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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

today’s fun puzzle for NYT readers: can you find the Vows column that very discreetly reveals that both members of the couple left their spouses for each other?

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

it actually sort of undermines the poem for me to learn that this is the man "Having a Coke With You" is about (ballet dancer Vincent Warren). this guy actually IS hotter than all art

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

will it be birds in spring or harakiri?

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

unclear if Lord Alfred Douglas's hobbies included "reading"

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

also did you guys know that Hemingway's final wife, Mary, liked to "be a boy" during sex with him, and played erotic games where she made him "be the girl," and wrote in her diary about the two of them goofing around and conducting this pretend interview:

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

researching Hemingway's life is so funny, I don't know how I'm going to cull it down for my class lecture. did you know about the time he was working as a war reporter and running a side hustle as a French Resistance warlord and was charged with violating the Geneva Convention

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

everyone knows about Virginia Woolf saying "on or about 1910 human character changed" but I feel like it's less known that she immediately follows this up with a relatable example: have you ever noticed that your cook has gotten so overfamiliar with you these days?

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Peter Walsh in Mrs Dalloway is such a lesbian

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

except in my case I triumphed and now it's MY signature scent

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I'm usually a real pedant about the "I" overcorrection but I think in this case "I" is actually correct, because it's "less fortunate than I [am]"

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

other people have also suggested it's the cervix! now I don't know what to think

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

now I'm revisiting James Joyce's letters to Nora. I think he's referring to the g-spot here? once again in awe of this genius mind

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I love going to the bathroom and I love how much James Joyce loves going to the bathroom

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I was afraid my love for Ulysses was all tied up in the very specific circumstances under which I first read it, and that it wouldn't hit the same now...but if anything I love it even MORE now, because it's so embodied and I love bodies even more now

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I'm teaching chapter 4 of Ulysses next week so I just re-read it for the first time in a DECADE and I cannot fucking believe how fucking good Ulysses is. it blew my mind the first time around and it continues to blow my mind now. what a miracle. I'm so happy

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 19/01/2025

hey ishmael. could you maybe stop talking for a while

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The Queer Review @thequeerreview.com · 01/01/2025

Idlewild by @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social published by The Overlook Press is filmmaker Todd Stephens’ #LGBTQ+ cultural highlight of 2024. Read more: thequeerreview.com/2024/12/19/t... #TheQueerReview2024 #TheQueerReview

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

a thing that ACTUALLY JUST HAPPENED: I went to Dunkin and the young barista handed me my coffee and said “I’m an ally to the LGBT community.” “What?” “I’m an ally to the LGBT community. Ever since high school”

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

last night I was going through photos my ex-husband took of me at the Central Park Zoo in 2018, and LOOK WHAT I FOUND. I completely forgot this photo existed (because at the time the owl wasn't famous)

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 30/12/2024

I think this is the clearest analysis of Mangione and the response to him I've thus far read

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

it's funny that skywriting technology hasn't improved in the 100 years since it was invented. you'd think we'd have photorealistic sky drawings now, but we're still just like those Mrs Dalloway characters staring at the sky going "is that an....A?...or maybe an R?"

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

just realized I'm approaching the 23rd anniversary of the last time I threw up. January 2002 I had a stomach flu and missed a week of ninth grade. I haven't thrown up since then, even though I've tried. maybe I should try again. maybe this should be my New Year's Resolution

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

personally I think an inch is a gorgeous thing to have

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

yeah I bet you're right. I guess it's time to switch to daily Valtrex instead of as-needed. I would like to continue kissing this person often

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

my mouth herpes outbreaks have recently been taking an interesting new form -- larger clusters, smaller sores, lip edge only -- and I suspect it's triggered by abrasions from kissing someone with stubble. but unfortunately "cold sores from kissing?" is an ungoogleable question

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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

mayor of whoville: ive had it with that grinch wife: isn’t he good now? mayor: i don’t buy it wife: he wrote us an original christmas song. he is making an effort mayor: sure but he called it “fuck city: born to die” wife: yeah and that rules mayor: wife: why are you being such a little bitch

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

A huge barred owl flew down a Virginia family’s chimney, knocked over the star on top of their Christmas tree, and perched himself on top www.wusa9.com/article/life...

An owl stares into the camera from atop a family’s Christmas tree

An owl perched on top of a Christmas tree inside a Virginia home

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

putting the duvet in the duvet cover is usually a 20-minute ordeal for me, and tonight was no exception, but this time I stumbled upon a fun if not particularly labor-saving trick: simply climb into the duvet cover and crawl around inside it like a kid in a blanket fort

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

omg exactly. but with much better results

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I recently rewatched The Wizard of Oz and was really surprised to notice for the first time that the Wizard humorously implies that all war veterans are cowards. I feel like 1939 was the last possible year Hollywood could get away with a joke like that

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

"we tell ourselves stories in order to live" has an air of profundity but tbh I'm not sure it actually rises to the level of a thought

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

stray Gypsy thought: it's funny that Miss Mazeppa's gimmick (playing the bugle) has nothing to do with being a gladiator. she just happens to be dressed as a gladiator that day but it's not her whole thing

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

trying to contain my envy and just be happy for you

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

just remembered a few years ago I went on a date with a guy who asked me what my favorite musical was, and I said Gypsy. "Aw," he said, "you're so wholesome!" I was like "??? it's about a stripper?" and he admitted he'd never seen it. his favorite musical was Cats

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

LOVED IT. my favorite version I've ever seen is still the 2008 Patti LuPone but this one is the second best, I think. absolutely thrilling experience

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

the closest I've ever come to saying "do you KNOW who I AM"

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

at Gypsy I sat next to an old queen who tried to impress me by saying "I saw Gypsy when it FIRST OPENED." I was awed. "You saw Ethel Merman?" "Well, no," he admitted. "I saw Bernadette." still seething about this. who the FUCK did she take me for

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

New York's hottest club is intermission at GYPSY. it has everything: gay men murmuring "she's using her head voice," gay men murmuring "she's using a mix," gay men murmuring "they've transposed a lot of her songs to a higher key," gay men murmuring "she's a sopr

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I don't like honey mustard, but I can never figure out what to substitute it with. today I asked the sandwich shop guy to use regular mustard instead, but I'm eating the results now and I know that wasn't the right choice

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

thinking about how "A Visit From St. Nicholas" is one of our culture's only depictions of the sensual pleasures of fatness

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

nobody told me there’s a musical in the middle of moby dick????

Chapter XL in Moby Dick, when the crew is singing and alternatively monologuing

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

in the dream as in real life, the kids were GREAT and I just felt so guilty that they were being let down by the inadequate facilities and my own (real or imagined) limitations as a teacher

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I had a super realistic stress dream about being back at the nightmare job I had over the summer. I'd failed to lesson-plan enough to fill the 90-minute morning block, and my brain generated like 20 individual kids and not enough desks to seat them all, and more kept arriving

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

you know how some small carnivores as classified as "mesopredators," e.g. foxes, raccoons, weasels, etc., because they also get eaten by bigger carnivores (apex predators)? I'm a meso-top

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I could not have picked a worse thing to associate with sadness

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James F. Thomas @jamesfrankiethomas.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

actually cried literal tears of laughter watching this

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