dr. paul
@dochtuirpol.bsky.social
appalachian/intermontane studies, small angry dogs, midcentury modern fetishist, west mashallah virginia
"no friends but the mountains"
"no friends but the mountains"
(kidding-not-kidding professor glasses on: it was the Urban Cowboy film reverberations)
November 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
(kidding-not-kidding professor glasses on: it was the Urban Cowboy film reverberations)
whatever it was happened around 82/83/84; same as Charlie Daniels
November 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
whatever it was happened around 82/83/84; same as Charlie Daniels
This one too, b/c she was an absolute delight as a human being: www.folkstreams.net/films/bessie...
Bessie Eldreth | Folkstreams
Bessie Eldreth (1913-2016) was fond of saying, “Singing is my life,” and she told engaging stories not only about her singing but also about the rewards…
www.folkstreams.net
November 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This one too, b/c she was an absolute delight as a human being: www.folkstreams.net/films/bessie...
Frankie Silver stuff is a favorite in my Folklore classes (plus dude is likely Raven’s kin) www.folkstreams.net/films/ballad...
The Ballad of Frankie Silver | Folkstreams
In 1833 Mrs. Frances Silver was hanged in Morganton, North Carolina, for the ax murder of her husband Charles. Tom Davenport's film explores the case…
www.folkstreams.net
November 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Frankie Silver stuff is a favorite in my Folklore classes (plus dude is likely Raven’s kin) www.folkstreams.net/films/ballad...
more than halfway to a Jerry Clower routine
November 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
more than halfway to a Jerry Clower routine
lol, mostly Porto, but you know how dream amalgamations are
November 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
lol, mostly Porto, but you know how dream amalgamations are
managing a charity concert at a now extinct Boone NC dive bar with Nivek Ogre and Phil Collins headlining, and nothing was going right at all, was kinda funny tbh (Nivek got his nacho plate)
November 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
managing a charity concert at a now extinct Boone NC dive bar with Nivek Ogre and Phil Collins headlining, and nothing was going right at all, was kinda funny tbh (Nivek got his nacho plate)
I am on the vivid dream tip here recently (medication thing) and I am not enjoying it in the least; dream of winning a knife fight in the confined space of a hotel bathroom is not the least bit cathartic or enjoyable; love too wake up with a cortisol dump
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I am on the vivid dream tip here recently (medication thing) and I am not enjoying it in the least; dream of winning a knife fight in the confined space of a hotel bathroom is not the least bit cathartic or enjoyable; love too wake up with a cortisol dump
Wait til they get to “Scott’s Addition”
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November 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Wait til they get to “Scott’s Addition”
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basically Homer Simpson and the ranch hose hallucination, if you get the pop culture reference
November 22, 2025 at 12:22 AM
basically Homer Simpson and the ranch hose hallucination, if you get the pop culture reference
Agree, but if we started calling anti-AI AI “the Judas AI” that would be funny (or even better, “the Judas CLANKER”)
November 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Agree, but if we started calling anti-AI AI “the Judas AI” that would be funny (or even better, “the Judas CLANKER”)
likely direct correspondence to rapture belief, too
November 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
likely direct correspondence to rapture belief, too
roughly corresponds to the same numbers that are happy/proud/thankful to be white (probably a direct overlay); I don’t see it ever getting lower than this
November 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
roughly corresponds to the same numbers that are happy/proud/thankful to be white (probably a direct overlay); I don’t see it ever getting lower than this
oh, I know this--I think of it more as the "gloom despair and agony on me" doom-yodel
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
oh, I know this--I think of it more as the "gloom despair and agony on me" doom-yodel
(I tried to combine it all into an intentional “woodhick hummus” of the like a farm-to-table Meemaw’s Brasserie would charge $15 for; it did not work)
November 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
(I tried to combine it all into an intentional “woodhick hummus” of the like a farm-to-table Meemaw’s Brasserie would charge $15 for; it did not work)
Reminds me of my penchant for navy beans/“great northern beans” with ketchup, raw white onions, and prodigious black pepper (one of the very few conventions that cause my lovely spouse to look at me like I have a prehensile tail)
November 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Reminds me of my penchant for navy beans/“great northern beans” with ketchup, raw white onions, and prodigious black pepper (one of the very few conventions that cause my lovely spouse to look at me like I have a prehensile tail)
He smelled like aftershave even through a screen; and, absent other context, could be mistaken for a Liberty University-educated “respectable” mega church pastor (appearance and baseline temperament).
November 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
He smelled like aftershave even through a screen; and, absent other context, could be mistaken for a Liberty University-educated “respectable” mega church pastor (appearance and baseline temperament).
Yes. I’ve seen the half + 7 argument, too, and that seems ok to me.
(With the disclaimer that none of this is of personal relevance to me, aside from occasionally wanting to take a rough-hewn club to people in my profession who seem addicted to making it relevant).
(With the disclaimer that none of this is of personal relevance to me, aside from occasionally wanting to take a rough-hewn club to people in my profession who seem addicted to making it relevant).
November 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Yes. I’ve seen the half + 7 argument, too, and that seems ok to me.
(With the disclaimer that none of this is of personal relevance to me, aside from occasionally wanting to take a rough-hewn club to people in my profession who seem addicted to making it relevant).
(With the disclaimer that none of this is of personal relevance to me, aside from occasionally wanting to take a rough-hewn club to people in my profession who seem addicted to making it relevant).
Or at least quit insisting that I pretend with you
November 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Or at least quit insisting that I pretend with you
House of Love (five cigarettes on the 30+ minute drive to your hick-ass high school winter morning 1992 music)
November 14, 2025 at 10:09 PM
House of Love (five cigarettes on the 30+ minute drive to your hick-ass high school winter morning 1992 music)