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Jodhiay
@jodhiay.bsky.social
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Procrastinating writer, senior editor at @weirdnj.bsky.social. Haunted by typos. Opinions are my own. She/her. www.joannemaustin.com
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Jodhiay @jodhiay.bsky.social · 6d
I grew up hearing Ho PAT cong.

Where it goes wrong is HOP at cong.
a person 's hand is touching a frog on a rock
Alt: A frog jumps from a rock up into the camera.
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Jodhiay @jodhiay.bsky.social · 6d
Hopatcong.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 6d
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
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Jodhiay @jodhiay.bsky.social · 6d
Replacing my dishwasher, which hasn't worked for the last six weeks or so and before that sporadically, with a new one tomorrow.

Guess what started right up a little while ago?
a close up of a dishwasher filled with dirty dishes and water .
Alt: Interior of a working dishwasher.
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Jodhiay @jodhiay.bsky.social · 8d
That is a fantastically boopable nose.
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Jodhiay @jodhiay.bsky.social · 9d
Bonespurs really needs to get Vietnam out of his mouth.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d
Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."
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Jodhiay @jodhiay.bsky.social · 9d
For you youngins.
Goodbody 80s GIF
Alt: Slim Goodbody in his full body stocking showing internal organs and bones.
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Jodhiay @jodhiay.bsky.social · 9d
Slim Goodbody in Look #30.

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Jodhiay @jodhiay.bsky.social · 10d
And it's not about "how long does it really take to do a piercing?" It's about being respectful of people's time.
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Jodhiay @jodhiay.bsky.social · 10d
I mean, I don't know if I'd want the teen I just brought to the brink of tears for daring to point out it was 8:50pm to be punching holes in my kid's ears, but that lady got her way.
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Jodhiay @jodhiay.bsky.social · 10d
And this is also true:

One of the worst "Karen" experiences I ever witnessed involved a friend who worked there in the late 1980s and an obnoxious mom who arrived 10 min before closing to get her kid's ears pierced.
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Jodhiay @jodhiay.bsky.social · 10d
So I removed a post about a certain retail store (think kids jewelry) that filed for bankruptcy because a photo of a sign posted in front of one of their locations may or may not be genuine.

But this is true: I was shocked when I went to my local mall recently and saw one of these stores there.
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Jodhiay @jodhiay.bsky.social · 10d
The Wall’s. 🪦
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Jodhiay @jodhiay.bsky.social · 10d
It was definitely a stretch!
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Jodhiay @jodhiay.bsky.social · 10d
Mine was from The Wall, with their lifetime music guarantee.
Backside of the Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness cd from The Smashing Pumpkins. It features a track list and the illustration of a full moon sinking into the ocean. There is a blue sticker from The Wall music store (RIP) that promises a lifetime music guarantee.
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Jodhiay @jodhiay.bsky.social · 11d
Last week I donated around 30 Clive Cussler books to a charity to make space for my massive TBR pile and now this is popping up on my Kindle.

I can’t get away!
Kindle screen showing Clive Cussler´s and Jack Du Brul’s latest book, The Iron Storm. Clive’s ghost is haunting me.
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Jodhiay @jodhiay.bsky.social · 17d
There are people down the hill from me who already have their giant yard skeleton set up and I really want to pull into their driveway and give them a hug (and some cider donuts).
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Jodhiay @jodhiay.bsky.social · 17d
This needs to be needlepointed onto many pillows.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17d
Wine Moms and Soccer Dads, this is our time
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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 17d
Please, if you have the privilege of not being an obvious and immediate target for state violence...

Call them fascists, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now.

Call yourself an antifascist, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now.

We all need to be Spartacus on this one.
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Jodhiay @jodhiay.bsky.social · 17d
Why am I only hearing about Kaleb Horton today? JFC what an amazing writer (and photographer).

Sending love out to his family and friends.

And a general eff you to the universe because this is someone who should be here still. Really.
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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 17d
And now I'm just spelunking around and here's this Facebook post by Kaleb Horton from September 2017. It was three months after MTV dumped its freelancers. I'm sure it would have been a piece there; instead he posted this on FB just to have it written out: Toys 'R' Us as societal microcosm.
Facebook post from Kaleb Horton, September 18, 2017: Toys R Us is probably going out of business this year. I'm fascinated by the collapse of retail, because what it really signifies is the collapse of the 20th century. The reason I pushed to profile guys like Harry Dean Stanton, Merle Haggard and Chuck Berry, was that writing about them is a way of writing about the 20th century, and how different it was from where we are now. How shockingly different, in retrospect. The migration out of the south, the descent of the Dust Bowl, which was a Biblical plague; the millions of people who were killed during World War Two. Monoculture, and the idea that a great episode of a television show would be seen by *half of all people.* The arrival of flight, and the end of horses. Homes without electricity. Coming of age without computers, without television. Listening to the radio for entertainment. The 20th century was a long time ago and it's a ghost now. It's a ghost you see in the places you wouldn't expect. It's seen in towns that were bypassed by the freeways, the dusty little towns out west that still have old diners and motels and payphones. It's seen in the places that we left, places where mines shut down, places where tourist attractions died off. It's seen in Bakersfield with Buck Owens' Crystal Palace and it's seen in Roswell, which stubbornly maintains the relics of the '90s UFO boom. Things like that won't be around forever. Someday owners will die and towns will burn and they won't be rebuilt. And it's difficult to suss out what those things are, because they're on roads, physical and metaphorical, that we no longer travel. The ghost sightings happen in stupid places, unexpected places, and uncool places. A few months ago, I went with Marie to the Toys R Us on Victory Blvd. in Burbank, which still looks exactly like it did in Back to the Future in 1985 somehow. It's not nostalgia that you see there, it's just a customer base and economic model that's aging and won't be around a lot longer, and it's *boring.* There's no reason for anyone to ever go to Lancer's, the little diner by that Toys R Us. Because it's not good. People go there out of tradition, and old habits. 80 and 90 year olds go there. We were lining up for a Nintendo, which is still a hard thing to keep stocked in stores. Toys R Us was actually the best place to obtain one, because it's no longer a place children beg their parents to take them to. When we went in, wham, there it was. The ghost of 1996. I was 8 years old, for a fraction of a second. The feeling wasn't nostalgia, it was a kind of temporal dislocation. A confusion. But it wasn't an immaculate 1996, it was a fading 1996. It was lonelier than I remember it. It's time for Toys R Us to go out of business. It was time ten years ago, fifteen. There are reasons to be nostalgic about the 20th century. We weren't plugged into so many wires, so many screens. We were a little bit closer to the process of manufacturing and agriculture than we are now. We made more things by hand, and our goals as people were uniquely audacious and driven by mad, desperate power that was temporary and had to end. But the 20th century was hopelessly cruel and soaked in blood. The 20th century gave us flight, but it also gave us bombs that can end the world and Richard Nixon and his evil sidekick Kissinger and it gave us new mutations of slavery and race and class subjugation and it gave us useless, disgusting monuments to Confederate slavers and traitors and cowards. It gave us President Trump, who wouldn't exist today without New York City's collective cocaine addiction in the 1980s. I want to find the ghosts, not because I miss the past -- the good old days can't return because they're imaginary and what you really miss is youth and if you're lucky a warm feeling of safety -- but because I don't even know what things we'll lose, or when we'll lose them, or how long we have to document them. I know ghosts when I see them. Toys R Us for the mundane side and the Salton Sea for the widescreen wasteland side. But I have absolutely no idea how many there are. I figure people go first, then places. Those are the things we have a limited time to physically document and historically examine and preserve on film. The ideas will go away much slower, and some of them may be eternal, like cold wars. But those are a lot less fun because you don't get to drive to them.
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Jodhiay @jodhiay.bsky.social · Sep 15
*are* dead.

My typos are alive and well.
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Jodhiay @jodhiay.bsky.social · Sep 15
So there's just one county in PA and the Delaware River until feral swine show up in my corner of NJ. 🐷
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Jodhiay @jodhiay.bsky.social · Sep 14
So most of us our dead, now. Traffic still sucks.
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Jodhiay @jodhiay.bsky.social · Sep 14
Happy birthday, Dylan!
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Jodhiay @jodhiay.bsky.social · Sep 14
Beautiful! And I LOOOOVE the earring(s).
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Jodhiay @jodhiay.bsky.social · Sep 14
Cucumbers sneak up on you!

(It was a good year for them in my garden, too.)