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Patrick Coleman

@patrickmcoleman.bsky.social
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writer (THE CHURCHGOER, FIRE SEASON, a few secret TV things you'll never see), game-maker (NATURE KIN), stirrer-upper of interesting business, a lover of oaks. (patrickcoleman.org)

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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 1h
Latest from my post-apocalyptic Disneyland project: "The Song of Ota and Le," an echo of "Grim Grinning Ghosts" as sung by the Venerable Adults during the Festival of Otalega: youtu.be/wHhCmw2iE3o?...
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The Song of Ota and Le
YouTube video by The Venerable Adults
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Area X but it's just photographers leading people off trail for photo shoots and they all explode into biodegradable goo.
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
but nothing really tops the original "Hammond Song" -- in music in general
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Interesting timing for this: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/o...
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Opinion | How to Find Your Daughter’s Therapy-Speak Less Traumatizing
Step 1: Take it seriously, not literally.
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Yes, only in the last five or six years. It has been very interesting to see teenagers leaning into this as a way of identifying themselves/finding their people in middle and high school, so it certainly seems like part of a larger cultural phenomenon.
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
HA. I tried that. Still same old me.
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I vaguely remember hearing this from someone BLM affiliated or adjacent?
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Awww! ❤️
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
"Fuck this, I'm going to the library" is a helluva creedo - preach!
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
By the end it's "Brought to you by a piece of charcoal and a cave wall"
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Sold -- who'd be the opening day sponsor?
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Scaryelizabooth Yturralde @meakamey.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Page 56 of Trump’s proposed budget for 2027 calls for the closure of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The ONLY source of federal funding for libraries. Send a postcard today to stop this attack! bit.ly/48xmMZ3 via @everylibrary.bsky.social #fundlibraries #saveimls
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Stop Trump's Proposed Elimination of IMLS!
Page 56 of Trump’s proposed budget for 2027 calls for the closure of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The ONLY source of federal funding for libraries. This small but essential federal
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
You too!
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
So psyched on this - the story, the model of straight-to-readers serialization, all of it. ❤️
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The Ramona Wildlife Center is the best
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
I have a very similar CA roadtrip playlist + Joni Mitchell's "California"
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
What I'm doing with my one wild and precious life.
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Another one for you, @magicaltrash.com ❤️
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
i heard a string quartet version of NIN's "Hurt" in a child therapist office once 🤯
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
it's a gift
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I see why!
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I recently documented the change in verbiage from "Waste Please" to "Trash."
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
YIKES.
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Was that the main reason you switched agents? (I've been on an agent journey myself this last year.)
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
It's Vernor Vinge's Librareome (from RAINBOWS END).
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
that wiring! one of the best shots from the doc.
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
no more tomorrow
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
And in yesterday's news, and also tomorrow's news.
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
yes! learning to recognize the feeling coming on / pace myself to avoid the brain fry was helpful. but sometimes it's worth it.
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
and that new Olivia Rodrigo cover ain't bad
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
loved it when i was young but thought it might feel thinner / sour the memory to go back dirty snow was a big influence
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
how'd Mysteries of Pittsburgh hold up?
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Dirty Snow 🔥🔥🔥
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
and here's your development deal
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molly tanzer (I guess!!) @mollytanzer.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Was reminded of my very favorite tweet of all time today:
Philip K Dick movies all have names like CORTICAL IMPASSE and are based on short stories called like "Let's See What's Going On Down at the Brain Factory"
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
I do Sandra Boynton riffs during rote tasks 😢
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
I miss reading Each Peach Pear Plum outloud - sometimes I still re-read some of those (pitch-perfect) board books to myself. (There's less chewing on the cardboard now, though.)
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
that's a conversation i'd love to hear
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
New song/animation from my post-apocalyptic Disneyland worldbuilding project (aka what someone with ADHD does to "de-stress"): youtu.be/I5ZJNByJthI
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Praise Dorolea (Festival of Dorolea, Season 449)
YouTube video by The Venerable Adults
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
one of the great places ❤️ - and so funny to find canada geese on the bluffs there
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
i'd take that tinfoil star tours jacket
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that Congress has not authorized the use of military force.
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
William Gass would have a field day with this
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
love this (slash hate that this is true) -- but "hot pynchon fall" seems right bring on the kazoo players
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Could watch Sneakers every day and not get tired of it
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
jealous
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
lol
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
They never should have let me buy Procreate Dreams -- I haven't had this much FUN making art since I was in middle school. youtu.be/VQ8jETun4xQ?...
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Jäite's Lullaby (Lyric Video)
YouTube video by The Venerable Adults
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Nemik deserved better
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Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
My neighbor the bobcat
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