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DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · Jul 31

If you are in Boston on a Wednesday evening this summer and looking for something to do, consider swinging by the Hatch Shell to catch the summer season of Boston Landmarks Orchestra. There will be free concerts every Wednesday starting at 7:00 PM through August 27th. Come check it out!

Home Page – Landmarks Orchestra

Landmarks Orchestra - Building Community Through Great Music. Learn more about Boston's free orchestra, performing all throughout the area.

www.landmarksorchestra.org

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DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 21m

I don’t know which I hate more; the existence of this sentence or that I understand it

DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 52m

See also: Ichabod Crane in Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow

DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 57m

Time Lords are psychic parasites that need to feed off of the mental energy of other species to maintain mental stability. This is why the Doctor is constantly picking up new traveling companions and why all the other rogue Time Lords are deranged.

Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 16h

Tell me your most unhinged Doctor Who opinion. I mean, if you’re a fan, they’re likely all unhinged anyway.

DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 17h

Is it bad that it didn’t even cross my mind to vote for The Special AKA

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DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 17h

I always liked “Give Me Tonight” more than “Let the Music Play”

DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 17h

I thought this would be a hard decision when I looked at the choices and then immediately picked Lisa Lisa

DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 20h

RIP D’Angelo.

DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 22h

This was an early lesson for me due to the number of classmates I had who died as a result of unfortunate accidents mostly caused by boredom, as well as losing my brother to a hit-and-run driver. I feel like I’ve been processing grief for pretty much my entire adolescent/adult life.

DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 22h

Instead we get decades of “Oops! All Wolverines”

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DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 23h

The last event I read that I thought was any good was the X-Men: Legacy thing where Legion tapped everyone in a remade world where he was a hero and everyone liked him, mostly because the stakes weren’t “this will end mutantkind as we know it”

DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 23h

Wolverine has been played out since I started buying comics in 1986

X-Men Don't Need Britches 💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 1d

What's an opinion about X-Men that'll get you sent to jail? Is Jean really interesting or really boring? Should Logan have stayed dead? Do you think a certain x-mens outfit is positively horrendous even though people seem to love it?

The Brood Saga is better than Dark Phoenix imo 🤷

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DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 23h

It was also really well-constructed in that you could get an entire coherent story just by reading one of the books but there was a larger, richer story that revealed itself by reading everything; decidedly unlike many of the crossovers that followed it

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DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 23h

Also, building Apocalypse’s Horsemen out of the carnage from that event while it was still happening, culminating in the Archangel reveal

It was a fantastic time to jump into the mutant world, the storytelling was just insane

DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 23h

I started buying X-Men comics the issue before Mutant Massacre and I was just taken aback by how bleak and brutal it was

It also kept me spending all of my allowance on X-Men comics throughout most of junior high and high school, right up until I discovered Cure bootlegs

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DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 1d

I’m at the combination- wait

Fat Kid Deals @fatkiddeals.com · 1d

This Dominos is in an old Pizza Hut building 😭😭

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DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 1d

If I have to imagine Ashcroft’s whistle register, so does everyone else. I don’t make the rules here, I just enact them.

DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 1d

I assume this has a Minnie Riperton cover on it

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DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 1d

Every single one of these A-side matches is an affront to my childhood. HOW DARE YOU SIR, I WILL BE VOTING FOR EVERYTHING

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DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 1d

dammit Tom

Peoples Pop Polls: Black Pop History 82-85 @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social · 1d

#BPHM8285 Match A18

1 CHERRELLE! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BV1...
2 GENERAL PUBLIC! www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwgC...
3 KLYMAXX! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_odT...
4 THE COMMODORES! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrkE...

Vote! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Cherrelle - I Didn't Mean To Turn You On - Cherelle swinging from a ship's loading hook

General Public - Tenderness - Squinting eyes

Kylmaxx - Meeting In The Ladies Room - the band looking very tough

Commodores - Nightshift - the word nightshift shifting from blue to red

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DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 3d

Milkshake
La-da-da da-da
Milkshake
La-da-da-da
Milkshake duck again
And the irony of using this song isn’t lost on me

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

The whole internet loves Cola Bottle Nate, a lovely guy who almost kills himself eating Haribro cola bottles! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you Mr. Rimmington is racist

Nathan Rimmington, 33, is a haulier and owner of an HGV driving school in Barnsley. Huge, tattooed, always sweating and always pining for a pint, he is portrayed in the series as an incorrigible joker: "If the government don't crack down on immigration, my kids will have to go to school on fucking camels."

DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 3d

I completely missed nomination day but I’m catching up on the playlists

DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 3d

Sorry I am very late to this party but I am Team Boogie In Your Butt all the way

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DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 5d

Why didn’t anyone tell me that Taylor Swift put the word “dickmatized” into a song, how dare you withhold these lols from me

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DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 11d

What are your recommendations of things to do in Houston for a conference attendee with a possible night or two free?

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DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 11d

Oh hell yes, a contemporary PWEI jam that I dig

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