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Mark E. Griffin @marvelousmarks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I was at a ho hum 45-11-11 game Russ played against the C’s in 2016. It was like he was strolling through the game in slow motion while 5 guys in green helplessly chased him around the court. This captures it perfectly.

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Mark E. Griffin @marvelousmarks.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

When someone in your town subreddit posts the exact thought you are having in that exact moment (There is a tornado alert and everyone’s a little jumpy over here since the baseball sized hail a month ago)

A Reddit post complaining about a local channel doing a split screen because there’s a tornado warning

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Mark E. Griffin @marvelousmarks.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Celtics only www.82-0.com/share?id=CDI...

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Mark E. Griffin @marvelousmarks.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

You have to do it with Celtics Shaq though

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Mark E. Griffin @marvelousmarks.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Also some of the quotes here really hit me in the #Xennial. On Nirvana:

Highlighted: “They didn’t present to me as something that was going to be any bigger than filling a 1000-seat venue, any bigger than the entirety of the career of Mudhoney,” he added, referring to another Seattle grunge band."

In fact, Jacobs said, he thought Nirvana would not be as successful as Mudhoney.

“Mudhoney’s first EP is the gold standard for grunge,” Jacobs said.

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Mark E. Griffin @marvelousmarks.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Today, the first episode of Taste the Music, an interview show about how musicians, writers, and artists of all kinds choose to create, and sometimes why they choose not to: TasteTheMusic.org #Podcast

A drawing of a guitar player with thought bubbles around them displaying other tools of art.

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Mark E. Griffin @marvelousmarks.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

The late 60s/early 70s era of jazz/funk/soul is endlessly fascinating because of all the bifurcations and marriages that occurred. @jeremyerwin.bsky.social captures it well talkin about Zawinul in @aquariumdrunkard.com aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/02/24/j...

Quotes: "The resulting album feels like an alternate timeline in which In a Silent Way never mutates into Bitches Brew, and instead the finely calibrated ambience of third stream modernism reigns supreme."

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Mark E. Griffin @marvelousmarks.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Desire for the U.S. to maintain its supremacy in the sciences is still very high despite (gestures everywhere). This coincides with *most* science funding being restored in the next budget. 🧪 #scicomm www.pewresearch.org/science/2026...

Majority of Americans say it is very important for the U.S. to be a world leader in scientific achievements." A chart showing % who say that, thinking about all the important goals for the U.S., it is __ important for the U.S. to be a world leader in scientific achievements. 9% of U.S. adults think 'no too/not at all', 34% 'somewhat' and 57% think 'very'

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Mark E. Griffin @marvelousmarks.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The answer is, and always will be, the ending to Quantum Leap. Gut wrenching and perfect (and it made up for an otherwise iffy 5th season

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Mark E. Griffin @marvelousmarks.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Sai King, with the beautiful words. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...

Stephen King: "What I’m saying is that in Rob’s hands, it all rang true. The funny parts were really funny (including the barf-o-rama) and the dramatic parts hit me where I lived, or where I did live back in the days when John F. Kennedy was president and gas was a quarter a gallon."

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Mark E. Griffin @marvelousmarks.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

If it turns out that offensive rebounds are as valuable (or moreso?) than 3s, than it's going to bring balance to the force. And the beauty is, it was bound (ugh, no pun I swear) to happen. Someone was going to innovate!

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Mark E. Griffin @marvelousmarks.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Nice piece on player reactions to the #NBA betting scandal from @noadalzell.bsky.social. Illuminating quote from Jaylen Brown, who I know is talking direct $$$, but he knows ad revenue from gambling sites is part of the reason the cap (& his salary) keeps going up www.celticsblog.com/articles/123...

“We don’t benefit from any of the profits or anything like that, but we’ve got to deal with a lot of the extra negativity and scrutiny behind all the gambling stuff. And then on top of that, it creates more integrity issues, etc. So I’m not sure what the answer is going forward, but definitely something that we got to spend more time having conversations about.” the first sentence is highlighted by the skeeter.

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Mark E. Griffin @marvelousmarks.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Feels a little bit like cheating bc we’re not even into Stevie’s golden era but

A cover of the album signed sealed delivered

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Mark E. Griffin @marvelousmarks.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

This is going to be a massive boon to education, the state’s economy, and general wellbeing. Wonder how many other states copy it www.kunm.org/local-news/2...

A childcare provider cares for three young children in a daycare center.

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Mark E. Griffin @marvelousmarks.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Also FINALLY a book about writing that doesn’t excoriate me for not clacking the keys on my Olympia from 8 AM - 2 PM every single day

Let me also admit: When I hear or read another writer advise a writing schedule, I roll my eyes. Sometimes, in the interest of playing well with others, I have to roll them in my mind only.
It strikes me as a privileged suggestion-and, yes, one that ignores women's realities in particular-to assume that one has the time, space, and multiple supports available to make a daily writing practice realistic.

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Mark E. Griffin @marvelousmarks.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

#DearWriter by @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social is a warm blanket infused with a rallying cry for writers like me. Can’t wait to get deep into it

Book cover: “Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life, by Maggie Smith” the book is lime green with yellow words and squiggles for the “i”

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Mark E. Griffin @marvelousmarks.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

In the odd case that other things have taken priority, for @mcsweeneys.net, I imagine the consequences of classroom Chromebook defenestration: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-a...

quote: I will also be accountable if she periodically peers out the window as the screen softly dims over the course of several hours, flickering a Morse code of despair as its AI bot, Gemini, softly whimpers to the gym teacher slumped in the adjacent car alone, crying his free period away. If he, too, breaks down, sobbing “What has become of me?” into a bag of ranch-flavored Bugles during his only free period, I will reimburse Mr. Smidley for all mental-health services.

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Mark E. Griffin @marvelousmarks.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Saw a butterfly I’ve never seen before, and it was really happy to have a phone stuck in its face. Then I see there is an article about it! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/s...

A bright blue butterfly with a green head and four wings sits on a log.

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Mark E. Griffin @marvelousmarks.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

TIL that there is a two and a half hour director's cut of the 1989 movie The Wizard, starring Jenny Lewis and Fred Savage.

Text: In an interview with Retro Gamer, director Holland admitted that he had some issues with the final script: "I argued with the studio that we were shooting way too much footage – more than we could ever possibly use [...] I lost the argument and was told flat out by Universal to shoot the entire script".[10] According to Holland, the original cut of the film was over 2.5 hours long and that nearly an hour of footage needed to be deleted in order to make the film a suitable length for family viewing. The deleted material was finally released in 2020 on the collector's edition Blu-ray of the film. Most of the deleted footage comes from the original cut of the opening act which explores Corey's home life in more detail, including deliberately antagonizing his older brother, his mother's emotional issues surrounding Jimmy and her divide from her former family. Nick's alcoholism is also...

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Mark E. Griffin @marvelousmarks.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

This is such a great line that kind of encompasses healthy eating in America. You're not battling yourself, you're battling an entire industry constantly trying to feed you bad stuff.

Question: Because cheesecake is really good.

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Cheesecake is really good. That's the other thing about surgery or Ozempic. If you think that's cheating, then what do you call them putting out six different kinds of Oreos every year?

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Mark E. Griffin @marvelousmarks.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Great rundown @wired.com on this place (w a shoutout to @minakimes.bsky.social's outreach in the sports world). My one concern is that when the CEO gives the pitch, as a layperson with limited understanding of how the "ecosystem" works, I get a little lost. #scicomm www.wired.com/story/big-in...

Quote: Question: Is there anything else you want people to know about Bluesky?

Answer: This is a choose-your-own-adventure game. You can get in there and customize the experience as much as you want. If you’re not finding what you want within the Bluesky app, there might be another app within the protocol ecosystem that will give you what you want. If you can’t find it, you can build it. You don’t get this level of control anywhere else.

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Mark E. Griffin @marvelousmarks.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I like this story, it's either frozen or it's not. 🧪 grist.org/science/brea...

Two charts showing the same warming trend. "Both charts demonstrate the same warming trend, but the gradual temperature data [left, scatter plot] is less striking than the binary lake data [freeze or no freeze]."

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Mark E. Griffin @marvelousmarks.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Really great review - I love that it gives the viewer room to not have to declare fandom (or renounce it for that matter), but deals with the difficulty of our time. And this closing line by @poniewozik.bsky.social 👨‍🍳💋

Text: In an age of copycat I.P. cash grabs, “Andor” doesn’t merely echo its source material: It also retroactively improves it. Sometimes, “Andor” suggests, the long process of liberation is harder than bulls-eyeing womp rats in your T-16 and less glamorous than a lightsaber duel. Sometimes it simply means grabbing a brick. And sometimes it means becoming one.

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Mark E. Griffin @marvelousmarks.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

None! In fact, just the opposite, but it wouldn't surprise me if he had a change of heart. www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...

Text: "Meanwhile, Democratic sources indicate Evers is giving serious thought to a third term, a feat just one other governor — Tommy Thompson — has achieved. A Democratic source close to the governor said Evers was leaning toward running and estimated a 60% chance he'd launch a campaign."

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Mark E. Griffin @marvelousmarks.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Strange Days and Morrison Hotel are really the only two "serious" Doors albums IMHO. The rest of the time it sounds like they were just doofing around. But I bet there's a contingent of L.A. musicians who are into it all.