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Mark Feltskog

@markstextterminal.bsky.social

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Public school educator, friend to stray cats everywhere, blogger, citizen, freelance humanist, lifelong reader, inveterate urban dweller, and grateful to live in the beautiful borough of Brooklyn, New York.

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Mark Feltskog @markstextterminal.bsky.social · Jul 28

Hello Esteemed Bluesky Users. Please don't follow me if you seek to draw attention to pictures of yourself in various states of undress. I am an old guy and a long way from interested. And thanks.

Mark Feltskog @markstextterminal.bsky.social · 19h

Went in to have a mole removed from my neck because I was tired of shaving around it. Next thing I knew I was diagnosed with a melanoma and scheduled for sentinel node exploratory surgery. Two surgeries (the radical neck dissection followed by a thyroidectomy), and 21 years later, I am cured.

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Mark Feltskog @markstextterminal.bsky.social · 1d

Wow. Had the same surgery in 2004 and I have that same scar.

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Mark Feltskog @markstextterminal.bsky.social · 2d

But no, not naked, but clothed in pleasantly green frog outfits.

Mark Feltskog @markstextterminal.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah. Personally, I think contrarianism is a particularly low form of intellectual laziness.

Mark Feltskog @markstextterminal.bsky.social · 2d

Wait: what?

Mark Feltskog @markstextterminal.bsky.social · 2d

Route 2, coming down the hill into North Adams? Isn't that the town of Florida?

Mark Feltskog @markstextterminal.bsky.social · 3d

Perfect.

Mark Feltskog @markstextterminal.bsky.social · 3d

Welcome to our fair city.

Mark Feltskog @markstextterminal.bsky.social · 3d

You also generously endowed humanity with Bob and Doug McKenzie, as well as Ricky, Julian, Bubbles, Mr. Lahey, and Randy.

Mark Feltskog @markstextterminal.bsky.social · 4d

Sounds like it, yes.

Mark Feltskog @markstextterminal.bsky.social · 4d

It's a brown-nose-orama!

Mark Feltskog @markstextterminal.bsky.social · 4d

Please, for the love of God, stop!

Mark Feltskog @markstextterminal.bsky.social · 4d

And also enjoying, while so doing, many of the city's fabled microbrews.

Mark Feltskog @markstextterminal.bsky.social · 4d

Excellent question. Please advise.

Mark Feltskog @markstextterminal.bsky.social · 4d

Finally, some good news!

Mark Feltskog @markstextterminal.bsky.social · 4d

Effusive congratulations!

Mark Feltskog @markstextterminal.bsky.social · 4d

I understand.

Mark Feltskog @markstextterminal.bsky.social · 4d

Hahahaahahaha! May we anticipate the original oil showing up shortly at Sotheby's?

Mark Feltskog @markstextterminal.bsky.social · 4d

Whoa. Consider my mellow vicariously harsher. (was-wah-wah trombone sound).

Mark Feltskog @markstextterminal.bsky.social · 4d

Uhhhh...yikes (?).

Mark Feltskog @markstextterminal.bsky.social · 4d

Safe travels, my friend.

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Mark Feltskog @markstextterminal.bsky.social · 4d

Also known as a polysemous word.

Mark Feltskog @markstextterminal.bsky.social · 4d

Well, I'd spent a fair amount of time--relatively--in rural areas of the the United States, so I hate to say it, but yeah, I actually had a pretty good idea.

Mark Feltskog @markstextterminal.bsky.social · 4d

Edith and I enjoyed a nice visit today on Amersfort Place. Okay, if you must know, yes: There was Churu involved.

Mark Feltskog @markstextterminal.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulation!