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Joe Phelan🍁
@jpinnv.bsky.social
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Civilized, Discontent in Northern Nevada. Photos of the dog & other stuff. Prose & poetry snippets that I love sometimes too.
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Joe Phelan🍁 @jpinnv.bsky.social · Jan 20
I want degenerate art and decadent culture.
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Joe Phelan🍁 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 1h
I got pulled over & begged the policeman not to take my stuff because it cost me too much money
AND HE DID NOT TAKE MY STUFF! He said it's all right, so guess what, I managed to make it through election day!

#Gratitude
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Joe Phelan🍁 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 3h
*of
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Joe Phelan🍁 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 3h
Proud of the Daughter who spent much if her day here in NV phone-banking to NY & MN
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Joe Phelan🍁 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 13h
Full article:
www.laweekly.com/fuck-yoursel...
www.laweekly.com
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Joe Phelan🍁 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 13h
He did so much to maintain decorum and elevate the level of discourse.
Screenshot from LA WEEKLY of an article from July 1, 2004 with the headline "Fuck Yourself, Dick Cheney." The first paragraph reads "Dick Cheney had some advice during the U.S. Senate's annual photo session for Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy, who has been relentless in his criticism of the no-bid contracts awarded to the vice president's alma mater, Halliburton. A search of the Nexis newspaper database showed only one U.S. daily newspaper — the Washington Post — quoted the vice president's wish for Leahy's self-sufficiency: "Fuck yourself." Here's how other newspapers and wire services handled the vice president's words."
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Joe Phelan🍁 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 1d
Yes.
Savor it.
Congratulations!

[despair will come soon enough]
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Joe Phelan🍁 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 1d
Never not bring the accordion!
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Joe Phelan🍁 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 2d
Walking by the river on time change day.
#PhoneSnap
Looking upstream from a bridge, the sun in the clear blue sky making the golden trees glow. Golden trees glow in the bright sunlight, khaki hills behind. Two pumpkins carved with faces sit in the shallow river water, some golden trees on the distant hillside. The river, the hills, a golden tree lit by the slanting sunlight.
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Joe Phelan🍁 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 2d
New Raymond Williams extended director's cut:
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City and country .. fireplace and candle .. gaslight and heater and aqueduct;
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Joe Phelan🍁 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 2d
MAIL ART!!!
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Joe Phelan🍁 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 2d
*WVU
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Joe Phelan🍁 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 2d
I blame the UWV consulting debacle for the decline in puppeteers.

www.thedaonline.com/culture/curt...
Curtain call: WVU moves to cut the strings on puppetry program
West Virginia University has slated the program for the bachelor’s in puppetry to be discontinued at the end of the school year.
www.thedaonline.com
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Joe Phelan🍁 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 2d
A twenty-four hour clock at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, with standards for lengths of the British Yard, Two Feet, One Foot, Six Inches and others.
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Joe Phelan🍁 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 3d
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Joe Phelan🍁 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 3d
Ooooooh, no, wait, sorry--
"Jack" is a diminutive of John, not James, isn't it, so this doesn't fit.

Dang.
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Joe Phelan🍁 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 3d
Poster for the movie BILLY JACK with the title in bright red on a yellow background, and a black and white image of Tom Laughlin as the title character in his signature hat.
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Joe Phelan🍁 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 4d
The "cringe follow" expected to be rolled out mid-2026
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Joe Phelan🍁 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 4d
but but but then we couldn't use it to bash anyone & everyone we hate
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Joe Phelan🍁 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 4d
Happy Halloween!

(yearly repost)
Still from the film TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD showing a child wearing a shapeless mass that covers her whole body, her legs protruding from the bottom and a hole for her to peek out of. Across the front it is helpfully labeled "HAM".
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Joe Phelan🍁 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 4d
[goes out to find duct tape]
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Joe Phelan🍁 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 4d
Shitposters are the unacknowledged legislators …
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Joe Phelan🍁 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 5d
I even got a 4-vol. edition (decommissioned, sadly) for that project b/c the poor Penguin I read first just won't hold up.
Four red hardback volumes of CLARISSA are stacked on a shelf in front of other editions of 18th Century literature.
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Joe Phelan🍁 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 5d
When I finished CLARISSA, I had to note the place and precise moment. Without a doubt a life-enhancing book.
"Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, VT, 2/4/94, 3:22 pm" is written in pen on the bottom left-hand corner of a curling and yellowing final page of the body if the novel CLARISSA.
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Joe Phelan🍁 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 5d
I can't disagree!

I want to reread it -- and will! -- but I just can't bear to right now.
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Joe Phelan🍁 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 5d
The Daughter offered this:

What's the difference between a cat and a comma?

One has claws in its paws; the other is a pause in a clause.
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