joshbales.bsky.social
Writer, raconteur, and dachshund enthusiast based in Dayton, Ohio. Big fan of Space, both Ghost: Coast to Coast and Above and Beyond. Fiction in SLATE and elsewhere.
Substack: modernidiot.org
Website: joshbales.net
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I was 14 when the song came out, which was Sandler’s target demographic in the 90s, so this must be one of those things I used to know but had lost to the Mists of Time (age, substances, and a slow apocalypse)
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Ask and ye shall receive: Kirby, last month, at a photo shoot to celebrate his 17th birthday
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That would certainly be a creative choice
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The tricksy little fuckers fell into this crack
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Was planning to FINALLY unpack my books tonight and maybe even go to bed early, but I can put away books and sleep when I’m dead, I reckon
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This is my fourth trip to Columbus and back in five days
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Such a distinctive smell! For me, it conjures a great heat and the smell of pizza inside the cool confines of the Festhaus
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Apparently, the piggy in Cincinnati was originally a 19th century butcher shop sign
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I hadn’t before now, but a life-size, realistic piggy bank is really cool
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This pig statue I saw at the Cincinnati Art Museum last weekend. It’s beautiful
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Makes me nostalgic for my first two website, made on GeoCities: Elephantitic Monkey and Stranded on the Edge of Infinity
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We should all have their backs, loudly, unequivocally.
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These survivors are all brave as fuck. They’re lovable. They deserve to be met where they are, heard out with respect, held and supported and protected.
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Six months later a lot of former mutual friends of mine and Neil’s —all of them social media-savvy folks who usually pipe up in solidarity with other survivors right away— have yet to offer a single word of public support to any of Neil’s accusers.