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Blacque Jacque Shellacque

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Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 1h

Basically his damages claim was that he was either going to have to buy a new house or a small storage facility because his house was full of mattresses that he could not return.

Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 4h

Mirapex. I was briefly involved in the class action litigation. We had one guy who became addicted to buying mattresses.

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Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 4h

Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 5h

I had to look it up and then I wished I hadn’t

Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 11h

I’ve listened to it at least once a day since it dropped

Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 11h

yeah, you should probably listen to this

Agriculture @agriculturemusic.bsky.social · 27d

Our new song is out today. It's called "Dan's Love Song" and I think it rules. The Spiritual Sound, our second LP is out October 3 via The Flenser.

Pre-order: nowflensing.com
Visualizer: youtu.be/44adRpLgq1o

Agriculture - Dan's Love Song (Official Visualizer)

YouTube video by The Flenser

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Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 11h

Opinions: not even once

Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 12h

this game is kinda boring

Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 17h

[SPOILER ALERT] Did you catch this visual allusion to Caravaggio’s Entombment as Robbie was in Tom’s arms on the way to the hospital?

The Entombment of Christ is an oil on canvas painting by Caravaggio, from 1603–1604. It was created for the second chapel on the right in Santa Maria in Vallicella (the Chiesa Nuova), a church built for the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri.

This Counter-Reformation painting – with a diagonal cascade of mourners and cadaver-bearers descending to the limp, dead Christ and the bare stone – is not a moment of transfiguration, but of mourning. As the viewer's eye descends from the gloom there is, too, a descent from the hysteria of Mary of Clopas through subdued emotion to death as the final emotional silencing. Unlike the gory post-crucifixion Jesus in morbid Spanish displays, Italian Christs die generally bloodlessly, and slump in a geometrically challenging display. As if emphasizing the dead Christ's inability to feel pain, a hand enters the wound at his side. His body is one of a muscled, veined, thick-limbed laborer rather than the usual, bony-thin depiction.
Two men carry the body. John the Evangelist, identified only by his youthful appearance and red cloak supports the dead Christ on his right knee and with his right arm, inadvertently opening the wound. Nicodemus (with the face of Michelangelo) grasps the knees in his arms, with his feet planted at the edge of the slab. Caravaggio balances the stable, dignified position of the body and the unstable exertions of the bearers.

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Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 17h

I may be getting out over my skis here, but I feel like this show might be one of the few cultural products that qualifies as genuinely religious art in the past few decades. There’s so much going on!

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Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 18h

R Crumb cartoon of weird little guy glaring at a normal guy who is whistling a merry little tune, muttering “I loathe every person I see on the street! Lookit that stupid asshole!”

Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 19h

Any other Task heads out there? Whomst among us is Tasking it up out there?

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Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 19h

I’ve been waiting for someone to talk about the theology of Task!

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Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 22h

looking into it

Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 23h

no slop please

Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 1d

Say what you will about the USSR, they made some amazing workplace safety posters

Soviet safety poster showing a guy getting his head crushed like melon between two railroad cars that says BEWARE OF BUFFERS in Russian

Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 1d

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Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 4d

The aesthetics of evangelical pastors (suit & tie/“whacky youth pastor”) have rendered Americans incapable of seeing anyone in a clerical collar as anything other than Roman Catholic.

Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of the Blue Jays’ bullpen look like they could be played by Jesse Plemmons

Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 1d

walks into tattoo parlor: yes, I’d like one of each please

Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 1d

wow I never thought of that before

Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 1d

o madone!

Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 1d

attn @chucktingle.bsky.social

Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 1d

real Saint Paul heads know

Legendary Saint Paul restauranteur Nick Macini and his sons.

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Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 1d

I think that Icelandic brand uses something non-plastic