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(((Mr. Brian D. Johnson)))
@bjohnson.bsky.social
Jew. Reader. Writer.

Madison, Wisconsin.

“Treat everyone as if they are [G!d] in drag.”
-Ram Dass.

October 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
More useful Yiddish.
August 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
From Jewish Currents.

Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL CEO:
January 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
This is the type of Yiddish expression I need to know.
January 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Added to my Kaweco collection with a Perko. It's a very simple pen, as per the whole point of the Perko, a beginner pen. I put a converter in it and am enjoying it. Wrote my journal entry with it this morning.

#fountainpen
January 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Yiddish!
January 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Regarding Pelikan pens: I acquired a Pelikan Pina Colada refillable roller ball and am over the moon about it.
January 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Just want to put this out into the world: My two favorite brands of fountain pens are Kaweco Sports and Pelikan. Those are all I "need." #fountainpens
January 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Fuck Meta.
January 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
“The ultimate skill of an artist is to transcend the superficiality of an object.” —the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
December 28, 2024 at 4:44 AM
Here in Madison, WI, on Monroe St., the neighborhoods now has a tradition of giant, inflatable Santas. They are all the same. Someone can drive for blocks and blocks and, one house after another has the same inflatable Santa before it and after it. For some reason, this triggers my anxiety.
December 25, 2024 at 2:05 PM
November 19, 2024 at 11:45 PM
But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden…

Waugh, Brideshead Revisited.
August 21, 2024 at 11:44 AM