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Mad Physiologist @madphysiologist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A gorgeous house and a lovely day fishing with my dad.

A view from the gorgeous house we’re staying in.

Another view of the house (and its view!)

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Mad Physiologist @madphysiologist.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

RS with your home river. I grew up in many places, so I don’t know what “home” is, other than where I’m at. The Patuxent River is a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay. I live at the mouth of the river, as it opens into the bay. It’s quite salty. Like me.

A picture of a marshy area of Broome’s Island, on the Patuxent River.

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Mad Physiologist @madphysiologist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Wolf Trap again! This time it’s the Grateful Dead Symphonic Experience, and it looks, smells, and sounds like a Dead Show already. (We have seats, but are sitting outside to have snacks.)

Photo showing the Wolf Trap venue, seating not open yet, with some people starting to gather on the lawn.

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Mad Physiologist @madphysiologist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Wolf Trap again! This time it’s the Grateful Dead Symphonic Experience, and it looks, smells, and sounds like a Dead Show already. (We have seats, but are sitting outside to have snacks.)

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Mad Physiologist @madphysiologist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

On this day, kind of a long time ago, we took leave from orders that conveniently pre-positioned us in San Dog, stuffed ourselves and a mess of silk crepe into a crappy rental car, headed over to the Hotel Del, and got hitched on the beach at sunset with a handful of dear friends and family.

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Mad Physiologist @madphysiologist.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

My driveway earlier today 🫠😱🫣 This is how it starts when you get your driveway replaced

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Mad Physiologist @madphysiologist.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Diadophis punctatus aka (very smol!) ring-necked snake. Is there a herpsky? Theres gotta be! #herpsky 🐍

A really small black snake. It has a white ring around its neck. It’s snek-neck. 💙

A closer view of my tiny snake friend. He’s so cute.

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Mad Physiologist @madphysiologist.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Anyway, here’s some more of the mess. I can’t get to the cabinet they damaged yet.

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Mad Physiologist @madphysiologist.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

Colonel Sherman T. Potter and Corporal Maxwell Q. Klinger from MASH. Klinger is dressed in princess drag and holding a red fan in front of his face.

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Mad Physiologist @madphysiologist.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Still-life: Post crab destruction feast with Clicquot (and intervening rain)

A table covered in “crab paper” that’s just trashed, crab carcasses everywhere.

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Mad Physiologist @madphysiologist.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I'm making deviled eggs, which a friend of mine calls dressed eggs. How do you like to make them?

A bowl of farm-fresh eggs still in their shells, different shades of cream and light and dark brown.

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Mad Physiologist @madphysiologist.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Got new entryway lighting today. This chandelier is made of re-purposed bud vases. Not bad for an old botanist, eh?

A picture taken from the top of the stairs, looking down into a high-ceiling foyer area. There is a pretty three-tiered chandelier, all glass and light, and the electrician nearby, on scaffolding.

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Mad Physiologist @madphysiologist.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Gen X certainly showed up to this show (Human League - Soft Cell - Allison Moyet), and holy shit are we old, but we do have the most bitchin’ old concert tees. Mine:

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Mad Physiologist @madphysiologist.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Here’s one, done. Yes, that’s cheese oozing. There’s pepperoncini in there too. I’m gonna die I think.

The cooked bacon-wrapped venison tenderloin, with melty cheese oozing out.

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Mad Physiologist @madphysiologist.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Bacon-wrapped venison tenderloins, aka bacon bats, before…

Long skinny venison tenderloin wrapped in bacon. Tied on with string. It looks like a bacon bat.

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Mad Physiologist @madphysiologist.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Here’s my dad, btw. Pic from the early 80s. He was a sociology professor.

My dad, one of damned good ones, strolling through the classroom as he gave a dynamic lecture about Marx, or Weber, or Engels, very probably.

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Mad Physiologist @madphysiologist.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

It’s official now, I’m your American-Canadian (by descent) friend, got an email yesterday.

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Mad Physiologist @madphysiologist.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

At long last, an okayyyy video of Lola, playing her pig-bowling game

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Mad Physiologist @madphysiologist.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

More zorching. (Why yes, I did wear hearing protection)

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Mad Physiologist @madphysiologist.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

More Blue, some inverted. Yes, we did Top Gun quotes because we’re fuckin’ nerds.

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Mad Physiologist @madphysiologist.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

More from the Blue Angels. Fun fact, one of the last things I did before I retired was sign off on the flight clearance for the Blue Angels’ hearing protection.

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Mad Physiologist @madphysiologist.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

VIP seats for today’s show, perfect weather and sky today!

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Mad Physiologist @madphysiologist.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

More local flora and fauna, some of the McDonnell Douglas-Boeing variety. There’ll be more and better tomorrow because we got VIP seats.

A lovely nature scene on the Patuxent River, lots of trees, and the mast of a sailboat. Also six F/A-18E and F aircraft zorching past for airshow practice/photo ops/VIP.

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Mad Physiologist @madphysiologist.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Goslings do not give the tiniest shit about zorching F-18s overhead, they got some fresh cool water!

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Mad Physiologist @madphysiologist.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The squirrels do not like it. The ducks/osprey/heron are tolerating it. Lola is over it. I’m loving it, because aircraft typically fly a little bit slower here, and I do have a pretty good understanding of the need, the need for speed. 😂🫠

Lola, grimacing, ears back slightly, annoyed by the zorching.

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Mad Physiologist @madphysiologist.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I live close - <1 mile as the F-18E/F flies - to Pax River Naval Air Station, so am(very) accustomed to flight activity, but this week has been a treat. For the past 3 days, the Blue Angels have been practicing, giving VIP rides, and generally zorching all over the airspace. This is above my house.

The view from above my patio, two Blue Angels zorching by overhead.

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Mad Physiologist @madphysiologist.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Docks/marina behind our house, and a couple shots of the TJ Johnson bridge, aka the Solomons bridge, aka “the bridge” if you’re a local.

Dock and water, with bridge and sun /sky in distance

The TJ Johnson bridge and the mouth of the Chesapeake on a sunny day

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Mad Physiologist @madphysiologist.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet (if you feel like it):

My little brown dog, Lola, wearing a knitted bright pink snood with big yoda ears. Her expression is a priceless mixture of “hi, my dear human” and “what have you done to me now?”

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Mad Physiologist @madphysiologist.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I'm going tonight. I'm gonna cry probably, but I'm going.

A concert poster

Songwriters Celebrate John Prine

Emmylou Harris, Margo Price, Patty Griffin, I'm With Her, Lucius, Allison Russell, Hayes Carll, Jobi Riccio, Fancy Hagood, Tommy Prine

June 9, Wolf Trap, Vienna, VA

Produced by the Wolf Trap Foundation in partnership with the Prine family and Hello In There Foundation

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Mad Physiologist @madphysiologist.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Mah feegs, gonna be yummy at some point, but probablyearly because it’s hot a lnd humid as fuck here.

Little itty bitty figs on the tree (shrub at this point, really)

Same, more little tiny green unripe figs

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Mad Physiologist @madphysiologist.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Dwarf hydrangeas and mixed-pH soil huzzahhhhh

A very light blue hydrangea, with slightly yellow centers

Pinky purple and yellowy-green hydrangeas

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Mad Physiologist @madphysiologist.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Pig-guarding is happening right now, which is a thing that occurs just prior to…pig bowling! I’ll explain…(1/n)

Lola Jane, a small brown dog, is tucked into her little squeaky stuffed wild boar piglet.

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Mad Physiologist @madphysiologist.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Here he is in front of 153369, now at Udvar-Hazy. This was at the aircraft retirement event out at Dulles in 2015 (with fancy paint job). This a/c was also in his squadron and he flew it frequently. It was the same one that evacuated Ambassador Martin from the embassy in Saigon in 1975.

Colonel standing in front of mean green Marine helo.

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Mad Physiologist @madphysiologist.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Here he is in front of another one he used to fly (when it was still gray; they restored the OG green paint for the aircraft’s retirement). This aircraft pictured is the same one used to evac Ambassador Graham Martin from the roof of the embassy from Saigon.

My husband, again, in front of a different CH-46E helicopter.

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Mad Physiologist @madphysiologist.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

We took my parents over to the Patuxent River Naval Air Museum today, and we saw this. Here’s my husband in front of the very helo he flew really heavy over the Haditha Dam in 2006 and did some crazy pilot shit to keep it flying. AKA why we’re lucky he and thirteen other Marines are still here.

The colonel standing in front of an old CH-46E helo that he used to fly.

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Mad Physiologist @madphysiologist.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Commissioning week at Annapolis this year: the Blues, 8th & I Marines, and The President’s Own. Seen ‘em all, two at a time, but not all three together. This is the time of year that I’d normally mentor 2/C and 3/C midshipmen. God, I miss that. Photogs: MC1s Sarah Thielen and Tina Staffieri

Marines in dress blue-whites, in formation. A single F-18E Navy Blue Angel zorches overhead.

The President’s Own Band - the Marines, but everyone’s supposed to know that. In the background is the Naval Academy Chapel dome.

President’s Own Marine Corps band, with a Blue Angel overhead. Ooh-rah and hoo-yah!

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Mad Physiologist @madphysiologist.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Here it is! Next time you're on a flight and they nail the plane to the runway, say nice, two-wire to the pilots (both of them, since you don't know who did the landing). Because whoever did the landing, they flew Navy.

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Mad Physiologist @madphysiologist.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I’m not as old as this makes me sound, I just grew up with parents who watched it, but: S4, E25 of M*A*S*H: “The Interview” wrecks me every goddamn time. It took me awhile to know that my husband and I were lucky to do our jobs for the Navy and Marine Corps when we did.

Alan Alda, as Hawkeye Pierce, in MASH. This is the most humorless and poignant episode, and its contrast to the ordinary level of humor on the show is probably why it gets me. Or that it so well captures the utterly chronic and unrelenting heartbreak that is war.

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