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herreidjohn.bsky.social
Graphic designer, Catholic dad, guy who makes beer, bread, and sometimes art.
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Woke up with an appetite for the first time since Wednesday!

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Shrek was always bad, though

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Important news from today, my zoo-volunteer daughter says today she got to handle and pet Dwayne The Rockhopper Penguin.

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Day four of flu, time has no meaning, day is night, night is day. Slept most of yesterday, woke at 3:00 am, had a small meal and watched a silent film. Time to return to bed until the next interval of wakefulness

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Judith and Holofernes by Johannes Josephus Aarts, c. early 20th century.

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When they tell the staff at Applebee’s that it’s my birthday

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The weaselly, utterly insincere performative outrage thing that Vance does is stomach-turning

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I think this is the sickest I have felt since my first tangle with Covid. Flu is quite bad this year!

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Are all of these guys under the impression that 80s action movies are how reality works news.google.com/read/CBMilAF...

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12 episode gritty drama about Elan Sleazebaggano

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Years ago, a friend posted that when he was growing up he thought "no thanks" meant essentially "there will be no thanks for you. thanks is canceled, because I don't want it." I think about this almost every time someone says or writes "no thanks"

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Chained forever to its perch, the goldfinch, painted by Carel Fabritius in 1654. He was killed by the Delft munitions explosion later that year. Today is his birthday.

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Had a fever last night and hallucinations but I was lucid enough to realize the hallucinations weren’t real, aka the Philip K. Dick experience.

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Joan of Arc by Jan Toorop, 1890s.

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Elizabeth Catlett, Sharecropper, 1952 #womensart

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The reason I tried gouache is because I go to drop-in painting and drawing sessions, and two artists there use it and it looked fun. Also how I got into printmaking and oil painting. Creative communities are so important, especially in-person ones

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If you came of age circa late 90s / early 2000s in conservative religious circles, the way this imagery resembles end-times Antichrist speculation of that era is downright spooky www.npr.org/2025/02/26/n...

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At least we still have Adrian Chiles

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Okay but this is also the plot of a classic Gene Wolfe tetralogy

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Fun that half of Catholic media right now is just publishing headlines like INSPIRING! This Member of the Torturer’s Guild Graduated from a Catholic Great Books University

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Remembering when I got to see Hayao Miyazaki in 2009 when he did an in-person appearance in Berkeley and how the guy interviewing him kept asking questions about his movies that were filtered through an American political lens and Miyazaki was just… perplexed

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I took a vacation day and it was one of the best days off I have ever had. Started with Mass and confession Nice coffee Quiet chores, framed some pictures Watched Umbrellas of Cherbourg Tried out my new paints Made pasta carbonara Went to weekly drawing session Having a bourbon now

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Trying out gouache for the first time. Spent about an hour on this.

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