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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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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 4h

You’re welcome! It’s pretty great.

Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 4h

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 · 6h

Was that just a “Faith of the Heart” joke in Hades II?!

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acabylon 👻 BOO! 👻 @acabylonbee.bsky.social · 8h

it takes a lot to make a stew

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 8h

This is how I read so much Michael Crichton. Also Dave Barry.

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Jul 11

In the 90's, there was one random Anne Rice or Dean Koontz within 3 meters of you, no matter where you were. They were what you had nearby to read, so you read em.

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nonbinary cardinal copia @asterionhex.monster · 8h

This is how I started reading Stephen King and Anne McCaffrey also

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Jul 11

In the 90's, there was one random Anne Rice or Dean Koontz within 3 meters of you, no matter where you were. They were what you had nearby to read, so you read em.

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 8h

Thank you! This is probably my favorite combination.

Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 8h

Goetta, pepper, onion, and mushroom.

Rectangular pizza. Green peppers, red onions, sesame seed crust.

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 8h

A large fiberglass (?) sculpture of Big Bird

Don’t you dare sit on his lap you filthy peasant

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 9h

We’re approaching perfect sunset season, and this is a great dress rehearsal.

Looking down the street to orange clouds over cars and trees.

The Dube on the former with pale pink clouds in the sky at sunset.

Bright orange highlights under dark clouds at dusk.

Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 9h

Mike and Fran beckon you.

Mike and Fran DeWine, jaws agape at the thought of motion pictures.

Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 9h

You could!

Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 9h

My goal this year was to watch an average of one movie each week at @gatewayfilmcenter.bsky.social, and with Perfect Blue this evening I just hit 52 in mid-October.

I love that a third of them are older films too. Some I never thought I’d get to see in a theater.

The Baloonatic
Sherlock Je.
Eleven P.M.
The Wizard of Oz
The Birds
Jaws
Repo Man
The NeverEnding Story
The Muppets Take Manhattan
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Vampire Hunter D
Labyrinth
The Witches
Hard Boiled
Matinee
Perfect Blue

Paprika
Hundreds of Beavers
The Trouble with Jessica
Toxic Avenger
Timestalker
My Dead Friend Zoe
Sew Torn
The Shrouds
Flow
Boys Go To Jupiter
The Day The Earth Blew Up
The Life of Chuck

Ballerina
Honey Don't
Materialists
Jurassic World Rebirth
Superman
Fantastic 4
Weapons
Cat Video Fest 2025
The Long Walk
One Battle After Another
Spinal Tap II
Him

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 11h

Anyway, I’m about to watch Perfect Blue on the same screen (in the same seat) where I watched The Birds last night.

Photo of a movie screen:
“All in the most terrifying place imaginable: Ohio.”

Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 11h

Becoming a full parody of an indie theater regular as I chat with the employees about Satoshi Kon and then recommend “this great Czech production of Faust I watched on Kanopy yesterday.”

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 11h

I think I love Hades so much because it reminds me of walking down alleyways. Hidden realms, familiar though repetition.

Photo looking down an alley near campus, the WOSU studio is about a block away past dumpsters and construction.

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nonbinary cardinal copia @asterionhex.monster · 13h

When you look up some old political thing and it makes no sense but you also remember that “we arrested the girlfriend of antifa” means something right now and it’s just never stopped being like this

A button with a hissing cat that says free trade free land free men. The caption on the picture says Georgist campaign button from the 1890s in which the cat on the badge refers to a slogan "Do you see the cat?" to draw analogy to the land question

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 14h

It would! I also have to imagine consciousness would be so different on the scale. It’s already changed drastically in the 43ish years between my first memories and now.

(This is why my ideal afterlife would be some sort of ghost, which is functionally the same thing after the first millennium.)

Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 14h

Although is there even a difference between death and immortality after the heat death of the universe?

Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 14h

I'll always take immortality. I'm just too curious about what happens next to pass up the chance to know. But I also wonder a lot about what happens on a scale of trillions of years. Obviously it means outliving the Earth, but does this also mean outliving the universe?

Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 16h

I have pre-dinner evening plans today, so to save some time I'm doing some of my pizza prep early. The upshot being an excuse to use some of the goetta as my lunch. On sourdough bread with egg and American cheese.
Plus now my kitchen smells like fried onions. Easily the best sausage out there.

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Marsha Loftis @msloftis.bsky.social · 16h

Finished!!! Star Trek Solar Sail quilt. This has not been washed yet. I will take more pictures later.,#StarTrek #quilt

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 18h

This week’s #LastFourWatched is all five stars and pretty evenly balanced across eighty years.

As great as each of these are, the highlight is definitely Faust. The others could all be improved with the introduction of creepy stop-motion animation and marionettes.

But that’s true of all movies.

Mickey Mouse in The Mad Doctor, The Birds, Faust, and Tucker and Dale vs. Evil. All five stars.

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Ben Leland @benlelandoh.bsky.social · 1d

Quick reminder about Saturday's fundraiser for Jesse Vogel for Columbus City Council. We'll have food from Lavash and Flavor 91, delicious home-brewed beer, and more.

We'd love to see you, but if you can't give us your time, please still send us a donation here: secure.actblue.com/donate/easton

Will & Kerry Easton, John ६ Tiffany Grinstead, Mia Lewis, Morgan Harper, Phyllis Elmo, and Ben Leland invite you to support JESSE VOGEL FOR COLUMBUS CITY COUNCIL Saturday, October 11 4-6 PM 183 Northmoor Place Columbus, OH 43214 RSVP via ActBlue or jessevogelforcouncil@gmail.com Donation levels: $50 $100 $250 $500

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