ZSW
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I teach American Studies, labor history, and abolitionist university studies. Also I post about birds.
TFW your four year old starts drawing on your iPad and accidentally discovers Russian constructivism
Going to pretend that Forster’s Terns are named after Robert Forster of the great Australian proto-Indie rock band The Go-Betweens.
Saw a new bird last week, a Curlew Sandpiper, a rare visitor from Eurasia. New York gets this species somewhere between once a year and once every two years, almost always on the barrier beaches of NYC and Long Island.
Some photos from a failed attempt to relocate a South Polar SKua on a Montauk whalewatching boat - Great Shearwater, Short-Beaked Common Dolphin, Humoback Whale, Sooty Shearwater.
This bald eagle flew onto the top of a telephone pole next to two fishermen and eyed their catch. They were totally oblivious. Read “Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native.”
This morning I found the first record of Boat-Tailed Grackle for Rockland County, NY. Sound on if you want to hear something really annoying.
So you admit that cops’ job is to brutally slaughter people who present no threat to them? Interesting!
I don’t think I fully appreciated how absurd this sentence is the first few times I read this book. Walter Johnson is an extraordinary writer.
Some recent bird photos: 1) the Cassin’s Sparrow that has spent the last few weeks hanging out at Montauk Point. 2) the tundra Bean-goose that’s been loafing around northern Nassau County since early November. 3) a Pink-Footed Goose by Haverstraw Landfill. 4) a random Fish Crow at Piermont Pier.
Fender charging $1700 for a guitar with “ARM THE HOMELESS” and a hammer and sickle logo inscribed on it is real “all that is holy is profaned” energy.
This is what the sky looks like over the Hudson right now. Possibly a sign of an impending multiverse crisis.
Haven’t posted about birds here in a long time, so here are some recent ones: a broad-billed hummingbird in the suburbs of Buffalo, New York’s first (and the eastern seaboard’s fourth) Common Cuckoo, and a Long-Billed Dowitcher I saw at Piermont Pier back in September.
Common Cuckoo in Riverhead, NY, only the fourth record of this Eurasian species in the lower 48 states.
This is what it looks like when the first Arctic Warbler in the history of Eastern North America shows up on an island in the East River where you used to have to go for track meets in 8th grade
A juvenile Least Sandpiper stopping at Piermont Pier on its way south from the breeding grounds where it was born.