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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

When you have a local punk house's calendar synced to yours you never know what surprises you'll have on your lock screen.

A screenshot of an Android phone lock screen with a calendar announcement for "Gay Cum Daddies" at Cold Spring Hollow in Belchertown, MA.

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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I thought that Cybertrucks were ugly enough as-is, but to adorn one with a butcher's apron? Yikes.

A dumpster on wheels with a Union Jack on the back traveling through rural Vermont.

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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I feel like the timing of this featured article given the announcement of King Charles upcoming visit with Shitler is a little too on the nose.

A screenshot of a featured Wikipedia article of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor meeting with Hitler in 1937.

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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Remember the Queen's hand when she met Truss two days before dying?

Liz Truss shaking the bruised hand of the Queen two days before the queen died.

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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

War is a purification rite. Fuck those that wage it.

"Trusims" a marble bench at The Clark art museum. The words shown on the side are "War is a purification rite."

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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Absolutely tranced out to the Orcutt/Corsano duo last night at the Bowery Ballroom. Tortoise was great, but the PA went out mid-set, and Jeff Parker was absent, though the stand-in guitarist did a great job all things considered.

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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Forgot that I took a picture of the poor thing.

A crow dying from eating cigarette butts.

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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

"Down on the corner, out in the street Piggy gotta Po' Boy slappin' Bring a nickel, tap your feet"

Sandwich guy hits a pig with the flesh of his dead momma

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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

The Dropkick Murphys and Bad Religion last night in Guilford, NH played probably the tightest sets I've ever seen in my life. 3 hours of solid energy. Happy that DMs played 'Going Out in Style' for the New England crowd and absolutely happy to take my 10yo to see them for her first show!

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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Seen in West Lebanon, NH today: Epstein Didn't Kill Himself.

A light green Fiat with Vermont license plates. Written on the back window "Epstein Didn't Kill Himself"

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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Just Ice Tea (formally Honest Tea) with your relevant Albert Einstein quote for the day: "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

A bottle of Just Ice Tea Moroccan Mint Green Tea. The bottle cap is flipped over revealing the quote "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds," by Albert Einstein

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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Notable "baked potato" Tom Smith front and center during his pre-To Live and Shave in LA days. During this time Tom front Boat of with Mike Green, Carol Levy, Michael Stipe, and others. He also had DJ sets at the 40watt and Crows Nest before leaving Athens, GA for Atlanta, GA and beyond.

A scan of the June 3, 1980 article in The Red and Black. The article contains a picture without subjects named, but features a young, shirtless Tom Smith of them Boat Of, and later Peach of Immortality, To Live and Shave in LA, Pussy Galore, OHNE, and others.

Pictured "Local new wave fans enjoy dancing at the 40 Watt Club" Staff photo - George King

"40 Watt Club entertains wavers on a shoestring"

By WILLIAM HAINES Staff writer

"The Baked Potato" and "The Sardine" are not new dances, but they do describe the heat and SRO crowds at Athens' first, exclusively new wave nightclub, The 40 Watt Club, located in what used to be The Crow's Nest atop the downtown Sub and Steak sandwich shop.

Friday night, R.E.M. and The Teeveez sweated for all they were worth in front of a capacity crowd of about 75 people packed shoulder to shoulder in an area a little larger than a living room. The 40 Watt Club has been giving Athens' new wave cognoscenti a chance to pogo in place for three weeks now, having opened its door May 9 with The Side Effects...
Crowe openly admits The 40 Watt Club operates on a shoestring budget. One ticket taker, two bartenders and a disc jockey comprise the club's total staff. Exposed pipes and bare walls underscore Crowe's minimalist attitude toward the nightclub business.

Crowe has used his first hand knowledge of New York clubs to fill the need for an Athens nightspot that serves up only new wave. Crowe hopes his connections with Pylon will eventually bring in national acts from Atlanta.

In the past few weeks, The 40 Watt Club has played host to Pylon, The Smarts, The Swindles and the Untouchables. Atlanta-based Vietnam, included on the Public Image Ltd. bill at the Agora, will play the club on Friday, June 13th.

When asked to comment on The Crow's Nest's association with laid back, cocktail music, Crowd responded, "I did my best to take everything down that was reminiscent of The Crow's Nest. I tried to hide most of that."

The 40 Watt Club is open T…

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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Hot to Trot is a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, but I bought it for the latchkey kid with HBO in the 80's nostalgia. Dabney Coleman & John Candy are the best parts about this coked out film.

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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Which is worse: hollandaise or cheese sauce?

CHIQUITA BANANA SAYS...

Here's something good

HAM BANANA ROLLS

Pack estra Punch in every lunch

Fun to moke

How to make "HAM BANANA ROLLS"

6thin slices bolled ham

prepared mustard

6 firm bananas, peeled cheese sauce

Use all-yellow or slightly green-tipped bananas

Spread each slice of ham lightly with mustard. Wrap a alice of the prepared ham around each banana. Place in a buttered shallow baking pan and pour cheese sauce over bananas. Bake in a moderate oven (350°F) 30 minutes, or until bananas are tender easily pierced with a fork.

Six servings. Serve hot with cheese sauce from the pan poured over each roll.

Quick to fif

CHEESE SAUCE

14 tablespoons butter

14 tablespoons flour

½ cup milk

1½ cups grated American cheese

Melt butter, add flour and stir until smooth. Stir in milk slowly. Add cheese and cook, stirring constantly until sauce is smooth and thickened. Makes about 1 cup sauce.

Easy Digest

UNITED FRUIT COMPANY

Full of vitamins-minerals-fruit Sugars

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Laucheon Menu

Ham Banana Rolls with se Sauce Chare Mixed Vegetable Salad Hot Gingerbread with Cream Beverage

DECEMBER, 1947

For 4 o clock fatigul-bananas flecked with brown

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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Checking on a few things in the Goods Unite Us database and was shocked to see Mrs. Meyers Clean Day leans heavily Republican. Won't be buying them anymore.

Good Unite Us screenshot showing Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day giving 87% of their campaign donations to Republican candidates.

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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

A New Hampshire squirter too? What are the odds?

A Mercedes SUV with a vanity plate that reads "SQRTER."

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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Trying to come up with a G-Rated reading of this vanity plate to match the elderly bald man in the driver's seat. 💦

A Vermont State Vanity Plate on a GMC Denali truck reads "SQRTR4U."

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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

At some point 20+ years ago, Tom Smith passed a copy of this to me after one of our philosophy courses at Valdosta State University. I popped it in on my drive home not knowing what to think about it since he gave me zero warning or explanation, but it changed everything for me. Thanks Bill!

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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

This reminds me of this screenshot I grabbed off of YouTube last week from a British travel show episode based in Hamburg, Germany. There was just something about the framing and the colors. I'd hang a painting of it.

Three European men taking a break from work, dressed head to toe in blue while sitting on a blue bench, in front of a blue sign and a blue graffitied wall with light blue fencing.

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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I'd just like to point out, for no particular reason, that there was a really nice sofa in the room where they met to the left of the Pope.

A still capture from a Vatican Media video showing the Pope, in a wheelchair, meeting the United States Vice President JD Vance. The room is white, with a stone tile floor. The room has a red persian-style carpet with several ornate wooden chairs with brown-hued fabric cushions. The Vice President wears a blue suit with a yellow tie, his hands clasped in his lap. An arrow is inserted showing that this line of sight could be pointing towards a sofa to the rear-left of the Pope and his assistant. Seated beside the Vice President is a woman that is potentially serving as a translator for the conversation.

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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

The delight of an April in New England is watching the mosquitoes be tortured by the winter gods fighting against the spring gods. One day it's in the 60s, the next the 30s, and a hearty "fuck you" to the little bloodsuckers!

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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Lake Winnipesaukee at 7am today. Still trying to wrap my head around 3am sunrises if Standard Time is kept intact year round.

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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Tom Smith forever. Happy 69th brother!

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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Ida and Tsunami at the Bowery Ballroom were absolutely amazing tonight. Closing it out with Mission of Burma was 🤌🏻

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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Note though that this isn't it, it's closer to this one.

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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Oh to be a 15th century French peasant roasting my balls by the fire. Simple pleasures for simpler times. (Source: "Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry")

A panel from Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry showing three peasants warming by a fire in February. Two peasants have their genitals exposed to the fire

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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

"Resist much, obey little!" - Walt Whitman

The poem "To the States," by Walt Whitman. To the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.

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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Frozen Charlotte, York Ghost Merchants.

York Ghost Merchants Frozen Charlotte next to a stack of three 19th century books.

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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

The only man I'll be thinking about today. Miss you Tom.

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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

What void in the market caused the need for Cinnamon Toast Crunch flavored Bacon to exist?

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