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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I wish I had been the first person to say that maybe we should start breakdancing to save the Kennedy Center. He's always been an 80s movie villain (a multi-genre one at that!), so the solution has to be either breakdancing or The Goonies.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I bailed on Spider-Noir 4:48 minutes in. I'm rewatching with someone who loves mysteries and noires , and in episode 3 we switched to the black and white version and it's way better.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I'm really enjoying The Boroughs. I vote for more like this.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Dream sequences are a narrative scourge. Neither plot nor character nor setting is informed best by a dream sequence. It takes an exceptional storyteller to make a dream sequence worthwhile.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I'm married to a trademark lawyer, and this moment delighted me to no end.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The last day of Comic Con starts with a donation to the San Diego Blood Bank. #sdcc

A sign indicating the next number in line, above comic themed posters for the San Diego Blood Bank

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Starting Saturday of Comic Con with the Comic Law School panel on Trademark Parody Limitations #sdcc

The panel of lawyers on the stage in front of the Comic Con banner.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Starting Friday with the @roddenberrypod.bsky.social panel, Designing The Future: 60 Years of Star Trek Visual Evolution. Featuring @hollyamos22.bsky.social @johnchampion.bsky.social and @jameskerwin.com. #sdcc

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Now I'm at an off-site event, Indigicon, celebrating Native contributions to the comic art landscape. #sdcc

Photo of the stage at Indigicon with the banner on the screen

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I used to go out with a Scottish friend after work and boy oh boy were there TWO loud Glaswegians in those bars.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

At the @cbldf.bsky.social panel today, the fact that the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund owns the trademark and logo for the old, repressive, Comics Code came up. It was proposed CBLDF do a book with artists contributing their ideas about what a new permissive code would look like. #sdcc

View of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund panel at Comic Con

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

After midnight crews were still working to get downtown ready for the official start of An Diego Comic Con today. In this case changing a decorative arch in the Gaslamp to showcase an Avengers Doomsday theme.

Construction crews change a decorative arch over 5th avenue to a stylized Avengers Doomsday color way.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

First line of Comic Con! We did it, everyone!

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I'm heading to San Diego for Comic Con. I'll be checking out some indigenous comic stuff (in addition to the usual SDCC nonsense and fun). I'll also be posting amazing photo content here and on Instagram, like this one from 11 years ago: a real Comic Con water fountain!

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The Bat Cave must smell absolutely awful.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

If ever come to Ohio I'll insist on it in order to plan an increasingly baffling and last minute series of venue changes for dinner.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I don't think we've ever needed to coordinate anything pressing.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

When I gave my son Starter Villain to read, I said "Here, my friend wrote this." He said, "Oh, he's your friend? Do you have his phone number? If not, then you aren't friends." And I said, "Go to your room." I think I handled that appropriately.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Actually that's not an example of pedantry. THIS is an example of pedantry.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

The Thermos. Because it keeps hot things hot and cold things cold...but how does it know??

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Around here* we call that a "Greater London and Merseyside" because those counties have a combined population of about 11.5 million, which is 1/5 the population of England. *My couch in Northern California

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

"Here at Freezr we've given people the ability to automatically share with their network every time they open the fridge. What's more, your Friends (a combination of Freezr+Friends we came up with) can reply to your updates with preloaded quips, a.k.a "Freezr Burns" that will delight everyone."

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

My books are double-stacked, and sometimes triple-stacked, on my bookshelves. We did a remodel on this house 10 years ago and we added a laundry room (instead of a library just for me) and I'm starting to think we could have just been going to the laundromat this whole time.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Someone threw cocaine on the wall and this is the result. You wouldn't get it.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I did the dishes again today. Despite all...this...I still have to do the dishes. Get to do the dishes. I have clean dishes. Okay then.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

I throw some in a food processor and use it in omelettes and scrambles for a while.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I made my son watch that with me a couple of weeks ago after he finished reading the book. I insisted it's the greatest film of all time. He agreed.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Oh, is the kitchen clean? Time to make spaghetti I guess. I do this every time. It's like a pathology about having a clean kitchen.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

By Grabthar's Hammer... What a savings.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I have followed Gail for many years. She IS very good at it. But... The Beatles never reunited on SNL. I am good at it too.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

What a crazy thing to say. Like we don't know that they famously reunited on Saturday Night Live. Not sure if you just aren't a Beatlemaniac or if you are trying to hide history.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

No I watched the third one and it was weirderer.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

If I could read minds, then maybe. If I could only shoot lasers out of my eyes, probably not.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

What did you do today? The barbershop quartet I joined last month just won the Novice Quartet competition for the Nor Cal West division of the Far Western District of the Barbershop Harmony Society. Not a bad Saturday.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

When entering Canada, it is important to dress like all Canadians dress every day.

Shawn is facing the camera, wearing the coolest shirt ever: A black t-shirt in the trademark Supreme style that instead says Poutine, because Shawn loves poutine and is visiting Canada where poutine grows on hockey sticks everywhere you look.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I would settle for a waffle party.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Signing an executive order today that states in no uncertain terms that olives are gross.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

In order to carry out my sworn duty as the head of the executive branch of this parking lot, I have signed an executive order declaring Skee-Lo to be a little bit taller, a baller, and to have a girl who looks good. I further order Skee-Lo, on pain of punishment, to call her.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

*whispers* He would also need Mexico. *runs away into the night*

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

My teens have been all over the place and eaten food from everywhere, but they still get charmingly excited when I make them "butter rice". It's just rice. But I add a little salt and butter. It's like a novelty dish for them.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

People are overreacting. He wasn't celebrating that one fascist state, he was celebrating a different fascist state, so, like, take that. #pwnage.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Yeah I love that part of the coast.

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