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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956) ⭐️⭐️✨ The Good: Quasi-lobotomized for an American release, it’s still 60% of the original Godzilla, and was many’s first exposure. Theatrical poster is awesome! The reporter was inserted into stuff as well as could be, to explain and translate for Americans.

Poster for the American release of Godzilla, which was heavily edited.

Raymond Burr, playing the journalist. He’d later play Perry Mason.

Godzilla, looming large over tanks and artillery.

Godzilla, walking towards train tracks with a bridge in the foreground.

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

With Halloween right around the corner, gonna miss summer and early fall. Been a fun one, but wish I hit the beach.

Grilling chicken on a grill. Little burnt.

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Godzilla (1954) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Good: It’s Godzilla! Awoken by the Bomb, his destruction of Tokyo has a jarring inevitability - slow, unstoppable, and unyielding. Black and white does Godzilla justice and makes him appear that much more scary. Human story very good, and all effects are awesome!

Godzilla (1954) behind a bridge and approaching some train tracks.

Godzilla in black and white, approach high power lines.

Godzilla’s standing against a line of artillery.

Godzilla, wading toward several bridges.

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Over the summer the wife and I watched all the Showa era Godzillas and now she’s interested in rewatching them all again (❤️) while keeping a film journal on her thoughts on ‘em. With stickers! So I’ll be doing that too and probably sharing my thoughts! Not a Zilla account, but may become one.

Stickers showing Godzilla friends like Rodan and Gigan.

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Finished Elden Ring at the start of the year and then made my way through this 500 page tome on the lore of it…well written, but how much Elden Ring is too much Elden Ring? Would recommend for the very interested, but you gotta be very interested! #booksky

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Read a focus group report on chronic absenteeism in a local school district near me and one of the chronically absent students literally said, “School is a waste of time, for real, for real.” 😬

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Over the weekend I discovered fry pies at a bakery, which are essentially what Hostess Pies were back in the 80s. Except these are much healthier, cause nothing was worse for you than those Hostess Pies back then. (Nothing) Loved me those lemon ones!

Hostess Pie flavors, including the Pie Wizard dude.

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Playing through the Final Fantasy games, starting with the original FFI and its handy strategy guide. Beat the NES original a long time ago, and all the quality of life improvements in the Pixel Remasters are greatly appreciated. Fighter Red Mage White Mage Black Mage Roll them credits!

Steam deck showing a shot of Final Fantasy I and underneath it, the Nintendo Power strategy guide.

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Sign seen on my run over the weekend, it’s rained like 4x what it should in August in Columbus. The sign wasn’t halfway underwater the week before. Eight inches of rain killed my radishes and turnips…squishy as soon as they were pulled. 🫩 🥕

Sign halfway in the pond that says no ice skating.

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Chickens dug a deep ol hole this weekend, and danged if they won’t just sit in it. Good job, Freckles. #backyardchickens

Orangeish chicken sitting in a deep hole while her blue legbar sister walks behind her.

A pair of chickens sitting in a hole they dug, while another pecks at them.

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Spent the spring and summer with the wife watching Showa era Godzillas on Sunday nights - just finished em this past weekend! Here’s my faves: 1. Godzilla 2. Invasion of Astro Monster 3. Ebirah, Horror of the Deep 4. vs. Hedorah 5. Terror of Mechagodzilla Recycled footage or not, Godzilla rules!

Criteria Collection Godzilla package, showing Godzilla in a colorful roaring pose.

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Squash and zucchini were getting out of control, but thanks to a bunch of uncontrollable squash moths, guess we won’t be having any more this year.🐛 🦋 All that you see was nibbled up, and so it was almost completely ripped out. Maybe next year.

A super overgrown raised garden of squash.

A white winged squash moth, on my squash vines. It and its kids ate all my squash plants this year.

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Can see why it’s popular - just a fun read! Normally I don’t start series that are being written, but Dungeon Crawler Carl was a blast! Maybe the only tiniest criticism is that there are a lot of rules the book follows, but maybe that mirrors Carl’s confusion as he learns ‘em. Recommended! #booksky

The cover of Dungeon Crawler Carl, with Carl fleeing and Princess Donut close behind.

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Saw a really really old man wearing a World War II Veteran hat today, and just an hour or two later saw someone wearing a clearly well-worn and loved mid 1990s Michael Jordan Chicago Bulls jersey. World is still full of good people, I’m happy to report.

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Finished Mina the Hollower over the weekend and ended at around 85% - loved every moment and will try to 100% it. Can’t recommend enough, an excellent video game that made me feel young again! 🔪 🐭 🔪

Missed some stuff in Mina but that’s okay. Means I gotta play it again!

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

First spotting of Halloween candy this year was at the CVS on July 10th…it’s almost here!! 🎃 Still trying to find candy corn in the wild before the 4th of July, and I’m sure one day I’ll accomplish that! (Should have posted this immediately, but things have been busy).

Reese’s peanut butter pumpkins, as seen at the local CVS.

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Just the little birthday dog, Ginny, being a little stern on the cushion. 🎂🐶 Happy 2nd birthday! 🎉 #dogsofbluesky #schnauzergang

A little salt and pepper mini schnauzer, staring at the camera.

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Came recommended, but it proved average…the setting was really the best part of the book, and there was spooky stuff and lots of bugs, little hungry bugs. Lots of bugs doing gross bug things! Felt underwhelming but I have meant to read one of the author’s other books. May still do that. #booksky

Cover of Wolf Worm, showing a flowering plant with cocoons on it.

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

This 250th Independence Day, I think of my first ancestor who came over to New Jersey in the mid/late 1600’s with his family. Bought so much land, he was given a wife as part of the purchase. His current wife didn’t like that. Later, he was hung for horse thievery. Proud nation of immigrants! 🎆 🇺🇸 🎆

Gaudy America donut from Dunkin Donuts. Sprinkles and cherry (?) crème on the inside.

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Ideas and thoughts appreciated: I need to get an 11 year old a birthday gift and the only clues I have are Demon Slayer and Jujutsu Kaisen and I know nothing about either. Don’t want to get him anything lame. 😬 #anime

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Another library thank you! Godzilla: Here There be Dragons was a good read with Zilla and pals wrapped around a story of piracy and gold. Really liked the monsters mixed with historical figures and intrigue (Drake, Queen Elizabeth, etc). Ebirah too!! 🦀 @giantfrankenstein.bsky.social #booksky

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Killer Crabs, bought for the cover alone, was so bad I wanted to quit with 30 pages left in a 160 pager. 50% crabs, 50% 1978 smut, the crabs had previously invaded Wales (huh?) in a prior book and in this one it was Australia. One line was, “…and they hated boats most of all.” Okay buddy. #booksky

Killer Crabs, a book whose cover had a giant crab raising its claw in a swamp with a severed human hand under it.

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Volunteered for the local food bank at Pride yesterday - all deserve fresh, healthy food and an inclusive, welcoming community. Happy Pride! 🌈

Just me, standing around at the food bank table.

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Turn your sound up if you want to hear my dogs snoring on a lazy afternoon! 🐶🐶 #dogsofbluesky #schnauzergang

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

It took 5 months, but I finally finished the unabridged, 1000 page Romance of the Three Kingdoms!! The major characters - Zhuge Liang, Cao Cao, Liu Be, Lord Guan - are really well fleshed-out and you don’t realize how impressive the novel’s structure is until the end but it’s so worth it! #booksky

Copies of the two volumes of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, translated by Moss Roberts.

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

The library app Libby suddenly has tons of Godzilla comics, which are a small weakness of mine. Godzilla in Hell has some good art and an interesting premise but it’s nothing supremely amazing. Entertaining and fast, I’m grateful it was free to borrow through the local library. #booksky

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Been waiting Y E A R S to sink my teeth into this, and it early drops for Kickstarter backers just as I’m out the door for a run? Will be the quickest couple of miles I’ll ever run. Or the shortest. Thanks, @yachtclubgames.bsky.social !

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Happy Drinking with Chickens Day for those who celebrate! (Someone needs to update that website to 2026!) Pounding rain all days has kept me from having a brew with the birds, so we’ll just celebrate another day! 🎉 #backyardchickens www.drinkingwithchickens.com/blog/interna...

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Bought a couple large pizzas and some liters of soda for some PhD students today so I can legitimately say I brought some joy into the world this May 19th, 2026.

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Finished this one in four days…read the back cover and tell me that’s not interesting? Dracula? An undead pharaoh? Werewolves and AI in space? Was rather disappointing and the ending was just bad. It was on my to-read list and the best I can say about it is that it’s not anymore. #booksky

Book cover for Of Monsters and Mainframes

Back cover of Of Monsters and Mainframes.

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Lovin’ how the public library notifies me by snail mail that they can’t run my monthly $20 donation from my credit card before my bank lets me know it was in a data breach and had to be spiked. Bonus: Verizon just ran the dead card and said “Thanks for your payment!” Whatever, y’all.

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

A happy, happy birthday to our little Georgia, celebrating her 12th birthday! She still has her ability to unhinge her jaw to eat her ice cream scoop whole. (Never change, little girl! 🐶🎂 #dogsofbluesky

A dog named Georgia staring at the camera.

Georgia, gently licking her birthday ice cream.

Georgia, violently eating her ice cream scoop.

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I’ll never understand it, but my mom calls me on Mother’s Day as soon as she wakes up to wish me a Happy Mother’s Day. I love her, but it’s always like 5:30AM where she lives. I can’t be only one this happens to, right? (Also, Happy Mother’s Day to mothers of any kind!)

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Visited the grounds of the historic Cheekwood in Nashville, TN - beautiful Japanese garden and fountains, and a mansion that had a spooky grandfather clock from the 1790s that still runs. Plus a lapis lazuli fireplace that probably costs more than my home. 😬

Cheekwoods grandfather clock - 200+ years old and still can make you jump out of your skin when it goes off.

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Finally, a good concert photo! Saw Josh Ritter at the Ryman while down in Nashville and he was at the top of his game - acoustics were perfect too! (Wife hated his suit, but I liked it). Animal Years is a near perfect album and Historical Conquests is just a smidge behind it, if you ask me. #music

Josh Ritter playing his well-worn guitar, wearing a green and white suit.

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Spent a long weekend in Nashville, and ate a blueberry biscuit sandwich with sausage, pimento cheese, gravy, and a fried egg at Rise - made sure to take my cholesterol medicine, too. Their packaging with a smiling biscuit with boots and a hat was strangely endearing. 😀

Drawing of a smilin’ biscuit with a hat and boots.

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

When the weather’s nice at work I like to eat outside under the canopy and I guess some baby birds hatched in the nest behind the light boxes. Their constant peeping is rather sweet, in a different way from the chickens back at home. One day they’ll be feasting on the crumbs I drop!

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) kindly supported grad students like myself back in the day so I’ll drop them $1000 if that amount is raised - if you can help, PhD and Masters students along the border would appreciate it! (And I would, too!) Go Miners! #PhD raise.utep.edu/campaigns/72...

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Long-awaited preorder of the Chrono Trigger soundtrack arrived on Record Store Day! Vinyl always sounds amazing and this was one of the best SNES soundtracks so I can’t wait to see just how good this sounds! 😀

Chrono Trigger boxed vinyl laying on a blanket.

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Highland cow tried to eat my phone but other than that had a great time touring the Picture Perfect Ranch outside of Columbus, OH. Got to feed some bay cows too! 🤠🐮 Nice date night and they had lots of chickens too, including roosters dropped off by others. www.pictureperfectranchohio.com

Cow licking me and trying to eat my phone.

Black and white baby goat on a cows back.

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Killed the Easter Bunny while I was weeding the backyard - not looking too guilty about it. (Thankfully I didn’t have to put the bunny out of its misery, but still…schnauzers like to chase little varmints). #Schnauzergang #DogsofBlueSky

Little schnauzer giving you the side-eye after killing a rabbit on Easter. 🐣

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Wanted to read a real classic this year - the first half of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is 540 pages and the second half is …longer! Outstanding character studies across warring early 200s AD China, it is big and intimidating but very engaging. Cao Cao is such a character! (2/5) #Booksky

Book 1 of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, showing greenish mountains and dark forests on the cover.

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Book I finished in 2025 that I didn’t mention (one of many, which I should correct) - Project Hail Mary got me remembering it! Great read that pivots between solar system political intrigue, a mutating virus, and space combat, it really hit all the marks for sci-fi! Recommended! (32/40) #booksky

Cover of Leviathan Wakes, showing space ships above a planet.

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

They look cute, but they dig holes. I hate spraining my ankle while lawn mowin’, and so every year it’s time to fill em in. It’s the cycle of life, until the heat death of the universe. #dogsofbluesky #scnauzergang

A mini schnauzer and a mutt snuggling in a blanket.

Patches of a back yard that have been filled with dirt and seeds, cause the dogs dig holes.

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Stumbled upon a pot of gold under the Ohio snow this morning. Must have been because I was wearing a sweater made in Ireland! 🍀 So very very cold this morning!

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

60 mph wind gusts and I spent a day working from home wondering if the trampoline in the neighbors yard was going to blow over their fence across the street and smash into my office window. It didn’t, but man it was close to flipping! (Other portions of their fence were sadly blown over though). 💨

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Went to Lego’s Brickfest in Columbus over the weekend and had a good time, but there were too many people and it seemed less about cool displays and builds and more about selling. Still, the Charmander display that evolved when you walked past it was a neat illusion! #Lego #Pokemon

Charizard, made of Legos - he evolved from Charmander when you walked past.

A scene from the Battle of Waterloo, in Lego form.

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Easing muscle stiffness and Pokémon? A Millennial must be in charge of the Costco magazine. (LOL, we did it!) 🤔 Also, a grandma is measuring her grandbaby in lengths of Costco hotdog. 👶🌭

Cover of Costco magazine, featuring a few common Pokemon.

A baby in a car seat next to a Costco hotdog. 🌭

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

This New Jerseyan who has lived in Ohio for 10+ years meeting a New Jerseyan who has lived in Ohio for 10+ years and we both immediately start asking each other “What exit?” and if we still have that Jersey accent (“Say ‘water!’, say ‘coupon!’”). Some things never ever change. #OH #NJ

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Haven’t been able to watch sports since COVID - something about empty arenas killed my enthusiasm for hockey and it hasn’t returned. Normally I would have watched the gold medal game but I spent some time organizing my hockey cards from my childhood instead. Good job USA, and good game Canada, too.

Photo showing sorted hockey cards from an early 1980’s set of Topps.

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