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Mitch Modine

@mitchegoss.bsky.social
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American expat in Asia, sports fan, cinephile, enraptured by puns, Christian clergy, biblical scholar, nerd Handle explainer: from Mishegoss (Yiddish) n. craziness; senseless behavior or activity

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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Failed Hanna-Barbera Cartoon Ideas
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Third stanza, especially lines 3–4, goes hard on the Sunday after the obscene news broke that a certain individual became the world’s first trillionaire
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Three more examples of how off the chain #gerrymandering districts for the US #HouseofRepresentatives has become. At least one of them knows how to use a ruler
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Nice reading progress so far
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
#warcrime #allwarisacrime
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Then the girl from Purdue smiled at that And said, “Now, I’ll teach Hebrew to Cat!” When the kitty was keen, To keep all its fur clean, Got a hairball and spat it like
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
That’s what she said
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Had this exchange in my class just now (student's name redacted)
A screenshot of posts in a Moodle class discussion. The main post discusses the possibility that Old Testament Wisdom Literature was a foreign import. I (the teacher) respond by suggesting that President Trump might try to put a tariff on Wisdom theology
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
In the age of AI-generated photos like this one, I should be able to say, “On the one hand…but on the other hand…but on the other hand…
AI-generated image of a man sleeping on a church pew. The man appears with three arms and strange looking feet, while pew is perpendicular to the others instead of parallel
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Booking dot com Booking dot HELL NO
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Incels are already a lot, but chess incels are on another level entirely
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
If you speak both German and English (as I do), you know that Vienna sausages are wiener Wieners
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
It’s really not that hard
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
#OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky 10/19 Movie rental store in a movie Jack Slater (Arnold Schwarzenegger) Last Action Hero (dir. John McTiernan, 1993)
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky 10/18 A political hearing in a movie Dr. Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) defends her experience of space flight before Congress Contact (dir. Robert Zemeckis, 1997)
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
#OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky 10/17 Someone sentenced to prison in a movie Jean Valjean (Richard Jordan) and Inspector Javert (Anthony Perkins; yes THAT Anthony Perkins) Les Miserables (dir. Glenn Jordan, 1978) Bonus: Ian Holm (aka Peter Jackson’s OG Bilbo) as M. Thernadier
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
#OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky 10/16 Something raided in a movie Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (dirs. Jerry Paris and James Signorelli)
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
#OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky 10/15 A frog in a movie Magnolia (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999)
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
#OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky 10/14 Somebody hit in the face with something not a fist Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (dirs., John Francis Daly and Jonathan Goldstein, 2023) Forge (Hugh Grant) fails his potato in the face saving throw
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Clearer shot at 2:01:00
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
#OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky 10/13 The White House in a movie Photo 1: Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) and Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) Photo 2: WH at night, approximate time stamp 1:35:50 All the President’s Men (dir. Alan J. Pakula, 1976)
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
I was, I am, & I will always be STGPHNG #canibuyavowel
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
🎶 Everybody have fun tonight! Everybody yang chow tonight! 🎶
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
3-3, 3 outs in the 3rd
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
#OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky 10/12 A movie about an explorer Title character (Isabela Merced) in Dora and the Lost City of Gold (dir. James Bobin, 2019)
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
#OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky 10/11 A movie with a Saturday Night Live cast member Dr. Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis), Dr. Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd ✅), Dr. Peter Venkman (Bill Murray ✅) and Winston Zeddmore (Ernie Hudson) Ghostbusters (dir. Ivan Reitman, 1984)
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
#OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky 10/10 Mailman in a Movie Writer Pablo Neruda (Philippe Noiret) and mailman/title character Mario Ruoppolo (Massino Troisi) in Il Postino (dir. Michael Radford, 1994)
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Saw this is on someone else’s feed
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
#OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky 10/9 Someone at the theatre in a movie The Godfather Part II (Dir. Francis Fors Coppola, 1974) Genco Abbandando (Frank Sivero) introduces Vito Corleone (Robert De Niro) to his “angel” (Kathleen Beller), an actor in Italian play “Senza Mamma.”
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
#OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky 10/8 Something on fire in a movie Fire in Paradise (Dirs. Zackary Canapari and Drea Cooper, 2019)
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
#OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky 10/7 Something assembled in a movie Amish Characters assemble a barn in Witness (dir Peter Weir, 1985)
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
#OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky #CatchUp 10/6 Something besides a bank is robbed in a movie. Ocean’s 11 (dir Steven Soderbergh, 2001)
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
#OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky #CatchUp 10/5—Someone walking or running a great distance in a movie Chris Chambers (River Phoenix), Teddy DuChamp (Corey Feldman), Vern Tessio (Jerry O’Connell) and Gordie LaChance (Wil Wheaton) in Stand By Me (dir Rob Reiner, 1986)
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
#OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #CatchUpPost 10/4: Someone wrongfully Imprisoned in a movie Irwin M. “Fletch” Fletcher (Chevy Chase) temporarily held by corrupt police Chief Karlin (Joe Don Baker) in Fletch (dir Michael Ritchie, 1985)
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
#OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #CatchUp 10/3 Movie fictional or documentary with a podcast in it Images of podcast title ideas from Vengeance (dir., B. J. Novak, 2022)
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
#OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #CatchUp 10/2 Someone who is HIV positive in a movie Andy Bennett (Tom Hanks) in Philadelphia (dir Johnathan Demme, 1993)
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
I unfortunately cropped where I got #OctoberMovieChallenge from and got started four days late: Day 1: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)—Gillian (Catherine Hicks) in an old-as-hell pickup
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Palengke* cat @bodegacats.bsky.social *Filipino public market
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Today my nephew told me he wants to learn #German so I promised I’d give him my copy of #Jannach and a Wörterbuch and tonight I started refreshing myself on #Jumpspeak
The cover of Hubert Jannach, German for Reading Knowledge, 3rd edition (1980)
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Different words to familiar hymns always give me a jolt
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
The Breaking of the Fellowship #wellread #muchloved #needanewcopy
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
I hate Jeopardy. How in the hell is Babylon a Persian city?
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
It all makes sense now @stephencolbert.bsky.social
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
On our way to Sweden 🇸🇪 , by way of Iceland 🇮🇸. #SBLInternationalMeeting
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Mitch Modine @mitchegoss.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
If no bidet, use this
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