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caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 1h

Omg that's disgusting! Unbelievable.

caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 2h

I could not disagree with this more.

caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 17h

One of my non-stop laff riots with kids is making up state names for the ones we can't remember in "fifty nifty...". "Alabama, Alaska, Aritania, Amizino", etc.

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caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 17h

Next stop: planets!

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caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 17h

Is it just me or is it apparent that these dudes' lives are an obvious explanation for how they turned out like that and also an obvious consequence of how they turned out? They could have just been different than that and they would have friends, significant others, community, etc.

caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 17h

It is impossible to imagine but it is also why those dudes are in those chats.

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caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 17h

You know when I see this sort of thing it makes me grateful to my parents for not raising me to be a moronic piece of shit

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caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 17h

This reminds me of a meme @jonhendren.com shared once that said "you have been visited by the big dinner boy". It was one of these type of guys standing in the kitchen stirring some kind of pot in his tighty whiteys.

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caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 17h

You guys must have heard 50 Nifty United States? They use it in 2nd grade where I teach so I've taught it dozens of times. It lasts as long as you'd think a song about 50 states would last.

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caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 19h

Music biz consultants started warning people in 2008: don't tie your whole mailing list to a website you don't own. What are you going to do when it disappears?

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caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 19h

This makes me so happy. That guy turned millions of kids on to Fleetwood Mac.

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caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 19h

In retrospect, so many of these things that we felt powerless about could have been solved by one parent making a phone call to another parent. Like when I kid in my class came over for a slumber party and stole my grandma's copy of amazing spider man #8.

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caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 19h

Yeah but can he do it from memory?

caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 19h

These guys are such dildos. Post pictures of them eating 7-11 buffalo chicken wings with their bare hands and spilling cans of red bull down the front of their cargo shorts, if you must post pictures of them at all. 100% guarantee: they all do it several times per day.

caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 22h

I have a friend who has his whole touring and mailing list infrastructure set up on FB and it won't show his followers his gig announcements unless he pays them $75/post.

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caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 22h

This guy looks like somebody Quentin Tarantino would have nightmares about when he's on cough syrup on 1992.

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caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 1d

That's a really interesting point-- I worked at a bookstore in the mall as a high school kid and our policy was to shelve people where the pub wanted them shelved, which was not always where the fans wanted them to be. Danielle Steele wanted to be in fiction and her fans insisted she was romance.

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caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 1d

It's not unhinged if it's true. You can always tell when a documentary is quoting Fitzgerald or Hemingway because the writing starts to suck all of a sudden.

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caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 1d

It will never stop bothering me. Im not going to start using a word or phrase incorrectly just because you don't know what it means.

caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 1d

That's the thing-- not only are they awful, they are also incurious and stupid.

caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 2d

No kidding-- they are being very selective about the he areas they target

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caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 4d

It doesn't help that jl is the kind of person you can't look at without feeling like you just drank a bottle of castor oil

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caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 4d

Totally. All those people speak like they dropped out of school in the fourth grade, and they write even worse than that.

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caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 4d

It would be a shame if he got the covid again and suffocated to death in the open air. I remember the first time he got it and they tried to make his hospital room look like an office, and propped him up for sickly photos. "Here's the president, hard at work in his office with a hospital bed in it."

caseyabrams.bsky.social @caseyabrams.bsky.social · 4d

I thought it was an ad for a long cabin from a catalog. Also it hurts my eyes to look at it.

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