can’t see the forest

The more bored or more observant might have noticed my old avatar image. It was a Soviet-looking, sepia-toned letter B. A friend left the photo on my computer, and I learned only yesterday that it was actually a digitally modified photograph of a magazine ad for a mastering studio in North Carolina.

To avoid any trademark or copyright issues—and, hey, just because it’s springtime—we’re going to say goodbye to the Soviet B and move along to a brand new avatar image. It features the Nagasaki mushroom cloud and my friend’s Devon Rex, Lejoon, in such a way as to suggest the cat’s darkly ponderous persona (with which my own frequently coincides):