Sunday, December 31, 2017

One of the items that I am attempting today. #HappyNewYear https://t.co/rkK3qyqTuf


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I love Hoppin’ John. #HappyNewYear No, it is not my cuisine. Yes, it is delicious. If I am guilty of cultural appropriation, so be it. https://t.co/RgAPnY3awx


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Saturday, December 30, 2017

“Fake news” is the word of the year according to the Collins English dictionary per @CBSNLive. That’s #fakenews as fake news is two words. Duh.


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Friday, December 29, 2017

If Medicare,Medicaid, Food Stamps, and Social Security need to be readjusted to deal with the deficit, I believe that farm subsidies should be eliminated and grazing fees for Federal lands should be raised to fare thee well levels. It’s only fair.


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Should the playing of violent video games indicate the need for an ASBO? https://t.co/uZTLGT4Zyp


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Thursday, December 28, 2017

Wednesday, December 27, 2017

New Years Resolutions: Spanish lessons every day. @duolingo Run 15-20 miles per week. @Garmin Tell the people that I love that I do love them. Send out birthday cards to friends. Read at least a book a week. @goodreads Listen to new music. @Spotify Yours?


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“How much of the country works”. Heh. https://t.co/7yERBFGfuW


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This hurt my head. https://t.co/rNgIZBx2qJ


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May I suggest not shooting at animals in people’s yards? https://t.co/UuqzQqm6UN


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It just so happens that I am cutting onions for my omelet. https://t.co/M0w3FzzpNM


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Monday, December 25, 2017

Happy Holidays, Tennessee. https://t.co/QoxNvzvsTQ


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Sunday, December 24, 2017

There are a lot of private conversations about this that are going on. Also, Twitter is a toxic morass that inflates the opinions of those that we agree with while dismissing those of the people we disagree with. https://t.co/yoQbWDIRrQ


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Debunking Myths About Estrangement, via @nytimes https://t.co/YDoCxg9tBf


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Saturday, December 23, 2017

“It’s like...I don’t know. You know?”


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Thursday, December 21, 2017

Interesting. https://t.co/DKhfAL30q6


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I listened to the @WestWingWeekly while getting ready for a meeting this morning, and loved @JoshMalina complaining about his voice. While I am writing up my notes from said meeting, I have “The Larry Sanders Show” on as background noise, and whose very young visage appears? https://t.co/cPjSahjoPU


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I did not know that this existed until I saw #QAnon trending. This is amazing in such an awful way. https://t.co/FP5UzM5ehh


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Yeah, this. https://t.co/HbpNIdyvYn


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Wednesday, December 20, 2017

We’re #1! https://t.co/gJKoQfoaNE


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Albany/Troy people: would anyone be interested in going caroling on Friday for a good cause? #HappyHolidays


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Hey, @nytimes, doesn’t your own style guide call for using appropriate titles? In this case, wouldn’t Dr. West be what is called for? https://t.co/D1A28HdpVK


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Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Tweets Without Context: A) The perfect is the enemy of the good. B) No, you do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in public. C) why is it okay for you to ask me to disregard my self interest but the opposite does not hold? D) Happy Holidays to you, my friend!


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Idea: Stamp Aluminum disks with the words “Bit Coin” and a serial number and try to use those for commerce. https://t.co/ePYGTZ7NNi


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My distaste for public employee unions is...a thing. https://t.co/yqc9HJ82lI


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Monday, December 18, 2017

Watching #Cherry2000. Set in 2017. Scarily prescient film.


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I went for a light clear the head run today. I had a hoodie on. It made me think of this post from Massapequa’s Turkey Trot. It irked me, a month later, it still irks me. https://t.co/XgejJY3K2l


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This is why I hate it... ““Star Wars” is one of those franchises where there is both technology that is seemingly indistinguishable from magic and the Force, which feels a lot like magic.” https://t.co/d4Agr8Dqqq


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Seattle...


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There needs to be a word for the act of watching an acquaintance’s professional life implode without acting for fear of getting sucked into the same black hole of mediocrity.


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Listening to The Cure’s “Disintegration” while working. I listened to the heck out of the album when I was a teen. It is surprising how relatively normal we all turned out, isn’t it?


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Sunday, December 17, 2017

My hatred of ticks is only increased by this article. https://t.co/pCny2KCJPh


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Using the #DieHard standard for holiday films, does Stepbrothers, which features two different Christmases count as a holiday film?


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Every link to The Young Turks is a little bit of respect that I lose.


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I read about “Real Men” on The Red Pill on Reddit last night and it was the funniest thing I have read in a long long time.


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Mice, Barley, and “The Last Jedi”. What could go wrong? https://t.co/1TlBkErZsU


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Some headlines are the simplest rejoinders to the subject of the piece. https://t.co/CqUxsDNIsC


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How about them Cowboys? https://t.co/zD369I2hcV


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On a bend in the road in Saratoga County. Spun around twice. Missed the guard rail by chance. Winter break, 1996, if I remember correctly. https://t.co/hKRmMMFvTh


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Everything about this is a goodness https://t.co/wFwdBrVH8q


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“They’re here.” https://t.co/n5MDJ0l5tB


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March of the Penguins takes on a sinister meaning given this information. https://t.co/NR3QgyHJkj


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Saturday, December 16, 2017

Why should we care? https://t.co/jZVKaBeAv4


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This gave me a chortle but I can only imagine how awkward it would be. https://t.co/0WyX8JDlnS


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I find this level of wealth to be discomforting. https://t.co/Cm80CQptHG


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For this, break the rules, and read the comments. Proof positive that Star Wars fans are insufferable. #TheWorst https://t.co/QDyGLQJngh


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Friday, December 15, 2017

Interesting. https://t.co/i8YccvBYBM


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It doesn’t. https://t.co/dkhSZ0bAQk


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Thursday, December 14, 2017

I am the exact opposite. https://t.co/PjKXCdKVmW


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I am sure that this will help expand the views related to speech that the howling masses have already. https://t.co/8KXJ4vH5Z7


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Even as a joke, this is an awful idea. Star Wars is bad. https://t.co/NOYMAAxY7t


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I have questions. I emailed my list of six questions to the person who can answer them. In return, I get paragraphs of nonsense and... NONE OF MY QUESTIONS ARE ANSWERED.


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FWIW, I loved (LOVED!) the Southern Reach trilogy & I look forward to this film. https://t.co/YHYLfW0NXj


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Where @willsgleason is 100% correct: Walking and holding hands is garbage. https://t.co/45ZMxGagO3


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Everyone is retweeting that Fox News piece on FBI as Obama’s KGB and I get why, it’s clearly insane. It is also an autoplay video which disrupts my ability to listen to the news. I am irked on many levels.


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It was nice while it lasted. https://t.co/hvn34bqxso


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It took me a second to realize that they meant Italy and not Florida. Naples, FL pizza is awful. https://t.co/aLSX5AL1lr


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Oh, this will be... A thing. https://t.co/38C8rhSz4q


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I see what you did there, @nytimes. https://t.co/MK8e7lJ3dj


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My job is gone. https://t.co/X8BPQWYYMh


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Tuesday, December 12, 2017

And I was wrong. https://t.co/JNINnqbMeO


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Watching CNN live for the first time in forever & the commercials for the shows on @HLNTV show that they doubled down on the Nancy Grace model.


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Now that voting is over, I believe that Moore wins. Not that I wanted him to win, just my gut feeling. Also, be wary of exit polling.


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Narrator: Of course that meant that Harvey would be traded by the end of this...sentence. https://t.co/MR3Lxk24Is


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Your almost daily reminder that Huckabee Sanders is remarkably bad at her job. https://t.co/zQsA2q5ylL


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Changing the Achilles Center at @UnionCollegeNY is ambitious. I love the building. Updates to Memorial Fieldhouse next? https://t.co/nY3AexiNJ8


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“the longest and least essential chapter in the series.” Also, spoilers. Also, sorry, nerds. https://t.co/Pv0csKF2FP


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Watching the #Nosedive episode of @blackmirror and wondering if it informed the @nbcthegoodplace scoring system or was it the other way around? @KenTremendous


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I stand with my Senator, @SenGillibrand.


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*snerk* “Gab’s founder, Andrew Torba, declined to comment on the site’s progress, telling me in a Gab message that “I don’t do interviews with fake news outlets.”” https://t.co/hfcYgpCY5w


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I had a conversation with @therealvarick recently about bands that I don’t get. Zeppelin, CCR, Yes. Adding to the list: Skynyrd.


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Monday, December 11, 2017

You almost daily reminder that Huckabee Sanders is remarkably bad at her job. https://t.co/zoSYh41UzX


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No no no no no no no. https://t.co/I0AviDKGtt


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A middle aged man who wears shorts and Crocs to work is creepy? Shocking. Narrator: It’s not shocking.


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I have walked through that tunnel hundreds of times. It relieves that so few people were injured.


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Why is “Cat Person” in the @NewYorker trending? More to the point, why do non-MLA types have strong opinions about it? #AtLeastPeopleAreReading


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Sunday, December 10, 2017

Ronald Reagan said, “The future doesn’t belong to the faint hearted, it belongs to the brave.” Ask yourself if you believe that the agenda being put forward belongs to the brave.


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Saturday, December 9, 2017

I am assuming that the real story will be in a sealed indictment but sure... https://t.co/35c7A2PHdH


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Friday, December 8, 2017

Wow. #LordHousing in LA is doing hiring wrong. Really wrong. https://t.co/nQseMsDCFx


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Every “lol” I see kills my soul a little.


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Thursday, December 7, 2017

I learned last night that the opening line to the ‘70s classic “Little Green Bag” is “Looking back, on the track, for my little green back” & my brain still cannot handle it.


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On @LateNightSeth, the phrase “grade A moron” was used in the “Tiny Voice” segment. I have only heard that on @nbc30Rock. Is this the influence of @ShutupLutz?


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Monday, December 4, 2017

Mug shot photos of people with “Only God Can Judge Me” tattoos are my favorite schadenfreude.


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A list without “Borne” on it is invalid. https://t.co/y4ptBSuWwm


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What I know about Bears Ears, I know from the @DTTBcreate podcast. “Keep your tiny hands off public lands” made me chuckle though. https://t.co/3CqJNNPj17


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Sunday, December 3, 2017

In case you were interested in “pled” versus “pleaded” in relation to the recent news. https://t.co/nxReJWmy4H


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I was singing “Obladi Obalada” by The Beatles as as it ended, I immediately went to “Walk on the Ocean” by @ToadWetSprocket because that’s the way a high school girlfriend put them on a very early ‘90s mixtape. https://t.co/6zqzgfiQcf https://t.co/WAz5cQTxJm


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I like @McDonalds. Just because the President is eating way too much of it... https://t.co/yCyXmAPUYG


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Oh. Flat. 6000 years old. No evidence of climate change. Has the internet enabled these people or just made them more visible? https://t.co/UFxywNk3SI


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There were a couple of toilet snake jokes on #Scrubs. This confirms they were more than jokes. https://t.co/og7pagTaML


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This is a cool story. Everything new is old or, we just have standard analogies that we slot things into. https://t.co/He624WT0yT


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Saturday, December 2, 2017

“Oh, fudddgggge” “Only I didn't say "Fudge." I said THE word, the big one, the queen-mother of dirty words, the "F-dash-dash-dash" word!” https://t.co/2uofXzArXH


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Well, this is depressing. Unsurprising but still depressing. https://t.co/LePWk6M9l2


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I had a dream that I was at an event with Sen. Franken and part of the dilemma was wondering if it was okay to have my picture taken with the Senator.


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Friday, December 1, 2017

This is...a thing for Rensselaer County. https://t.co/0TZyp5hdWn


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*popcorn gif* https://t.co/9usGsTR4Kk


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“Mr. Sestero has a new film due in 2018 that stars Mr. Wiseau as a strange mortician and himself as the strange-in-a-different-way homeless man who together embark on various crime and cadaver-related escapades. It is called “Best F(r)iends.”” https://t.co/RTo5ZQVdXm


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Tuesday, November 28, 2017

#Godless is wonderful for those who love classic Westerns. John Ford through the lens of Soderbergh.


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Doing my Holiday cards. Some for clients, a bunch for friends. They are, however, holiday cards, because I am perpetuating the #WarOnChristmas


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Ben McAdoo doesn’t know what is best for the @Giants #FireBenMcAdoo McAdoo: 'This is what's best for the team' Video - via @ESPN App https://t.co/nRvazZl8d6


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NASA had a fleet of vehicles that went into orbit. https://t.co/e5AQAvlYEf


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Between this piece and the tame Nazi piece in the @nytimes, the “real American” vibes of the Middle of America are well represented. https://t.co/Qi0UhmEHr2


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Sunday, November 26, 2017

Why aren’t more people outraged by people wondering why more people aren’t outraged by what they find to be outrageous? #AskingForAFriend


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Dear @nytimes: What purpose does this article serve? https://t.co/uXtvSN2aWa


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Dear @NYTimes: I am a subscriber. I have no need to articles about sad white people from Ohio. You have been running them for a year now. Please stop. Thanks, Ned


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Saturday, November 25, 2017

Those in #Casablanca couldn’t watch Casablanca when it came out 75 years ago. https://t.co/JNoJSIAkjz


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I am attempting a “Thanksgiving leftovers” frittata. Wish me luck.


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Listening to a lecture on economic theory and corruption & the professor stated that oversight of every interaction was impossible. Would a weakly godlike AI render that statement false?


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Friday, November 24, 2017

The @Mets called to say that I was PROBABLY going to be named next starting pitcher in the spring, but I would have to agree to an interview and a major photo shoot. I said probably is no good and took a pass. Thanks anyway!


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Free hockey with BC & Harvard tied at 4.


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Or 2nd period. Apologies. https://t.co/VlPO0i41hM


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Watching the Harvard at Boston College game and I appreciate that the Eagles played Rush when the official came out before the 3rd period. Tied 1-1 early on in the 3rd, in case you are interested.


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Why is this “news”? Or...is this state run media softening the ground for a politically motivated prosecution? https://t.co/VSuMVu2Zlq


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Part of me still relegates him to the Hall of Very Good, but I am not a BBWAA member and my opinion doesn’t matter. https://t.co/3ZCUJJNsga


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Godless should be your next binge watch on @netflix. https://t.co/dQEmZFn9DI


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Goodfellas and Do The Right Thing were snubbed in back to back years. https://t.co/SP5KpEw2mQ


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I want my consciousness uploaded so that I can always be around to Tweet. https://t.co/KkPde0ble8


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This is #Woofie from @doctorow’s “Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom”. Well, I like the idea of trust matrix. https://t.co/1qSlbAsiTA


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Quick pickles are one of my favorites. Make more pickles, people, it’s not difficult. https://t.co/PyIKwv36JY


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This article has stayed with me all week long, for obvious reasons. https://t.co/7SsdRbjqQB


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When I cook myself, I generally try to make one pot meals. When I cook for others, I use more because it is about presentation and making things...pretty. https://t.co/Y2gm9tIdUx


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Notebooks. I am a big fan of notebooks. (And legal pads, FWIW.) https://t.co/aDn3uJIFOm


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The art exists. It may need to be recontextualized but it still exists. Also, Camille Pagilia is quoted. https://t.co/5lQrMjpoCD


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It is less my concern for his conservative positions and more that Rohrabacher is an agent of a foreign power. https://t.co/2QOuOMqKKM


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Food for thought, on this, the Blackest of Fridays. https://t.co/Eo4czDTzJu


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Thursday, November 23, 2017

Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Are you running the @TroyTurkeyTrot tomorrow @SenGillibrand? Happy Thanksgiving and thanks for representing New York!


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