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Rocky N. Bullwinkle

@lproulx.bsky.social

Exceptionally average. Cautiously pessimistic. Sharp as a Nerf™ ball. Groaners, reading, cycling, cooking, jazz, the odd Lego, and whatnot. User #158,628, for some reason. Canadian by happenstance.

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Latest posts by lproulx.bsky.social on Bluesky

Which do I prefer: Jays winning or Yankees losing? Why not both, I say, why not both?

09.10.2025 02:47 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

HELLS YEAH!!!!!!!!

09.10.2025 02:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

...with no intention of selling. Some make a mint selling, but they know they won't afford to buy anything again. Quaint cottages are too often replaced by three-story monstrosities.
And so it is with my friends cottage here, or my BIL's place in Lanaudière.

09.10.2025 01:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

...to allow their 3/4/5 kids to play in nature and cool down in summer. That's all they could afford. They built shacks at first, with outhouses. Fast forward 60 years, and roads have gotten better and people invested in their little paradise. The kids or the grandkids now often own these...

09.10.2025 01:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Fun story. A lot of cottages in Quebec are still owned by working/middle class people. See, in the 60s, Crown Lands around lakes in, say, the Laurentians, were sold for little money. There were only accessible by terrible logging roads. They were often bought by people in appartments in Montreal...

09.10.2025 01:17 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

That town's toddlin'

09.10.2025 00:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

my sentiment, exactly

09.10.2025 00:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Fireplace.

Fireplace.

Lake in autumn.

Lake in autumn.

Cottage now. Inside and out. Blessed.

09.10.2025 00:10 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Should have said, great album too!

08.10.2025 23:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Clearly! 😁

08.10.2025 23:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes. Yes it is. 😉

08.10.2025 23:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No. With mom and dad. These are grandpa's pics.

08.10.2025 22:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

hmmmm a question for Wittgenstein.

08.10.2025 22:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

lol

08.10.2025 21:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

😁

08.10.2025 21:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Love is: massively overcooking a steak because they like it [sigh] well-done.

08.10.2025 21:51 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 4    📌 0

Now, that's a car!

08.10.2025 18:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Two characters you like?

08.10.2025 13:29 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Close up of a cat's mitts.

Close up of a cat's mitts.

Alfie's mitts. Just because.

08.10.2025 01:25 — 👍 18    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

Smart! 👏

08.10.2025 00:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

👏😄

07.10.2025 23:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Listened to this one so much by now, that I can go to your house and hum it. Jazzsky #jazz

07.10.2025 23:25 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
Preview
La Catrina | LEGO® Ideas ✨ La Catrina ✨ First imagined by Mexican artist José Guadalupe Posada, La Catrina has grown into the most recognizable symbol of the Day of the Dead and an ico…

La Catrina made of Lego. It's the season!

07.10.2025 21:31 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Personally, I'm convinced that the new Amazon AI will eventually tell us the meaning of life and suggest accessories to go with it.

07.10.2025 20:29 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
Girls playing in the street.

Girls playing in the street.

Fair. Mind you, we have the French edition, which, imho, is perfect.

07.10.2025 19:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The Subtle Genius of Elena Ferrante's Bad Book Covers Readers complain about the "chick-lit" imagery that adorns the author's highbrow novels. But there's value in embracing the oft-scorned "women's fiction" genre.

May be of interest.

07.10.2025 18:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks. I will check it out!

07.10.2025 18:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He did a lot of legendary album covers for Blue Note.

07.10.2025 18:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Reid Miles' design, as you no doubt know.

07.10.2025 17:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I may have found my peeps.

07.10.2025 16:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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