Stop Calling Me Frank
@stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social
Working up a fever in a one-horse town.
Somerville garage-punk-pub-rock band on Rum Bar Records.
The music stuff is the band’s; the politics, bad posts, & academic crap-takes, are mine.
https://stopcallingmefrank.bandcamp.com/track/santa-buy-me-a-beer
Somerville garage-punk-pub-rock band on Rum Bar Records.
The music stuff is the band’s; the politics, bad posts, & academic crap-takes, are mine.
https://stopcallingmefrank.bandcamp.com/track/santa-buy-me-a-beer
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Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a ✨hole, a hole✨ in everything
That’s how the light gets in.
-Leonard Cohen, “Anthem”
#poetry
Forget your perfect offering
There is a ✨hole, a hole✨ in everything
That’s how the light gets in.
-Leonard Cohen, “Anthem”
#poetry
December 2, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a ✨hole, a hole✨ in everything
That’s how the light gets in.
-Leonard Cohen, “Anthem”
#poetry
Forget your perfect offering
There is a ✨hole, a hole✨ in everything
That’s how the light gets in.
-Leonard Cohen, “Anthem”
#poetry
We all got holes to fill
Them holes are all that's real.
Some fall on you like a storm,
Sometimes you dig your own.
—Townes Van Zandt, “To Live Is to Fly”
Them holes are all that's real.
Some fall on you like a storm,
Sometimes you dig your own.
—Townes Van Zandt, “To Live Is to Fly”
December 2, 2025 at 7:48 AM
We all got holes to fill
Them holes are all that's real.
Some fall on you like a storm,
Sometimes you dig your own.
—Townes Van Zandt, “To Live Is to Fly”
Them holes are all that's real.
Some fall on you like a storm,
Sometimes you dig your own.
—Townes Van Zandt, “To Live Is to Fly”
“Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.”
—Laurence Sterne
—Laurence Sterne
December 2, 2025 at 7:45 AM
“Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.”
—Laurence Sterne
—Laurence Sterne
Michael Haneke’s Clue: The Movie
December 2, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Michael Haneke’s Clue: The Movie
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IF I DID IT, by Pete Hegseth bsky.app/profile/asha...
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Pete Hegseth on Sept 3 talking about the strike on boats where 2 survivors were later killed in a second strike: “I watched it live.”
December 2, 2025 at 3:47 AM
IF I DID IT, by Pete Hegseth bsky.app/profile/asha...
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There was never any similar tut-tutting about actual echo chambers on the right—TS, Gab, all of those. But they couldn’t let us have nice things.
December 2, 2025 at 3:00 AM
There was never any similar tut-tutting about actual echo chambers on the right—TS, Gab, all of those. But they couldn’t let us have nice things.
Thanks for sharing. I’ve always loved him and his songs, but in the last few years, especially with the acoustic shows, I’m more conscious of how much I love his voice. It’s probably my favorite.
December 2, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Thanks for sharing. I’ve always loved him and his songs, but in the last few years, especially with the acoustic shows, I’m more conscious of how much I love his voice. It’s probably my favorite.
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DO SOMETHING NEW ABOUT YOUR MENTAL HEALTH sounds like the parody anti-suicide slogan in Heathers.
December 1, 2025 at 11:03 PM
DO SOMETHING NEW ABOUT YOUR MENTAL HEALTH sounds like the parody anti-suicide slogan in Heathers.
Zillow also believes that it turns invisible when it closes its eyes.
December 1, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Zillow also believes that it turns invisible when it closes its eyes.
I, for one, welcome our new theocratic war lord.
December 1, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I, for one, welcome our new theocratic war lord.
I try to make it sound as boring as possible and then change the subject.
December 1, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I try to make it sound as boring as possible and then change the subject.
It’s all responsibility, no power.
Separate from the culture war stuff, I experienced that contradiction as 1) avoid grade inflation and low standards, but also 2) don’t threaten a revenue stream by allowing a student-consumer to fail.
Separate from the culture war stuff, I experienced that contradiction as 1) avoid grade inflation and low standards, but also 2) don’t threaten a revenue stream by allowing a student-consumer to fail.
December 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
It’s all responsibility, no power.
Separate from the culture war stuff, I experienced that contradiction as 1) avoid grade inflation and low standards, but also 2) don’t threaten a revenue stream by allowing a student-consumer to fail.
Separate from the culture war stuff, I experienced that contradiction as 1) avoid grade inflation and low standards, but also 2) don’t threaten a revenue stream by allowing a student-consumer to fail.
Why boys, when I was seventeen I walked into the jungle, and when I was twenty-one I walked out. And by God I was rich.
December 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Why boys, when I was seventeen I walked into the jungle, and when I was twenty-one I walked out. And by God I was rich.