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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 · 16h
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 · 16h
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 · 22h
MAIL ART!!!
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Joe Phelan🍁 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 1d
*WVU
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Joe Phelan🍁 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 1d
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 · 1d
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 · 1d
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Joe Phelan🍁 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 2d
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 · 2d
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 · 2d
The "cringe follow" expected to be rolled out mid-2026
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Joe Phelan🍁 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 2d
but but but then we couldn't use it to bash anyone & everyone we hate
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Joe Phelan🍁 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 2d
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 · 2d
[goes out to find duct tape]
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Joe Phelan🍁 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 2d
Where are the Disney Princesses of yesteryear
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Halloween Parade Report: innumerable K-Pop Demon Hunters, 6-7 was undoubtedly the most popular teacher costume, surprising number of pickles.
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Joe Phelan🍁 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 3d
Shitposters are the unacknowledged legislators …
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Joe Phelan🍁 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 3d
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 · 3d
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 · 3d
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 · 3d
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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Joe Phelan🍁 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 3d
Clarissa is one of my favorite reading experiences ever--I hope it is for you too.
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Joe Phelan🍁 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 3d
I'm always nostalgic for St. Louis on Halloween because it is the custom there for trick-or-treaters to tell a joke in exchange for candy. Doorkeepers find it sweet and often funny, but it does put more pressure on the kids.

If you were trick-r-treating in STL, what joke would you tell?
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Joe Phelan🍁 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 3d
Something about a bee and an orchid?
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Joe Phelan🍁 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 4d
Oooooo, pretty scary, kids!
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Joe Phelan🍁 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 4d
Modify a letter, ruin a brand.
Two refillable water bottles with the brand name "Pathwater", but the one on the right has been modified with a sharpie pen to read "Bathwater".
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Joe Phelan🍁 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 4d
(sorry sorry sorry)