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Talcott
@talcotts.bsky.social
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Widowed and nonbinary. I talk a lot about Star Trek, Ohio, cats, dinosaurs, and whatever I’m watching on TV. (They/Them)
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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · Nov 14
Hi new followers, here’s what you’re in for:

Weird bits of late-20th century nonsense from Columbus, Ohio (a city that’s as much a sitcom town as Springfield or Pawnee).
A fair amount of Star Trek talk.
Rambling about what I’m reading/watching/playing.
I write and post a poem every day.
Cat photos.
A March 1997 issue of Columbus Monthly with the title “Columbus People and Their Cats (or Columbus Cats and their People).” Ignoring the film I fade out one daydream overlaps another— A man walks in to the saloon. We're lost within a game store outside Cleveland, a labyrinth of shelves that felt unreal even in the moment. I think a fight just broke out. Bare trees shudder through small windows and I wonder if clerks watch the sky when no one else is here. A photo of the alley at sunset. Half-bare trees and garages in silhouette. Bits of light reflect of the top of trash cans and power lines. An orange cat snoozing on a blanket made of comic strips.
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Thurber House @thurberhouse.bsky.social · 16h
Look who stopped by #Thurber House: Mr. Elvis Costello himself! 😎

It's no secret that Elvis is a big #JamesThurber fan. He even made an epic new addition to Jamie's bedroom closet: "Elvis Costello: The singer who bit people!" 😉😂

#asseenincolumbus #asseenincbus #columbus #cbus #columbusohio
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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 2h
They made a WORSE Taco Bell?!
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Out of Context Simpsons Treehouse of Horror @ooccouchgags.bsky.social · 1d
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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 2h
Paul Giamatti going from Harvey Pekar to Star Trek is some incredible pandering to me personally.
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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 2h
Yes! And now with Klingons.
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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 2h
Note to @wickedjaws.bsky.social, Tig is in the trailer.
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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 2h
It looks like the CW drama I want it to be, it’s great to see some old friends, and I’m excited to explore more of the 34th century setting.

(Still nothing to disprove my theory that the version of the EMH here is the one left behind in the Delta Quadrant, who woke up in a museum 700 years later.)
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TrekCore.com 🖖 @trekcore.com · 9h
Here's the new extended trailer for #StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy, just out from #NYCC!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHDD...
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Official Trailer | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025)
YouTube video by Paramount Plus
www.youtube.com
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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 4h
Yeah. Maybe I’ll try the new one at University City sometime.
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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 4h
Oof. But also I get it.
Mine is “customer service for textbooks.”
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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 4h
Oh geeze. Yeah. That seems like a logistical pain to have that much overlap.
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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 5h
(I do think part of the problem is the preparation, so maybe I’ll try again at another location at some point)
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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 5h
I hadn’t really been paying attention, but I lived off of these when I was vegetarian in college, and knew they’d been removed when they narrowed the menu a few years ago, so I felt like I should get one while I can.

I wish I’d just left it a memory though.
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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 5h
I can’t tell if the rereleased 7-Layer Burrito is a terrible mockery of the original, if my local Taco Bell burrito team is struggling with the Windows 98 system I assume is required to make one, or if certain foods just hit differently at 44 than they might have at 22.
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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 5h
I just figured you were there for my panel presentation, “Uh-Oh, Spaghetti-O: American Culture in a Can.”

(Apparently Pasta Con has an academic component)
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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 5h
brb, getting started on my ravioli cosplay.
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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 14h
We all know it’s uncool to wear the band’s shirt to their show, but you want everyone to know that you have good taste and knowledge of that genre, so obviously the answer is a Hip-Hop Taz t-shirt from 1993.
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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 17h
9:00 is the first to go hour by hour until five when night returns to normal afternoons within reach of sunset imperceptibly gradual until we tinker with time to pull the last bits of light inside
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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 18h
Torn between “join us!” and “save yourself!”
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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 18h
My kitchen
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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 18h
Yep!
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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 18h
I think so! After getting a boon from Hestia Melinoë declares “Flame of the hearth” in a very familiar tone.
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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 1d
You’re welcome! It’s pretty great.
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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 1d
I don’t know if it covers ALL events, but, for example, Eleven P.M. was with a live jazz orchestra. So if that counts, yes!

There is a $5 charge for when they get actual 35mm film in, but that’s pretty rare (just Hundreds of Beavers here).
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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 1d
Was that just a “Faith of the Heart” joke in Hades II?!
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acabylon 👻 BOO! 👻 @acabylonbee.bsky.social · 1d
it takes a lot to make a stew
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