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D. M. S. Fick

@dmsfick.bsky.social

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Minnesota #AuthorsGuild LEWIS SINCLAIR AND THE GENTLEMEN COWBOYS from CamCat Books Emmy-nominated/grant-awarded Educated in 12-student school Rode bus thru France w/retired showgirl Extra in movie Fargo Slept through London hurricane www.dmsfick.com

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D. M. S. Fick @dmsfick.bsky.social · Nov 2

I wrote and animated a mashup of 70s film, Greek & Roman mythology and 60s TV hillbillies. It's not for everybody. It could use some more work.
It succeeds at what I was trying to do.

vimeo.com/187932064

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D. M. S. Fick @dmsfick.bsky.social · 12h

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Lucan

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 16h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

D. M. S. Fick @dmsfick.bsky.social · 13h

Ai is making these types of scams outrageous. They do it with podcast invitations, PR requests, and publisher emails as well. It's awful.

D. M. S. Fick @dmsfick.bsky.social · 14h

These are all delightful.

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D. M. S. Fick @dmsfick.bsky.social · 16h

There's a Christmas movie starring Brad Dourif (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) and Grace Zabriskie (Twin Peaks).
I'm sensing a whole new Christmas movie genre.
www.imdb.com/title/tt3395...

Christmas at Rosemont (2015) ⭐ 6.7 | Drama

1h 35m | TV-14

www.imdb.com

D. M. S. Fick @dmsfick.bsky.social · 17h

I haven't promoted digital formats of my book much, focusing more on getting people to buy it through their fav bookstore. However, it's looking like that may not be possible in the near future, SO
please buy the audiobook through libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
or the ebook www.amazon.com/Lewis-Sincla...

Lewis Sinclair and the Gentlemen Cowboys Audiobook on Libro.fm

A missing brooch. A face set in cement. This is not your average music festival. Lewis Sinclair, a stalwart and tender country musician, is about to take the stage with his band, the Gentlemen Cowboys...

libro.fm

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Virginia Mercury @virginiamercury.com · 18h

Barbara Kingsolver opened the facility in Pennington Gap, Virginia in January with royalties from her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “Demon Copperhead." The center offers support, stability and a reentry point in a region devastated by painkiller addiction. virginiamercury.com/2025/10/08/d...

‘Demon Copperhead’ author, Virginian lays foundation for women in Appalachia to beat addiction • Virginia Mercury

Barbara Kingsolver opened the Pennington Gap, Virginia facility in January with royalties from her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “Demon Copperhead,” whose plot revolves around Appalachia’s opioid cris...

virginiamercury.com

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D. M. S. Fick @dmsfick.bsky.social · 17h

If Abbie was alive and on Bluesky, he would definitely appreciate this.

D. M. S. Fick @dmsfick.bsky.social · 17h

I lived all my life up until a couple months ago thinking it was
Hippy
and
Yippy
not Hippie and Yippie.

I mean, as a kid, I had a crush on Abbie Hoffman. I would have thought I'd know. I guess how he spelled his name should have been a clue.

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Christy Klancher @stpauligrrrl.bsky.social · 23h

Riding into Wednesday like

Two earthenware camel statues from the Tang Dynasty, a dromedary in the foreground and a bactrian behind it with a little dude with one armed raised in a pointy hat riding between its humps At Minneapolis Institute of Art.

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D. M. S. Fick @dmsfick.bsky.social · 23h

Better than Almost Nearly.

D. M. S. Fick @dmsfick.bsky.social · 1d

Random things about me:

1. I have three earlobes (or one regular and one split). This is likely all that remains of my twin. I've never been good at sharing.

2. I'm too lazy to think of any other random things, but there are at least 3 more in my profile/bio.

MsCrisis @mscrisis.bsky.social · 1d

Random things about me:

1. My left kidney isn’t where it should be

2. My first dog was a high content wolfdog named Chè

3. I did 2 degrees in opposing fields including minors in 5 yrs - concurrent is a thing!

5. I met pretty much all 3 of my besties in one weekend in 1990.

Julie (unprofessional) @juliebalt.bsky.social · 1d

Random things about me:

1. I used to be a personal chef, and before that, a chemist

2. It's possible I might be an EU citizen.

3. I went to a tiny school. There were 23 people in my graduating class, and that was a larger one.

4. I had a Manx cat when I was a child.

D. M. S. Fick @dmsfick.bsky.social · 1d

This really existed?!?!?

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D. M. S. Fick @dmsfick.bsky.social · 1d

Fun new vocal exercise.

Don't think I could say, "Blessed are the beesbreeches" once let alone three times.

D. M. S. Fick @dmsfick.bsky.social · 1d

Saw on Instagram their playing at a festival right now called something like Almost (or Nearly) Bluegrass.

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D. M. S. Fick @dmsfick.bsky.social · 1d

I've never seen the movie, so didn't know the song was in it. Makes me so happy.

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D. M. S. Fick @dmsfick.bsky.social · 1d

Yikes!

D. M. S. Fick @dmsfick.bsky.social · 1d

There is beauty in the world.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal cuts

Thirty paintings by Bob Ross are set to be auctioned to support public television stations

abcnews.go.com

D. M. S. Fick @dmsfick.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder if people get as passionate about Kittywampus versus Cattywampus as people do about that Greyduck game.

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D. M. S. Fick @dmsfick.bsky.social · 1d

If we're thinking about the same "all", it was a prosthetic. I remember reading about it in Premiere or perhaps Movieline at the time.

D. M. S. Fick @dmsfick.bsky.social · 1d

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D. M. S. Fick @dmsfick.bsky.social · 1d

I was almost Janine, but my cousin got that instead. (Her siblings are all J names. My siblings are not alliteratively named.) We were in the same grade all through school. My names's Denise. We were frequently called Jenise and Danine, not in gest.

Jennifer Br🎃🎃ks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 1d

My dad lobbied hard for “Anouk.”

Anouk freaking Brooks.