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Brian Anderson

@bganderson.bsky.social

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What can I do to help you become the person you want to be? Profile pic taken in Québec City. Banner pic taken at Alfred University. he/him

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 50m

Time broke in 2020.

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Kay Profundo @unicornosis.bsky.social · Feb 18

An idea came to me in a dream that Columbo is not so much a cop as he is a ronin*

*masterless samurai

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 1h

I feel like Willie Dixon needs to be mentioned as important, even if he's not best known as an artist in his own right.

Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 1h

You could use it for rating music or fizzy drinks.

Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 1h

It's short and memorable! That's better than a lot of email addresses.

Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 1h

With luck it's closer to "Braindead" ( youtu.be/3uxf--fGOzw ) and not as upsetting as "Meet the Feebles" ( clip not provided due to emotional trauma ).

Brain-Dead (Dead-Alive) - I Kick Arse For The Lord!

YouTube video by Robert Spooner

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 13h

Now I'm reminded of the @midnightpals.bsky.social bit where Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker agree that America is entirely inhabited by cowboys.

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 13h

My grandparents had a small farm where the Hereford calves would sometimes slip out of the electric fence, and I had touched it a couple times, but yeah, I certainly wouldn't want to be stuck.

Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 13h

Earlier. With the language and the mores, it feels more Victorian or Edwardian than something on the cusp of the Great Depression when talking pictures were being introduced.

Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 13h

I did think he was the one most likely to drink Coca-Cola.

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah, I keep calling it an invasion, and the argument is always "They were invited!" By a very small number of aristocrats with no official standing for it.

But hey, foreign ruler shows up with an army and the country just decides he gets to be king now. Sure. A revolution.

Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 17h

My farm-working friend is sure that if a sheep can find a way to kill itself, it will. He places them at the low end of the agricultural intelligence scale, just below barley.

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 17h

... Now that I think about it, if you were building a body, why WOULDN'T you make it hot?

*goes back to watching Rocky Horror*

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Kay Sage Appreciator @blurry-line.bsky.social · 2d

“Cold one” is an ancient euphemism that arose due to the fear that saying the word “beer” would cause one to appear

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 18h

For your consideration: asparagus with roasted garlic and chèvre wrapped with prosciutto.

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 18h

They could also eat canned Heinz baked beans, which were first carried in London by Fortnum & Mason in 1886.

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 18h

In college I took a D. H. Lawrence: Fiction into Film course, and despite the fact that we had read the novel, it's always weird to be reminded from the fashions that "Lady Chatterley's Lover" is from 1928.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 18h

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 1d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 18h

And I understand that they have a LOT of fat. It's stored spite, I think.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 21h

Shark fact:

Most "great" white sharks are actually mediocre. They're just extremely confident.

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 19h

Well now I'm just craving trout skin.

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 20h

I too await The Secret Bunny backstories.

Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 20h

The two attitudes that arise seem to be: 1. I need to make sure this happens to someone else. 2. I need to make sure this happens to no one else.

Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 20h

"If you are offended by the sight of the body the Almighty gave us to live in, then put this book aside at once and likewise give up all thought of a career in art." -- Andrew Loomis, "Figure Drawing for All It's Worth," 1943.