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"Balsamic" Jane Vinegar @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social · 5h

but they were all of them deceived, for a fiveloko was created

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"Balsamic" Jane Vinegar @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social · 6h

I don't think so but you can just use mine let me know if there's anything you want me to ever pick up for you there

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"Balsamic" Jane Vinegar @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social · 7h

Oh fuck oh shit I didn’t log into my “alt”.

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"Balsamic" Jane Vinegar @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social · 7h

So true Ms Vinegar we all think that you should be allowed to commit crimes

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"Balsamic" Jane Vinegar @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social · 7h

I don’t think the president should be allowed to commit crimes but I do think that I should be allowed to commit crimes

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"Balsamic" Jane Vinegar @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social · 9h

Oh I get it. They call her “Other Mommy” because the two Jessica Chastains are lesbians raising that kid together. But like one is the main mom and other mommy is the step mom? That’s unclear to me. Also unclear to me what the guy is doing there. Maybe he is an uncle of some kind.

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"Balsamic" Jane Vinegar @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social · 9h

I bet I could con my way into getting library cards at both the Getty AND the Huntington.. watch this space…

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"Balsamic" Jane Vinegar @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social · 9h

This city spoils me. I don’t get much money but I feel so rich in the ways that matter

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"Balsamic" Jane Vinegar @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social · 9h

exercising my LA girl + grad student privilege by popping up to the Getty to eat my lunch there and visit some favorite pieces before getting back to work

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"Balsamic" Jane Vinegar @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social · 10h

I find it kind of off-putting when people have very narrow sets of interests. Like I am just not good at navigating a narrow conversational orbit. But I’m interested in everything, and I know that’s kind of off-putting in its own way too

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"Balsamic" Jane Vinegar @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social · 10h

do NOT miss “Instante/revelación: Moments in Mexican Photography” at the Getty rn: WOW!!

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"Balsamic" Jane Vinegar @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social · 19h

I care about “have fun and be yourself.” This is what I care about in grad school

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"Balsamic" Jane Vinegar @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social · 19h

One problem with grad school as a social and work environment is that many people are trying constantly to demonstrate that they are very very smart. I don’t personally care about that. I mainly care about getting paid and writing the weird little scholarly document they hired me to write.

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"Balsamic" Jane Vinegar @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social · 19h

sometimes I do wonder if I have less internality than other people. But I think I just read too many novels and it distorts my understanding of how much internality is normal amount

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"Balsamic" Jane Vinegar @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think that's just his name. Like Larry Bird.

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"Balsamic" Jane Vinegar @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

he SHAVES in The Great Muppet Caper! Amphibians don't grow hair!

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"Balsamic" Jane Vinegar @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

kermit singlehandedly normalized lizards in pop culture

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"Balsamic" Jane Vinegar @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

THE MUPPETS is cool because you get a pig, a bear, a dog, and a lizard all working together. You don't get that with real life pigs, bears, dogs, and lizards.

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"Balsamic" Jane Vinegar @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

what the hell I didn't know that Tom Waits and Bette Midler used to be an item

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 06/10/2026

Seattle rocks

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"Balsamic" Jane Vinegar @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

here's a tip: if your skirt has pockets, you can keep Werther's Original Hard Candy in there

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"Balsamic" Jane Vinegar @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

last time I visited them my 3 y/o nephew was watching some decades-old spider-man cartoon that MF DOOM sampled a lot and it made me feel insane to keep hearing all those soundbites in their natural habitat

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"Balsamic" Jane Vinegar @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Also I really did go visit that one guy's grave when I moved here. It's out in Glendale.

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"Balsamic" Jane Vinegar @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I always think I should print that rejection out and frame it lol. "Congratulations on trying something new" is such a funny sentiment but also encouraging in a weird kind of way. And Meeker Countyheads will know that I like it when things are in a weird kind of way.

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"Balsamic" Jane Vinegar @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think "'Dramatic and Dubious' Histories" landed in exactly the right place but/and it got some very funny rejections on the way there. One (pretty fancy) magazine declined and said, "but congratulations on trying something new." Grateful that Is took it and produced such a pleasing physical object

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 06/10/2026

our third zine was Rosalind Shoopmann's "Dramatic and Dubious" Histories of Meeker County, Minnesota. an experimental narrative excavated from wikipedia records. nobody else is doing stuff like Rosalind. otherspaces.bandcamp.com/merch/rosali...

otherspaces.bandcamp.com

Rosalind Shoopmann – "Dramatic and Dubious" Histories of Meeker County, Minnesota from Other Spaces

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😱 Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🔪 🩸 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

i like to imagine azealia banks wrote that caption

wikipedia page for weimaraner dog breed with caption of picture reading
Short-haired bitch, two years old

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"Balsamic" Jane Vinegar @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I will say that it was not my first choice -- persian conflicted with other coursework obligations when I started and greek was at eight AM -- I am glad to have wound up here bc latin is so weirdly fun. I had no idea

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"Balsamic" Jane Vinegar @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

it's not true that I'm doing it entirely for fun actually. for reasons that are sentimental and I suppose probably a little conservative it is important to me to have working knowledge of at least one classical language, and I just don't (yet). But mainly it is for fun.

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"Balsamic" Jane Vinegar @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I've been doing latin coursework just kind of for fun and I find that the reputation--that it's very precise, mathematical--is not entirely untrue but also misleading--it's a very vibesy language too

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"Balsamic" Jane Vinegar @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

sorry but this city full of immigrants and homosexuals isn't going anywhere !

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"Balsamic" Jane Vinegar @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's awful that Trump is openly fantasizing about the nuclear annihilation of los angeles but/and I notice many liberals & leftists also take a kind of libidinal thrill in imagining the city's destruction, which reflects a deeply reactionary impulse regardless of broader personal political tendency

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"Balsamic" Jane Vinegar @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

any cook can govern that's true but I don't think many governors can cook, and they need jobs too

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"Balsamic" Jane Vinegar @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If Cab Calloway was a sea creature, I think he would be named “Crab Calloway”

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"Balsamic" Jane Vinegar @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

my favorite musicals. I hope that we can all agree on my favorite musicals

Hellzapoppin’
The Young Girls of Rochefort
The Wicker Man
The Saddest Music in the World
West Side Story
Elvis
Possibly in Michigan
Betty Boop Snow White
The 5000 Fingers of Dr T
Donkey Skin
Cabaret
All That Jazz
The Lure
Phantom of the Paradise
The Wizard of Oz

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"Balsamic" Jane Vinegar @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ahab’s brother Derek… few notice him in the novel

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"Balsamic" Jane Vinegar @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Anyway there’s already been a movie adaptation of MOBY-DICK (1930) that really does get the novel and I’m not sure why we’d need another

Ahab's brother tries to kill him; he fails, and Queequeg breaks his back. Ahab orders that Derek be taken to Ahab's cabin. Moby Dick is sighted, and Ahab leads the boats out to get him. Driven by bloodlust, he stands on Moby Dick's back and stabs him repeatedly with a harpoon as the dying whale's spouting blood covers him. The crew renders the whale for oil, and they return to New Bedford, where Ahab and Faith are reunited.

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"Balsamic" Jane Vinegar @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think Guy Maddin could do a good MOBY-DICK but it would very much be “Guy Maddin’s MOBY-DICK” instead of “MOBY-DICK by Guy Maddin” ykwim. Like not the kind of adaptation that people claim to want but good material for his shtick, prolly be fun to watch and interesting too

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"Balsamic" Jane Vinegar @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’m so excited to read it! Will order a copy as soon as my bastardous employer starts paying me in November

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"Balsamic" Jane Vinegar @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You can put an autodidact lunatic into the academy but there is a point beyond which you just cannot didact that kind of lunacy out of her

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"Balsamic" Jane Vinegar @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

couple times the professor has asked me where I studied Marx. And I’m like, Girl, the movement to abolish the present state of things !

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"Balsamic" Jane Vinegar @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

accidentally stunting on people in the Marx seminar… sorry to everybody in the English department… normally I’m a lot better at hiding my history as a marxology freak…

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