Dr. Torie Burmeister

Life-sized Edward Gorey self-portrait behind window of grey shingled barn

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I actually feel fine that it’s August. I actually don’t even care

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A crushed shell driveway surrounded by trees with a thin mist of fog hanging over everything.

Purple and blue hydrangeas on the bottom. Tree branches dangle from the top. More trees in the background. Fog hangs in the middle, making everything glow a little golden.

Slightly different perspective: Purple and blue hydrangeas on the bottom. Tree branches dangle from the top. More trees in the background. Fog hangs in the middle, making everything glow a little golden.

A marsh in the foreground. Tall trees in background. Fog hangs over everything

The Fog

But if you don’t get there several hours early you don’t get to enjoy the lawless liminal state of All the Restaurants in Your Terminal

Currently rewatching /Get Out/ for the first time since I saw it in theaters

Any #classicalstudies folks study werewolves in the northeast and want to chat?

When you’re reading something for your research and then you have an idea and you take the time to write it out???? Absolutely incredible stuff

This morning I walked down to the beach to watch the sunrise and came out from the path to see a hulking mass on the shore. Before I could process what it was, an enormous bald eagle alit from the sand and flew over to a sandbar in the distance. It sat there, serene, dive-bombed by little seabirds.

Thinking about the way Mitch Hedberg says “a lime”

Idk but anyway watch Point Break

Where’s that thing I read about female gaze and Kathryn Bigelow’s movies and Keanu Reeves

You can only desperately say “oh! Um! Um!” so many times before your extraordinarily generous opponent’s sympathy ends

Played a little “name the song/artist” competition against spouse with 13 y/o controlling the tunes and was reminded, once again, that my recall speed is. bad

the NOVA logo over a whirling black hole.

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A hotdog with yellow mustard and relish is held in the foreground along with the foil wrapper in which it was originally wrapped. A baseball diamond is visible but blurry in the background. It is a beautiful golden hour with blue sky and bright cloud.

H E L L Y E A H

Not pictured: second hot dog

YouTube video by Scharpling & Wurster - Topic Rock, Rot & Rule

Thinking about the ultimate argument settler once again

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I got to see Miracle Legion at last year’s Solid Sound festival and it ruled

View of the WGBH building in Boston with an electronic marquee reading “Local. Trusted. Defunded.”

WGBH building in Boston today

Are we to believe that boiling water soaks into a grit faster in your kitchen than on any place on the face of the earth?

Notebook page that says "Do what you love and you'll work super hard all the time with no separations or any boundaries and also take everything extremely personally."

Feeling this. 📝

Went for a “run” (1 min off, 1 min on) with my dog for the first time today, and my first run in months. She only jumped around like a maniac twice!

Not to sound like the oldest man alive but I wish the Home Run Derby prioritized following the hit balls on camera instead of illustrating them with graphics!

The R word is not a funny, edgy word to throw at people who annoy you on the Internet. It is a medical diagnosis created during the eugenics era that people with intellectual disabilities and families have literally spent years trying to stamp out from polite conversation and public life.

Started the day sweating through my clothes cleaning up the yard and walking the dog and scoring a free curbside grill for the deck. Feeling powerful

Chowder day

YouTube video by Astrolux777 Live Aid 1985: Queen Full Set HQ

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Not with three he can’t

It’s in the pond!!!!!!

For those of you who didn’t know me on tw*t**r, yes I am watching Jaws and yes I am telling @myddling.bsky.social what I think is excellent about every single scene. It is a certain day of a certain month. This is neither the time nor the place to perform some kind of half assed autopsy on a fish