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Nicky Flowers
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the only thing worst than posting is podcasting. i do both. but don't worry, i also produce bedroom pop :-) // (they/them) // RSS feed at nickyflowers.com // ☎️ (607) 225-5763 ☎️
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Nicky Flowers @nickyflowers.com · 10d
Celebrate 1 year of Very Little News w/ me by subscribing today! Just 3 bucks gets you fascinating stories & features: I reveal the neighborhood cat's new poop spot, speak on my inhaling-pepper experience, and call for Grench Information + comics from Ruby and a column from Meys! verylittlenews.org
a copy of Very Little News Vol. 2 Issue 1 sits on my desk one of the many wonderful pages of the digital PDF version of VLN Vol.2 Issue1
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It's a cartoon of a kangaroo with a pocket protector -- two pens with a joey betwixt
November 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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my co-host is with family for the hall of days, so we may be a bit late again this week. that just means there's more time to SEND US VOICEMAILS! pwease :3c
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DAD! A new episode of Dial-a-Pod is now available at (607) CALL-POD - "We Were Serious About Contacting Your Dad"!

This week, we decide to experiment - little to no voicemail action. We need to hear more from everyone! And dads!

Last week's episode is now available on our RSS feed at dialapod.net.
A tender bird-human moment.
November 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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i deleted my donation post because i got enough to make it to my physical therapy appointment today!!! thank you to the, i believe 2, generous people who helped out. i will make 2 bits of art and post them after the appointment in exchange for the kindness :-)
November 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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i think something that could be fun is gathering a large mass of like-minded creative people, co-ordinating a takeover of all public access television in the country to showcase experimental noncommercial art. idk just thinking out loud
November 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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i am a normal amount of on drugs and ziti
November 28, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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the sick truth of me is every time i watch this one, my favorite MST3K episode, i think "i could try riffin'... i could be a riffmaster......"
Penile Replacement Corporation Pictures Presents: I Accuse My Parents
November 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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it's important to self-promote. who else is going to do it?
November 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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DAD! A new episode of Dial-a-Pod is now available at (607) CALL-POD - "We Were Serious About Contacting Your Dad"!

This week, we decide to experiment - little to no voicemail action. We need to hear more from everyone! And dads!

Last week's episode is now available on our RSS feed at dialapod.net.
A tender bird-human moment.
November 23, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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it's the 11th Annual Nicky Flowers (let's-celebrate-the-end-of) Summer Single!!! every year since 2015, i've released a non-album single and here i am once again!

this time, i'm introducing my new Portastudio-based sound. let everyone know i've gone lo-fi nickyflowers.bandcamp.com/album/laugh-...
Laugh It Off / The Ballad of the Contemptible Loser, by Nicky Flowers
2 track album
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September 22, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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Celebrate 1 year of Very Little News w/ me by subscribing today! Just 3 bucks gets you fascinating stories & features: I reveal the neighborhood cat's new poop spot, speak on my inhaling-pepper experience, and call for Grench Information + comics from Ruby and a column from Meys! verylittlenews.org
a copy of Very Little News Vol. 2 Issue 1 sits on my desk one of the many wonderful pages of the digital PDF version of VLN Vol.2 Issue1
November 18, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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we're live !! www.twitch.tv/bedsores
November 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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it's a Treats Thursday miracle! @bedsores.rest and i will have our teams battle for holiday dominance! can my Roamin' Clydesdales take their 1-0 series lead even higher (probably to 2) or will the Chronic P.A.I.N. even things up for a scrumptious treat of their own? www.twitch.tv/bedsores @ 12:30pst
a lovingly drawn poster for Game 2 of the '25-'26 Deadball Winter League; a cartoon figure shouts "THERE ARE ONLY 2 RULES FOR 'TREATS THURSDAY' — 1. it's Treats Thursday* 2. watch Deadball Winter League**" *TREATS THURSDAY IS NOT ThanksgivingTM. IT'S BETTER! **Today, 11/27, is Game 2 - as ever, on twitch.tv/bedsores @ 12:30pst
November 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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stranger things walked so those "come back to the 80s with me" ai videos could run
November 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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i think the Strangest Thing of all is how much that show sucks
November 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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i would stop complaining about most things if i was to become a small dog
November 27, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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settling down for the evening with some chamomile tea and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
List of explosions - Wikipedia
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November 27, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Hell with it, I'm just going to post the whole thing here via screencap and alt text. It's Kaleb Horton, man, his writing always deserves the second read, especially since it could have just easily been lost forever like so much else. Read it, share it.
A look at forgotten Hollywood landmarks By Kaleb Horton Let's say you come in from down south, and you're looking for an unsung movie landmark. So you fly in to LAX, rent a car, blow right past Hollywood, leave Los Angeles county heading north, go over the Grapevine, gape at the monumental hills and, wow, there really is a Smokey Bear Road, then you turn off the air conditioner when the sign tells you. Once you come down the grade too fast and see the world's loneliest Denny's, you're well on your way to what you're looking for – the middle of nowhere. You're going to Kern County to find the spot where Alfred Hitchcock filmed one of the greatest scenes in movie history, the crop duster sequence from "North by Northwest." It takes place in Indiana, of course, but the Indiana road sign and the imported corn field can't deceive this Bakersfield native. The parched and desolate heat of the scene feels too much like Kern County. The scene people know off-hand — Cary Grant running from an airplane — isn't why "North by Northwest" is a classic. The film's greatness, as was often the case for Hitchcock, lies in its build-up, its suspense, its mood. The plane moment is almost anticlimax. It is those five minutes before Grant's desperate escape that constitute a mathematically perfect suspense scene. So expert is Hitchcock's hand that he creates suspense, a slow burning dread, with no camera tricks and no music in broad daylight. Grant's character is a prototypical James Bond. His perfect suit, fast wit, high-alcohol tolerance and effortless charisma have got him out of every predicament so far. In the city, among people, he has powers. Take him away from people, put him nowhere, and he's just like us — totally helpless. He has no powers: His suit is no good out here; his million-dollar tailoring and perfect haircut is just vanity now. No amount of pretending can provide escape. Here, is the one place where he can die, and he gets by on the grace of God. All he can do is wait for what's coming. So when you seek the lost landmark of this scene, you're looking for an idea as much as a place. You're on Highway 99 now, going 30 miles north of Bakersfield, looking for an unassuming patch of dirt that carries spiritual weight. The scene was filmed neart Garces Highway to the west of Delano. You'll think there's a handy exit for it. There's not. You'll probably get lost in Delano, counting on a connection. You're at once a million miles from Hollywood and a hundred miles away. It's lonely. The horizon sprawls forever like there's nothing past it. There are broken down trucks on the side of the road, plumes of smoke from faraway fires. You'll find Garces eventually. You'll pass a bar called Rosy's Place, abandoned houses, an oil field, a prison, a cemetery, a sign that says "we clean headstones," and a whole lot of gold-on-brown punctuated by an occasional trailer or car going faster than you. You're looking for where Garces meets Corcoran Road. That's where this "North by Northwest" scene was filmed. You'll get a vague idea where it is but you'll never be exactly sure, since there's little impetus for clear signage 10 miles from a prison. Maybe Corcoran Road is unlabeled. Besides, that Indiana sign and the prop cornfield haven't been there in 56 years. If you're anything like me, you'll lose the light and call it a day, unsatisfied with the route you took. You return to I-5 northbound. From the 5, you'll meet Route 46, and go through a place called Lost Hills, then back in to the location from Corcoran Road instead. That's how Hitchcock probably did it. More intuitive. Still in the middle of nowhere, but on your way to Corcoran Road, you're right next to another Hollywood landmark: Blackwells Corner, James Dean's last stop. It's a glorified Texaco, and gas is 50 cents a gallon more than it should be. They sell Jelly Bellys and '50s kitsch artifacts — plates with Marilyn Monroe's face on them, and so forth. They really figured out how to cash in on death. You don't want to stop here. But I stopped. I asked the kid at the Blackwells Corner counter how to get to Corcoran Road. He gave me a look that said "there's no reason to go there," and then wearily told me where to go anyway. I was about 8 miles from the destination. Going there is a meditative experience. You're not just going to the middle of nowhere. You're going to the perfect nowhere. Going alone, in the hypnotic heat of the Central Calfiornia Valley, you might even forget what year it is. There is no reason to believe the road would be so well preserved for half a century, intimately tied to the career of an actor born in Bristol 111 years ago, but it has been. There's an abandoned house. A barn with a cross on it. But almost nothing has changed in 56 years. At some point new lines were added on the road. There's overgrowth where there didn't used to be overgrowth. A couple discarded Budweiser cans from who knows when, but mostly it's identical. This is the same sleepy loneliness that Alfred Hitchcock used to make great art in 1959. And that may sound dull, but tranquility is the point. You stand on that dirt and there's no distraction from what's in your soul. It's an inner destination, not an outer one. I told my grandma about it when I got back to Bakersfield. She told me her Uncle Harold thought it was the prettiest road in America. And she showed me a picture of a Corcoran grade school class posing in the dirt with Grant and Hitchcock. It's just a field trip picture. The kids are fidgeting, many with arms folded, some shielding their eyes from the sun, all with obedient smiles. They'd all be in their sixties now, but they'd remember where this road is. It emphasized the ugliness of James Dean's last stop becoming a place to sell T-shirts. It's about what we preserve, and what we don't, and what we remember, and what we don't. It's easy to find shrines to morbidity and hard to find meaningful places. For those, you have to go looking.
November 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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[tearfully asking my partner] would you still love me if my name was Montina Corlon
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November 26, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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i cant believe im still at it after everything that's happened to me. i should've died like... at least 6 different times for sure lol. i never thought i'd make it close to 30 but it's less than 2 months away. i really cant explain how crazy that is
November 26, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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serial experiments lain theme playing in the coffee shop as we walk in. what do they know...
November 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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fans of #gaybaseball will be pleased to learn we're playing Game 2 tomorrow, which makes it... TREATS THURSDAY (its better thanksgiving)
November 26, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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the computer should turn itself on and make my posts for me. actually, it should take my place entirely. the computer should kill me and sleep with my wife. that's the life — becoming dead weight
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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i put on my good sports coat to pay respects to G. Amato and the stream is still down. "RIP" TO BOTH THE MAN AND HIS MEMORIAL !! ;)
November 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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today im going to make my synthesizer fill the room with noise and hope i find the perfect patch that blocks out all of my thoughts
November 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM