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Intellectual Homer Something Something

@scottyramone.bsky.social

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Scott Garner. Recovering journalist (mostly sportswriter) now in the booze industry. Passionate about dinosaurs. An absolute delight. He/Him/Y’all

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Intellectual Homer Something Something @scottyramone.bsky.social · Aug 6

In a bid to attract more followers,* I will post one interesting/weird thing about me each day unless I forget or fall into a funk where I determine I am irredeemably boring.

*Honestly, to aid in my literary ambitions.

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Intellectual Homer Something Something @scottyramone.bsky.social · 15h

Also, that is absolutely the correct way to cover him!!

Intellectual Homer Something Something @scottyramone.bsky.social · 15h

He’s a little unsure about what to do with this Wing T, but he moves really well. I’ve seen some of the videos AP has posted and he’s got another gear.

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Intellectual Homer Something Something @scottyramone.bsky.social · 15h

I just realized… is that still Phil Oliver?

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Intellectual Homer Something Something @scottyramone.bsky.social · 15h

I covered No. 3’s dad. 😉

He was pretty good.

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Intellectual Homer Something Something @scottyramone.bsky.social · 16h

Just a million years ago.

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Intellectual Homer Something Something @scottyramone.bsky.social · 16h

I covered them a lot… like 96-97. And then a few scattered games. And a few as a stringer after I left in 05.

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Intellectual Homer Something Something @scottyramone.bsky.social · 16h

The PA announcer is clearly a frustrated color commentary man.

Not a fan, but it certainly screams “rural high school football.”

Intellectual Homer Something Something @scottyramone.bsky.social · 17h

I’m here! Atticus is playing with the high school band tonight.

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Intellectual Homer Something Something @scottyramone.bsky.social · 17h

Ah, I like Bombadil. He’s a perfect Buddhist, just with an odd form of Tourette’s.

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Intellectual Homer Something Something @scottyramone.bsky.social · 17h

From the Party to Rivendale is my favorite part of the trilogy until Return of the King. Part relaxing meditation on home, part harrying flight from doom.

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Intellectual Homer Something Something @scottyramone.bsky.social · 21h

Yes.

It’s like choosing to be a Bard in D&D. You choose, therefore you are a Bard.

But you’re Level 1. Gotta do the work to level up.

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Intellectual Homer Something Something @scottyramone.bsky.social · 22h

Purrito

Intellectual Homer Something Something @scottyramone.bsky.social · 22h

8/ I have a Fairy Tale divorce.

My ex-wife and I remain close friends. We eat a “family dinner” at her house every Tuesday and take family vacations together. She is a model co-parent.

We just really needed to live in separate houses.

My ex-wife, my son, and I stand on a platform overlooking beautiful Talulah Gorge in North Georgia.

Intellectual Homer Something Something @scottyramone.bsky.social · 22h

This gave me a warm fuzzy. Thanks.

Intellectual Homer Something Something @scottyramone.bsky.social · 23h

It’s the second-best Jurassic Park movie, and I say that as an unapologetic fan of both JP and Primitive War.

Intellectual Homer Something Something @scottyramone.bsky.social · 23h

This is evergreen, in good times or bad.

Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 1d

The dooming on this site is getting out of control. Every time you post anything about politics some rando condescendingly wonders how you can't possibly know that elections are over and all hope is lost. If you've completely lost hope, I'm sorry, but shut the fuck up, OK? You're not helping.

Intellectual Homer Something Something @scottyramone.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for this!

Optimism is not passive. The optimist does not wait for the universe to come around. We look for the best path and ask “what can I do to help make this happen.”

Fuck fatalism.

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Bryan "Gazpacho" Carr @learnonaut.bsky.social · 1d

Kieron Gillen said it better and with a cool horse alien

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Intellectual Homer Something Something @scottyramone.bsky.social · 1d

Is it weird that I fixated on the pure anachronistic perfection of “I Can’t Drive 55?”

That doesn’t prove you’re Sammy Hagar. It proves you learned to drive before 1990.

Rachel Walens @rwalens.bsky.social · 1d

“Witnesses say Putnam even performed a brief a cappella version of Hagar’s 1984 hit “I Can’t Drive 55” in an effort to prove his identity.”

[A] bank teller told police [:] “He was wearing red sunglasses and smelled faintly of margarita mix, so I thought it was actually him.”

tinyurl.com/7s7v2vz5

Illinois man arrested after pretending to be rocker Sammy Hagar

Ronnie Putnam allegedly tried to open a bank account in the name of rock musician Sammy Hagar. (MOUT VERNON POLICE PHOTO)

www.yahoo.com

Intellectual Homer Something Something @scottyramone.bsky.social · 1d

I read that as “flashing videos” and had a moment.

a close up of a man 's face with a beard making a funny face .

ALT: a close up of a man 's face with a beard making a funny face .

media.tenor.com

Intellectual Homer Something Something @scottyramone.bsky.social · 1d

The difference between this and most public “apologies” or “defenses” is so stark.

Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 4d

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

STEREOGUM: People my age, we talk about how we were lucky that we didn’t have social media growing up, and there’s no record of all the dumb shit we said and did. You didn’t have social media, but everything you said and did in those years is on record, and you’ve got to live with it now. That’s tough.

VIOLENT J: And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing.

https://www.stereogum.com/2083804/icp-interview-juggalos/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/

Intellectual Homer Something Something @scottyramone.bsky.social · 2d

I’m 53 and no athlete. A 10-minute mile will get my ticker going, but that pace for around 200m is not a real problem.

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 2d

Ganked from Mastodon …

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The photo shows an arm with partial sleeve tattoo, owner is wearing a sleeveless denim jacket. The most prominent tattoo is a pair of scissors, blades part-open and interlocking.

Caption text reads:

My daughter got this matching tattoo today with her best friend. She said something about how they're both crafty and her best friend wants to be a hair stylist but honestly do any of you other moms know if this is a devil symbol or anything? I just want to protect my little girl from satan.

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Intellectual Homer Something Something @scottyramone.bsky.social · 2d

I have other tattoos. Also 100 percent non-Nazi content.

I should actually get a tattoo that says “100 percent Nazi free”

Intellectual Homer Something Something @scottyramone.bsky.social · 2d

Hey, white guys: I’m no paragon of virtue, but my tattoos don’t rely on Nazi symbology, just lyrics written by a dude who mostly annoyed his band mates.

(Still good lyrics. Art is weird.)

A tattooed forearm reads “I’ve kissed mermaids, rode the El Niño,” lyrics from a song by the Pixies.