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Talcott
@talcotts.bsky.social
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Widowed and nonbinary. I talk a lot about Star Trek, Ohio, cats, dinosaurs, and whatever I’m watching. The Columbus Dispatch once called me a “local cartoonist and customer-service rep.” (They/Them)
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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · Nov 14
Hi new followers, here’s what you’re in for:

Weird bits of late-20th century nonsense from Columbus, Ohio (a city that’s as much a sitcom town as Springfield or Pawnee).
A fair amount of Star Trek talk.
Rambling about what I’m reading/watching/playing.
I write and post a poem every day.
Cat photos.
A March 1997 issue of Columbus Monthly with the title “Columbus People and Their Cats (or Columbus Cats and their People).” Ignoring the film I fade out one daydream overlaps another— A man walks in to the saloon. We're lost within a game store outside Cleveland, a labyrinth of shelves that felt unreal even in the moment. I think a fight just broke out. Bare trees shudder through small windows and I wonder if clerks watch the sky when no one else is here. A photo of the alley at sunset. Half-bare trees and garages in silhouette. Bits of light reflect of the top of trash cans and power lines. An orange cat snoozing on a blanket made of comic strips.
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Are there any Christmas Carol riffs that take place BEFORE the original story? Most of the modern versions imply that the ghosts have been doing this for at least 1000 years, but they’re almost always in the present day.
December 3, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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I left my Christmas Movie Cave to get groceries, and it’s so pretty out. We should have four inches of snow on the ground year-round.

Anyway, not I’m back inside and watching The Holdovers.
December 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Fisher-Price Dinosaur Toys Commercial
Recorded December 02, 1993 on CBS/WJW 8 in Cleveland, OH
Tags: toys, commercial, Fisher-Price, dinosaurs, children, humor, CBS, holidays, winter
December 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Ol' Salty, Pirate Saltasaurus. A bit of silliness which became a personal favourite.

Sepia ink over blue pencil on Strathmore grey toned paper, 110 × 143 mm, from 2013.

#ArtAdventCalendar
Drawing of a Saltasaurus with its back to the viewer in three-quarter view, wearing a voluminous sash around its waist, in which is stuck a profusion of swords whose hilts are carved as the heads of various dinosaurs and pterosaurs. It also wears a tricorn hat trimmed with long feathers and carries a spear.
December 2, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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With Rudolph last night I hit 600 films for this year. Apparently Letterboxd stops counting by 50s after 500, because anything more than that is irresponsible.

I’m not sure if I’ll get to 700 this month, but I still have half of the Christmas Challenge and my own Christmas list to go, so maybe 666.
Diary Milestones 50th Feb 2 - Canadian Bacon 100th Mar 4 - Starship Troopers 150th Apr 12 - Can’t Hardly Wait 200th May 22 - Mission: Impossible Fallout 250th June 19 - Master and Commander 350th Aug 9 - HEBGB TV 400th Sept 2 - Blood Simple 500th Oct 21 - Save The Green Planet 600th Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
December 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Star Trek IV The Voyage Home scene. Famous workplace buddies Kirk & Spock are standing outdoors, outside some large building (it's an aquarium but you didn't hear that from me) with many background folks coming and going, 1980s clothing everywhere. We have Kirk in uniform and Spock in a white bathrobe with wet hair as if he just climbed out of the water. (He just climbed out of the water) They are talking to a woman, standing with the ocean to her back. Pic 1 and 2 on Kirk and Spock, Spock speaking, closed caption reads, "They like you very much, but they are not the hell your whales." Pic 3 is focused on the woman with the ocean in the background, she looks pissed and skeptical, closed caption reads, "I suppose they told you that, huh?" Pic 4 now back on Kirk and Spock, caption reads, "The hell they did." Alt in pic 1! Also fun humpback whale fact, they have some of the most complex songs of any animal in the wild! Alt in pic 1! Also fun humpback whale fact, they have three stomachs! Alt in pic 1! Also fun humpback whale fact, their tails in some ways act as their fingerprint and are unique to each whale!
December 3, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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My third #artadventcalendar piece this year is my 2021 illustration of a burnt Hell Creek forest. Two stem-chickens (not based on a specific taxon) forage in the ash as a lone tyrant passes on the distance. 🪶🎨🐡 #paleoart
A vector illustration of a gray, bare woodland with a mated pair of birds, one brilliantly colored in purple, blue and magenta, the other olive and creme. The T. rex is partially obscured by mist in the far distance.
December 3, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Katharine Hepburn as Captain Janeway on TOS.
talcotts.bsky.social Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · Aug 4
Okay, hear me out, TOS-era Odo, played by Jimmy Durante.
December 3, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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today is still this year which was new not long ago it will be strange as always to watch this become past as every one before has done children on the playground form a parade “goodbye ‘86, hello 87’” chanting in unison they summon the future long before the present began
December 3, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Glad Star Trek now exists in LEGO form so I can do dumb things such as recreate scenes like this. #iykyk #definitelyfuckedaghost #subrosa
Lego Beverly Crusher holding a candle to summon a Lego ghost she’s been boning.
December 3, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Okay, I worked from home today as the good lord intended, so we're back to #firstvoyage with Star Trek (2009.) Not sure if we're ready for all this lens flare, but let's go!
December 3, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Hey, you know what's a good TV special? A Muppet Family Christmas. Please give this post 38,000 likes.
December 3, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Honestly, half the reason I bought the Enterprise was so I could do this.

Guinan is still Whoopi Goldberg as the obligatory human (well, El-Aurian).
The Star Trek TNG crew Lego minifigs as Muppets Gonzo as Data, Bunson Honeydew as Geordi, Beaker as Wesley Piggy as Crusher, Kermit as Picard, Fozzie as Riker Rowlf as Worf, Janice as Troi, Guinan as herself.
December 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Happy Folgers incest commercial season to all who celebrate
December 2, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Waiting for the niche Defector article on why December is Jimmy Durante season.
December 2, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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I love how much Jimmy Durante there is in the Christmas Challenge this year.
December 2, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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It’s a Nice Day
for a Snow Sicko
Photo of a tree and world behind it, covered in snow and yellow from the streetlight.
December 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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on the other side of every worry except for the ones we maintain what would come to pass has and we’re down to one again instead of the split as we hop between all until a single one stops to welcome us in
December 2, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Pretty but sloppy. About 4-5” and still coming down. Wet and heavy. Roads are a mess and—given the winters we’ve been having—this is the first rodeo for a lot of drivers. Good day to work from home if you have the option.
December 2, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Hollywood is truly a wild place, because the fact that this role was supposed to go to John Candy is unbelievable. I wonder who the romantic interest would have been. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Ho...
Last Holiday (2006 film) - Wikipedia
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December 2, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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“Hey Talcott, I heard you got a new TV. What are you watching first? One of your favorite movies, right?”

“Um, actually it’s this Christmas musical I kind of hate.”

(But it does look great)
White Christmas on a 65” TV
December 2, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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I’m sitting on the floor, building my starship at the coffee table, and the clingiest cat in the world is on the couch, pressing up against me with so much force that if I get up he’ll tumble to the ground.
Selfie of me with an orange cat pressed against my back.
December 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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If I were Santa Claus, I do not think I would care whether or not people believed in me. If anything, their disbelief would probably make my job easier.
December 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Two charts that show my tastes in movies maturing in the three years I’ve been active on Letterboxd.
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation going from four stars in 2023 to three in 2024 to two in 2025. The Star Wars Holiday Special going from three stars in 2023 to four in 2024 to five in 2025.
December 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Hard at work at the Talcottia Planitia Fleet Yards
The Lego Enterprise D under construction. The lower half with the warp nacelles and battle bridge is complete.
December 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM