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Peter Partheymuller @partheymuller.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

All four games in the quad box at commercial. This is what the Protect College Sports Act should be about.

Peter Partheymuller @partheymuller.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Got this in the mail today and very much looking forward to it: one of my favorite internet writers (and novelists! Based on the one so far anyway) on one of my Letterboxd 4 (and plus also @laurentheisen.bsky.social who’s pretty new to me and whom I’m looking forward to getting to know as well)

Hardcover copy of Emily James and Lauren Thiesen’s Every Time a Bell Rings, which is a dark teal or aqua with a gold wreath in the center and a black and white still from It’s a Wonderful Life in the center of the wreath. It’s at the end when George and Mary and Zuzu are smiling and filled up with the love of their friends and neighbors and Christmas. The book is placed on a lighter teal-colored steel patio table.

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Peter Partheymuller @partheymuller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Schmitt’s team desperately trying to come up with the name Roy Marble and somehow make that equal checkmate

Screenshot of a Google Images search of Roy Marble. On the left is him in an Atlanta Hawks uniform and on the right he’s in an Iowa Hawkeyes warmup suit holding a trophy. It does not at all imply that Jack Smith went to a Hawks game or conspired with the philandering Atlantan politicians to take down the president (which I think was the insinuation?).

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Peter Partheymuller @partheymuller.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Even aside from the “Well, what were you expecting when you dressed that way?” nature of the argument, shouldn’t the galactic super AI brain company be able to see past a clever disguise?

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Peter Partheymuller @partheymuller.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Robert Griffin just said “it’s a matriculation of plays … down the field” with a pause like he understood mid-sentence that that can’t be right.

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Peter Partheymuller @partheymuller.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The worst thing Hank Stram* ever did was introduce the word matriculate to the footballing public. *I don’t actually know much about Hank Stram. Maybe he did worse. But that part is pretty annoying.

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Peter Partheymuller @partheymuller.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Started the Gospels episode after you posted about it yesterday. Just to let you know you got them at least one new listener

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Peter Partheymuller @partheymuller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The great thing for me in reading Cheryl Strayed’s Wild was experiencing her going through similar oscillations. Felt so familiar and reassuring

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Peter Partheymuller @partheymuller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Relatedly, Bo Nix was a great College QB

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Peter Partheymuller @partheymuller.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fantasy sports is a great analogy and useful context to bear in mind

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Peter Partheymuller @partheymuller.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

They’ve got everyone calling him a wide receiver instead of a tight end though. So that’s one point in their favor

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Peter Partheymuller @partheymuller.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I’m Peter, I work for the City of Austin, read books, and watch the football. I like it when it’s clear that a songwriter likes a word or a line so much they use it more than once: Michael Stipe and coriander, Ezra Koenig and “I don’t wanna live like this, but I don’t want to die”

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Peter Partheymuller @partheymuller.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

If Iris Murdoch taught me anything, they need to look at the bottom of the lake

Photo of a Penguin edition of Murdoch’s The Bell. It’s white with an inset image from like a medieval or renaissance painting featuring two people embracing or kissing and maybe it’s two men, maybe a man and a woman, maybe a man or woman and an angel? Not sure but the book is fantastic and its bell is at the bottom of the lake. (That’s a spoiler maybe but not much of one.)

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Peter Partheymuller @partheymuller.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

You and me both bsky.app/profile/part...

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Peter Partheymuller @partheymuller.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Is this where Many Such Cases comes from? I just thought it was internet speak, didn’t realize it’s his.

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Peter Partheymuller @partheymuller.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

OK but look at the shoes/socks/cuffs situation Dr. McKeeby has going on here

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Peter Partheymuller @partheymuller.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Hey me too, just a few months ago, that exact page: bsky.app/profile/part...

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Peter Partheymuller @partheymuller.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Love that one. Haven’t seen the Denzel as a sheriff on an island remake or the original but probably should

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Peter Partheymuller @partheymuller.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Read it last year and loved it. Kinda surprised by how much I did. Also by how well it fit with a couple others I read around the same time, Crying of Lot 49 and Charles Willeford’s High Priest of California.

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Peter Partheymuller @partheymuller.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The other thing is that it’s really heartening that there’s still a place for a book like this. Not a biography but a deep exploration of another writer’s work. And for the paperback too!

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Peter Partheymuller @partheymuller.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Finished @alissawilkinson.bsky.social ‘s We Tell Ourselves Stories this morning. It’s great. To put too fine a point on it: It’s not “We tell ourselves stories to live” (complimentary). It’s “We tell ourselves stories” (derogatory).

Photo of the paperback of Alissa Wilkinson’s We Tell Ourselves Stories on a teal patio table. The cover photo of Didion has her holding, not wearing, sunglasses with her hands touching the sides of her face. She looks beautiful and troubled and like she understands some things.

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Peter Partheymuller @partheymuller.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Like America against Italy in Germany 2006. Which means Cabo Verde is 12-20 years from having an absolutely toxic discourse built up around its international soccer program

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Peter Partheymuller @partheymuller.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

They say Jude is carrying England on his back but that's just a metaphor. Martin Odegaard on the other hand

Photo of Andreas Schjelderup riding atop Martin Odegaard’s shoulders after he scored that goal that I’m choosing to believe he intended to score

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Peter Partheymuller @partheymuller.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

About some team eventually going 1997 Florida Marlins: Does it make sense for someone like next year’s Cal? To try to keep JKS and take full advantage? (Maybe not actually Cal but someone in that position of having an NFL QB and trying to go all in to both keep him and take their shot?)

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Peter Partheymuller @partheymuller.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I love telling people who rank within the top 0.5% of their job in the world how they could do their job better: “Ay, Dumfries, you gotta take that first time!”

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Peter Partheymuller @partheymuller.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

It’s my favorite English commenter tic — questioning anyone who puts thought and planning into their work. They’ve advanced so far in many ways, but there’s still some Shit 90s Football they hold dear

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Peter Partheymuller @partheymuller.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Great to see the Mexico crowd with the traditional singing of Cielito Lindo at the start of the 4th quarter

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Peter Partheymuller @partheymuller.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Like getting the construction contractors on board?

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Peter Partheymuller @partheymuller.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Chapter 3 of City of Quartz blew my mind b/c there are just so many god damned cities in Southern California and they were all created by neighborhood associations run by Christopher Lloyd in Who Framed Roger Rabbit

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Peter Partheymuller @partheymuller.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

How is this man 65? He was on Real People in 1980?

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Peter Partheymuller @partheymuller.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

What's your favorite movie from each decade of your life? 70s - Jaws/All the President’s Men 80s - Do the Right Thing 90s - Out of Sight 00s - Eternal Sunshine/Inside Man/Master & Commander 10s - Moonlight/Star is Born 20s -Past Lives/Sinners

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Peter Partheymuller @partheymuller.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Please consider picking up a copy of our latest LP, “For Younger Sons and Women Who Have No Money,” on your next trip to Tower Records. We’re really proud of it. I think it’s our best record yet.

Screenshot of about 3/4 the way through Middlemarch:

“Mrs. Cadwallader said, privately, 'You will certainly go mad in that house alone, my dear. You will see visions. We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by. To be sure, for younger sons and women who have no money, it is a sort of provision to go mad: they are taken care of then. But you must not run into that. I daresay you are a little bored here with our good dowager; but think what a bore you might become yourself to your fellow-creatures if you were always playing tragedy queen and taking things sublimely. Sitting alone in that library at Lowick you may fancy yourself …”

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Peter Partheymuller @partheymuller.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

This was more believable coming from Robards

Screenshot from the Ron Howard Parenthood where Jason Robards is Steve Martin’s asshole dad. They’re on a set of little league bleachers having a heart to heart and Robards is talking about his youngest, Tom Hulce, who’s going to be killed by gangsters b/c he’s a gambler and a fuck up. Robards says “it doesn’t end when they’re 18 or 27 or 47. It never ends!” I saw it again on TCM the other day. It’s pretty good but Robards is amazing in it.

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Peter Partheymuller @partheymuller.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Went there a decade ago and came home with pint glasses for everyone we know. Perfect place.

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