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A Groan Ass Man @jeffstern.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Wheee! New music for the long weekend, on glittery red sawblade vinyl

Album cover for Rico Nasty's new album, Lethal (features her face with acupuncture needles inserted)

Red vinyl record with glitter in the shape of a sawblade (Rico's chest pictured at the center)

A Groan Ass Man @jeffstern.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

A month ago, I made a bunch of overzealous purchases on a clothing website, and today when I got home, they were on my stoop Currently wearing the most egregious* purchase, and so very happy that I bought it all *based on cost, and also owning the same design on a long sleeve T already

Me in a pink Showgirls sweatshirt, Nomi in Goddess costume front and center

(not pictured: back with Nomi and Cristal Connors kissing, sleeves with Nomi "all leg" showbox/poster image)

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A Groan Ass Man @jeffstern.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Actual LOL from an irl "shot, chaser" formatted joke, when this truck passed me the other day. I saw the window decal and was confused, then saw the license plate and busted out laughing

Orange Jeep with prayer hands window decal reading: FEELING BLEGHSSED

License plate: BLEGHHH

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A Groan Ass Man @jeffstern.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Not as sweet as I'd expected, bit of a Windex aftertaste (but maybe that's my brain, fucking with me) Gonna add some ice

Frosty pint glass filled with bright blue liquid next to an opened can of Mountain Dew Liberty Chill

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A Groan Ass Man @jeffstern.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

"Coca Cola Classic, the red white and you" not quite resonating, I get it That's why I moved on to a more modern patriotic soda choice

can of Mountain Dew Liberty Chill
"50 flavors in one DEW"

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A Groan Ass Man @jeffstern.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Thanks! I've actually been making lentils a bunch lately, but did not have a good recipe for all this dal

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A Groan Ass Man @jeffstern.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

smoking gives you something to do with your hands

Joe Camel "The Hard Pack" official playing cards

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A Groan Ass Man @jeffstern.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Reminds me of the Tommy Westphall theory www.mentalfloss.com/article/5007...

From linked article: "over time and with the help of reader contributions, The Tommy Westphall Universe grew to include shows as diverse as ALF, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Knight Rider, Melrose Place, Seinfeld, and dozens of others..."

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A Groan Ass Man @jeffstern.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

David Spade on the second episode of Larry Sanders was *so* young

David Spade looking gaunt and nerdy, with a doofy shaggy-prep haircut

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A Groan Ass Man @jeffstern.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Just finished what I thought was my last grocery trip of the year, but now I'm trying to figure out if I can save another $1.03 to end the year on a chill, nice note.

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A Groan Ass Man @jeffstern.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Someone I'm following put @bajoran-orbison.bsky.social into my feed a couple of nights ago, and now these rad stickers are brightening my shelves until they find a place to be stuck

Top shelf: 3 DS9-themed stickers (in front of CDs): Moogie in Rosie the Riveter pose "The Future is Female", "Friend of Dax" face in front of trans flag, "Friend of Garak" head in a rainbow, palms out at the edges
2nd shelf: 7" records, w/ Bikini Kill fronting, a book "They Live," and a Showgirls placard w/Elizabeth Berkeley

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A Groan Ass Man @jeffstern.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Finding this sticker on a gaylord was a bit on the nose

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A Groan Ass Man @jeffstern.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

So a guy who looks like that, idolized a guy who looked like this? Yeah, for sure that checks out

young Cormac McCarthy in an outlandish pinstripe suit, flanked by two beautiful women clasping onto him

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A Groan Ass Man @jeffstern.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Post you from a different era (this is from late 90s)

Me in a tie in my 20s, shaking hands with Mean Gene Okerlund

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A Groan Ass Man @jeffstern.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Also this Silver Spoons spinoff starring Jason Bateman, particularly the episode where he creates a fake band called The Dregs of Humanity

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A Groan Ass Man @jeffstern.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

That canceled tv show you'll never stop thinking about (the only time I've written a letter to a network)

Titans starring Casper van Dien, Yasmine Bleeth, Jack Wagner, Victoria Principal

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A Groan Ass Man @jeffstern.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Learned something about myself tonight

A note made by my mother:

_Jeffrey_
First teeth
Feb 5th
Feb 21st

Bottom middle

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A Groan Ass Man @jeffstern.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

To be clear for the "I'd click like on your posts more, but I don't usually understand them" crowd, the new Doechii hit my doorstep today

Cover of Doechii album/mixtape Alligator Bites Never Heal

Sweet poster of a white/albino alligator

Signed reverse side of alligator poster, featuring Doechii with a big scar on her shoulder

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A Groan Ass Man @jeffstern.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Yasmin Williams has been dominating my turntable for several years, primarily via Urban Driftwood and more recently via Acadia, but this is clearly about to change, because the swamp princess has arrived!

Yasmin Williams ' latest album, Acadia (autographed)

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A Groan Ass Man @jeffstern.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

Saw a cool tree on a hike today

Tree trunk with hollow interior, thin curved openings in the trunk rise up

From what looked like a dead trunk, there is healthy looking tree growth up top, as slender branches reach up

View from below with close up of interior dead-seeming trunk becoming healthy tree limbs with fall colors

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A Groan Ass Man @jeffstern.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

If you see this, quote-post a bridge

Actor Gary Busey with prominent teeth/dental work

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A Groan Ass Man @jeffstern.bsky.social · 05/10/2024

I may be a tad older than you...

Time Magazine cover "High on Cocaine"

Pictured: martini glass filled with white powder, and an olive & straw

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A Groan Ass Man @jeffstern.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

Wait now, what's going on here?

Malice posting "Colored Television gf / Augustus bf" immediately followed by Martin posting a photo of Augustus by John Williams

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A Groan Ass Man @jeffstern.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Looks like I waited a few days to post, and I think that topical banger of a pun may have been my best on this site

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A Groan Ass Man @jeffstern.bsky.social · 20/07/2024

Reading The Question, came across Watchmen, lol

An issue of The Question where Vic/? reads Watchmen and comments on Rorschach

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A Groan Ass Man @jeffstern.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

Saw a lot of cool stuff at VFMA in Richmond, but the work of Tsherin Sherpa was my favorite surprise

15th century statue of Tibetan deity in front of Sherpa's bright disconnected "Fragments" representing the same deity in a more modern style

Large multi-panel painting featuring ancient gods and modern influencers in bright colors, as tiny people in drab clothing go about the mundane tasks of living in the background

Statue of a golden deity in bright bodysuit and gold trunks, blowing a large pink bubble

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A Groan Ass Man @jeffstern.bsky.social · 27/06/2024

That's one of the next few books we're reading for book club, hoping it's good!

Greek Lessons by Han Kang
Augustus by John Williams
Warlock by Oakley Hall

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A Groan Ass Man @jeffstern.bsky.social · 19/05/2024

"The elitism and cruelty often found in college humor arises from this belief in one's own Exemption, not only from time and death, but somehow from the demands of life as well." Thomas Pynchon in the intro to Richard Farina's Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me

Photo from book of the quoted text in the post, plus the line before it: "Undergraduate consciousness rests in part on a set of careless assumptions about being mortal."

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A Groan Ass Man @jeffstern.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

Got one holiday gift out of the way

Framed needlepoint of a sword with the quote "The way to a man's heart is through the fourth and fifth rib"

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A Groan Ass Man @jeffstern.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

Halloween pfp from a magnet on my fridge, bought at Philadelphia's Magic Gardens (PMG is also the source of my old pfp)

box magnet with a small wooden figurine, wearing a white dress with gold glitter, but her face looks like a sexy skull (sexy b/c eyelashes)

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A Groan Ass Man @jeffstern.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Glad I went to see this before it leaves! I really like Kukuli Velarde's work: secca.org/exhibition-d...

Ceramic statue of indigenous person holding a mask of White Jesus, squinting behind it. The view is from an angle with a focus on the face behind the mask.

Ceramic statue of indigenous person holding a mask of White Jesus, squinting behind it. The view is directly in front of the mask, so it looks like Jesus has the bloodshot eyeball of the face behind the mask

Large cranium sculpture of a figure with smiling brown face looking at a small alabaster figure on it's shoulder, wearing only a large gold crown

Ceramic vessel, mostly black, composed of the body of an adult with oddly positioned, and a child in a helmet on their back

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A Groan Ass Man @jeffstern.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

Last night for leaving Criterion I'm doing Johnny Mnemonic in black and white, which I haven't seen the original in a decade or two. I'd glanced at imdb, so I was ready for Henry Rollins and Ice T (mostly) But Dizzy from Starship Troopers (aka Lucinda Nicholson on 90210) surprised me. Dina Meyer.

Actress Dina Meyer in 1995's Johnny Mnemonic in Black and White, still photo of her face leaning in toward the viewer

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A Groan Ass Man @jeffstern.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

80s girl dinner in Making Mr Right Criterion leaving soon continues to delight

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A Groan Ass Man @jeffstern.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

saw Chan is Missing (1982) last night, and it was great, a fun detective story told inventively, with humor and heart. Also, only 1 hr 15. The "leaving soon" area of Criterion hasn't been letting me down!

Movie still of a car windshield with the sun reflected. Subtitles read: Inflation all the time, Inflation every year

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A Groan Ass Man @jeffstern.bsky.social · 02/08/2023

This sculpture by Louise Bourgeois at DIA Beacon had me thinking of both Starship Troopers and Showgirls

Statue that looks like a giant scary spider with sharp metal tips at the end of each leg

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