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@nickespo.com
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Disney, Wear OS development, Kubrick, bluegrass, the Oxford comma, and who knows what else. I contain multitudes. At the Vatican pavilion at the 1964 N.Y. World's Fair, when the guard wasn't looking, I licked Michelangelo's Pieta. AMA.

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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 29/09/2026
Got a coupon in the mail 2 months ago for a free chicken biscuit at Jesus Chicken (you know the chain). I'd never gone there before, because fuck them. But I went this morning. Got the biscuit and nothing else, and paid nothing, because fuck them. And won't go back, because ... fuck them.
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 29/09/2026
AI image; I guess Forbes couldn't afford to hire a real artist.
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 28/09/2026
I really need to check the mirror before I leave the house. But on the bright side, I got to cross out "Shop in Costco while wearing my pajama bottoms" off my bucket list.
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 25/09/2026
Tonight's sky, pre-nor'easter
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 25/09/2026
@chuckwendig.bsky.social, this you? 😀
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 24/09/2026
Perfect. No notes.
Nurse Christine Chapel, in the season finale of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds," saying "We have to deliver a space baby."
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 24/09/2026
My band of sunflowers are posing for an indie album cover. L-R: Songwriter & lead singer, lead guitarist, bassist, drummer and keyboards.
Five sunflowers: the first (songwriter & lead singer) is looking behind & to the left, the second (lead guitarist) down and to the right, and the other three (bassist, drummer and keyboards) straight at the camera.
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 24/09/2026
I thought I was prepared for how bad "Wonka's The Golden Ticket" was going to be. I was not prepared. I couldn't make it through episode 1; the overacting, the artifice, the total awfulness... And that's not even counting the "Gene Wilder voice."
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 23/09/2026
I think it was during the late Eisner era when Disney's doctrine changed from "Give the guest their money's worth" to "Don't leave any money on the table."
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 20/09/2026
Leave her alone, kids. Gertie's on the toilet.
Gertie at Disney's Hollywood Studios. They've drained her lake, and Gertie has a green rectangular pedestal where her legs would be.
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 18/09/2026
Remember, like, a month or two ago everyone in the country was watching SOCCER? That was weird, right?
Clearance sign at our CVS: "90% off -- FIFA ONLY"
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 17/09/2026
That has got to be the stupidest, worst-written, most poorly-conceived episode in 60 years of Trek. Including "Spock's Brain."
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 11/09/2026
How is this not a pangram
NY Times Spelling Bee grid with CDEAIHK. I've entered "Dickhead," but it says it's "not in word list"
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 07/09/2026
Day after tomorrow, we leave for Orlando and the Wilderness Lodge. And Friday, we leave for the Disney Wish and the Halloween On the High Seas cruise!
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Baby Too Excited to Sleep
ALT: Baby Too Excited to Sleep
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 06/09/2026
My wife's not a Star Trek fan, but I just showed her the Muppet episode of ST:SNW. She liked it, but said that she never knew that Sabrina Carpenter played Nurse Chapel.
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Your Move Nurse Christine Chapel
Alt: Jess Bush, not Sabrina Carpenter, as Nurse Christine Chapel
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 05/09/2026
I, too, need tactical Kevlar hair.
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 03/09/2026
Another one from my Big Book Of People I Thought Were Already Dead
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 02/09/2026
Our local mall is doing GREAT. Why do you ask?
Looking down the main drag of the Broadway Mall in Hicksville on a Monday afternoon, where every single visible shop is permanently closed
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 30/08/2026
@frankconniff.bsky.social Happy Birthday from a fellow 70-year-old! 70 isn't old! It's actually--- well, no, it's old. Very, very old, filled with thoughts of "Is that the last time I'll ever hear the phrase "Swanson Salisbury Steak TV dinner?" Before we both crumble into dust: Happy birthday!
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 30/08/2026
Introduce yourself with 10 (or more) acts you've seen live: The Hassles (w/ young Billy Joel) Springsteen Michael Nesmith P!nk Jerry Reed & Olivia Newton John Rolling Stones Jimmy Buffett Sharon, Lois & Bram Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Twisted Sister
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 30/08/2026
"Oh noes where will I rest my lunch tray now that the Disney World trash bins have slightly convex tops" is one of my current favorite first-world problems
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 29/08/2026
A day late, but My Niece Kimmy The Broadway Actress™ performed her "Cross That Bridge" solo on Good Morning America yesterday! And remember: "It's not a metaphor, it's a literal bridge!" abcnews.com/video/136000...
abcnews.com
Video Tony-winning cast of ‘Schmigadoon’ performs live on ‘GMA’
Alex Brightman and the cast of “Schmigadoon” perform "Cross the Bridge” in their first TV performance since winning the Tony Award for Best Musical.
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 29/08/2026
Ron Weasley is the Ralph Malph of the Harry Potter universe. I said what I said.
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 27/08/2026
In less than two weeks, I leave for WDW and the 9/11 HOTHS cruise. After two stays at the ED the past three weeks for an arm infection and abscess and MRSA, and a boatload of antibiotics (both IV and oral), I'm home -- and currently running a 104.7° temp. I don't like this. Not at all.
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 25/08/2026
I have a sister-in-law in Tennessee who will 100% start calling it Lake America -- if she hasn't already.
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 25/08/2026
I went to Costco today, and didn't try ANY of the samples.
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Elmo Fire
ALT: Elmo Fire
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 24/08/2026
Doing a survey for an AI security company in exchange for a $25 virtual Visa. Absolutely making up every single answer and fucking up their data collection and marketing conclusions -- plus getting paid for it!
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Dog's Amusing Smile
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 24/08/2026
My wife has never seen it, but won't watch "Roman Holiday" (1953) because it's in black and white. I ... I can't even.
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 23/08/2026
$1,000,000 idea: Programmable E-paper license plates. Taking this to Shark Tank.
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 22/08/2026
One of my posts just got a like from Raffi. If anybody wants me, I'll be WAY UP HERE.
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Heavenly Staircase with Angels
ALT: Heavenly Staircase with Angels
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 22/08/2026
Backrooms (2026)
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 22/08/2026
"Also, they're putting anchor babies back into the mom's bellies, and taking the COVID vaccines out of people's bloodstreams. "At my order."
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 21/08/2026
Idea: If with the approval of the SC he succeeds in completing his ballroom, then instead of tearing it down when he's gone we turn it into low-income housing
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 21/08/2026
"She sang "My daddy said, 'Stay away from Juliet,'" but then the very next time we hear from him he tells her to "pick out a white dress". Did he get hit on the head or something, or is it a shotgun wedding situation?" Pharmacist: "No, I mean do you have any questions about your prescription."
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 20/08/2026
With only ten episodes per season, Ep. 1 was okay, then a horror episode (that should've waited until closer to Halloween), then a comedy episode, a genre episode, and now another comedy episode??? SNW is the closest we have to TOS (not counting The Orville), and they're just throwing it away.
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 20/08/2026
If Owl (or any other owl) doesn't live here what are we even doing
An oak tree on the banana loop in Eisenhower Park that really, really looks like the Wolery, the beech tree where Winnie the Pooh's friend Owl lives. It a hole in it that seems custom-made for Owl.
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 20/08/2026
The one thing that brings me joy today is that not one single person gives a shit about how Melanie feels about it.
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 20/08/2026
Can anybody even IMAGINE today's Disney releasing anything as pointedly political as "Der Feuhrer's Face" (1942) today?
Donald, dressed up as Hitler with a Nazi armband, with a little brush moustache on his bill
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 17/08/2026
🎶 Go, you chicken fat, back to the chicken -- And don't be chicken agaa-aa-ain! 🎶
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 16/08/2026
Let's make a deal: I'll let you close Imagination -- and keep us from the Coke Freestyle machines -- for a year, **IF** you lengthen the ride back to the original 14 minutes.
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 16/08/2026
Ohmygod, my sister-in-law actually calls it the "Gulf Of America."
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Man's Unbelievable Headache Reaction
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 15/08/2026
The REAL Trump Derangement Syndrome
washingtonpost.com
Navy weighs major warship redesign to match Trump’s preferences
The president wants the new fleet of aircraft carriers to more resemble those from World War II. Such a change could cost billions.
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 14/08/2026
New restricted-parking-zone workaround just dropped! (Seen in Brooklyn on Monday: a schoolbus-yellow windowless van, on the side of which the owner carefully duplicated the DHL logo using red tape)
Seen in Brooklyn on Monday: a schoolbus-yellow windowless van, on the side of which the owner carefully duplicated the DHL logo using red tape
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 13/08/2026
36 hours in the hospital and now I have a new best friend and his name is Tramadol
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Psychedelic Cookie Monster
ALT: Psychedelic Cookie Monster
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 12/08/2026
Hard disagree.
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 11/08/2026
Welp, they're admitting me for overnight, so I'm gonna miss tomorrow's solar eclipse. And, to put a tragedy hat on a tragedy hat, I'm at 26% and I don't have my phone charger...
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 11/08/2026
Got some interesting weather for tonight's 5-mile race
A dark wall cloud, with a lightning bolt in the center
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 10/08/2026
My wife, watching some guy on TV: "Is he gay, or just British?"
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 09/08/2026
At one time, when remodeling a house you made sure to run telephone wire to each room (even if you didn't need it). Over the years it became coaxial. Then Ethernet. What's the current thing? Fiber optic cable? Or nothing, trusting that everything will be on Wi-Fi?
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 07/08/2026
for a junk drawer to legally qualify as a real junk drawer, what is the ONE absolute mandatory item it must include? RUBBER BANDS that have the texture of dried licorice and that immediately break when stretched.
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