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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 5h

I miss sometimes getting to download a couple mp3s!

Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 5h

Yes! It was so huge, reading about a band for the first time and being able to download mp3s for a song or two. I was exposed to so much amazing music just following two or three blogs.

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 5h

I still get exposed to a fair amount of new music the old fashioned ways: just going out to punk/diy shows, getting music recs from friends, hearing stuff on "the radio" (@wfmu.bsky.social via the internet or videos on the kexp youtube channel). But I miss *reading* about cool music.

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 5h

are music blogs still a thing? I used to follow a bunch of good ones 15-20 years ago but kind of fizzled out on keeping up with that stuff (and blogging in general, I'm sad to say) when google reader died

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 6h

Here are three very small books (all of them great) that were in the studio piles this time around. I love when books are roughly the size of my hand. I'd like to make a book this size at some point.

A photo of Phil's hand and three books that are all roughly the same size as the hand: I Hate You You Just Don't Know It Yet by Nadine Redlich, The Water Lover by Patrick Allaby, and Goes by Luke Kruger-Howard.

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 6h

Anyways, tonight I'm cleaning up my studio because the book piles are out of control (and the piles of drawings and loose scraps of paper and sketchbooks and magazines and cds and bills I haven't paid yet because I have no money). I try to do this once every few months.

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 6h

The piles grow and eventually cover every surface in my studio. They grow on the floor. They grow on my desk. They grow on the chair. Eventually I'm surrounded by piles of books and need to return them all to the shelves they came from.

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 6h

I dunno about you, but my little home studio/office is like a greenhouse for growing huge stacks of books. As in, I own a lot of books and as I work on my own little projects, I take books off the shelves all over my house and look at them and then leave them in little piles in my studio for months.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 7h

Sad news for cinephiles: Tilly Norwood has been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike.

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 7h

I think about it often, but drawing it just hasn't been a priority for me. It's very much a "springtime" sort of book, so maybe drawing a dummy will be a project for me this winter, when I'm cooped up inside, eager for the plants to start growing again.

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 7h

I have a fully written picture book manuscript that I LOVE that I've just been sitting on for a couple years now. I need to make a dummy to be able to shop it around to publishers, but that just hasn't been where my creative brain has been hanging out these last couple years!

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 15h

I remember getting a phone call the next day from everyone who was hanging out in the crown commission party room! It lifted my spirits after a genuinely scary adventure!

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 15h

My friend's older brother (who was also in Buffalo) came the next day to pick us up from the airport, once enough roads had been cleared of snow and fallen trees. I slept for something like 20 hours when I got home. When I woke up I bought an entire pizza for my roommate.

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 15h

We finally made it to the airport and of course by that point all flights had been "delayed." We spent the night sleeping on the floor at the airport, using our coats as blankets. At some point all flights were fully canceled.

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 15h

Eventually we managed to get the car out of the snow. My roommate understandably decided he could go no further on this adventure and had to turn back. My friend and I hitchhiked the last few miles to the airport (the one and only time I've done that, shout out to the plow driver who stopped for us)

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 15h

One of my roommates had agreed to drive me and a friend (who was also going to spx) to the airport, despite the increasingly scary conditions outside. It took us an extremely long time to go just a few miles, only to eventually get completely stuck in the snow ON THE HIGHWAY.

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 15h

When I finally made it back to my apartment, I checked to see if my flight was canceled or not (this was still pre-smart phone times). Miraculously, it was still listed as on schedule. I even called the airport to confirm.

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 16h

It was one of the most harrowing walks of my life. The trees all still had leaves on them. Trees can handle the weight of heavy snow, but not when they still have leaves. I am not kidding when I say I had to run/dive out of the way of falling trees and power lines more than once on that walk.

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 16h

I was in Buffalo as a college student at the time. I was supposed to fly that night to attend SPX in Bethesda, MD. I was walking a mile or so to a copy shop to finish printing out all my mini comics when the storm first hit.

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Definitely for younger folk. I was OBSESSED with the redwall books when I was like 9 - 12 years old

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

If not for Ellis this game would be like 9-1 instead of 4-1

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Sabres letting Utah casually walk it straight to the net 😑

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Unlike UPL in the last game, who was a big problem, Ellis has not been the problem tonight. The team in front of him played a strong first period and then went to sleep.

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It's like the sabres collectively just forgot how to receive a pass after the first period of this game

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

this buffalo vs utah game has been pretty fun so far, but the boys started getting really sloppy with the puck as that 2nd period dragged on 😵‍💫

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I am very much against singing national anthems before sports, but I do think they should still have someone come out and sing *something*

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abbytron @abbytron.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If you see this post a monster

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Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If you see this post a monster

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

lmao that's actually so funny?? It's just an app that makes you immediately stupid, incredible

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Ben Sears @bensears.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

price 𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑒𝑑, get this thing 𝒐𝒖𝒕 of my house

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Just got word from the gallery that this event has to be postponed! Looking at rescheduling for sometime next month 🙃

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Just got word from the gallery that this event has to be postponed! Looking at rescheduling for sometime next month 🙃

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TopatoCo @topa.to · 09/10/2026

HAVE A MERRY #BEERANDPIZZADAY!!!!!! Don't forget to leave out a beer pizza with a side of pizza beer for the man in the chimney tonight! 😉 🍺 Topa.to/foodstuff 🍕

A photo of six lightskinned people's hands grabbing slices of pizza, except each slice is a pizza or beer related product from our shop. There are pretty sparkles around the image, showing how delicious our products are.

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

every time a big website stops working or even just isn't loading properly for me, I momentarily feel a flash of hope, a hope that maybe something bad happened to the computers at some big evil corporate HQ somewhere. maybe the building exploded and the only person inside was an evil billionaire

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I *would* be willing to sell my url to Dr. Phil, but he'd have to pay AT LEAST a million dollars

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

my website has been philintheblanks.com since 2003 or so, back when I was a teenager drawing daily webcomics (you can also get there if you type in philmcandrew.com). Sometime in the last decade, Dr. Phil started a podcast and called it "Phil In The Blanks."

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

hahaha oooooh boy, I accidentally let my website domain name expire! Thankfully I caught it before that awful fucker Dr. Phil could swoop in and steal the URL that I've had since.... 2003?

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

yooooo! glad I turned the sharks game on. d-man darnell nurse (who IS on my fantasy hockey team) just scored an OT game winner!

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

switching over to the 3rd period of sharks vs blues as a little palate cleanser. I've never followed a sharks season closely, but I've had a soft spot for them since they first entered the league in the early 90's. great team colors, one of the best logos in professional sports, often the underdog.

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

my hot take is that I don't think we'll ever see a fix for the universally hated "seth appert power play" as long as tage thompson is on the team

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yes!!!! YES!!! We have so many HUNGRY young players who are getting half as much ice time as Tage and even with less ice time are making a MUCH bigger impact on the ice than he is.

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If any other player played the way he did in *most* of the playoff games last season, that player would be fuckin' benched and nobody would question it.

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Putting aside the fact that Tage Thompson is an actual nazi: I really wish he was getting less ice time than he does. The dude has a nasty slap shot and has a wild three or four point game once in a while, but the Sabres rely on him WAY too much and he barely ever is able to actually deliver.

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

earlier today I was lamenting to my partner (who doesn't care even a little bit) that I don't have any sabres on my fantasy hockey team, but halfway through the 3rd period of tonight's sabres game I am thankful that I do not have any sabres on my fantasy hockey team

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Joelle @joellejojo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Rob Ray is the only one having fun tonight

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

yes I know. we have a third goalie! give ellis a shot!

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

if you're going to stick with being a "three goalie rotation" team, maybe actually rotate the goalies

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