moptoptony.bsky.social
Musician, writer, bastard out of Carolina
he/him/his
fellow traveler
For your sake and mine, please don't take me too seriously
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I must reread this. There's That Moment about 40% of the way through where I remember thinking, "o shit, Scotty just opened up another chamber"
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If you haven't heard Chet Atkins's cover of Cheek to Cheek, it's very good and on a wholly incredible record called Solo Flights
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That's a spicy bush
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Bless Bandcamp but it confuses and confounds people for some reason, maybe because everyone is addicted to ease and convenience
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How dare we BUY INGREDIENTS to MAKE FOOD in a vainglorious effort to SAVE MONEY
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Is this some kinda evolution of SovCit nonsense? Like what even is the aim & angle of this faux-pedantry
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Definitely not on the same level as Rocky Horror but there are some *classic* songs on that soundtrack. I'm partial to Looking for Trade.
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I had my first successful meditation ever back in December and it was a transcendental experience; I basically deep-breathed for over an hour straight and dumped so much cortisol I literally felt like I was coming up on acid—so much so that my ex checked me for acute mania, lol
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Two words: Jessica Harper
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What's your secret?
(please don't say exercise and a healthy diet, PLEASE don't say exercise and a healthy diet, PLEASE DON'T SAY
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Oh wait, if you're getting into "what even IS reality, you know??" movies of that era, what about Being John Malkovich?
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Sticking things up the urethra.
Live Free or Die
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Utah just watches from across the border
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All the freaks from Montana and South Dakota meet up in Wyoming
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Maximizing profits and/or creating bold new internal contradictions
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fAiR & BaLaNcEd NeWs MeDiA
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People ask me if I write anymore and it's the most depressing question you can ask me these days aside from "Got any shows coming up??"
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And by "would" I mean "I would literally stab a baby to have a high-speed rail line that could take me from my hometown of Greensboro, NC to Montreal, New York or New Orleans on a weekend whim"
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I fucking love TV Tropes, I honestly think my writing and criticism improved because of it
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One of the greatest tricks the devil ever played was convincing people that overpopulation is the problem and not overproduction
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Did you have to clear out a small health potion to make room
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I think of Vella Lovell's perfect line read from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: "As John-Paul Sahhhrtrer wrote, 'We are our choices.'"
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That subhed is a mini-masterpiece of obscurantism
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Then you are the winner
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"ah man I can't trick this guy into incriminating himself, ah Jeezy Pete's"
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More ghosts, less busters
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Well, and we all miss Harold Ramis
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This sounds fake but I literally had this exact thought the other day while driving
Also of note: On the album version, he sings, "But when you talk about destruction,/ Don't you know that you can count me out" then slyly adds "In!" So basically, John Lennon was a land of contrasts,
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Lol dogg are you such a dweeb that you're out here just searching "polymath"
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I recently saw some thread on here pointing out that the Outback had a lesbian-coded ad many many moons ago, and it was the campaign that launched a thousand 'ships.
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Granted it is what happens when you only use (allegedly?) one major source to create an opus
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Do you like piña coladas and gettin' caught in the rain?
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Yet another contradiction of capital predicted precisely by Marx in Vol. 3, page 537
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It's made the ones this morning smell like garlic at least
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Not unless you're selling your songs to like Raytheon
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Wow it's startling to see the Streisand Effect occur practically in real time
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Yup, nailed it, he's That Kind of A Rick & Morty Guy, too smart for his own good, can't take a joke, whiny baby
nailed it
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Come on, we all know A Rick & Morty Guy when we see one
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and if it's the latter then Mom has incredible hiding places that I didn't find when I'd drunkenly yet covertly turn out her room in my Younger & More Vulnerable years
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Truly, I've struggled to figure out if this seemingly superhuman ability results solely from mindset or with the added performance enhancement of secret uppers