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Abby Olcese @abbyolcese.bsky.social · 15h

I'm putting up Halloween decorations tonight, which means it's time to play @nicklutsko.bsky.social's seasonal anthem:

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Fall Time in Tennessee

YouTube video by Nick Lutsko

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m not saying that the only reason I go to the Shop Rite in Croton is because they play songs like “Alex Chilton” by the Replacements over the store speakers, but it is definitely a contributing factor.

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

FRODO: They're called "chastity cages". SAM: That sounds good and well for your little peeper frog, but I don't see how one could handle my own bull toad. GOLLUM: We won't wear it! SAM: YOU'LL SLITHER YOUR STINKY LITTLE EEL IN THERE OR I'LL SLICE IT FROM YOU FOR MY MORNING SAUSAGE. GOLLUM: AAAAAAAAA

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

RIP Mighty Sparrow, who I was lucky enough to see live, although he did not play my favorite song where he excuses showing a d**k pic by claiming it was a photo of Castro eating a banana. antigua.news/2026/09/27/m...

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Mighty Sparrow Dies at 91, Leaving Behind a Caribbean Musical Legacy | Antigua News

The Caribbean has lost one of its most influential musical voices, with legendary calypsonian Slinger Francisco, better known as the Mighty Sparrow, dying…

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The first time I learned about “To Catch A Predator” was when my friend Rosie texted me to say, “Hey, you should check out this show, you look just like the bait kid.”

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Cursed is the tongue and the throat that tastes meat and cheese on Friday or Wednesday.” - Jesus to Peter in The Revelation about the Lord’s Prayer, 8:10

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Before I played bass I was a huge fan of John Entwistle from The Who, but when I started playing bass more I fell in love with Glenn Cornick of the early Jethro Tull.

A man with glasses, long dark hair, and a beaded headband plays a bass guitar.

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“I really hope God shows up soon, I don’t know anyone here.”

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’m in-fun stories of AI, I submitted 10 claims to United Healthcare’s online portal that scans your statements and uses AI to upload the details. Only 2 out of 10 were scanned by the AI correctly, the rest had to be fixed by hand.

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Fun fact: all Pokémon smoke.

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Watching an Indian film where the bad guy does a line of cocaine and then lights up a cigarette and a little warning pops up on the screen that says “smoking kills”. Not the cocaine, apparently.

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Crowd sourcing a theory. This fun little 1895 novel about spirits of famous people gathering for cards on a boat in the afterlife MAY have been previously owned by the famous researcher of life after death, Dr Raymond Moody, author of “Life After Life.” The evidence: - the book was presented as a

Small green/brown book called A House-Boat on the Styx by John Kendrick Bangs. A small boat on the cover is docked and letting the silhouettes of people aboard.

Inscription in the cover of the book:
For Dr Moody,
Nov 30, 1977
To read your remarkable books is to like you very much AND I want you to have this favorite of mine. If it is already one of your favorites, then I know you’ll enjoy giving it to someone else because it is hard to find!
Caroline H Neal
Danville, Va

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Imagine: your child is born with six fingers on each hand. Do you: - push them into playing basketball - push them into playing piano

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I watch a lot of Indian films and my new favorite thing is when the hero appears and the soundtrack starts comparing him to different deities. This happens much more than you think it would.

A grizzled man threatens a phone. The subtitle is “He is the perfect mix of Lord Rama and demon king of Lanka, Ravana”

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The one time I met Cheetah Chrome was after a Rocket From the Tombs show in Raleigh. They had reformed with David Thomas, Craig Bell, and Cheetah, with Richard Lloyd on guitar and Steve Mehlman on drums. I shook Cheetah’s hand (and Dave’s too) after the show and he was all smiles. Bye guys.

Five men in black and white. A man with a hat and sunglasses, a balder man with glasses, a larger man with a white Panama hat, a younger man almost hidden, and a fully bald scowling man.

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I thought it was a good idea, at age 46 with a not so great back and ankles, to go to a general admission rock concert last night. Today, also at age 46, I figured I should move boxes. These are all awful ideas that I have to live with.

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Years ago I went to see Craig Wedren open for that dog because I thought Shudder To Think would never get back together. It was a great show. But then Shudder To Think got BACK TOGETHER! Multiple shows! New songs! New album! Brutal amounts of feedback, wild dancing, a voice that can do anything. ❤️👈

Five men in a band play and sing on stage. The lights are blue. The singer is bald.

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Cat decided to curl up on the Dead Sea Scrolls.

An orange cat curled up on two books set on a grey couch.

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the One Ring.

Cartoon red headed girl wearing a toque. Wendy from Gravity Falls.

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What holiday is this for, Wordscapes? 9/11 or Rosh Hashana?

Shot of an app game screen of a goat man reading a book and smoking a pipe. It says “PRIZE DASH Finish 50 more levels to win an Exclusive Holiday Portrait.”

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

They’ve been doing construction on my street which means there are several holes in the asphalt right in front of our driveway. We have not been able to leave our house for three days now and I’m really, really hoping they don’t head out for the weekend without at least putting a plate over them.

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Army of Lovers Butthole Surfers Cryan’ Shames Damned Erickson (Roky) Failure Godspeed You! Black Emperor Harvey Danger Impressions Jethro Tull Kent Lambchop Magnetic Fields Numan (Gary) Operation Ivy Peggies Q Lazzarus Replacements Shudder to Think T. Rex Uncle Tupelo Velvet Underground Who

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

NEW QUIZ THING In an alternative universe, there can only be one band per letter of the alphabet. The band's name starts with that letter ("The" can be ignored, or not). So, it's a dystopia, for sure. Luckily, YOU get to decide WHICH band goes with WHICH letter, and is allowed to exist. Ready? Go!

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I just finished Elizabeth Kostova’s “The Historian”, several years after it was published, and it’s awesome. For book people/grad students/historians/medieval literature scholars/horror fans/Dracula fanciers. That’s all me, bay-bee! Just preordered a signed copy of the sequel!

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Flayin’ the Flannel @flanneloccluded.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I’ll clean your clock (threatening) vs I’ll clean your clock (helpful)

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 07/09/2026

Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I have a four-day weekend. Meghan and I have chosen to spend it playing video games. Tons of snacks and drinks. Made a pot of chili we’re eating over a couple of days. When I’m playing Red Dead Redemption 2, she’s playing LADS on her iPad. When she’s playing Ghost of Yotei, I’m reading comics and

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hi, I’m Ethan Kaye, writer of sorts with a spouse and three cats in Westchester, NY. I like the line in Shudder to Think’s “Sweet Year Old” that’s “Fools gold rush in” because it’s like four different phrases in one.

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The town is repaving the road outside our house and the tool they’re using sounds just like a cat throwing up so I have been on undeservedly high alert all day.

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

What does it say about me that I want the people on Ted Lasso to get their shit together and just play some soccer.

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Not to be a guy who brags about stuff that happened in DnD games, but last night we offed a major boss in Baldur’s Gate 3 when he slipped on some ice and fell into someone casting Spirit Guardians. #baldursgate

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The Who with John Entwistle: the son of the promoter was trying to get passes to the meet and greet as well as tickets to the show and ended up not getting either. Also missed Matthew Sweet due to food poisoning. I drove to the gig, puked my guts out by his bus, and went home to puke more.

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

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Parody of an Avengers Doomsday ad, with a green-cloaked man holding his fist up next to stylized type reading “Double Nickels on the Dime”.

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The most heartening thing about today is that I’ve tried several times to donate to the Imagination Library but so many people have the same idea that the site won’t load for me. Get those donations in!

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Something I love about Dolly Parton. She’s had the benefit of getting a career resurgence over the last 25 years or so, and she got to enjoy it all. She wasn’t a “remember her?” figure or a scandal-plagued celeb who stayed away from the world. She toured, recorded, did press. Crossed genres,

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

What’s your favorite acting role by a singer?

A well dressed man with an ascot poses by a tree. He has a mustache. He is David Bowie playing Nicola Tesla.

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I have heard from a trusted source that they can’t get the rights to any Beatles music for those four Beatles biopics, so instead they will just be singing the catalog of Mungo Jerry.

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The 2025 remake of Coolie has one of the coolest slo-mo sequences I’ve ever seen. The bad guy promises $200,000 to any worker who crawls to the top of a massive rock pile. So while a certified banger of a song plays (in English), a mob of men scales the rock pile while the bad guy absolutely bashes

Black and white poster for the movie Coolie with a man with puffy hair and sunglasses, looking tough, posing over a photo of a man holding the leashes of several huskies. Text says “Releasing Worldwide Today”.

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

You should be able to mess with Texas a little, as a treat.

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I tried making the tuna salad recipe that David Lynch ate every day for parts of his adult life, and I did not care for it at all. 2/10. Would not cook again. I followed up with a seafood pasta for dinner that was good, but I should have just doubled the shrimp instead of using imitation crab. 6/10

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Bruce Wayne has never eaten at a Chinese buffet. But Matches Malone? Loves ‘em.

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Make Keith David a Disney Legend already. And Bobby Driscoll.

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Meghan and I are watching “Spooky In Love,” a Kdrama about a woman who sees ghosts and solves murders but the show ignores that about 80% of the time and focuses on the struggles of her hotel business. The show is also hung up on art collecting for some reason.

Poster for Spooky in Love with a Korean couple holding hands on a couch surrounded by lamps and the silhouette of a ghost’s body and hands in the window behind them.

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