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@benjwesley.bsky.social

Piano, theology, theater. Previously @foyercoffee on Twitter.

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I don't really like every single song on the album, but damn if Randy Newman's Faust doesn't have some real tearjerkers (and catchy songs in general)

03.08.2025 04:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Am I getting old? Or are people in their 60s and 70s β€” not always, but fairly often β€” starting to get good at Facebook?

25.07.2025 16:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

On the plus (??) side, maybe this will open up a way for people like me to better understand how preaching could perhaps be sacramental, simply by providing a negative counterexample

23.07.2025 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not exactly *good*. Unique, I'll grant.

16.07.2025 03:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Was about to be amazed someone else saw George Lucas's not-entirely-good CGI jukebox musical about fairies that my girlfriend once had me watch; then realized you wrote "World," not "Magic"

16.07.2025 02:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Went to beach yesterday. We made fun of him at the time but Anakin Skywalker was 100% correct about sand

13.07.2025 10:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2495    πŸ” 292    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 9

Superman IV is rightfully trashed but Superman III is an unrecognized masterpiece that doesn't get recognized as such because it trades the grandeur of 1 for the comedy of Walk and Don't Walk lights physically fighting each other, here I stand

13.07.2025 02:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I forget where I first read this, but for as much as I try to refuse to use the ESV, you have to admit there's a strong case for it being the best-marketed translation. Really beautiful editions...heck, I think it even has its own API to make it easy for people to program it into apps w/ permission

11.07.2025 23:27 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Start an email list! Spam my inbox!! (Of course it would prove your point even further if you've already been doing this for months on end.)

03.07.2025 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I feel like they decided to treat it as an epilogue to an already-complete trilogy, rather than retroactively fashioning the series into a quadrilogy. Which seems smart.

29.06.2025 22:16 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
(n) Therefore, it is the purpose of this chapter to prohibit medical
procedures from being administered to or performed on minors when the
purpose of the medical procedure is to:
(1) Enable a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity
inconsistent with the minor's sex; or
(2) Treat purported discomfort or distress from a discordance
between the minor's sex and asserted identity.

(n) Therefore, it is the purpose of this chapter to prohibit medical procedures from being administered to or performed on minors when the purpose of the medical procedure is to: (1) Enable a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor's sex; or (2) Treat purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor's sex and asserted identity.

Tennessee's youth transition ban is straightforwardly discriminatory. It bans puberty blockers, hormones and surgeries *only* when they are used to affirm a trans identity
www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/113/Bi...

19.06.2025 17:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2510    πŸ” 492    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 21

He makes probably at least one entire movie a year, some of which now have cult followings, and regularly publishes his phone number, which he seems to answer as often as possible when random people call. At least, he picked up when I called!

09.06.2025 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The songs might not be good, but Matt Farley and Motern Media is definitely an interesting rabbit hole to go down. Man makes as many different songs as possible, hundreds of which are about poop, just to eke out advertising cents through scenarios like just happened to you.

09.06.2025 20:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Really excited, I just found a thing about which I'm saying "Look, it's new!" β€” wait, nevermind, just got word that it has already been around for ages before us

08.06.2025 21:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hi everyoneβ€”I made my BlueSky account a while back but I figure it's time I actually give posting here an honest try.

My name is Benjamin; I was foyercoffee on Twitter. I play piano for churches, musicals, and college voice students. I buy lots of theology books but rarely read them.

26.05.2025 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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