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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 1h

Eternal Sunshine of the Event Horizon

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 7h

Hey hey Woody Guthrie I wrote you a song, it’s called “Bawitdaba”

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 9h

Someone has surely already made a study of his wishcasting and deeply weird use of phrases like “highly accepted” that he slips into his every utterance as if no one knows he’s inventing support out of whole cloth.

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 13h

Severance (Apple TV+, 2022 - )

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 13h

I'm kind of itching to get together a free folk/freak folk/New Weird America panel for SCMS next year--conference would be in spring, I think, but panel submissions are likely due next fall. Get in my DMs if this sounds like something you might be interested in doing!

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Woodford is just east of Bennington and has a population of 355. My wife and I went camping there years ago during an intense thunderstorm I’ll never forget. We almost decided to run to and sleep in the car.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 07/10/2026

The grammatical 'colon' and the anatomical 'colon' are not etymologically related. The anatomical 'colon' comes from the Greek ‘kolon’ which means “large intestine.” The grammatical 'colon' comes from the Greek ‘kōlon’ which means “limb.” Both are a means to an end.

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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

BARTENDER: another round JIMMY OLSEN: no we’re done thanks BARTENDER: *removes glasses from bar* LOIS LANE: omg it’s superbar

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“And then Fred Bassett’s owner says ‘I’m going golfing.’ And the Fred Bassett says ‘He really loves golf.”

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Bisou, aka Bisou Marie, Beefy, Beefer, Cheeseburger McGee

A small dog standing on a rock in the middle of a mountain brook in Vermont

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Angel in the Snow” is one of the loveliest Elliott Smith songs, good gravy. Hard to believe it didn’t find a spot on an album besides the posthumous New Moon.

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“No one should have to be that strong / But if you’re stubborn like me / I know what you’re trying to be.”

Bright red magnolia seeds emerging from their pods.

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Amelia Malpas @malpas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This enrages me so deeply I don't know what to say. Being able to control your body is *the* most basic freedom, one which is necessary for the exercise of all other freedoms possible in a liberal democratic society

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

New Englanders especially, but truly everyone, if you find yourself wanting to know what autumn sounds like, do give this record a listen and purchase

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Oh My! Mountains Below, by Red Heart the Ticker

13 track album

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Nikki Wallschlaeger @nikkimwalls.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I need to find a new place to live. My current living situation is not safe anymore. I've been here 6 years. I used to love it here but it's become intolerable. I have a full time job now but I want to move as soon as possible. asking for mutual aid and support 💜 Venmo Nikki-Wallschlaeger

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Who’s got two thumbs and is a happy fairweather New England sports fan?

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Next Saturday! Do come out if you are in the vicinity on either side of the border! Looking forward to hearing @sarahwolfson.bsky.social and @ringtales.blacksky.app and so many more!

Flyer featuring a photo of two gray jays. Info: Cross-Border Poetry, 18 Québécois and Vermont poets, celebrating poetry, community and unity. Saturday October 10, Derby VT and Stanstead QC, Haskell Free Library and Opera House, 1-5pm.

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

On her morning run, my wife just passed some Floridian leaf peepers checking out the foliage on Mount Ascutney from their car, in which, at 9:45-m, they were getting thoroughly baked.

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Next Saturday! Do come out if you are in the vicinity on either side of the border! Looking forward to hearing @sarahwolfson.bsky.social and @ringtales.blacksky.app and so many more!

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Do you know the importance of a fromager?

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hello? Yes. Pizza please. Yes. My house. Yes please. Dad will pay. Also two pizzas. Yes, and three. My house. Yes please. My dad will. He says okay.

A cute dog lying on a couch with her cheek on an iPhone

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Jeff @gojeffgo.com · 04/10/2026

when my wife asks me to grab a bag of garden soil at home depot

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I saw a woodchuck yesterday and today, a chevron of geese and a phoebe landing on a branch, bobbing its tail.

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Judd Greenstein @juddgreenstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s a strange period in the northeast…many birds have left, others are molting and quiet, the geese are migrating and the big trees are changing colors…but the peppers still cling to their branches, the fruit trees are still green, the katydids & crickets still call at night in a memory of summer.

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I have avoided watching Severance because the premise didn’t excite me (no lightsabers) but finally watched the first episode last night and holy crap.

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

John Hausdoerffer , Gavin Van Horn, and Heather Swan talking about senses and kinship at the library in Woodstock, VT. My head is still buzzing from the reading and the conversations.

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Me: I think I’ll try another go at reordering ye olde manuscript. <Opening the document five minutes later> On second thought.

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“Are you or are you not Bill Paxton?”

A collage of two photos, one of Eric Schmitt who just shat himself in front of the world questioning Jack Smith, the other a screenshot of Bill Pullman from some movie

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

with all respect: i'm losing touch with what AI does because i have no interest in it and it's not my business. nobody worries about me losing touch with developments in particle physics or artificial bull insemination. it's not my fault the richest guys on earth want me to make their toy my life

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I know nothing about this brewery but the can intrigued me. The beer is quite good! Sweet, naturally, but not cloyingly so.

A hand holding a 16oz can of Honey Ale by Kraemer & Kin, a brewery from St. Albans VT. The can design features an illustration of a honey bee.

Another side of the can, showing worker, drone, and queen bees, with a key for all of the different termed parts of the main bee on the label.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 02/10/2026

These are your words of the week nor’easter protein magnetic field coffee ghost www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...

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The Words of the Week - Oct. 2

Dictionary lookups from space, storms, and store shelves

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 01/10/2026

Huh. Today in "always look up the etymology because sometimes you're just repeating a myth but sometimes it's weirder and more incredible than you could have possibly imagined" www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/c...

Screenshot of Merriam Webster etymology note for cockamamie:
By the look and sound of it, cockamamie (also spelled "cockamamy") could have something to do with a rooster and the outrageous sound it makes. But in fact, cockamamie is believed to be an altered form of the term decalcomania, which refers to the process, invented in the mid-19th century, of transferring pictures and designs from specially prepared paper to surfaces such as glass or porcelain. (The word referring to the picture or design itself, decal, is a shortening of decalcomania.) The word decalcomania comes from French, with décalcomanie combining the verb décalquer, meaning "to trace" or "to transfer by tracing," and -manie, meaning "-mania." Starting in the 1930s, painted strips of paper with images capable of being transferred to the skin were called decals or—in children's slang—cockamamies. Those familiar with today's temporary tattoos will understand quickly that these were regarded by many as silly novelties, lending the word cockamamie the necessary leeway for application to anything ridiculous.

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I heard a bird singing earlier today and I could not ID it, and it was too faint for Merlin to pick up when the wind started blowing. It was high-pitched and sounded like a slide whistle going down and then back up. It sounded like a wood pewee except that it went down first and then up. Guesses?

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Coincidentally, in light of the right-wing directing its curdled gaze at Ms. Rachel, I stumbled upon this David Brooks quote from 1997: “From your earliest childhood, television characters from Mr. Rogers to Big Bird have been lovebombing you with messages about how special you are.”

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

At my private high school, a goth classmate of mine was nearly kicked out for her body piercings while star hockey players had their sexual assaults swept decidedly under the rug, which I would not have been surprised to learn at the time but learned later from the former school nurse.

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Our oldest is doing homework and watching our cousins’ movie about our ancestors. 🥹😭 www.hopeofescapemovie.com

Movie poster for Hope of Escape, a historical movie about the escape from the antebellum South of an enslaved mother and daughter

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Doobie, or not Doobie? That was the question.

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Maureen Thorson @maureenthorson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“So delicious he grew to an unthinkable size.” A poem by Michael Metivier.

The Wine

BY MICHAEL METIVIER
When the townspeople

gave the teenaged Buddha
a glass of wine
so delicious he grew
to an unthinkable size
and froze into a blue statue
that shielded the town
from a wave that broke
upon his back
and would have swept away
the town if he’d not tasted
the wine and afterward the people
were overjoyed and said
they would do good deeds
like carpool their children to school
more often and plant lettuce
everywhere while the Buddha
melted into water and receded
into the calm sane sea.

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

CW: deceased bird, not gory. Rest in peace, sweet catbird. 😢

A dead catbird on pavement, possibly a window strike fatality, a beautiful gray bird with a rust patch under the base of its tail

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