Jeffrey R. Villines
@jeffinthebowtie.bsky.social
HCC English Faculty | Fantasy Author | Occasional Actor | he/him | www.jeffinthebowtie.com
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Reposted by Jeffrey R. Villines
"FOR THE LOVE OF GOD MARIO" he said.
“Yes,” I said, “for the love of God!”
“Yes,” I said, “for the love of God!”
January 5, 2026 at 12:11 AM
"FOR THE LOVE OF GOD MARIO" he said.
“Yes,” I said, “for the love of God!”
“Yes,” I said, “for the love of God!”
This is the movie I always had to finish if I caught it on, but I haven’t seen it in art kart 20 years. Let’s see how it holds up!
December 28, 2025 at 2:29 AM
This is the movie I always had to finish if I caught it on, but I haven’t seen it in art kart 20 years. Let’s see how it holds up!
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There are four elemental Christmas songs:
—Jesus! Jesus! So Much Jesus!
—Kids Like Santa
—I Mention Snow Exactly Once and It Becomes a Thing
—Merry Christmas (Let’s Bone)
All Christmas songs are variations or combinations thereof.
—Jesus! Jesus! So Much Jesus!
—Kids Like Santa
—I Mention Snow Exactly Once and It Becomes a Thing
—Merry Christmas (Let’s Bone)
All Christmas songs are variations or combinations thereof.
December 2, 2023 at 4:39 AM
There are four elemental Christmas songs:
—Jesus! Jesus! So Much Jesus!
—Kids Like Santa
—I Mention Snow Exactly Once and It Becomes a Thing
—Merry Christmas (Let’s Bone)
All Christmas songs are variations or combinations thereof.
—Jesus! Jesus! So Much Jesus!
—Kids Like Santa
—I Mention Snow Exactly Once and It Becomes a Thing
—Merry Christmas (Let’s Bone)
All Christmas songs are variations or combinations thereof.
Maybe DnD 6e should make it canon that palindromes are an important part of the culture for elves in the Underdark—that the ability to drop one effortlessly into conversation is as much a sign of one’s station as good dancing was in 18th Century England.
Then we can call a palindrome a “Drow word.”
Then we can call a palindrome a “Drow word.”
Why is "palindrome" not, itself, a palindrome? Seems like a pretty egregious oversight
December 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Maybe DnD 6e should make it canon that palindromes are an important part of the culture for elves in the Underdark—that the ability to drop one effortlessly into conversation is as much a sign of one’s station as good dancing was in 18th Century England.
Then we can call a palindrome a “Drow word.”
Then we can call a palindrome a “Drow word.”
What video game world would you most like to live in once the final boss has been beaten?
December 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
What video game world would you most like to live in once the final boss has been beaten?
On some level I must believe that if I sigh completely enough, my bones will evaporate, and I will be truly free.
December 6, 2025 at 4:12 AM
On some level I must believe that if I sigh completely enough, my bones will evaporate, and I will be truly free.
I named my fists Adobe Premiere and Microsoft Access, because I don’t know how to use either one effectively!
I named my fists Common and Sense because I'm about to bring the Paine
I named my fists Blood and Meridian because I’m fixing to Judge your ass.
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I named my fists Adobe Premiere and Microsoft Access, because I don’t know how to use either one effectively!
My Louisiana in-laws sounding Bostonian as we plan our trio to the movies:
“Get there before the Wicked showtime. I’ll be by the Wicked display? You wearing your Wicked shirt?”
“Get there before the Wicked showtime. I’ll be by the Wicked display? You wearing your Wicked shirt?”
November 29, 2025 at 4:35 AM
My Louisiana in-laws sounding Bostonian as we plan our trio to the movies:
“Get there before the Wicked showtime. I’ll be by the Wicked display? You wearing your Wicked shirt?”
“Get there before the Wicked showtime. I’ll be by the Wicked display? You wearing your Wicked shirt?”
Gotta respect when parody lyrics keep the original scansion!
"Oh Mamdani, you're so lovely!!!"
"Yes I know it, I can't help it!"
"Yes I know it, I can't help it!"
big bugs bunny getting elmer fudd to marry him vibes in the white house currently i see
November 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Gotta respect when parody lyrics keep the original scansion!
Mandatory BonziBuddy
"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'"
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
November 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Mandatory BonziBuddy
Leaving Twitter when Musk bought it is like putting down The King in Yellow before Act II
Would love to read a long article about all the people that drove themselves insane by reading tweets.
November 19, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Leaving Twitter when Musk bought it is like putting down The King in Yellow before Act II
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Part of the issue is that Good at Words people are generally inclined to accept that people are all different ways and to think that’s just fine. Good at Math people have been allowed too much room to think that only they have the thoughts that matter.
November 12, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Part of the issue is that Good at Words people are generally inclined to accept that people are all different ways and to think that’s just fine. Good at Math people have been allowed too much room to think that only they have the thoughts that matter.
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Ozyman, Ozyman-
dias does what no mortal can
and his works? are they there?
no, but maybe still despair
dias does what no mortal can
and his works? are they there?
no, but maybe still despair
This is just to say
I have looked on
the works
that were in
the desert
and which
you were probably
thinking
would still stand
Forgive me
they were trunkless
so vast
and so old
I have looked on
the works
that were in
the desert
and which
you were probably
thinking
would still stand
Forgive me
they were trunkless
so vast
and so old
Once upon a desert sandy
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
October 30, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Ozyman, Ozyman-
dias does what no mortal can
and his works? are they there?
no, but maybe still despair
dias does what no mortal can
and his works? are they there?
no, but maybe still despair
On top of everything else, who’d want to see Tim Fishandchips in Rocky Horror?
The British Right are just in total freefall into savagery at this point
October 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
On top of everything else, who’d want to see Tim Fishandchips in Rocky Horror?
Quare lactucam odiunt?
October 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Quare lactucam odiunt?
Is it just me or are the grammar “corrections” (blue double underline) in Microsoft Word objectively wrong with increasing frequency?
Half of them in my document admonish me to remove the closing quotation mark—and only the closing one—from dialogue.
Half of them in my document admonish me to remove the closing quotation mark—and only the closing one—from dialogue.
October 8, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Is it just me or are the grammar “corrections” (blue double underline) in Microsoft Word objectively wrong with increasing frequency?
Half of them in my document admonish me to remove the closing quotation mark—and only the closing one—from dialogue.
Half of them in my document admonish me to remove the closing quotation mark—and only the closing one—from dialogue.
On my walk to work, got distracted by the thought of all the Jane Austen heroines combining into one like in the climax of an episode of Power Rangers
October 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
On my walk to work, got distracted by the thought of all the Jane Austen heroines combining into one like in the climax of an episode of Power Rangers
Reposted by Jeffrey R. Villines
Watch today is a Soviet-made handwound “medical watch” from 1989 by Slava. The scales help you determine the patient’s heart rate. You must wait until the seconds hand reaches 0 or 30, then count 15 patient pulses. Where the seconds hand is on the scale at that moment is the heart rate.
October 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Watch today is a Soviet-made handwound “medical watch” from 1989 by Slava. The scales help you determine the patient’s heart rate. You must wait until the seconds hand reaches 0 or 30, then count 15 patient pulses. Where the seconds hand is on the scale at that moment is the heart rate.
Subtly downgrade a band:
Ben Takes Five Out of the Drier, Puts Them in the Hamper, and Puts the Hamper on His Bed
Ben Takes Five Out of the Drier, Puts Them in the Hamper, and Puts the Hamper on His Bed
subtly downgrade a band
Led Montgolfière
Led Montgolfière
subtly downgrade a band
9,999 Maniacs
9,999 Maniacs
October 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Subtly downgrade a band:
Ben Takes Five Out of the Drier, Puts Them in the Hamper, and Puts the Hamper on His Bed
Ben Takes Five Out of the Drier, Puts Them in the Hamper, and Puts the Hamper on His Bed
“So I says to Mabel, I says…”
what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.
October 2, 2025 at 3:00 AM
“So I says to Mabel, I says…”
Just saw A Gardener’s Year, which is not a direct adaptation of Karel Čapek’s essay collection of that title, but which uses its text as a framing device. It was wonderful and difficult without teetering into easy bleakness. Some of the most amazing, subtle performances I’ve ever seen on film.
October 1, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Just saw A Gardener’s Year, which is not a direct adaptation of Karel Čapek’s essay collection of that title, but which uses its text as a framing device. It was wonderful and difficult without teetering into easy bleakness. Some of the most amazing, subtle performances I’ve ever seen on film.
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CHOTINER: …Well?
VILLAGER: We *did* do the nose.
CHOTINER: The nose?
VILLAGER: And the hat.
VILLAGER: Oh, but she’s a witch!
🧙♀️
VILLAGER: We *did* do the nose.
CHOTINER: The nose?
VILLAGER: And the hat.
VILLAGER: Oh, but she’s a witch!
🧙♀️
September 25, 2025 at 4:30 AM
CHOTINER: …Well?
VILLAGER: We *did* do the nose.
CHOTINER: The nose?
VILLAGER: And the hat.
VILLAGER: Oh, but she’s a witch!
🧙♀️
VILLAGER: We *did* do the nose.
CHOTINER: The nose?
VILLAGER: And the hat.
VILLAGER: Oh, but she’s a witch!
🧙♀️
Ruin a band with a Supreme Court Justice:
A Tribe Called Rehnquist
A Tribe Called Rehnquist
Ruin a band with a Supreme Court Justice
William Henry Moody Blues
William Henry Moody Blues
Ruin a band with a Supreme Court Justice
Byron White Stripes
Byron White Stripes
September 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Ruin a band with a Supreme Court Justice:
A Tribe Called Rehnquist
A Tribe Called Rehnquist
I go to a themepark for the shows. Point me toward the radiator
fuck disney i'd rather have an amusement park dedicated to arthouse anyway. let me use my skip the line pass to play chess with death, get trapped in the basement of the parasite haunted mansion, experience the unresolvable roller coaster of yearning on the in the mood for love adventure.
September 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I go to a themepark for the shows. Point me toward the radiator