Jo Locktov

The covers of three books. Left to right: Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the life of a legend, about the late Sopranos actor. The cover shows Gandolfini looking shy, peering offscreen with one unobstructed eye and another that peeks out between the fingers of his right hand. CENTER: The cover of Cinema Her Way, a coffee table book by Marya E. Gates about female directors. On the cover is actress Michelle Rodriguez as the boxer heroine of Karyn Kusama's sports drama Girlfight, about a woman boxer. RIGHT David Hockney's painting collection The Arrival of Spring in Normandy, showing a painting of a verdant field. In the background of the field is green grass. in the upper foreground are the branches of a tree sprouting white, cottony buds.

A screenshot of the pre-orders section at mzs.press. Three screenshots of books that have not yet been released. I Am The Night, Daniel Dockery's book about Batman the Brave and the Bold, has a silhouette of Batman stretching from the top to the bottom of the cover, with the title of the book and a nighttime Gotham skyline circumscribed by the borders of the Batman silhouette. CENTER The cover of The Ring Cycle, Matt Zoller Seitz and Odie Henderson's book on the Rocky and Creed films. The cover is white except for a pair of black boxing gloves floating there RIGHT The cover of Documentary Now!, the 600-page, 7-pound coffee table book celebrating the aforementioned IFC Channel series parodying classic documentaries.

Screenshot of three books carried at mzs.press arts bookstore: LEFT: Cover of Lead Sister, a biography of Karen Carpenter, featuring a closeup of Carpenter playing and singing with The Carpenters. CENTER: The cover of Anthony Hopkins' We Did OK, Kid, a memoir of his life and career. On the cover is Hopkins in closeup as he looks presently, narrowed blue eyes looking directly at the spectator. RIGHT: Cover of Louis Armstrong In His Own Words, a collection of the bandleader's correspondence. The cover image is a photograph of a probably fortysomething Armstrong seated at the wooden desk in his office where he often wrote letters.

Screenshot of the covers of 3 books carried at mzs.press Arts Bookstore. LEFT: The cover of Gotham City Cocktails, a book of mixed drink recipes inspired by Batman. Art deco-style flowing border lines flow around and around the interior of the dust jacket. At the center are drawings of two tall cocktail glasses and between them, a shot glass and a tumbler with a sword-pierced cherry in it. CENTER: The cover of Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea Cookbook. Green cover, white writing and graphics. The central image is a teapot with stem lines coming out of it, and at the pot's base, a teacup and saucer and a separate plate of biscuits. RIGHT: Bob's Burgers "The Re-Recipe Box," a set of recipe cards inspired by the joke hamburger names featured on the small board at the front of Bob's joint. Red sides with small graphics, cover image of the restaurant.

Greetings, new friends! You may know me as an author, a prolific Bluesky poster and 4th place finisher on So You Call That Dancing? But you might not know that my partner Judith (@mzpress) and I have an online arts bookstore that's growing every day. Full inventory here: mzs.press/EVERYTHING-W...

Officials Board Cruise Ship in Hong Kong After 76 People Get Sick A norovirus outbreak is now confirmed aboard Westerdam on a 28-night Asia cruise itinerary from Tokyo, with more than 70 cases.

Cruise ship norovirus outbreak reporting fails to explain the fact that even people who have recovered can still shed the virus for up to 2 weeks after their symptoms have resolved.

People who are asymptomatic can also be contagious

Who is protecting the residents of the ports?

#norovirus

Our lady of hope.

A black cat laying on top of a white radiator.

Stay warm.

#caturday

Along with our local work in Portland, we’re building a coalition of environmentalists, fisheries, health professionals, marine scientists & legislators to ban heavy fuel oil in our state waters.

Because Maine can’t wait!

#MEpolitics #banscrubbers #cruiseships #banHFO #Portland #Maine #Eastport

@asharangappa.bsky.social is doing a speaking tour on a cruise ship. I often wonder if all the “celebrated” people who endorse this extremely toxic industry instead spoke out about its climate destruction, they could raise awareness & make a difference.

You always lift my spirits!

back of a ship, crew watch as a body in a shroud is slid off and into the sea

W. Eugene Smith, Burial at sea from the U.S.S. Bunker Hill, 1944

Fiddlers helping the world burn.

Our lady of hope.

How cute! Can’t wait for this episode.

Also weird = unique.

Mayor Mamdani and a child play with Legos while looking very serious and concentrated. The child is impossibly adorable and wearing tiny blue glasses.

No interruptions, please. We’re building universal child care.

The first issue of The Book Supplement is coming tomorrow, March 8th! www.awritersnotebook.org/subscribe

Sometimes books have the power to save you when it seems like nothing else will.

I enjoyed her posts but unfollowed her after seeing her gush about her cruise promotion. I can’t support climate deniers even if I feel they are intelligent in other areas.

PINE TREE ACTIVISM CALENDAR Events for Saturday MAR 7, 2026 Details confirmed as of 03/07 – 5:15AM Share/Repost so Mainers know where to #RESIST! Pg 1/7 - Submit events to: ptactivism@proton.me SAT MAR 7 MAR 7, Sat 9:00AM (& every Sat) – Dover-Foxcroft Main Street Bridge, Dover-Foxcroft, Maine Weekly Stand Out for Peace: https://mvprights.org/events MAR 7, Sat 9-10:00AM (& every Sat) – Yarmouth The green in front of Yarmouth Town Hall, 200 Main St, Yarmouth, Maine YARMOUTH WEEKLY STAND OUT, RESIST HATE – SUPPORT DEMOCRACY: weekly in front of Town Hall. This a local Indivisible event. Join with family and neighbors to support democracy, stand with immigrants, tell your legislators to do their job, etc. We gather at the green with your signs or use ones we have on hand. Make your voices heard. FMI: www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/903461/ MAR 7, Sat 10:00AM (& every Sat) – Farmington Farmington Post Office, 196 Main St, Farmington, Maine Weekly Stand Out for Peace: https://mvprights.org/events MAR 7, Sat 10-11:00AM (& every Sat) – Vinalhaven Bandstand, E. Main Street. Vinalhaven, Maine VINALHAVEN STANDOUT – Standout at the Bandstand is back! All are welcome as we join together to say NO ICE. If you've never joined a protest before, but are distraught about the brutal actions of ICE on citizen and non citizen alike, join us for 5 minutes or an hour - whatever you can give. A local Indivisible event. FMI: mobilize.us/mobilize/event/888862/ MAR 7, Sat 11AM-12:00PM (& every Sat) – Bangor Luther H. Peirce Memorial Park, 125 Harlow St, Bangor, Maine WEEKLY ANTI-WAR/PEACE VIGIL – In support of peace and justice in the US and beyond – the Middle East, Ukraine/Russia, and everywhere. In opposition to war, genocide, authoritarianism, and attacks on immigrants and others. Signs provided or bring your own. Hosted by Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine. FMI: shorturl.at/SikIw (calendar cont'd in comments) PRO TIP: click ALT in lower right cor…

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CALL YOUR SENATORS & tell them to
REJECT the SAVE Act: (202) 224-3121

#ORGANIZE #RESIST & #OPPOSE!
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#EveryEffortCounts

MAINE ICE WATCH: 207-544-9989

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Price of Crude Oil WTI (USD/Bbl) over a five-year period, spanning from 2021 to early 2026. The chart shows a significant price peak in 2022 reaching over $120, followed by a general downward trend with various fluctuations, eventually hitting a low near $55 in late 2025 before a sharp vertical spike to the current price of 90.900. This recent surge represents an increase of +23.880 (+35.63%), highlighted in green text above the blue line graph.

The real insanity isn’t how much oil prices have spiked, it’s that we’re still burning oil for energy.

A painting by Johan Deckmann, black type on an old red book which says: How to watch the world fall apart while holding on to a fragile sense of hope

JOHAN DECKMANN

How to watch
the world fall apart
while holding on to a
fragile sense of hope

Venezia I 2025

From the campanile of Abbazia di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venezia on one of those lovely winter foggy days.

©️Robynne Limoges ‘So Suddenly…’

Stand up for Science Stand up for Science

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@asharangappa.bsky.social is doing a speaking tour on a cruise ship. I often wonder if all the “celebrated” people who endorse this extremely toxic industry instead spoke out about its climate destruction, they could raise awareness & make a difference.

Norovirus: it’s pretty easy to catch me on a cruise vacation

Polio: hold my beer

Trump is trying to destroy every aspect of the country - the Constitution, separation of powers, the economy, the military... The list could go on endlessly.

Along with our local work in Portland, we’re building a coalition of environmentalists, fisheries, health professionals, marine scientists & legislators to ban heavy fuel oil in our state waters.

Because Maine can’t wait!

#MEpolitics #banscrubbers #cruiseships #banHFO #Portland #Maine #Eastport

This is such a terrific film!
Go see live if you can & if not you can catch it on streaming.

A whale of a tale by @davabel.bsky.social

And yet the concept of toxic scrubber wash discharge from the shipping industry is completely ignored.

Scrubber wash warms the water, increases acidification, discharges heavy metals, & PAHs, kills phytoplankton, zooplankton & copepods….but hey #Cruiseships are an economic driver.

#MEpolitics

Alaska, Virginia, Washington & now Maine—port communities throughout the US are questioning the toxic effects of heavy fuel oil on their heritage fisheries & coastal waters & are using legislation to end this damaging water pollution.

#banscrubbers #cruiseships #MEpolitics #Maine #Portland