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Patrick Alan Coleman is on some bullshit at https://trashculture.substack.com/ and https://marriedmystery.substack.com/ Editor of a couple of horticulture industry B2B pubs and was once a parenting “expert” at Fatherly.com. He/Him/Wunderkammer
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THE GULF OF UR MOMS BUTT *high fives self*

I just deleted both Waze and Google maps from my phone and left single star reviews for both. It’s up to you, but I encourage you to do the same. That said. Any good alternatives out there? #gulfofMEXICO

My almost finished Athame. It feels wildly powerful. Final step is etching sigils and charging under the full moon. I am so thankful to have had this opportunity today. #witchsjy

How it started vs. how it’s going.

Making my athame today. Fire, air, earth and eventually a quench. Putting myself inti this thing. Every strike an intention. #witchsky

For what it’s worth journalism is meant to uncover the truths that make the powerful uncomfortable when revealed. This new WaPo mission is fucking bullshit. Sad to see the fourth estate die under the weight of bloated oligarchs.

My first David Lynch film was Wild at Heart. I was in middle school and it hit me like a sledge hammer. Everything about it was frightening and shocking and irresistibly cool. I fell deeply in love with that movie and it has echoed through my life. I have been hooked on his work ever since.

I can’t deal with Lynch’s death. This one hurts so much. His work taught me about art when I was still very very young. And his heart is woven deeply into my experience of the world. We didn’t get enough. youtu.be/JKGlWR7gV4s?...

The last time I practiced witchcraft I was in my 20s. Finding time for ritual was easy. A full moon Monday night was not a problem. Now, as a married adult with two kids, it’s harder. I lit a candle, gave an offering and incense, said thank you. It was brief. But it was all I had. #witchsky

“That our job always and forever was to refuse Apocalypse in all its forms and work cheerfully against it” - Leif Enger, from the book I Cheerfully Refuse.

Finishing out 2024 with one more deadlift PR. 255lbs x 7. 💪🔥 #gymlife (Repost because posting after a dealift means really bad spelling.)

Today my deck gave me The World. I love it when this stuff happens: The end of the fool’s journey on the last day of the year, and a promise of completion and fulfillment of endeavors to come IF you are willing to give back to the world. #tarotsky #witchsky

I’ve been working on my wand for a long time. Solstice feels like a good time to finish it. I found this root on a hike. It feels like it was made for my hand. Wands of #witchsky

Hey #witchsky! I don’t know why this confuses me, but when do ya’ll celebrate Solstice night and the return of the sun? The 20th to the morning of the 21st, or the 21st to the morning of the 22nd?

A reminder to give editors who are AP Style experts a huge amount of appreciation. It’s an ever changing and dense set of writing rules and to have them down cold is an extraordinary feat. #journalism #writersky #editorsky

Pulled The Devil out of my Tarot deck today and decided the message was to engage in shameless materialism and buy all the Christmas gifts in one fucking orgy of consumerist glee.

I can’t imagine what the media would say about how my gaming defines me. Lately I’m playing a bisexual Drow elf fighter with a brain parasite.

Franz Gruber: *Austrian *Organist, choir master, teacher *Wrote music for Silent Night in a single afternoon Hanz Gruber: *German *”terrorist,” exceptional thief, mastermind *Nearly steals $640 million in negotiable bearer bonds in a single night. Both: “Benefits of a classical education”

Forgot my lunch today so I’m soooooo saaaad that I have to go eat pho. [I’m not actually sad]

Yesterday I learned that Franz Gruber wrote Silent Night. Do not get him confused with Hans Gruber whose night at Nakatomi Plaza was anything but silent. I can’t help but feel this is another win for Die Hard is a Christmas Movie crowd.

Yesterday’s tarot study card was the self-assured and cheerful Queen of Wands. Today’s was the burdened, over-extended ten of wands. What I took from it? Put down your burden and be the queen. So the boys and I took a detour to the botanical gardens and Mama Santa’s for a pie.

I just can’t with the holidays this year. 2024 broke me. It wasn’t the election or anything in particular. It’s just that the thousand tiny cuts of late-stage capitalism finally ground my spirit down. I am forced to overextend socially and financially while also being over scheduled.

It’s wild to me that when Dickens created Scrooge, the biggest Christmas villain of all time, his protagonist still paid Cratchit enough to support a wife and SIX kids on a SINGLE INCOME. Like, we’re truly living in post-Dickensian times.

I love them so much.

Maxfield Parrish sky this morning over NEO. The cold clouds a gray-tinted blush with washed out gold edges. A pipe and coffee after clearing the drive. Quiet except for the distant washing cadence of the highway. Peaceful in the cold morning. Everything broken by black branches.

Today’s Tarot card lesson/meditation was the page of pentacles. He’s a dreamer but bribgs assyrances that sometimes dreams can be lucrative if you follow them. Great card for starting this tarot journey. The page suggests success in what I’m seeking to learn. Me and this deck are vibing. #tarotsky

Suddenly this hospital waiting room smells as if someone ordered a dozen foot long onion sandwiches with extra mustard and I want to die.