Jean-Paul
@themisterscott.bsky.social
Retired high school teacher, reader, & recreational runner.
Happy Monday, #RochesterNY! This morning's misty 5 mile #walk too me to #CobbsHill and along #WashingtonGrove, comprised of 26 acres of old growth goredt w/in #ROC's city li.its!🌳🌲
May 5, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Happy Monday, #RochesterNY! This morning's misty 5 mile #walk too me to #CobbsHill and along #WashingtonGrove, comprised of 26 acres of old growth goredt w/in #ROC's city li.its!🌳🌲
Tale of two #beatniks re-#read while substute #teaching in high school Natural Selection lab: While popularized insider #Kerouac was enjoyed as youth, middle-aged me prefers low-key rebellion, humor & meloncholy of quirky outsider (#Brautigan); here even his early work crackles w/goofy imagery.📚
April 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Easy 6 mile drizzly #run thru #RochesterNY where the "wild" things are!🎨☁️ #murals #streetart #SouthWedge #running
April 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Easy 6 mile drizzly #run thru #RochesterNY where the "wild" things are!🎨☁️ #murals #streetart #SouthWedge #running
Beautiful #spring morning for 5 ez miles at #CobbsHill Park in #RochesterNY on same trails/pavement I trained & competed in high school #crosscountry 40 years ago!🌤 #run #running
April 23, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Beautiful #spring morning for 5 ez miles at #CobbsHill Park in #RochesterNY on same trails/pavement I trained & competed in high school #crosscountry 40 years ago!🌤 #run #running
Tremendous energy at today's National 50501 Day of Action at MLK Park in #RochesterNY, powered by excellent speeches from many speakers! ✊️🇺🇸 #NoKings #Resist #Vigilance
April 19, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Tremendous energy at today's National 50501 Day of Action at MLK Park in #RochesterNY, powered by excellent speeches from many speakers! ✊️🇺🇸 #NoKings #Resist #Vigilance
Two rarely republished & unique early (1930s) #cosmichorror novellas by William Sloane that feel #noir-ish w/dashes of mathematics, science, romance, magic & #TheLittleMermaid?! Recommended!🧜♀️📚 #booksky #read #horror
April 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Two rarely republished & unique early (1930s) #cosmichorror novellas by William Sloane that feel #noir-ish w/dashes of mathematics, science, romance, magic & #TheLittleMermaid?! Recommended!🧜♀️📚 #booksky #read #horror
Thank you @poetsorg.bsky.social for sending this year's #NationalPoetryMonth poster; hopefully public school teachers are inspiring students w/fresh, positive images & words! 📚🙂 #booksky #poetry #NPM
April 18, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Thank you @poetsorg.bsky.social for sending this year's #NationalPoetryMonth poster; hopefully public school teachers are inspiring students w/fresh, positive images & words! 📚🙂 #booksky #poetry #NPM
Recently #read: #UrsulaLeGuin's environmental #scifi "The Word For World Is Forest" features strong characterization developed in 4 different rotating unique voices/perspectives. Despite (now) familiar tropes, a VERY engaging story w/a (still) relevant message. #booksky🛸🌎
April 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Recently #read: #UrsulaLeGuin's environmental #scifi "The Word For World Is Forest" features strong characterization developed in 4 different rotating unique voices/perspectives. Despite (now) familiar tropes, a VERY engaging story w/a (still) relevant message. #booksky🛸🌎
Recently #read Tom Holt's fish-out-of-water novel "Who's Afraid of #Beowulf?" about a band of 1200-year-old #vikings who reawaken in 1980s UK to battle an ancient evil now empowered by modern tech. Entertaining when viewed as #fantasy/#humor w/hints of dated English satire. 🇬🇧📚🙂 #booksky
April 11, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Recently #read Tom Holt's fish-out-of-water novel "Who's Afraid of #Beowulf?" about a band of 1200-year-old #vikings who reawaken in 1980s UK to battle an ancient evil now empowered by modern tech. Entertaining when viewed as #fantasy/#humor w/hints of dated English satire. 🇬🇧📚🙂 #booksky
Thank you to ALL who participated in today's protests at Cobbs Hill in #RochesterNY & across USA in SUPPORT of #democracy; do NOT be dissuaded by message board #misogyny, #racism & #GOP misinformation from continuing to fight: VIGILANCE! 🇺🇸✊️
April 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Thank you to ALL who participated in today's protests at Cobbs Hill in #RochesterNY & across USA in SUPPORT of #democracy; do NOT be dissuaded by message board #misogyny, #racism & #GOP misinformation from continuing to fight: VIGILANCE! 🇺🇸✊️
Much to Anne's frustration, while in the hospital emergency room, I #read #RichardBrautigan imagery aloud. "Be careful," she warns, "Someone will hear you and admit you to the psychiatric ward." Now, THAT'S goodwriting! 📚🙂 #booksky
March 24, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Much to Anne's frustration, while in the hospital emergency room, I #read #RichardBrautigan imagery aloud. "Be careful," she warns, "Someone will hear you and admit you to the psychiatric ward." Now, THAT'S goodwriting! 📚🙂 #booksky
Bertie the ##EnglishSpringerSpaniel is HAPPY to report that #Spring is springing slightly ahead of schedule in #RochesterNY... at least for today! 🌞🌬 #dogsofBlueSky
March 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Bertie the ##EnglishSpringerSpaniel is HAPPY to report that #Spring is springing slightly ahead of schedule in #RochesterNY... at least for today! 🌞🌬 #dogsofBlueSky
Even tho Bertie was bad, I can't be mad.❤️ #EnglishSpringerSpaniel #dogsofBluesky
March 1, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Even tho Bertie was bad, I can't be mad.❤️ #EnglishSpringerSpaniel #dogsofBluesky
US national nightmare makes #TheManInTheHighCastle's alt history setting where Axis wins WW2 more harrowing: #PKD's complex world-building & unusual narrative follows loosely related characters striving for meaning in a fascist reality where a pursuit of #art may be the only hope. #scifi #booksky
February 20, 2025 at 2:54 AM
US national nightmare makes #TheManInTheHighCastle's alt history setting where Axis wins WW2 more harrowing: #PKD's complex world-building & unusual narrative follows loosely related characters striving for meaning in a fascist reality where a pursuit of #art may be the only hope. #scifi #booksky
On another day that feels like "always #Winter, never Christmas", Bertie & I took crisp stroll around block w/visions of #Narnia rattling in our heads. Continuing thru Chronicles in narrative order, #TheLionTheWitchandTheWardrobe never fails to brighten even the coldest days!📚🦁🥶 #booksky #fantasylit
February 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
On another day that feels like "always #Winter, never Christmas", Bertie & I took crisp stroll around block w/visions of #Narnia rattling in our heads. Continuing thru Chronicles in narrative order, #TheLionTheWitchandTheWardrobe never fails to brighten even the coldest days!📚🦁🥶 #booksky #fantasylit
Listening to #CarlSagan's "Demon-Haunted World" while shoveling, it occurs to me that lifetime of psuedoscience & edu-news has brought us to this point in US history: anti-science, anti-intellectual, w/deaths of Truth & critical thinking. BRILLIANT (if depressing) #read/listen. #Booksky
February 17, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Listening to #CarlSagan's "Demon-Haunted World" while shoveling, it occurs to me that lifetime of psuedoscience & edu-news has brought us to this point in US history: anti-science, anti-intellectual, w/deaths of Truth & critical thinking. BRILLIANT (if depressing) #read/listen. #Booksky
Haircut day for Lil' Bertie the #EnglishSpringerSpaniel!❤️
February 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Haircut day for Lil' Bertie the #EnglishSpringerSpaniel!❤️
Icy, cold Saturdays PERFECT for #reading, boarding & bagging #comicbooks.🙂📚
February 9, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Icy, cold Saturdays PERFECT for #reading, boarding & bagging #comicbooks.🙂📚
W/renewed interest due to its potentially prescient take on a Trump-ified USA, Octavia E. Butler's #ParableoftheSower joins list of necessary dystopian #scifi lit w/strong characterization & disturbing racial/socioeconomic realities while offering a sliver of hope. INCREDIBLE. #BookSky #Earthseed
February 1, 2025 at 11:33 AM
W/renewed interest due to its potentially prescient take on a Trump-ified USA, Octavia E. Butler's #ParableoftheSower joins list of necessary dystopian #scifi lit w/strong characterization & disturbing racial/socioeconomic realities while offering a sliver of hope. INCREDIBLE. #BookSky #Earthseed
S/o @workmanpub.bsky.social's Word-A-Day Calender for helping me make best of challenging circumstances by providing vocabulary to articulate my feelings: "The PROXIMATE reason for my WELTSCHMERZ is the KAKISTOCRACY 'leading' our nation.#🧠📚👍
January 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
S/o @workmanpub.bsky.social's Word-A-Day Calender for helping me make best of challenging circumstances by providing vocabulary to articulate my feelings: "The PROXIMATE reason for my WELTSCHMERZ is the KAKISTOCRACY 'leading' our nation.#🧠📚👍
Wonderful wintry mix on tap for this morning's #walk along #ErieCanalTrail led by #trail guide Bertie the #EnglishSpringerSpaniel!🐾📚💙
January 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Wonderful wintry mix on tap for this morning's #walk along #ErieCanalTrail led by #trail guide Bertie the #EnglishSpringerSpaniel!🐾📚💙
Recently re-#read: Jack London's INCREDIBLE "Sea Wolf" buoyed by memories of 2014 visit to Yukon cabin in Oakland w/childhood pal & love of "Call of the Wild" BLOWN AWAY by yeast-y battle of wills & philosophies aboard seal hunting ship Ghost as if #reading for first time. ⛵️📚💙 #BookSky #classiclit
January 18, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Recently re-#read: Jack London's INCREDIBLE "Sea Wolf" buoyed by memories of 2014 visit to Yukon cabin in Oakland w/childhood pal & love of "Call of the Wild" BLOWN AWAY by yeast-y battle of wills & philosophies aboard seal hunting ship Ghost as if #reading for first time. ⛵️📚💙 #BookSky #classiclit
Recently #read: thoroughly mesmerized by Julia Armfield's weird, romantic "Our Wives Under the Sea"; told from two compelling perspectives, it is equal parts creepy, heartbreaking & ambiguous (in the best possible way). HIGHLY recommended!🌊📚 #booksky #weirdfiction
January 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Recently #read: thoroughly mesmerized by Julia Armfield's weird, romantic "Our Wives Under the Sea"; told from two compelling perspectives, it is equal parts creepy, heartbreaking & ambiguous (in the best possible way). HIGHLY recommended!🌊📚 #booksky #weirdfiction