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Joe Pretty Scary, Kids! Phelan 🎃 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 6h

THE VERY ANGRY CATERPILLAR by Eric Carle

Japanese and English sign with an illustration of a grinning spikey caterpillar that reads "Beware of angry caterpillar! They might sting you!"

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Joe Pretty Scary, Kids! Phelan 🎃 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 7h

Walked around Uji. (Got some tea too)

Statue of Murasaki Shikibu with the river and bridge beyond.

Tram station sign for Uji announcing it as "The Town of the Tale of Genji."

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Joe Pretty Scary, Kids! Phelan 🎃 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 10h

Find an idealistic 18-y-o to marry, you'll be fine

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Joe Pretty Scary, Kids! Phelan 🎃 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 10h

Almost continuous w/ the Genji exhibit

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Joe Pretty Scary, Kids! Phelan 🎃 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"We Need More! How Nepotism Is Failing Our Privileged Children's Opportunities For Advancement" --The Atlantic

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Joe Pretty Scary, Kids! Phelan 🎃 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I thought that's what the Old Boys' Network did?

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Joe Pretty Scary, Kids! Phelan 🎃 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Spouse+YoungAdult were game enough to get dragged along. I had no idea & did not plan this. I owe them big.

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Joe Pretty Scary, Kids! Phelan 🎃 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

you guysYouGuys YOU GUYS! LOOKLOOKLOOKLOOK! Special Exhibit TALE OF GENJI: Radiant Culture of the Japanese Imperial Court! Opened today, Kyoto National Museum! Amazing book history exhibit -- medieval manuscripts, illustrated scrolls, artwork. and on & on. So so glad I got to go!

A middle aged white guy poses awkwardly before an elaborate promotional billboard for the Tale of Genji exhibit.

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Joe Pretty Scary, Kids! Phelan 🎃 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I've only read it once (so far), and I remember being surprised at how deeply depressed I felt for some time afterwards. The grimth really got under my skin.

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Joe Pretty Scary, Kids! Phelan 🎃 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Totally starting a band just to name it The Naked Flames

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Joe Pretty Scary, Kids! Phelan 🎃 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Similar tv experience, though I didn't need color to be forever haunted by the flying monkeys. Could not •believe• the bright Oz colors! (Also, my wonder at seeing the Sesame St. muppets in color the 1st time--Burt is really yellow)

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Joe Pretty Scary, Kids! Phelan 🎃 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Can't help but think: William Faulkner, Coffee Boss

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Joe Pretty Scary, Kids! Phelan 🎃 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I finally saw a bit of the beginning of succession & decided thst I •really• don't want to spend my time with those people. Kept getting it confused with Severance when others talked about either show...

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

autumn

Orange cosmos flowerbed in front of the stream near my parents

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Joe Pretty Scary, Kids! Phelan 🎃 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

...so you're actually telling me that "Severence" and "Succession" are actually two different shows?

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Joe Pretty Scary, Kids! Phelan 🎃 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And notwithstanding Mr. Collins, Most Excellent Potatoes

A small dish of delicately fried lightly salted potato quarters.

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Joe Pretty Scary, Kids! Phelan 🎃 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Unbelievably wonderful dinner. It doesn't come like this in Reno.

A square tray with nine small servings of assorted colorful food.

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kimmie @kimmiechem2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Once upon a time, I would 4x5 #believeinfilm

A rose from Dad’s garden, in black and white on film

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Joe Pretty Scary, Kids! Phelan 🎃 @jpinnv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"You have beautiful skin," she told me. "It's very full." "Full of what?" I asked. "Full of health and moisture and elasticity, full of the future, of everything." (MINA'S MATCHBOX, Yoko Ogawa)

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