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Melvin Peña
@melvinpena.bsky.social
making art, hiking, kayaking, gardening, watching films and tv, listening to music, reading comics, and singing karaoke

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now on the popular @trapone.bsky.social #doctorwho podcast, jodie whittaker brings chickens to a hen-do and chucks a load of eggs at a tiny dog. trapone.podbean.com/e/vampire-we...
well I'm out here in these streets asking for advice, is there anyone who knows how to make harris teeter instant grits edible? i have eaten this entire box over the course of the last couple or three weeks, and every time i eat them, it's like eating a sandbox. it's intolerable. it's just awful
November 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
for those of you who have an interest in folklore, please show me your favorite images of the wolpertinger
November 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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The new episode of Telefantasy Time Jump is out now, with me and @lizbethmyles.bsky.social sharing our feelings about the whole expanse of classic Doctor Who. www.patreon.com/posts/telefa... #DoctorWho
Telefantasy Time Jump #11: Doctor Who (1963) | Telefantasy Time Jump
Get more from Telefantasy Time Jump on Patreon
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November 14, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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This is a landmark achievement in #DoctorWho fandom. Absolutely mind-blowing. DO NOT MISS!!!
I've spent the last 3 years animating episode 1 of the Daleks' Master Plan for its 60th anniversary today! Yes, we had a slight technical hitch when I realised I'd uploaded the wrong version of the file, but we're good now!

And you might want to keep watching to the very end..

youtu.be/2--OWFrTXUI
Daleks' Master Plan - The Nightmare Begins Animation. Part 1
YouTube video by JanjyGiggins
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM
jenn is the best! i've missed her so much since she moved to california. so glad to see her the last couple nights in dc and saxapahaw. go buy that new @flockofdimes.bsky.social record, out everywhere on @subpop.bsky.social. it's miraculous flockofdimes.bandcamp.com/album/the-life-you-save
November 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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THE SPICE MUST FLOW
November 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
i listened to terrance dicks's novelization of "horror of fang rock" on my way up to DC. it's research for an upcoming #doctorwho podcast. what an incredible adaptation. might be better than the tv story, which is top 10 at worst
November 12, 2025 at 11:43 PM
i was very lucky to see @flockofdimes.bsky.social in the nation's capital on tuesday. jenn and the lads have a very special show for y'all. can't wait to experience it again tonight in saxapahaw
November 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
this is a #doctorwho podcast that you don't even have to ask me twice about. i am absolutely all in on a pondcast. i'm also all in on doing podcasts about these podcasts www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/do...
November 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
now on the popular @trapone.bsky.social #doctorwho podcast, jodie whittaker brings chickens to a hen-do and chucks a load of eggs at a tiny dog. trapone.podbean.com/e/vampire-we...
November 11, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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YET AGAIN
November 11, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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On November 10, 1898, a shocking coup was executed in Wilmington, North Carolina, as white mobs led by former Confederate Col. Alfred Moore Waddell overthrew the city’s elected biracial government and massacred 60 or more Black people.
The Wilmington Massacre of 1898
A shocking coup was executed Wilmington, North Carolina.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Evergreen tweet
November 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
20% off sale (use code "waldron") over at the tompkins square bandcamp through midnight pacific on mon 10 nov. those "imaginational anthem" compilations are great. had to pick up ireland, and vol 6 "origins" and the robbie basho live recordings tompkinssquare.bandcamp.com/album/imagin...
Imaginational Anthem vol. XIV : Ireland, by Various Artists
10 track album
tompkinssquare.bandcamp.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
omg pbs pledge break! this is exactly the sort of thing you'd see when your local public television channel here in the states would pause their programming for a little bit of fund raising. love the idea of folks watching "doctor who" in greensboro and gastonia!
UNC and NCSU had a fan club back then, here's one of their visits to the local PBS studio that I taped... youtu.be/VGFsmi2ASJU
Doctor Who Festival
YouTube video by beeblePete
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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New blog: #DoctorWho Singularity is 20 years old! Read all about my first @bigfinish.bsky.social tale from the Tardis...
jswallow.com/doctor-who-s...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Morning.
November 10, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Join us Sat, Nov 22 10am–12pm at Durham County Main Library for indoor/outdoor plein-air & urban sketching. Come early, sketch whatever inspires you, then share at the throwdown.

🌱 All levels welcome!
🖌️ Bring your own art supplies.

Full details & RSVP: link in bio / www.meetup.com/drawyall/eve...
November 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Behind my seething anger at the governmental pricks who treat lives as games, I am just a guy who wants to listen to guitar-based records and stare out the window.
November 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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… it's time for another Kickstarter. I'm still hammering out some details, but plan to launch in November. If you have an interest in this area, I'd love it if you signed up to be notified and/or shared the link with someone who would be. Read on for more info…

www.kickstarter.com/projects/maj...
Coming soon: Inks & Paints of the Middle East REVISED
A new, updated edition of my groundbreaking handbook of early Islamic art technology, incorporating five more years of research.
www.kickstarter.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
i love hogarth and i love pugs and i love this painting, but y'all aren't gonna love the pug's name
November 10, 2025 at 12:30 PM
omg the eggs! as jodie says at the end of the pre-title sequence, "let's get this party started!"
November 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
the senate democrats do realize that open enrollment for the healthcare marketplace has begun, right? what the flip good does a vote a month from now do?
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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