I thought The Racket was a magazine about Pickleball
05.08.2025 13:37 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0@stevequick.bsky.social
Runner, cinephile, mostly posts odd thoughts. St. Paul, Minnesota. My profile on Letterboxd https://boxd.it/8hLZ Cheese reviews: https://bsky.app/profile/venezuelanbeaver.bsky.social
I thought The Racket was a magazine about Pickleball
05.08.2025 13:37 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Mine are mostly AI now
05.08.2025 13:32 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0"Paying Bills by Acquiescence"
05.08.2025 13:27 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0You lost me, what with time being linear and irreversible.
05.08.2025 13:26 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0There's a group of words called contronyms that have two opposite meanings. My favorite is that you can cleave things together or cleave them apart.
05.08.2025 06:13 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I have a friend who sends me birthday greetings each year and we trade emails talking about everything that's happened since the last time. Then, when his birthday comes, I send him greetings and we do it again. The trouble is that his birthday is 17 days after mine and not much happens those days.
05.08.2025 05:24 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0JoBeth Williams
05.08.2025 04:11 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Mix Coca-Cola with eggshells and fix this annoying problem!
My annoying problem: I enjoy Coca-Cola
05.08.2025 03:36 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Another thing the Minnesota State Fair needs.
05.08.2025 03:08 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Poster for the film Immaculate with Sydney Sweeney's face in profile. The outer half of her lower eyelid is circled.
I think we need more "hot people aren't really hot" posts. Sydney Sweeney has weird eyes. The circled part is too low.
05.08.2025 02:55 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I use lines from Wallace Stevens poems.
My current favorites:
Nuns Painting Water Liles
Dry Loaf
๐ตGot a wife and kids in Baltimore, Rupert
I went out for a ride and I never... looked too pert
[Hungry Heart, first draft]
Marathons always have music playing that's running related, but that one never gets played for some reason.
05.08.2025 02:10 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Deep Purple: patina on the water, wildfire smoke in the sky
05.08.2025 01:44 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Getting the spaghetti at the Korean barbecue was a choice
05.08.2025 01:41 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Synopsis of Where the Dead Go to Die rated 3.8 on IMDb and 24% on Rotten Tomatoes.
I have a very very bad film scheduled this week. The ratings are deceiving.
05.08.2025 00:49 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Yoga reclined bound angle pose
Yoga butterfly pose leaning forward.
31 days of rehab
Going between these are the toughest sit-ups (the guy is way more flexible than I'll ever be)
Isn't every Cocktail bar Tom Cruise themed?
04.08.2025 23:47 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0What's the largest operation ever performed?
Lansing Michigan
Schrรถdinger's cat flap.
04.08.2025 22:31 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Letterboxd diary showing nine films watched.
Letterboxd diary showing 8 films watched.
Recent films watched. There's an extremely rare 1/2* in there.
04.08.2025 22:21 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I am batting .000 today
04.08.2025 22:17 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0That's actually how Maplewood became a city.
04.08.2025 19:39 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Today's film haul
04.08.2025 19:38 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I'm 50 feet outside Saint Paul, in Maplewood, where there's no way.
04.08.2025 18:45 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0This film has been on my watchlist for years and I never get to it
04.08.2025 18:32 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0There's one in a parking lot here that goes directly to a rainwater basin, the only place you can't walk.
04.08.2025 18:16 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Ladder going from sloped roof of a garage over an overhang onto a house.
I guess this is OK. Looks weird.
04.08.2025 18:05 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Current status: rubbing a wax candle over a sticky zipper like my mom taught me.
04.08.2025 17:08 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Bus delayed 16 minutes. Again.
Metro Transit must hate me
04.08.2025 17:01 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0