Roger Vaillancourt

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Roger Vaillancourt

@rogerjva.bsky.social

Professional explicator and maker of soothing sounds. Author of "Un-ruined" a novel from Malarkey Books
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Ruin a children's television program by changing one letter: The Big Comfy Cough
Ruin a children’s television programme by changing one letter: Button Moob
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The next James Bond should be weird. Like he wears welding goggles and he’s afraid of balloons
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The one where Joey finds a rat king in the laundry room. He refuses to let it take his "date socks" and tries to fight it. Chandler watch helplessly as it weaves Joey into its rat mass, asking "Could you BE more trapped in a loom of flesh and horror?" Monica finds part of a clown in her purse.
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This post appeared randomly in my feed and I feel like I just walked past a fascinating conversation happening at a different table in the same restaurant. Bsky does this well in its best moments.
I taught an Intro to Native American Studies in 1997 or 98. We were living near Montevideo at the time. I had Graham Greene’s nephew in my class, so that was kind of fun.
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If I could only recommend one follow on bsky, it would be @tuskjenkins.bsky.social hands down no question just the best of everything
Welcome to the scratch paper museum please crumple up the guest book and miss the trash can
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Look, I’m guessing you need this as much as I did—the tumblr heritage post about native fauna of hardware stores has been updated for craft stores: “Beware a roving pack of domesticated quilters. They fear nothing” #crafters #homedepot 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 www.tumblr.com/brandyschill...
Brandy Schillacewww.tumblr.com *releases pack of dads into home depot* go……be free
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One summer as a kid, I saw my Dad, a Korean war vet, sit in a lawn chair and talk to another man his age, as they listened to fireworks being set off by the town across the lake, and as they watched the sky over the hilltops glow with it, they recalled the war they'd seen 30 years before
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There's nothing more American than ball games and Common Nighthawks! Enjoy this informative nighthawk post from The Chicago Birder Blog. Where have you seen nighthawks this summer? www.chicagobirder.org/blog/2023/6/...
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Groundscore
do you guys have like a phrase you use when you spot something cool on the ground that you're going to pick up and probably keep, like a dollar or a cigarette or a lizard. to alert everyone's attention to your claim to it. i say groundscore. do you say groundscore
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OK besides this below and DEVO coming out of the Kent State massacre, what are other facts you have about the evolution of art / music /etc that wouldn't be obvious if you didn't know but, retroactively, explain and/or illuminate a LOT ?
Reminds me of how almost all the French dadaists and surrealists were WWI veterans of the trenches seriously exploring alternatives to conventional thought and language.
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The Big Lebowski (1998)
Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act’s immutably decreed.
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The Helsinki library is like the apotheosis of Library As Useful Public Space. I am in awe.
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Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy but isn't a selfie
Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy but isn't a selfie
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Today's decision is basically the SC catching up to Nixon's logic of "Well, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal." Now I'm stuck picturing a 27 year old Sam Alito doing the sickos meme as he watched the third Frost interview.
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My favorite books defy easy categorization because the authors themselves refused to limit their imagination or ambition to fit some pre-established genre. I love writing that can't be easily summed up. Stories that sound bonkers until you read them & see the beautiful logic of a creative mind.
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A #filmsky question📽 From the mid-fifties to the mid-sixties there was a certain kind of character role that, regardless of whether your film was sci-fi or courtroom drama or comedy, you would want it played by James Mason or Claude Rains. Who do you cast in those roles in 2024?
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Now is the time of Dena Rizzo
The ol razzle dazzle is dying The new razzle dazzle struggles to be born
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There was a time, still within living memory, when proper newsgathering meant slinging this ~15lb monster over your shoulder and you'd get ten minutes of run time out of that magazine and you damned well better get it to the lab before 4:30 if you want to see it on the six
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Quote skeet with one of your fav films that isn't a hit
Quote skeet with one of your fav films that isn't a hit
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I found your shelf babe
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When you’re young you do things like try to set a log on fire with a match. We’ve all been there
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Truth Coming Out of Her Laundry Bag to Shame Mankind
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Whatever it is, I'm against it
GPT-5 will have 'PhD-level' intelligence.