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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen)

@clberner.bsky.social
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phd candidate, theatre artist, flop collector. i write about commercial failure(s), megamusicals, and neoliberalism. ask me about the 1986 musical RAGS. she/her/hers

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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
my favorite character on HACKS
still from Hacks with Deborah Vance, a white older woman with a blonde beehive in fabulous clothes, on the Today Show. behind her through a window is a woman in a grey hoodie holding up a green GO BIRDS sign.
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
being toxic on main, don’t care, this is embarrassing even for m*ts fans. this guy just TIED UP THE GAME AGAINST YOUR TEAM jfc act like a real franchizw
some guy on here praising mets “fans” at a home game for applauding former met pete alonzo after he TIED UP THE GAME AGAINST THEM IN THE NINTH?????
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
me and russell
ragecomic type of meme with an apoplectic dude saying “I FUCKING HATE YOU AND HOPE YOU DIE” (me) to a toddler in a pinwheel hat saying “look at my fuckass scooter” (george russell)
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
literally just texted this to @kevinddaly.bsky.social lmfao
four texts in blue iphone bubbles that read: 

JUST HIRE A DIRECTOR MY FUCKING GOD

the sin eater joseph stein narrative pisses me offfff Imao

like do you all think the guy who wrote the book for fiddler, arguably the best book of any musical, just...forgot how to do it????

(not you, of course, you know what i mean)
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
screenshot of tweet reading “I bet this shit hits so hard if you're stupid”
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
this is how i’ve been telling people the news btw. no one likes it.
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
did i meet my writing goals? no. however,
three panel donnie darko meme reading: 

panel 1: i had an idea for a new musical

panel 2: new, or Chess again?

panel 3: Chess again
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
we lived, phils won, wedding is still on @pwiles3.bsky.social
philip (a white man with glasses and a brown beard) and i (a white woman with a glasses and a brown braid) in head-to-toe phillies gear
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
hot new trend called Dallowaying
a plaid tote full of purple flowers, most notably hanging wisteria. you can’t see this, but the tote is Downton Abbey branded.
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
i love getting to share today with Stevie Nicks and Teresa Stratas sf much
a shoddy edit of the title sequence of Only Murders in the Building. the words “murders” and “building” have been scribbled out with text crudely overlaid in pink script so it now reads Only Divas in the Birthday. steve martin, martin short, and selena gomez are there. if i had committed to the bit i’d have crudely photoshopping me, stevie, and teresa in, but it’s before 8am and i’m lazy
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
image from DIANA, THE MUSICAL of prince charles and diana at a classical concert in black tie attire, which has been edited so a speech bubble is coming out of prince charles's mouth. that's because in DIANA, THE MUSICAL, charles literally calls this band "duran duran duran." i have a very normal relationship to this musical i promise.
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
when someone asks me about the best revival of the season during my daily duolingo
screenshot of my home screen on my phone showing that i’m listening to “Der Jellicle Ball (live)” from the Austrian live cast album of CATS. if you look closely, you can see that my screensaver is of the phillie phanatic giving a ball cap to moo deng
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
the prophecy being fulfilled
screenshots of tweets from gritty introduction day. the penguins had quote tweeted gritty’s intro tweet with “lol okay,” so gritty responded with “sleep with one eye open tonight, bird” and a menacing picture of himself
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
i’m brute force learning german via cast albums and need you all to know that in german, joseph sings “listen up 5s, a 10 is speaking”
levar burton star trek tired/wired meme. captions are: 
tired panel: I look handsome, I look smart, I am a walking work of art 
wired panel: attention, ladies and gentlemen: here comes a gesamtkunstwerk
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
cannot believe i had to dig this comic up again in 2026
a comic from the facebook page Simpsons pictures that I gone and done with the caption:
the reason why we call today good friday is because on a friday 300 years ago jesus went around putting mini chocolate eggs between peoples toes to cheer them up and everyone had such a good friday we still talk about it to this very day. love from your friend Chris (Simpsons artist) XOX

the comic depicts jesus on his knees sticking chocolate eggs between the toed of a man in a red and orange robe seated in front of him. there’s also a close up of the feet with chocolate eggs between each toe
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
no literally 😂
dune generator meme that just reads “ZAZZ GENERATOR part 2”
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
chapter 2 of my dissertation is literally about this (assume “that” in the meme is disney adult nonsense)
small domino to big domino meme where the small domino is labeled “SMILE flopping on broadway” and the big one is labeled “having to read that with my own two eyes”
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
now i've had to watch this very, very slowly lol. it looks like the stretched or distressed the flag real subtly in the spot where he starts ripping and right at the white to get him started. if you pause and look extremely closely, you can see some mild discoloration at those two spots
captain von trapp is about to rip the nazi flag. on top of this, i've circled in yellow the fabric right between his hands, where you can sort of see CVT's tan suit peeking through, and the fabric right where the white background for the swastika starts, because there's a tiny reddish line there indicating a tear or distressing.
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
they’re the same picture
the marquee of INTO THE WOODS at the martin beck theatre. there’s an inflatable giant’s foot about the stomp the theatre
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
with everything else going on: tonight, the first musical i’ve worked on since GODSPELL in 2017 (!!!) opens. it’s been so nice to flex those dramaturgy muscles again, even minimally, and to work with some students on some Sondheim 💚 pics are my lobby display.
a green chalkboard with faux ivy bordering it. on the left in multicolor chalk reads “Stephen Sondheim: musical theatre genius AND master at games and puzzles! Can you help us put our poster back together?” On the right, brightly colored jigsaw puzzle pieces are stuck to the chalkboard for the audience to play within a theatrically lit hallway, large wooden panels are covered with red, green, orange, and yellow sheets of papers. the sheets all contain the printed key art and images from all of Sondheim’s broadway musicals (except Do I Hear a Waltz—sorry fam). there are truly too many to list outa detailed look at one of the wooden panels from pic #2. it contains a little andy warhol-style moment of the pic of Sondheim receiving his presidential medal of freedom from Obama, on (clockwise from top left) red, yellow, green, and orange sheets of paper. this is surrounded by lots of other pamplets—most notably nearby are Evening Primrose (in orange and yellow), Sweeney Todd (in red), and Pacific Overtures (revival, in red, and original, in yellow)
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
…labeler either loves the mets or hates military history ig
a screenshot of rob’s last skeet, which now displays a “toxic posting” label. i don’t endorse this
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
just ordered yarn for my first project of 2026, so here’s a look at what i did in 2025: got good at making baby blankets (pics are all pre-blocking)
full length pic of an Eagles-colored baby blanket. it’s corner-to-corner crochet. the body of the blanket’s yarn is a white-light green-dark green-black gradient, and the border is a forest greendetail shot of the Eagles baby blanket from when I was crocheting the border. this pic makes it clearer that the yarn is green and not grey. the c2c gives it an overall camouflage sort of feeling. go birds. full length shot of two c2c baby blankets laying side-by-side. one has a multi-shade pink body with a multi-shade green border, the other has a multi-shade green body with a multi-shade pink border. it is very clear that these blankets are Wicked inspireda stack of folded c2c baby blankets (top to bottom): green with pink border, pink with green border, green with pink border. my friend found out she was having two boys after i finished both blankets, and i decided to cover my ass because sometimes pregnancy makes people weird about gender. on the far right of the photo is Barley, a grey tabby cat with a flat little face and green eyes staring into middle distance
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
me when fdr tries to make the country better for its scrappy orphans
meme: tiktok of a white guy captioned “I don't really care if something good happened to you. It should have happened to me instead”
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
visited home and bumped into my hero in love park
Gritty, a giant orange muppet in philadelphia flyers gear, and me, a white brunette woman in grey and orange winter clothes. i look ECSTATIC. gritty and i are both flashing peace signs at the camera
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
doing the classic new yorker in fall thing and romanticizing my life
a tan chihuahua walking on a tree-lined street in brooklyn, the sun peeking between the orange leaves
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
hot girls with post migraine syndrome for zohran
selfie of me, a white woman in big red glasses with dark, medium length, slightly damp hair. no makeup and looking tired as hell. i’m holding up a pink water bottle covered in stickers, showcasing a black and orange “halloween voter 2025” with a picture of a trick-or-treating pigeon in the center
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
returning to my roots
a screenshot of my lock screen from moments before this skeet was posted. i am most of the way through “Pretty Pretty Girl” from Diana the Musical. the album art is an inky blue impression of princess diana’s face on a white background. i will not hear criticism of my choices
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
true personality post
blue bubble text to twitter’s kevin daly from me that reads: “like listen, famously, if the he wanted to say rewrite has no haters it means im dead”
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
want to see something even sicker?
an apple notes app note that reads: 
Law and Order: ChessVU
OBC:
Judy Kuhn:
-"Savant" (9.04)
Philip Casnoff:
-"Pixies" (2.09)
David Carroll: never on SVU
Marcia Mitzman: never on SVU
1990 Tour
Carolee Carmello:
-"Appearances" (4.19)
-"Melancholy Pursuit" (17.08)
John Herrera:
-"911" (7.03)
Stephen Bogardus:
-"Uncivilized" (1.07)
-"Alien" (7.11)
Barbara Walsh: never on SVU (on OG and Cl though)
2003 AEA
Julia Murney:
-"A Single Life" (1.02)
-need to note that she plaved a rabbi on
0-the previeous note, continued: 
2003 AEA
Julia Murney:
-"A Single Life" (1.02)
-need to note that she played a rabbi on organized crime on 1/25/24 and slapped chris meloni across the face
Sutton Foster:
-"PC" (11.13)
Adam Pascal: never on SVU
Josh Groban: never on SVU
2009 RAH:
No one was on SVU
2018 KenCen:
KO:
-"Loophole" (8.13)
-"October Surprise" (15.06)
Ruthie Ann Miles: never on SVU
Ramin Karimloo: never on SVU
Raul Esparza:
-literally a star of SVU, we can't watch every Barba episode but we love and support him
2022 Broadhurst:the same note, 3/3:

2022 Broadhurst:
No one was on SVU


Most SVUed cast of Chess: 1990 US tour at 3 actors, five episodes + bonus OG/CI
Least SVUed cast of Chess: tie (2009/2022)
Most iconic SVU appearance from a cast member in Chess: tie (Karen Olivo "October Surprise"/Carolee Carmello "Appearances")
Chess cast member with the most LO appearances: Stephen Bogardus (six, including two SVU)
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
the sweet culprit and the scene of the crime
me, a white lady with dark hair pulled back into a bun and stuffed under a grey phillies cap. it’s not a normal cap though, it’s like the one che guevara wore but with a red phillies P on the side. my head is turned all the way to the right at a weird upward angle so the camera gets the red P. i’m wearing glasses with big, thick red frames and a white phillies jersey with red pinstripes—you can’t see any evidence of this, but it’s a 2008 carlos ruiz jersey. snuggled up to my chest is archie, a sand-colored chihuahua. you only get the top of his head and his ears, though, because he’s too snuggly
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
possible you're thinking of this throwaway joke
jenna from 30 rock saying to the guy who won her via surge points, "but the sheik who won me in that poker game was beheaded"
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
i'm so sorry
the teenage mutant ninja turtles logo edited to read "deadly fettu-ccine outbreak," which scans metrically with "teenage mutant ninja turtles." there's a random hyphen in fettuccine because otherwise the generator wouldn't put "outbreak" in the turtle font
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
apropro of nothing, i made this a month ago and *anne hathaway voice* it came true
that “______ tonight queen??” imessage meme, except its been crudely edited to be about a certain actress playing denise in the baker’s wife at csc
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
me omw to mold the young minds of new york city (go birds say it back)
selfie of me, a white lady wearing a kelly green eagles hat, red glasses, an ivy green mask, and a cream-colored blouse with blue and green flower accents. you can’t see my green pants or green claw clip. an unfortunately-timed stye means i’m also not wearing any makeup, which means no sparkly green eyeshadow. i’m riding the subway. go birds.
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
society if the CHESS obc had bothered to record the finale reprise of “anthem”
“society if” meme depicting a futuristic chrome-colored techno-utopia, with flying cars and a guy walking a robot dog. come to think of it, i should interrogate this image more.
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
budget solution: i have probably closer to two dozen so ymmv, but i ended up repurposing a spice rack to be able to store more candles on top of the bookshelf. still a stacking situation, but it's a little more manageable
The top of a black bookshelf in the corner of a room—you can see some critical theory books on the top shelf. A variety of candles are stacked in front of, and on, the two shelves of a black metal spice rack. The walls adjacent to the bookshelf are decorated with theatre windowcards—posters for DIANA and CHESS are visible in the background.
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
ouch (academia but same bs in a different font lmao)
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
same energy
the sad oompa loompa at the sad oompa loompa table from that willy wonka experience ai scam
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
lmao this stopped for the semester since school/research don’t count so it’s been all new yorkers all the time. #3 (np): KISS OF THE SPIDERWOMAN #4: DEATH AND THE MAIDEN by Ariel Dorfman (plays count) fun to be reading so much lit that came out of south american military dictatorships rn
a hand holding a thin white paperback book. the top half of the cover is a black and white photograph of a bald man sitting captive in a wooden chair while a woman with short hair in an elegant top straddles him, holding a gun behind his head in one hand and gripping his chin menacingly with the other. below, a blue bar with “ARIEL DORFMAN,” the playwright’s name, written in white capital letters, then a white bar with the play’s name, “Death and the Maiden,” in black letters. The logo and name of Penguin Plays is at the bottom
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
just a little birthday boy 📸 1 (as well as the party at which it was taken) by @pwiles3.bsky.social
screengrab of me, a recently-31 white woman with short wavy brown hair wearing a slutty green jumpsuit and black doc martens, in the midst of singing “Let Me Be Your Star” from SMASH. my arm is raised in a fistpump and i’m belting into a white microphone
photo of my birthday dinner: a seafood boil with crab legs. WICKED (2024) is on in the background
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
reminiscing on pre-2008:
meme of two texts: the first is a selfie of a guy in a hospital gown. the second is him texting “i lived bitch”
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Philly mentioned meme with an anime girl in a phillies cap holding a cheesesteak in one hand and a yards in the other
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Rags (1986)
eric andre shooting hannibal burress meme. top panel is eric, labelled "the producers and music team" shooting hannibal, labelled "the director." in the bottom panel, eric looks at the camera and asks "why would Joseph Stein's book do this?"
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
sure star wars exists but more importantly it is BARLEY’S FOURTH BIRTHDAY
Barley, a grey tabby cat, eats a “birthday cake” of canned wet food, churu, and cat treats with a pink candle stuck in the top. the cake is on a nice-ish blue and white plate
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
realizing it's time to move the Philadelphia 1776 Supercut over here instead of letting it languish on twitter
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
a film that takes place where you’re from
a still from 1776 with (right to left, from closest to the camera) John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson sitting in a row in revolutionary-era garb. i think they’re about to sing “the egg” but it’s been a sec so i’m not sure
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
my cat when she senses me trying to stir my overnight oats
Jenna Maroney from 30 Rock, a white blonde actress, looks distressed. She’s holding someone else’s pregnancy test and saying “Oh no! Someone’s gonna get more attention than me.”
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
a dial labeled “Phillies” with two ends: a red “sucks” zone and a green “eats” zone. the dial is turned all the way to “eats”
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
this is literally what it’s like living in enemy baseball territory
screenshot of a Liz Lemon quote from 30 Rock: "I get your Yankees tickets on A-Rod bobble head day.
And I'm going to throw that thing in front of a train. Go Phillies!"
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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen) @clberner.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
cushion plus chair i can understand! cushionless on hardwood floor perplexes me a bit more 😅
photo of Barley, a small grey shorthair tabby cat. she is laying in a cat bed shaped like a mushroom—the base is off-white with a
hole cut out for an entrance, and the red-and-white top of the mushroom forms a little roof. the cat bed is on brown hardwood flooring. notably, the bed isn’t cushioned. nearby sit sunglasses that used to be mine and now belong to Barley. she does not look thrilled to be photographed.
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