimpled, as if handmade, but it was originally from Joann Fabric. It sits on a blond wood side table.

Lisa M. Bradley@cafenowhere· Dec 24

My cat found the heating pad on the couch, still warm from my last use, and has been sitting on it patiently so I turned it on for him. Merry Catmas.

On a dark purple couch with a purple fleece blanket, a gray tabby sits on a gray heating pad, licking a front leg.

Lisa M. Bradley@cafenowhere· Oct 24

Migraine bedside

On wooden side table, an orange translucent water bottle, a purple Kleenex box, a cream colored coffee mug reading “nightmare before coffee”, and a pink sleep mask with “off duty” embroidered in white

Lisa M. Bradley@cafenowhere· Oct 11

The moment I saw the skeletal Highland cow at the store, I knew I must claim the bizarre bovine for my lawn. Now battle ensues.

On a leaf scattered lawn, ghosts on stakes watch the battle unfolding between a giant inflatable green-and-black spider and an inflatable skeletal highland cow.

Lisa M. Bradley@cafenowhere· Oct 9

Last night I completed this puzzle based on Kim Smith’s rendition of the Norman Lykes house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. I picked it up in the gift shop when we visited Taliesin a couple of weeks ago. I love that it looks like an abandoned spaceship.

A jigsaw puzzle image of an adobe home, set against soft-peaked mountains in the Phoenix desert, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The sky is a cloudless blue, the mountains a darker blue, and the earth surrounding the home is brown and black with cactus and small bushes. The house looks both futuristic and timeless.

Lisa M. Bradley@cafenowhere· Sep 18

I finished this puzzle when I returned from my women’s retreat. I’ve done it before but I loved it so much I kept it and came back to it years later. Artist info in alt text

Jigsaw puzzle: Colorful Ram by Erika Pochybova. An illustration of a horned ram from the neck up posed among a riot of colorful flora. The ram is rendered in warm stripes of brown, yellow, and red. Every stripe is further enhanced by different colored polka dots and “stitches.” The flowers and vines are similarly patterned.

Lisa M. Bradley@cafenowhere· Sep 5

Not a great week for me, except for Exhuma and my rewatch of Kill List.

Lisa M. Bradley@cafenowhere· Aug 28

Day 28–I can’t believe the month is almost over! Today’s book is My Heresies by Alina Stefanescu. I almost didn’t buy this book because the cover squicks me out.

The cover of My Heresies by Alina Stefanescu: pink with sans serif text in gold at top and bottom. In the center is a realistic disembodied tongue stuck through a gold ring with the word “poems” in cursive over the ringed part.

Lisa M. Bradley@cafenowhere· Aug 24

I’ve got to decide if I’m going to glue down a few last items, but it’s pretty much complete! I added the pumpkins for a seasonal touch.

A miniature coffeehouse with working overhead lamp and stuffed to the brim with various drink paraphernalia, baked goods, and plants. There’s a table on the patio.

Lisa M. Bradley@cafenowhere· Aug 22

I also kind of watched Kpop Demon Hunters. It was on while I worked on my latest build. #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched