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Popcornbender Spatch

@spatch.bsky.social

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Writer/old-time radio actor/roller coaster rider/CAT TOWN guy/funy computar maker/etc. Wrote Pick Up The Phone Booth and Die once. Married and we have a cat. Often tells you to enjoy the show at the Somerville Theatre. Aquarius. Hi

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 14m

the energy these dancers are giving to their performance is not matched by the music and it's really something

Saucy Seventies @saucyseventies.bsky.social · 29m

Happy 85th Birthday to Cliff Richard. Here's he and Una Stubbs Foot tappin'!

Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 1h

gonna learn something in this exchange

ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 1h

VDLM2 Message From: N770YX / YX3482

Message: WE HAVE PAX OF INTEREST. BY HER NAME IS SVAN. DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS /Q/.

Track Aircraft: https://www.flightradar24.com/N770YX

Area: Philadelphia, PA, USA

#acars #vdlm2 #N770YX #YX3482

Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 2h

postscript: ragequit

Chief Arino, sitting at a table covered in viewer submissions and prizes, says "I believe there won't be a next time."

The camera pulls back on Chief Arino sitting with unclaimed prizes and the boombox. He announces "This has been 'Sing Whatever the Hell You Want!'"

Chief Arino sits at the table and waits for the segment to end. The caption "The End" appears onscreen. Below that is the announcement "Due to circumstances, this segment has come to an end. Thank you for your support."

Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 2h

Great Moments in GameCenter CX:

That write-in segment in Series 10 where Arino sings viewer-submitted lyrics to video game music, and gets clowned on for his troubles

Chief Arino, a cheerful man in his 30s holding a microphone and reaching for the PLAY button on a tape recorder, says "Well then, I will sing."

Chief Arino sings the lyrics a viewer has written for the Final Fantasy II chocobo ride music. The first half goes "Chief Arino's wife is beautiful."

Chief Arino sings the lyrics a viewer has written for the Final Fantasy II chocobo ride music. The first half went "Chief Arino's wife is beautiful." The second half goes "It's a shame their kids look more like him."

Chief Arino stops singing, looks at the camera, and says "Shut up."

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Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.social · Aug 31

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

Frustrated little dude gripping a pencil saying “how do I pack this down into something I can actually share?” While swirling rainbows labeled “INFINITE POTENTIAL” float around them.

Little dude frowns at a tiny grey box, exclaiming “all that work for THIS?!”

Little dude shoves the grey box into another little guy’s hands; Frowning, stomping off, and saying “Here you go, I made this, it sucks.”

Second little dude cracks open the box, swirling rainbows project out onto their face.

Second little dude stares in awe at all the swirling rainbows now floating around them.

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matthew @pahuski.com · 1d

Happy Columbo’s Day

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 13h

[stepping out of library stacks with record in hand, squinting at name on request slip] uh, I don't know who needs to hear this, but

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 14h

also I don't know if you ever had the good fortune to take it but Mr Gerstein's Old West through popular media class was the most eye-opening class I ever took, for both good and bad, it shaped so much for me and I will be ever grateful to him and his memory for it

Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 17h

Oh such amazing energy, yes

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merritt @merrittk.com · 20h

love to hear family members being like "can you believe they give $50,000 to refugees for doing nothing i read it on facebook" homie you were forwarding me chain emails about mars inverting the earth's gravity in 2003 you should not be allowed access to the internet

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 17h

Had an entire quarter with Mrs Koehler on Their Eyes, Things Fall Apart, Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, i think some Richsrd Wright as well

So goddamn important to get these perspectives to the white kids from the hills

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 2d

MARLEY: I wear the chain I forged in life. I made it link by link—
ME: Hell yeah dude you were a blacksmith?
MARLEY: What? No
ME: Oh you made a big chain for fun?
MARLEY: No
ME: Ok well it looks heavy man you can throw it on the chair if you want I’m just gaming
MARLEY: Is that the new Battlefield

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 17h

marks? points? whatever the heck the noun is

Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 17h

exclamation marks are for dialogue or stream of consciousness only

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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The Cat Hive @thecathive.bsky.social · 19h

The Criminal

Doodle of an orange cat with a piece of crumpled plastic in his mouth. He is running away quickly, wide-eyed. There is text from someone shouting "WHO IS EATING PLASTIC!!!"

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Scare Budd Dwyer @airbudddwyer.bsky.social · 18h

every email from the school photography company is like "good lord! it must have slipped your mind! you haven't purchased pictures of your child, even though you love them! we know how difficult it is to get pictures of your child using the device you're reading this on. what if they also cost $150

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 22h

Frank Frazetta shirtless outside in an armchair, posing with his palette and the original art for the Fire & Ice poster. Behind him Eleanor Frazetta poses in a bikini on a Honda dirtbike.

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 18h

Seen an ambulance pulling up to the hospital..i hope the doctors are ok

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 18h

leon redbone didn't exactly do covers, he performed standards but they require the same amount of adaptation and work if you want to make the song your own

his version of a vaudeville hit has great studio atmospherics, as if you're listening from across a lake at twilight

youtu.be/u4j7cAV9TNI

Leon Redbone- Shine On Harvest Moon

YouTube video by Leon Redbone Tribute Channel

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 19h

alabama3 covered john prine on their brilliant album exile on coldharbour lane and not only did they wrap the song up in their sweet pretty country acid house music but they changed the pov from second person to first, turning it from an accusation into a confessional

youtu.be/_MfqT32MQXM

Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness

YouTube video by Alabama 3 - Topic

youtu.be

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 19h

Uh oh is it more cover song time yes I think it might be more cover song time

so here's c.w. stoneking out-stomping jack white

youtu.be/q_o0GZ5X0mY

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 19h

Come back Leon Redbone, all is forgiven

Sitcom People @sitcompeople.bsky.social · 23h

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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 20h

LGBTQIA+ is rebranding as LGBTQIA MAX

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 22h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 21h

that photo of McKellen and Stewart on the Wonder Wheel is delightful, perfect

Frog Redemption Arc Enthusiast @mxlabradorite.bsky.social · 21h

I don't think they should copy it exactly, but I'd love to see Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves do a take on the tourist photos from when Sirs Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen did Waiting for Godot in NYC.

Sirs Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen, both wearing bowler hats, on the Wonder Wheel. McKellen has his arms around Stewart, and a terrified look on his face. Stewart is grinning.

Sirs Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen, both wearing bowler hats, holding hands on the boardwalk.

Sirs Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen, both wearing bowler hats, jogging over the Brooklyn Bridge.

Sirs Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen, both wearing bowler hats, standing in front of Nathan's Hot Dogs.