Joe Phelan🍁
@jpinnv.bsky.social
Civilized, Discontent in Northern Nevada.
Photos of the dog & other stuff.
Prose & poetry snippets that I love sometimes too.
Photos of the dog & other stuff.
Prose & poetry snippets that I love sometimes too.
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Joe Phelan🍁
@jpinnv.bsky.social
· Jan 20
I want degenerate art and decadent culture.
🎶A little voice inside my head said
"Don't look back, you can never look back"
I thought I knew what love was
What did I know… 🎵
"Don't look back, you can never look back"
I thought I knew what love was
What did I know… 🎵
November 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
🎶A little voice inside my head said
"Don't look back, you can never look back"
I thought I knew what love was
What did I know… 🎵
"Don't look back, you can never look back"
I thought I knew what love was
What did I know… 🎵
Happy Thanksgiving, friends!
I won't bore you with my gratitude list, but trust me -- it is long, and you are all on it.
I won't bore you with my gratitude list, but trust me -- it is long, and you are all on it.
November 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Happy Thanksgiving, friends!
I won't bore you with my gratitude list, but trust me -- it is long, and you are all on it.
I won't bore you with my gratitude list, but trust me -- it is long, and you are all on it.
Reposted by Joe Phelan🍁
26 novembre • Journée internationale de la panne de métro #JournéeInternationale #Générateur
November 26, 2025 at 5:00 AM
26 novembre • Journée internationale de la panne de métro #JournéeInternationale #Générateur
ORDERED!
Out TODAY! A Funny Thing in paperback!
My book A FUNNY THING: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE UNDISCIPLINED is now available for pre-order in a paperback priced for humans! Go get it!
November 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
ORDERED!
romanticism + fascism = "Modernism"
Modernism isn't real, it's just Romanticism again.
November 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
romanticism + fascism = "Modernism"
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Without much reading, you will no more be able to penetrate the moral of the next marbled page (motley emblem of my work!) than the world with all its sagacity has been able to unravel the many opinions, transactions, and truths.
(Happy birthday to Laurence Sterne.)
(Happy birthday to Laurence Sterne.)
November 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Without much reading, you will no more be able to penetrate the moral of the next marbled page (motley emblem of my work!) than the world with all its sagacity has been able to unravel the many opinions, transactions, and truths.
(Happy birthday to Laurence Sterne.)
(Happy birthday to Laurence Sterne.)
Et in Arcadia ego, Charlie Brown
A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose, Charlie Brown
You Are Witnessing A Great Becoming, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Et in Arcadia ego, Charlie Brown
It feels like winning a scavenger hunt.
November 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
It feels like winning a scavenger hunt.
Anyone who ever had a heart
Wouldn't turn around & break it
And anyone who ever played a part
Wouldn't turn around & hate it
Sweet Jane …
Sweet Jane
Wouldn't turn around & break it
And anyone who ever played a part
Wouldn't turn around & hate it
Sweet Jane …
Sweet Jane
November 23, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Anyone who ever had a heart
Wouldn't turn around & break it
And anyone who ever played a part
Wouldn't turn around & hate it
Sweet Jane …
Sweet Jane
Wouldn't turn around & break it
And anyone who ever played a part
Wouldn't turn around & hate it
Sweet Jane …
Sweet Jane
Jeff Bridges in the Gene Hackman rôle
Roberto Benigni's
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
November 23, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Jeff Bridges in the Gene Hackman rôle
Reposted by Joe Phelan🍁
Roberto Benigni's
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
November 21, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Roberto Benigni's
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
This is the best. (1/125)
November 21, 2025 at 12:17 AM
This is the best. (1/125)
Dogs (my dog, at least) does not understand irony or sarcasm: he just looks confused and a little hurt, so I have to remember not to do that.
Dogs lack the concept, "in fifteen minutes"
November 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Dogs (my dog, at least) does not understand irony or sarcasm: he just looks confused and a little hurt, so I have to remember not to do that.
Reposted by Joe Phelan🍁
Do you (or does someone in your network) want to tour New York City's book world with me on a "study abroad - at home!" trip next May? We'll be going to the Morgan Library, Grolier Club, Christie's book department, and the NYPL (the one with the lions) and a few other places I'm still looking into!
Librarians’ Tour of New York City
Tour Dates: May 17-23, 2026 Location: New York City, see tour highlights Cost per person: $2,725* for a double room, $3,980* for a single room *Air fare not included, see cost details below for more ...
ischool.wisc.edu
November 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Do you (or does someone in your network) want to tour New York City's book world with me on a "study abroad - at home!" trip next May? We'll be going to the Morgan Library, Grolier Club, Christie's book department, and the NYPL (the one with the lions) and a few other places I'm still looking into!
Looking forward to the upcoming flood of "I am in this picture and do not like it" posts from the administration
November 19, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Looking forward to the upcoming flood of "I am in this picture and do not like it" posts from the administration
Reposted by Joe Phelan🍁
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Perfect album released when I was 16:
November 17, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Perfect album released when I was 16:
#6: IN SPACE
Top 5 movie genres:
Chase!
Longing....
...regret
Mishap (comic)
Mishap (tragic)
Chase!
Longing....
...regret
Mishap (comic)
Mishap (tragic)
Top 5 movie genres are:
Bad dads.
On the run from Johnny Law.
Cast of thousands having a ball.
Women constrained by their time period.
REVENGE.
Bad dads.
On the run from Johnny Law.
Cast of thousands having a ball.
Women constrained by their time period.
REVENGE.
November 17, 2025 at 4:05 AM
#6: IN SPACE
Reposted by Joe Phelan🍁
Top 5 movie genres are:
heist
intelligence/espionage thriller
pitch perfect
cerebral ensemble oscar fodder drama
heist some more
heist
intelligence/espionage thriller
pitch perfect
cerebral ensemble oscar fodder drama
heist some more
Top 5 movie genres are:
People being shits at a dinner party
Rotting mansion, faded starlet/society beauty, high-camp fuckdown
Either nothing or everything happened, glacially slowly & visually stunningly
Woman is being haunted or maybe there’s actually a gross guy
Tilda Swinton hears a weird noise
People being shits at a dinner party
Rotting mansion, faded starlet/society beauty, high-camp fuckdown
Either nothing or everything happened, glacially slowly & visually stunningly
Woman is being haunted or maybe there’s actually a gross guy
Tilda Swinton hears a weird noise
Top 5 movie genres are:
Breathtakingly beautiful magic realism that represents grief
Buncha fuckin losers decide to become a family instead of going to therapy
Yikes a ghost! Oh it's just sad.
Bright colours, singing, dancing, gay subtext/text
Whatever the fuck Star Trek First Contact is
Breathtakingly beautiful magic realism that represents grief
Buncha fuckin losers decide to become a family instead of going to therapy
Yikes a ghost! Oh it's just sad.
Bright colours, singing, dancing, gay subtext/text
Whatever the fuck Star Trek First Contact is
November 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Top 5 movie genres are:
heist
intelligence/espionage thriller
pitch perfect
cerebral ensemble oscar fodder drama
heist some more
heist
intelligence/espionage thriller
pitch perfect
cerebral ensemble oscar fodder drama
heist some more
Top 5 movie genres:
Chase!
Longing....
...regret
Mishap (comic)
Mishap (tragic)
Chase!
Longing....
...regret
Mishap (comic)
Mishap (tragic)
Top 5 movie genres are:
Bad dads.
On the run from Johnny Law.
Cast of thousands having a ball.
Women constrained by their time period.
REVENGE.
Bad dads.
On the run from Johnny Law.
Cast of thousands having a ball.
Women constrained by their time period.
REVENGE.
Top 5 movie genres are:
People being shits at a dinner party
Rotting mansion, faded starlet/society beauty, high-camp fuckdown
Either nothing or everything happened, glacially slowly & visually stunningly
Woman is being haunted or maybe there’s actually a gross guy
Tilda Swinton hears a weird noise
People being shits at a dinner party
Rotting mansion, faded starlet/society beauty, high-camp fuckdown
Either nothing or everything happened, glacially slowly & visually stunningly
Woman is being haunted or maybe there’s actually a gross guy
Tilda Swinton hears a weird noise
November 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Top 5 movie genres:
Chase!
Longing....
...regret
Mishap (comic)
Mishap (tragic)
Chase!
Longing....
...regret
Mishap (comic)
Mishap (tragic)
Reposted by Joe Phelan🍁
Just trying to keep up with all the cool kids
(Thanks @isanchezprado.bsky.social & @johannawinant.bsky.social !)
(Thanks @isanchezprado.bsky.social & @johannawinant.bsky.social !)
November 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Just trying to keep up with all the cool kids
(Thanks @isanchezprado.bsky.social & @johannawinant.bsky.social !)
(Thanks @isanchezprado.bsky.social & @johannawinant.bsky.social !)
I'm so happy we left the feeder up a while longer--a little pit stop for the late travelers!
November 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I'm so happy we left the feeder up a while longer--a little pit stop for the late travelers!