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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Not yet. I am still open to submissions--except for young women with one name hoping to monetize their looks.

Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Everyone is a tourist. But some stay where they were born to really get to know a place—the people and their culture. — Gogu

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Getting older the earworms hang around longer. Usually a song from high school. Please God, don’t let me die with American Woman in my ears.

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The fraternity of men who sit to pee.

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You’d guess they don’t serve ice cream in hell. But they do. That’s all they serve—the flavor you hate most. They offer sprinkles, though. — Gogu

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Trying to float... tryin'... That painting helped, thx. That and the sun starting to burn through here in Seattle.

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My dad said to me in my late teen years, “Why are you always laughing at everyone?” He was wrong about "everyone." Laughing at oneself comes later.

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You can see some great stuff. I never write any of it down though, hoping it will just seep into my brain's groundwater.

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What I do is affix a pen to my ankle and let my restless legs syndrome write whilst I dream.

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ol’ Split Oar says— A man needs a hobby. I’m getting into birding. You wouldn’t believe how birders come running for a rarity. Working up a fake Red-throated Loon for the lake from an old decoy and gonna take photos.

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Beavers (for the Weavers, a folk quartet back in the day)

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ol’ Split Oar says—I set up a bar at the lodge. Stumps for stools and all that rustic crap. Problem is, so far I’m the best customer. The wife would’ve been even better for business. I named a drink after her: The Drowned Lady.

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Seattle fall days are like bells.

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A friend said, “It’s all over when they stop wiping your ass.” I'm not agreeing or disagreeing. I'll leave that to you.

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Behavioral synchrony”—what a bunch of pshaw, Joe. You weak-willed humans! Raccoons know themselves. — Gogu

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yeah as far as I'm concerned, there are two species of spiders: outdoor spiders and bad spiders.

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I have his triple CD set Complete Village Vanguard Recordings. His tone is unbelievable. That tone! And his work ethic is an inspiration. His fate on the other hand a warning.

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wait, are you talking about me??

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yep. Happened to me. Third grade. Thank you, Mr. Lyman!

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Funny how people in a relationship start behaving more alike over time. Psychologists call it “behavioral synchrony.” Carla has started using ornate vocabulary that sounds a little odd out of her mouth. And my dishwashing is deteriorating towards “Costa Rican clean.”

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

60 is an average. But yeah. And it's a pleasure.

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Carla lived for a long time in a traditional Costa Rican house—cinder block, no glass, no hot water at the sink. And stingy with the dish soap. When she came here, she washed dishes the same way. What I called “Costa Rican clean.” Yet now I’m doing a bit of that myself.

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

River and creek restorations have gotten really interesting. A bright spot as you say.

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

An Updike interview line I read as a youth: “The hardest thing I do each day is climb the stairs to my writing room. And the second hardest thing I do is climb back down.” That job, I thought. I want that job.

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

There are two kinds of people: those who look at their poop and those who don’t. Which kind are you?

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One time in high school I described a friend as having taken so much acid that his chromosomes looked like paisleys. Dad didn't believe I'd made up the line.

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I thought everybody did that. It makes it sting less when it actually happens.

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

An acquaintance once told me, “You seem like a guy who’s figured out that women are too much trouble.” He gave me a look. “Some people are too smart for their own good.”

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Couple of articles about raccoons this past year. One found drunk in a bathroom, another smoking crack or something. I’m thinking of pulling a stunt like that. Get my name in the goddamn papers.

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Nice, soothing as you say. I don't take many photos, i'm not competing, just that by coincidence I took a photo of an old shed in Seattle last week.file:///Users/admin/Library/Messages/Attachments/78/08/1480AF00-ED98-4FC2-9535-96670FA9E228/IMG_3750.HEIC.jpeg

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Puget Sound beach walk. Tide falling. Crow perched on the ruins of a sand castle. Some kid learned about life.

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Like Jeopardy without the trivia question.

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Sometime during college I started a mock epic called Ballad of a Hippy. I was born at a Rainbow Gathering, Jupiter was aligned with Mars, My mama saved the afterbirth, And put it up in jars.

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Clarke and I used to work on sailboats down at a marina on the Sound. Sanding and varnishing teak on our knees or butts. One day wanting the knee pads, I pointed and said, “Toss me those French love boots.”

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I hear that, unfortunately. My granddad used to say, "The shortest interval of time is between a light going green and someone honking."

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Nice. Waste a busy tradesperson's time.

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

And I just noticed the paper got it wrong! It was only $20,100, not $21,000. Modern journalism in a nutshell. — Gogu

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Thousands of Jimothy rookie cards were handed out at a Mariners game. Including one stupid “gold card.” Some girl just sold hers on eBay for $21,000. Insane! I used to babysit Jimothy. Cute kid, but inside he’s nothing special. I’m 10x wiser—where’s my damn card? — Gogu

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

That kid has enough style for the whole theater audience. Hope they let him in for free.

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Since she's a cheat, she probably still wins the chess games.

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Man’s life has three phases and they proceed in order: fiction, nonfiction, and reference. — Gogu. Actually I came up with that line about 20 years ago, but I’m letting the raccoon take credit.

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Ol’ Split Oar says, “We get folks at the lodge kinked dollar-sign shaped. It takes days for them to straighten out. That’s why we strongly recommend at least a one-week stay.”

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

At the heart of almost every successful business is a crime—Gogu

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Knew a woman who kept two giant snakes on bunk beds in the basement. One day, the upper bunk snake clamped the top of her head in its jaws. “You just have to wait for it to realize you’re not food and let go,” she explained. “I stood for an hour, blood dripping down my face.” I keep fish.

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

My father forty years ago noting my attitude toward politics quoted a supposed Greek saying, “We don’t say a man who ignores politics minds his own business. Rather we say that man has no business here.”

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

January is my least favorite month. Cold, dark, long. So I celebrate a summer birthday—exactly six months later. Pisses Clarke off: his birthday is the next day.

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Joe & Gogu @joereiner.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Clarke used to work at a cheese shop. The owner hired young women for the counter. Clarke called them the cheese maidens. They used to complain of getting Taleggio butt.

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