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osageorange.bsky.social
This week’s Friday Video featured songs heavily influenced by the #Beatles - few more pronounced than #Nirvana’s “About a Girl,” reportedly written after Kurt Cobain spent an afternoon listening to the Fab Four.

I’m standin’ in your line
I do, hope you have the time

m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzCy...
[Ai] The Beatles - About a Girl
YouTube video by An Electric Mammal
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January 10, 2026 at 4:14 PM
osageorange.bsky.social
Enjoying the new #RitesandTrials anthology from @thebrokenspine.co.uk and I’m chuffed to have a lil piece here from my wayward youth. So many great writers here!.
December 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
osageorange.bsky.social
Today’s Friday Video featured Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska album, not to be confused with his time with E-Street Band:

License, registration
I ain’t got none
But I got a clear conscience
‘Bout the things that I done

m.youtube.com/watch?v=wpvX...
State Trooper
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen - Topic
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December 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
osageorange.bsky.social
Today’s Friday Video featured the B-52’s Rock Lobster, a tune John Lennon credited for getting back in the recording studio in 1980.

According to Lennon, "it sounds just like Ono's music, so I said to meself, 'it's time to get out the old axe and wake the wife up!'"

m.youtube.com/watch?v=n4QS...
The B-52's - Rock Lobster (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by RHINO
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December 12, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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dadakuku.bsky.social
A new verse from returning contributor J. R. Wilkerson:

𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮 𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗮 𝗳𝗶𝘀𝗵

for a
lifetime
he’ll remember
to
take the
cannoli

— J. R. Wilkerson
give a man a fish
for alifetimehe’ll remembertotake thecannoli — J. R. Wilkerson
dadakuku.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social
Wow! Jesse Welles performed his song “Join ICE” on the Colbert Show last night. 🏆
November 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
osageorange.bsky.social
Giving away baby clothes and it’s only now that I understand #whitestripes

m.youtube.com/watch?v=K4dx...
The White Stripes - The Hardest Button To Button (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by The White Stripes
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November 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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dadakuku.bsky.social
A new verse from new contributor J. R. Wilkerson:

𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴’𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗲𝘀

came ill-equipped
in mending
the eggman,
his
goo goo
g’joob

— J. R. Wilkerson
all the king’s horses
came ill-equippedin mendingthe eggman,hisgoo goog’joob — J. R. Wilkerson
dadakuku.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
osageorange.bsky.social
Cake still going the distance
September 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
osageorange.bsky.social
Nevermore
September 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
osageorange.bsky.social
Going through an Elvis Costello #elviscostello phase

m.youtube.com/watch?v=snPD...
Elvis Costello - Watching The Detectives
YouTube video by ElvisCostelloVEVO
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July 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
osageorange.bsky.social
I’m a sucker for van Gogh, I like to get thisclose to see the paint textures
May 31, 2025 at 9:35 PM
osageorange.bsky.social
A lil Colombian-inspired haiku, previously published with @rfpress.bsky.social 🐸

#PoemsAbout #Green
@brokenspinearts.bsky.social @alanparry83.bsky.social
May 2, 2025 at 9:42 AM
osageorange.bsky.social
This haunting piece from Syreeta Muir colored me like permanent Sharpie. Not for the dry-erase:

@brokenspinearts.bsky.social #LiftToTheSky @phantomsspleen.bsky.social

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"This love is like the ghost of Schrödinger’s dead cat" by Syreeta Muir
I’m sure my moans could carryacross 4000 miles. More maybe.They go as the crow flies when I thinkyou’re in another woman’s bed.I have my fingers crossedagainst it— the thought of your closed curves,yo...
https://roifaineantarchive.wixsite.com/rf-arc-hive/post/this-love-is-like-the-ghost-of-schrödinger-s-dead-cat-by-syreeta-muir
April 30, 2025 at 8:05 AM
osageorange.bsky.social
A little something previously published with @rfpress.bsky.social

#PoemsAbout #WolvesAtTheDoor @brokenspinearts.bsky.social @alanparry83.bsky.social
April 25, 2025 at 9:47 AM
osageorange.bsky.social
Who indeed
March 29, 2025 at 11:16 AM
osageorange.bsky.social
It’s 3AM and I must be lonely
March 7, 2025 at 8:22 AM
osageorange.bsky.social
For whoever needs it
February 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
osageorange.bsky.social
One banger after another last night at @ottobar.bsky.social in Baltimore with @realestateband.bsky.social
February 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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petrana.bsky.social
Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...
A screenshot of Maggie Smith's "Good Bones" Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children. For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird. For every loved child, a child broken, bagged, sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world is at least half terrible, and for every kind stranger, there is one who would break you, though I keep this from my children. I am trying to sell them the world. Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.
January 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
osageorange.bsky.social
Dolphin shopping in Filandia, Colombia
January 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM