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Spraynard Kruger

@mjanssen.bsky.social
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Editor @current.org, banjo noodler, on guitar at the dad jams. I like to make cocktails, coffee, pizza, faces. W-A-S-H-I-N-G, T-O-N, baby, D-C Music: boundarystones.bandcamp.com and soundcloud.com/thatmikejanssen

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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 7h
mi cilre la .lojban
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 7h
I'm wayyy down a rabbit hole here
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 7h
In my youth, my family lived down the street from a couple who were advocates of an invented language called Lojban, and I just found directions to their house for the 1990 Lojban festival mw.lojban.org/papri/me_lu_...
mw.lojban.org
me lu ju'i lobypli li'u 12 moi - La Lojban
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Arrived home today to witness telephone-wire drama involving a blue jay, crow and mockingbird. I don't often see blue jays around here. The crow issued periodic caws. A whole orange lay on the street. Would a crow care about an orange? It was a fraught scene
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It's on par with the best sentence (in English) of the 20th century, which is Eudora Welty's "Do you think it wise to disport with ketchup in Stella-Rondo's flesh-colored kimono?"
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
my nomination for the best sentence our century will produce
Tim Robinson yelling "I can't know how to hear any more about tables"
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yeah, my friend would just plow through a bag. She was a gringo, though, so I'm not really sure about the natives' approach.
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Guineps! Another name for those things, which I encountered in Honduras. I loved 'em.
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
lol why does this video have a photo of a DC Metro station with it
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
oh wow and the origin of that name is amazing — because the scotoma image was compared to castle fortifications designed bty Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, Louis XIV’s military engineer commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pl...
commons.wikimedia.org
File:Plan citadelle Neuf Brisach.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Per that Wikipedia article I'm going to start calling mine "fortification of Vauban." "Dammit, I'm having fortification of Vauban again."
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I get this too. Had no idea there was a GIF about it.
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sick
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Agreed, that's rough. For me it was more the fork on the glass bowl
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My wife said National Guards guys were hanging around outside Masala Story in Brookland around 8:30 pm tonight. Get these fuckers out of here
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I love the self-criticism — the fissure in the creamy one, the egg white visible in the other. Jacques isn't perfect! We don't have to be either!
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Such a satisfying video www.youtube.com/watch?v=viUN...
youtube.com
Standard Omelet vs. Classic French Omelet
YouTube video by Jacques Pépin Foundation
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ambient electronic banjo? You bet I'm all over this richruth.bandcamp.com/album/alliso...
richruth.bandcamp.com
Allison de Groot & Rich Ruth, by Allison de Groot & Rich Ruth
8 track album
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ok but that's not a REAL banjo
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
he also likes tennis www.tennis.com/news/article...
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Want
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What is that
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don’t think Rumsfeld necessarily wanted to be doing all that. Remember, this guy was a TV host. Just like the old man
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
malevich. ever heard of him
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Heck yeah, great album.
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
can you come prep my meals please
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
apparently this is not really a mug shot, it's a test for "North by Northwest"
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
what does this even mean
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thanks! Where are you?
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Dad band is starting to make multitrack recordings of our tunes, which I fear is going to further expose my many inadequacies as a guitarist. I need to start figuring out palm muting first.
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I was all ready to play banjo at yesterday's Hyattsville Porchfest and we got rained out, dagnabbit. But I'm hoping to find more gigs for this project with my friend soon. Meanwhile, the dad band also needs to be on the hunt for a next gig (and more originals to fill out our set)
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wow!
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Haha you did!
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Why were you chastised by Baraka
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Well it wasn't that happy, but it was at least a bit hopeful. I figured a brave European wouldn't even go that far!
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just watched "The Invite," which I enjoyed but I thought it was likely the Spanish version had a less happy ending. Looked it up and yep. America!
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yes. My gobbledygook was "{{##javascript:void(0)###}}". I've gotten several texts from the number before
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Looks like nowhere. Best bet might be calling Schneider's in DC and seeing if they'll order it
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Only if you swallow it whole
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
how so?
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 25/09/2026
i want nathan fielder to do undecided voter focus groups
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I liked Doo Dads, why would they ever stop making them
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
that NYT TV shows list doesn't have Tim and Eric on it, so it is not to be taken seriously
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Interesting. Roasted duck??? But it's not that hard to make bacon fat washed bourbon, really.
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
you can tell this place is top notch
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Played an open mic tonight with my friend. Live sound is hard. Live electric banjo sound is harder! Nonetheless, we must learn by doing, and the crowd seemed into it.
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Who gives a fock about an oxford cumma
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There was a lot of discussion of how a wife made her husband a burrito and he ate it but he didn't enjoy it
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My first Lyft driver tonight was listening to one song on repeat. The second is listening to some bizarre AI-voiced audiobook
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Spraynard Kruger @mjanssen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I know this isn't the point of your thread, but what are you writing about community radio?
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