Instagram poll: MY LOSING STREAK IS AT 16 GAMES. WHAT SHOULD | DO??? Option 1: Attend a game on a whim one night. (38% of vote) Option 2: 👆but wait until they have a lead first. (12% of vote) Option 3: Attend an out of town Reds game. (25% of vote) Option 4: Burn my old Reds hat ceremonially. (25% of vote)
Some suggestions I’ve considered / had suggested to me, in the form of an Instagram poll from last week.
I would like to know! My team, the Reds, are doing amazing early. Truly touched by good luck and blessings.
I, on the other hand, am on a personal 16-game (across 5 seasons) losing streak. Haven’t seen a win in person since mid-2022.
Help?
I knew this because of one of the MANY Wikipedia rabbit holes I fell down while watching Outrageous, the Mitford Sisters miniseries from last year.
Hopefully represented by that law firm from Parks and Rec!
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Photograph of a picture book, The Future Book by Mac Barnett + Shawn Harris. Cover illustration features a bald person with pink skin, wearing a structured white turtleneck and very snazzy silver triangle-shaped sunglasses. There is a happy green fish on this person's head. The background is pitch black, and the title of the book is the same iridescent silver as the snazzy sunglasses.
"The illustrations were created using ink and gouache, which means something totally different in the future." -The Future Book (2026) by Shawn Harris and Mac Barnett
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Photograph of a picture book: Heartfelt, words by Elaine Vickers, pictures by Samantha Cotterill. Cover illustration depicts a child with tan skin and medium brown hair, wearing a yellow-orange plaid flannel shirt, green overalls, and a trucker-style hat with a blue bill and sides, a white front with orange and red stripes, and a smiley little mushroom on the side. She's throwing her arms in the air with exuberance, her eyes closed and face tipped back, while pink cutout hearts float around her.
Photograph of a picture book: A Grand Day, words by Jean Reidy, pictures by Samantha Cotterill. Sub-title: A celebration of grandparents and grandchildren. Cover illustration features the front hall of a house. A turquoise door is open wide with a smattering of yellow leaves blowing about. The inside of the room features a hardwood floor, cream walls, with gray flower-like patterned wallpaper on the top half. On the ground sit two backpacks and two pillows. In the center of the frame, a slightly balding Black man wearing a white shirt and khaki pants lifts up a small Black girl in a tight hug. She wears tan pants, red socks, and a blue shirt, and her hair is up in a bun. In the hand curled behind the man's back, she holds a teddy bear wearing green pajamas.
"The illustrations for this book are hand built, mixed media three-dimensional sets photographed with a DSLR camera. -same process, two books illustrated by Samantha Cotterill! Heartfelt (2025) by @elainebvickers.bsky.social and A Grand Day (2022) by @jeanreidy.bsky.social
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Photograph of a picture book: The Day the Books Disappeared, written by New York Times Best-Selling Author Joanna Ho and Caroline Kusin Pritchard. Art by Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat. Cover illustration features a child with short black hair and light brown skin, eyes wide and eyebrows raised, cheeks and nose pinked, holding a book titled The History of Flight, with an old fashioned Wright Bros-era plan on the cover. Behind this child are two others, one with curly brown hair, the other with black pigtails. They both have the word POOF floating above their hands, as cloudy nebulous nothing floats around them, as if something has recently disappeared from their very hands.
"Illustrations created in ink drawing and colored digitally." -The Day the Books Disappeared (2025) by @dansantat.bsky.social, @joannahowrites.bsky.social, and @carolinekpritchard.bsky.social
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Photograph of a picture book: The One & Only Googoosh: Iran's Beloved Superstar, by Azadek Westergaard. Cover illustrations features a girl with dark, straight black hair with bangs and a jaunty red ribbon. She's wearing a white blouse with a red collar, white socks, black shoes, and a green skirt that she's holding away from her body in a curtsy. Her cheeks are red circles, her eyes are closed, and she's smiling. She's on a brown textured stage, framed by a red textured curtain, and behind her is a tan and white tile pattern.
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"Art created with block prints, brush pens, colored pencils, and collage." -The One & Only Googoosh: Iran's Beloved Superstar (2024) by Azadeh Westergaard
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Same way I feel looking wistfully at planned transit maps of Cincinnati (the 1920s subway project that went belly up or the 2000s MetroMoves plan that voters rejected). 🫡
Upon further observation, it looks like a handwarmer.
But I might still pretend it's got tissues, a granola bar, and a pocket book of poetry.
Reds-Twins. Redlegs are having a nice rally inning, but also: I think Elly De La Cruz may have been wearing a fanny pack on the basepaths earlier?
oh my goodness, thank you (and all the talls) for your service.
Who pairs, always, with Jon Nunnally.
Right?!
But I'm realizing now that I've accidentally made this mix-up... Counting to Bananas and the Doughnuts/Pancakes duology have a lot in common: math with a twist, humor, rhyme, page turns that play with expectations. It's kind of uncanny, actually! 😂
It's niche, but a rousing rendition of The Banana Boat Song would be a real hit with the dozens of us who still remember the Legends of Tomorrow "Moonshot" episode!
If more people could see Earth from the Moon, maybe we'd have fewer people wanting to fight and kill over gods or money or land or power.
This looks great! And it's kismet-- my Mom's pumpkin pancakes are a family tradition, and this releases on her birthday. Easiest pre-order ever.
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Thanks for adding CAT NAP to this post—I’ve been startled that so few people understand that EVERYTHING in this book—including the ornate frames—was made by hand to emulate the originals in The Met.
Amazing. It's such an extraordinary book!!
Justin Verlander is the last active MLB player older than me, so I feel like I need to join in on the gentle old-guy mockery here, as a sort of final chance to ever do it!
(Let's just ignore that I'm only a few months younger than him.)
This post and its replies are extremely validating for me and the emails I get every few months that are actually meant for someone in Maryland who gained my name upon marriage about 15 years ago.
(Hiiii, other Elizabeth! You've gone through so many more life events than I have in that stretch! 😅)
Photograph of a picture book: Some of Us: A Story of Citizenship and the United States by Newbery Honoree Rajani LaRocca, illustrated by Huy Voun Lee. Cover illustration features a family of four in a group hug at the center of the frame. All four have brown skin, black hair, and big smiles. The parents are wearing white t-shirts, and the two children are wearing t-shirts in slightly different shades of purple. Immediately behind them are a silhouette of the Statue of Liberty and a crowd of additional people. In the further background, a sky in shades of purple bursts alive with red, pink, and orange fireworks.
"The illustrations for this book were done in Procreate. The artist also used cut paper samples throughout." -Some of Us: A Story of Citizenship and the United States (2025) by Huy Voun Lee and @rajanilarocca.bsky.social
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Photograph of a picture book: Sunrise Summer by Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr. Cover illustration features a parent and child in an orange raft on blue water, surrounded by green fish, silhouetted seagulls, a colorful sunrise sky. The parent and child have straight brown hair, peachy skin, and pink cheeks, and are wearing matching orange life vests.
"The characters... were drawn by hand w/pen & ink & gouache on Arches hot-pressed watercolor paper. The backgrounds are digital collage of sampled watercolor washes done in Adobe Photoshop using a Cintiq 13 HD Table." -Sunrise Summer (2020) by Matthew Swanson & Robbi Behr
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Photograph of a picture book: So Many Years: A Juneteenth Story, words by Anne Wynter, pictures by Jerome Pumphrey. Cover illustration features two dark-skinned hands holding up what looks like a billowing cloth or tapestry, with images stitched on. First: a dance scene from sometime around the turn of the 19th/20th century, featuring two Black women spinning around a dance floor, in a yellow and purple dress respectively, their hair pinned up, with two Black men wearing crisp white shirts, dark pants, and suspenders dancing behind them, and other dancers spinning on a dance floor behind them. Second: a marching band of four drummers marches in a parade, wearing spiffy blue and gold band uniforms, including hats with feather plumes, big smiles on their faces. Colorful confetti flies around them, against a bleu ground and orange sky.
"The artist used acrylic paint on hardboard panels and Photoshop to create the illustrations for this book." -So Many Years: A Juneteenth Story (2025) by Jerome Pumphrey and @annewynter.bsky.social
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Photograph of a picture book: Where are You, Brontë? Written by Tomie DePaola, illustrated by Barbara McClintock. Cover illustration features a white-haired /white-bearded man with red glasses, a lavender shirt, blue pants, brown shoes, and a very beautiful turquoise printed scarf. He's bent over an illustration table, working on a drawing of a dog in brown ink. A yellow lamp is clipped to the drawing table. Next to the table is an art supply cart with three drawers, with mugs full of pencils, markers, and paintbrushes sitting on top, alongside a toy alligator. Off to the side sits a turquoise dog bed, scattered with colorful balls and a dove toy, but the dog it belongs to (being drawn by the artist!) is conspicuously absent.
"The illustrations for this book were created with Faber-Castell dark sepia Pitt Artist Pens, colored pencils, and Winsor & Newton watercolor and gouache on Arches 90 lb cold press watercolor paper." -Where are You, Brontë? (2025) by Tomie DePaola and Barbara McClintock
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Photograph of a picture book: Alberto Salas Plays Paka Paka Con La Papa, by Sara Andrea Fajardo and Juana Martinez-Neal (Caldecott Honoree). Subtitle: Join the Quest with Peru's Famed Scientist and Potato Expert. Cover illustration features a middle-aged man in a reddish sweater and yellow jacket, with dark fluffy eyebrows and hair (sparse though it is!) a pink nose and cheeks, and a sparkle of mischief in his eye, holding a simple brown potato up to his eye. To each side of him are purple flowers with yellow centers. The background is a pale peach color.
"The illustrations in this book were created with colored pencils, pastels, acrylics, gesso, graphite, and a variety of hand-textured papers." -Alberto Salas Plays Paka Paka Con La Papa (2025) by @juanamartinezn.bsky.social and @safajarwrites.bsky.social
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Photograph of a picture book: Plenty of Pancakes, written by Carrie Finison, illustrated by Brianne Farley. Cover illustration features a painterly, whimsical woodland scene: framed by mossy green grass and branches, one gray rodent-like creature wearing a red apron and purple stocking cake runs forward, flipping (or catching?) a kareening stack of delicious looking pancakes. To the left, two other rodent-y figures (a chipmunk and a skunk, maybe?) chase behind with more pancakes and pancake ingredients. To the right, the smallest rodent-y creature of all looks up at the flying stack of pancakes, waving a spatula in the air with joy and abandon.
(Reposting with corrected tags, whoops!)
"The art was done in gouache and pencil, with some help from Photoshop." -Plenty of Pancakes (2026) by Brianne Farley and
@carriefinison.bsky.social
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OH NO! I tagged the wrong PB author Carrie. Sorry @carrietillotson.bsky.social! Going to repost this one later in the thread with @carriefinison.bsky.social correctly tagged... but leaving this here so as not to fully break the thread.
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Photograph of a picture book: A Book of Maps For You by Lourdes Heuer and Maxwell Eaton III. Cover illustration features a stack of papers, pinned at the top by the pront of a pen. The top page shows a lively neighborhood as illustrated by a child, including the sun peeking through trees in th background, colorful houses, a playground, a library, a tiny farm with a horse, a chicken coop, and a chicken, a road curving through town with a car or two and a bicycle rider, a storefront, a school, a park with a slide, various people and animals walking about, and a healthy dose of trees.
"The artwork for this book was created with dip pen, fountain pen, watercolor, and colored pencil on 140 lb. bright white hot press watercolor paper." -A Book of Maps For You (2025) by @maxwelleaton.bsky.social and @lourdesheuer.com
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