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This fear of anchovies

@orthobob.bsky.social
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Austin-based curmudgeonly Englishman reinventing himself as last year's thing. Likes 16th century Flemish art, Marmite, and some other stuff. But why so few followers, future historians will ask.

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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 1h
Switching to a higher class of postings.
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 2h
0.4 of a Scaramucci apparently, and he's pissed his record's been beaten.
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 2h
We've all done it.
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 2h
Zing!
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 3h
okay so to put it more precisely: a Zacharia is about .4 of a Scaramucci
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Okay, that's Chopin's two piano concertos ("engaging but virtually incompetent," sez Ethan Mordden's GUIDE TO ORCHESTRAL MUSIC) out of the way. Now onto Robert Schumann's Symphony no.1. Good music to bake some cookies and forget D. Trump ever existed.
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Just noticed I got my $90 old person bribe two weeks so I've sent most of it to Talarico and Hinojosa (and not Hirohito as Bluesky "corrected" that to). Aren't I a radical ingrate?
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Only if you use the term "heaving embonpoint," sir.
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Looking at women's asses is gay.
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
He is the worse, the epitome of corruption in all its forms. Voting for him must feel like having sex with a rancid, decomposing catfish.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Don't mess with Texas.
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
In a late episode of Madmen, Love's "Signed D.C." was played at a party several months before it was released.
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Oh goodie. Only read Two Thousand Million Man-Power so far and that was wild.
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Better than being plumbered by a ghost, I suspect.
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Good morning.
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Ralf Paulsen - Bonanza
YouTube video by psmnet
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Where can I sign up to join the Society For Shutting David Brooks Up? I've been searching since I came to America 20 years ago and first saw his smug, slappable face on PBS.
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The James Last Samurai
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We don't have a Black Rod either.
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I recall liking the High Chaparral as a kid because it was the first show I saw after we got a colour TV and it was mind blowing to see all those blues and reds and yellows after years of monochrome. Can't remember any story lines though.
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"We will not forget, Norway..." Expect a blockage of salmon, cod and crustaceans any day now.
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Let's get seasonal.
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The 5 Jones Boys - Mr. Ghost Goes To Town
YouTube video by DutchBluesfan
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I bet there's a collector's guide available and an annual convention.
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I'll book my ticket from Austin then. Hope it's not a fig newton.
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
All purpose entry: unidentified ingredient of salad = J.G. Ballard.
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
More proof that Taylor Swift is the Anti-Christ, sheeple.
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Some kind of kale = Patrick Gale
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Reminds me of the last "disco" I attended - Brighton Beach in Leeds in the mid-90s: no one dancing, mostly scowling men dressed exactly right but having no fun whatsoever.
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
English Eccentrics has sat on my To Be Read bookshelf for a long time now.
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Marina from TV show Stingray.
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Eric Ravilious's The White Horse because it reminds me of England, albeit an England that only exists in my mind. And if put it where I currently have a print of it now, above the espresso machine so I see it first thing each morning.
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Last time I tried the "I'll show you where my ballroom is" line I got slapped senseless
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Good morning. Thirteen hours sleep after being zapped by the most intense visual migraine I've had in recent years, a swirling electric blue lattice with a yellow corona rather than the usual monochromatic curve. Cosmic, man.
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Haven't read the review yet but read the book a month or so back and liked it, although the ending was a bit unsatisfactory. Reminded me of early David Nobbs.
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Quick, get the gurney, nurse, he's having one of his turns!"
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I don't care what you say, Milk & Kisses was and still is a terrific album. There, I've said it.
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Violaine
YouTube video by Cocteau Twins - Topic
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's getting all a bit too William Burroughs for me.
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I wonder if they might cover a show I have vague memories of called Dr Who.
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The John Wick, Wicker, Wicked, Wicker Man Universe expands...
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's the Rochdale sound: That track and "Atmosphere" were both recorded at John Brierley's Cargo Studios in Rochdale.
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Agreed. Guaranteed to improve your mood 100%.
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Im surprised the fucker isn't going around the country bothering every "senior" with one of those giant fake checks.
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've always wanted to find some link between Tractor and Joy Division beside being from the same area. I can imagine a teenage Curtis listening to "All Ends Up" but it's pure speculation. Worth a listen though.
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All Ends Up
YouTube video by Tractor - Topic
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If Trump told him to rename himself Buttface he would.
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Ah. For some reason I thought Boards of Canada's "Age of Capricorn" was called "Gemini." That was a track on Tomorrow's Harvest.
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Of course if any movie company wants to give me millions of dollars to make a full length non-AI version of this...
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The AI creation that convinced me never to use AI again.
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Both my favorite albums of the year have a track called "Gemini." What can this mean, significance-spotters?
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Caught the cat writing his novel again.
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It's fortunate the world's smartest man had his sleep mask on when the ketchup bottle exploded.
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This fear of anchovies @orthobob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hold on to your hat.
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