Nico B

Nico B

@nicobookwitch.bsky.social

Writer / Curator / Bibliophile / Gamer / Side-Eyer / Book Witch / Art Ho / She+Her

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Nico B
@nicobookwitch.bsky.social

Wowow it's been a minute! New job + starting grad school (+making time for reading/writing/games) leaves no time for social media. 🤷🏼‍♀️ But I had to share this amazing artist I came across today at Fresh Flours, Beacon Hill—#lanebestold! 😍✨💖

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@nicobookwitch.bsky.social

Auction sponsors not on BlueSky include: Waterways Cruises & Events; Seattle Pole Dance; House of Eve Restaurant; Crystallography Gems; School of Acrobatics and New Circus Acts (SANCA)/Emerald City Trapeze Arts (ECTA) School of Flight; HUMP! Film Festival, Seattle Tall Ships; Whidbey Island Seafood!

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Last week I had the honor of interviewing artist Pepper Pepper, about his "Pink Moments: Collections" show at Seattle Central's M. Rosetta Hunter gallery. Read about the influence of the cut-up method and the queer magic of "Pink" @echothearts.bsky.social here: theevergreenecho.org/echo/pepperp...

theevergreenecho.orgPepper Pepper on Pink’s Power: Queerness, Movement, and Magic — The Evergreen EchoWalking into Pepper Pepper a.k.a. Kaj-Anne Pepper’s show Pink Moment: Collections at Seattle Central’s M. Rosetta Hunter Gallery feels transcendent. Predominantly a new media show with video, sound, a...
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Didn't get to attend our Elliot Bay readings? You did attend and want to hang out with us more? The Evergreen Echo will be having another free public reading event this Sunday, September 21 from 4-6pm at Georgetown Liquor Company! (21+ event!) Come meet us, have some amazing food and great convos!

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Curious about where to see Burlesque in Seattle and wtf is going in with the Rendezvous? @themorgueanne.bsky.social spills the tea in my latest article @echothearts.bsky.social : theevergreenecho.org/echo/morguea...

theevergreenecho.orgMasterful Morgue Anne Spills Rendezvous Tea, Urges Support for Displaced Performers — The Evergreen EchoOver the past decade, Morgue Anne has forged a creative home at The Rendezvous, a historic venue in the heart of Belltown, where, until a few weeks ago, you could see everything from live music, to co...

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@pepverbsnouns.bsky.social

"Bluesky is boring." Social media *should* be boring. Being algorithm and dopamine poisoned is bad, actually. When your feed dries up for the day, that's your cue to go do something else until new stuff shows up later.

Nico B
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Harold & Maude is hands-down my favorite film of all time. I've literally watched it hundreds of times, and it has dragged me out of multiple emotional spirals. A recent rewatch has reiterated how much the current moment calls for a whole lot of Maude.

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My op-ed RE: recent federal cuts to public media funding is now up @echothearts.bsky.social and includes quotes from @kuow.org @cascadepbsnewsroom.bsky.social @c895radio.bsky.social and @ksvr.org theevergreenecho.org/echo/publicm... #publicmedia #media #seattle #washingtonstate

theevergreenecho.orgFederal Cuts to Public Media May Bring Devastating Consequences — The Evergreen EchoThe true value in community media is in the way it forges local connection and identity, providing spaces for diverse voices—something that is often lost in conglomerate media, who tend to cite the sa...
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@gray-harrison.bsky.social did the tarot reading this week for VIBES, so check that out +++ what PNW creature aligns with your sign?

The Evergreen Echo@echothearts.bsky.social

💫 This Week's Tarot Reading by @gray-harrison.bsky.social The Knight of Cups, Upright The Nine of Cups, Upright The Eight of Swords, Reversed Welcome to the VIBES, full of humor, fluff, and a breath of fresh air. 💚 🐶 ✨ theevergreenecho.org/vibes #EchotheArts #VIBES #TarotReading

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Something Spooky at Afterglow Vista? Hear all the hot ghost-goss in this week's Iconic Convos @echothearts.bsky.social theevergreenecho.org/echo/iconica... #sanjuanisland #rocheharbor #afterglowvista #iconicconvos

theevergreenecho.orgIconic Convos: Afterglow Vista — The Evergreen EchoA day trip out of Seattle up to San Juan Island, near the Canadian border, will take you to one of my favorite Washington icons. At Roche Harbor, a short walk through a wooded cemetery more than a cen...
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The rng in Blue Prince is driving me batty. On one run, I had 7 keys, 8 gems, 20 coins, car keys, a shovel, shoes, and the metal detector and most of my drafts were dead ends. Today I drafted 6 new rooms, which all required gems, and I had the two I started with, no $ (got Showroom), and no keys. 🫠

Nico B
@nicobookwitch.bsky.social

Still dealing with the RNG, BUTTTT, have now got it modded like I'm a baby gamer so that I'm not constantly running out of steps/gems/coins/keys. Still challenging, but no longer so frustrating that I don't even want to play anymore. 🤣 #blueprince #mods #games #thatrnggotme

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Continued from yesterday, here is Part 2 of my @echothearts.bsky.social interview with artist Jennifer Leigh Harrison about her show "I'm Trying to Tell You Something" @cocaseattle.bsky.social theevergreenecho.org/echo/jlhfemi...

theevergreenecho.orgJennifer Leigh Harrison is Trying to Tell You Something About Femicide [Part 2] — The Evergreen Echo[This show] is sort of like confirmation. And I think that’s been an experience for people. I’m also a Survivor. The experience of people coming in and asking, “Does this agree with me or not?”, and m...
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Part 1 of my piece on Jennifer Leigh Harrison's current show "I'm Trying to Tell You Something" @cocaseattle.bsky.social is up @echothearts.bsky.social Part 2 drops tomorrow! theevergreenecho.org/echo/jlhfemi...

theevergreenecho.orgJennifer Leah Harrison is Trying to Tell You Something About Femicide at CoCa [Part 1] — The Evergreen EchoOn the surface, the works in Jennifer Leigh Harrison’s show I’m Trying to Tell You Something: Breaking the Silence of Femicide Through Visual Art at Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA), belie the show’...
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Erasmus the Rooftop Dragon in #renton invites more questions than answers in this week's Iconic Convos @echothearts.bsky.social theevergreenecho.org/echo/iconice... #erasmustherooftopdragon #pnw #arts

theevergreenecho.orgIconic Convos: Erasmus the Rooftop Dragon — The Evergreen EchoIf you spend time in historical Downtown Renton, you will likely run across our next guest—just look up. Erasmus the Rooftop Dragon landed atop a crooked little building in 2019. Since then, the city ...
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This whole thread is 🔥

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com

Generative AI is a remarkable con — a just-good-enough simulacrum of human expression to get it past the gatekeepers in finance and the media, knowing that neither will apply a second gear of critical thinking beyond "huh guess we're doing AI now." It's a disgrace. www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/

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This week's Iconic Convo is with Seattle's Wall of Death installation on the Burke-Gilman trail in the Udistrict. Read more @echothearts.bsky.social : theevergreenecho.org/echo/iconicw... #seattle #seattlearts #iconicconvos #wallofdeath

theevergreenecho.orgIconic Convos: The Wall of Death — The Evergreen EchoNicole Bearden (NB): If you end up in the U District, on the Burke-Gilman Trail, you might run across our next guest, one of Seattle’s oddest icons: The Wall of Death. I appreciate you taking time to ...
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Find out Georgetown's Hat n' Boots' REAL opinions on cowboys in the latest Iconic Convos @echothearts.bsky.social theevergreenecho.org/echo/iconich... #seattle #georgetown #hatnboots #Seattlehistory

theevergreenecho.orgIconic Convos: Hat 'n Boots — The Evergreen EchoOn my way back from my short hiatus, I ran into our next Iconic Convos interviewees, Hat n’ Boots at Oxbow Park in Georgetown. At 22-feet high (Boots) and 44-feet wide (Hat), these two are hard to ign...
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Promise Mascot Agency by @kaizengameworks.com released today, and I'm having the best time getting into this Yakuza/Love hotel/Mascot gameplay. My gamepad with stick drift adds another layer of bonkers to a weird+wonderful game (am I running into everything? Absolutely). ++Recommend

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Not into signing up to read online?Good news! By populat demand, @echothearts.bsky.social just got rid of our paywall. You can still create an account to support our writer's co-op/local journalism, but no longer need to sign in just to browse our stories. theevergreenecho.org

theevergreenecho.orgThe Evergreen EchoAs a creative cooperative, we give voice to the silenced and amplify the stories from our thriving communities around the Puget Sound region.
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Or even some of my arts writing, like this one about @meghanthreinfhir.bsky.social (who has another show up at PublicDisplay.Art in Seattle right now): theevergreenecho.org/echo/meghant...

theevergreenecho.orgSeattle’s Meghan Trainor Puts the “A” in STEAM with STEM-Infused Art — The Evergreen EchoMeghan Trainor’s work has always had spiritual connections. With a practice firmly rooted in her own ancestral Irish Catholic imagery and iconography in her early art-making days, Trainor found new in...
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Except: "...someone once sacrificed their hair. We were unsure about that one, since what use would we have for hair? But it caught in our strings, making a new song, and stray pieces were snatched up by birds for their nests nearby, who joined their melodies with ours. Gifts upon gifts."