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Nat Woodward (Deluxe Edition)

@natwoodward.bsky.social

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🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Garrulous and peripatetic. Technical Writer, Dad Band member, former radio DJ. Working from home in Berkshire County. Also available on Compact Disc.

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Nat Woodward (Deluxe Edition) @natwoodward.bsky.social · Nov 20

Sometimes for old times sake, I go out at lunchtime and spend $12 on a burrito

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Nat Woodward (Deluxe Edition) @natwoodward.bsky.social · 15h

Or, if you want/need to wear stuff on your face inside the Louvre, at minimum you could require you get your photo taken when you enter.

Nat Woodward (Deluxe Edition) @natwoodward.bsky.social · 15h

If the Louvre has a good security system, you would think they would have pictures of everyone who "cased the joint" over the last 90 days, and that'd be a starting point, right? Also, wouldn't it make sense for the Louvre to prohibit the use of hats/sunglasses/masks in the galleries?

Nat Woodward (Deluxe Edition) @natwoodward.bsky.social · 16h

My feed is full of good people RAINING FIRE on trolls that are already vastly overrepresented in our discourse and don't deserve the elevation that replies offer. After awhile, reading the replies is nearly as bad as reading the trolls. Maybe I need to dilute my feed with more follows.

Nat Woodward (Deluxe Edition) @natwoodward.bsky.social · 16h

Penne was designed by a sadist to roll off your fork, with the best possible bounce off your plate to land on your lap.

Nat Woodward (Deluxe Edition) @natwoodward.bsky.social · 16h

Do you remember the "Big Me" video? That was a novelty crossover hit by itself. (I just looked it up, "Big Me" is 2 minutes 13 seconds long!)

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Nat Woodward (Deluxe Edition) @natwoodward.bsky.social · 16h

We need a word to describe: how long I can sit in a handsome, stylish conference room chair before my body hurts. "The BBD of this cool-looking stool is 30 minutes" (Butt Breaking Duration)

Nat Woodward (Deluxe Edition) @natwoodward.bsky.social · 18h

If people realized TUNNEL OF LOVE was mostly a self-recording too (with better equipment) and the STREETS OF PHILADELPHIA album had been released instead of the Greatest Hits/ESB reunion, then NEBRASKA would be seen as his first (and best) of a series of solo non-ESB projects.

Nat Woodward (Deluxe Edition) @natwoodward.bsky.social · 18h

An album he has decidedly mixed feelings about. Does he wish he'd never been burdened with the expectations of superstardom? After listening to TRACKS II, I see a alternate Bruce timeline, where he became a Neil Young-style genre-hopper, more prolific and varied, but also less consistent.

Nat Woodward (Deluxe Edition) @natwoodward.bsky.social · 18h

I have been listening to NEBRASKA on repeat this week. It's brilliant, duh, and also a career-momentum-killing left turn. I feel like the 1980s music monolith didn't have a model to serve the "side project"? I think it's funny that Bruce subsequently rocketed to superstardom with BORN IN THE USA...

Nat Woodward (Deluxe Edition) @natwoodward.bsky.social · 1d

When I offered to loan my New Jersey Girl wife my copy of Bruce Springsteen's album NEBRASKA, so she could "brush up on it" before we see the movie on Friday, the look of DISDAIN she gave me was palpable

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Nat Woodward (Deluxe Edition) @natwoodward.bsky.social · 1d

Disappointing. I grew up in an upper-middle class preppy New England family, and we were absolutely taught to tuck in our chairs, and I am trying to drill that into my two sons as we speak.

Nat Woodward (Deluxe Edition) @natwoodward.bsky.social · 1d

I saw it for the first time last year, and I was pleasantly surprised. Not really a boxing movie or sports movie at all. More a 1970s, intimate character study:
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ROCKY (for the first time ever)

How can you have never seen Rocky? is a legit question. It came out when I was four, so seeing it in theaters was a no-go. By the time I wa...

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Nat Woodward (Deluxe Edition) @natwoodward.bsky.social · 1d

You want to eat a cursed sandwich?

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Nat Woodward (Deluxe Edition) @natwoodward.bsky.social · 1d

Dolly Parton: youtu.be/e2qvHyFVm20?...

Dolly Parton - Southern Accents

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Nat Woodward (Deluxe Edition) @natwoodward.bsky.social · 1d

Johnny Cash
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Southern Accents

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Nat Woodward (Deluxe Edition) @natwoodward.bsky.social · 1d

I've recently discovered Tom Petty's song "Southern Accents". First I heard Johnny Cash's cover, then Dolly Parton's version convinced me: this is an American standard that no one told me about before. The bridge sends it over the top.
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Southern Accents - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

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Nat Woodward (Deluxe Edition) @natwoodward.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: security footage from Louvre heist released:

a couple of stuffed animals are behind bars in a jail cell .

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Nat Woodward (Deluxe Edition) @natwoodward.bsky.social · 1d

This flightless bird is AT LARGE

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Nat Woodward (Deluxe Edition) @natwoodward.bsky.social · 2d

The Golden Age Of Ad-Free Streaming is over, but our current (tedious) era is still infinitely superior to 1990s video stores + cable TV. Even cable TV + TiVo from the 2000s is inferior to our surfeit of programming today.

Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 3d

Someone doesn’t remember how badly going to a video store sucked, and just generally how much worse things were in the 90s-2000s. Oh, it doesn’t work perfectly? Sometimes they just didn’t have the thing you wanted. We live in an era of unprecedented media abundance and it’s has spoiled us rotten.

fae⁷ @onthistangent.bsky.social · 3d

I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 2d

I call it “joyful rigor” when I explain this effort to my students. I don’t believe in or rather, I’m not a “suffering poet.” I’m a writer who enjoys writing. The work works on me and I’m grateful for the opportunity to delve into the process at my own pace and to be changed by it.

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 3d

That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually.

The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 3d

In terms of process, I enjoy writing but revising????? Oh, that’s my real kink. A second or third draft???? A fourth???? Making tweaks on my desktop AND my phone???? *moans* I’m a WHORE for revision.

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Nat Woodward (Deluxe Edition) @natwoodward.bsky.social · 2d

IMDb dot com went down for me in the last few minutes - I assume this is because of the AWS outage?

Nat Woodward (Deluxe Edition) @natwoodward.bsky.social · 2d

I grew up with that movie and therefore I love it, however, It suffers from the same problem as THE SHINING: the protagonist seemed crazy to begin with, so it was a short trip to his manic state. Do you think he really wanted Jon Voight or Steve McQueen for that part?

Nat Woodward (Deluxe Edition) @natwoodward.bsky.social · 2d

Wanna feel better? Just do what I do, watch some 30-year-old Simpsons episodes with your kid and don't explain the references

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Nat Woodward (Deluxe Edition) @natwoodward.bsky.social · 2d

Is that what it really looks like? No wonder they raised a million dollars, that plate kicks ass.

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Nat Woodward (Deluxe Edition) @natwoodward.bsky.social · 3d

I Google stuff with my voice on my phone every day. Google listens, types in the search window, THEN, if it's a proper name, or a word in a foreign language, Google swaps in what I meant. LATELY, it then takes a wild-ass guess at what I really meant, usually wrong, and returns those results instead.