Joel Calahan

@calahan.bsky.social

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Apprentice philologist. Poetry teacher. Chair-leg hero. reader-in-chief of Caliber, an occasional newsletter [to subscribe, email to calibernewsletter at gmail dot com]

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Eric Allen Hatch @ericallenhatch.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:31 UTC

reskeet for awareness

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 03:12 UTC

Completely asinine

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 00:05 UTC

Strong choice

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 23:15 UTC

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 20:05 UTC

Own-goaling so hard she’s playing an entire imaginary match against herself, scoring again and again on the wrong end

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 20:23 UTC

If you gave me infinite guesses on who owns those Redbox DVD rentals I wouldn’t have gotten it

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 15:29 UTC

A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr, a summer story framed as a memory of a lost time and culture, is once again an afternoon read that lingers a long time. This time I thought a lot about the narrator’s empathy to the unknown fresco painter as well as to the children in the village.

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 01:53 UTC

Love this production. So easy to listen to.

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 00:10 UTC

They got back with a monarch via written decision

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b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 00:06 UTC

many things make me angry about the supreme court but one of the biggest things is just that none of those cowards in the gang of six will ever take real questions from the public

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 21:44 UTC

Incredible goalkeeping by Diogo Costa. Just in another level.

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 20:45 UTC

Apocryphal stories of the apostles

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 19:29 UTC

Got to have some legal minds there to protect the company from lethal lemonade liability

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 19:08 UTC

Really well put and insightful point, Jamelle. I’m learning a lot from you.

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 16:54 UTC

We didn’t know then that she would have been immune from prosecution for this, how sad

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 16:27 UTC

The crimes may not be illegal, but the cover-up…that is no longer illegal.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:21 UTC

I can’t believe the Supreme Court just ruled that the president can sleep outdoors in a public space.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 23:52 UTC

Preview of my upcoming NYT op-ed on what to do.

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 23:54 UTC

More of your corny humor, Bill

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 23:01 UTC

“Jon” pronounced “ʒɑ̃”

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 22:26 UTC

I choose to pronounce Jon’s name in the same style as Brett Favre

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 19:19 UTC

Spain own goals! Incredible result to now.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 18:41 UTC

Saint Jude (or Saint Thaddeus), by James Tissot, 1886-94

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 18:39 UTC

Great win for England.

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 18:04 UTC

All three subs involved in that second!

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 17:55 UTC

Bicycle in stoppage time! Sick!

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 14:40 UTC

Hollywood Bowl!

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 07:36 UTC

The Roots with Common, Digable Planets, Black Sheep, Arrested Development, and Queen Latifah. Pretty fucking great scene.

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 00:10 UTC

@murderxbryan.bsky.social

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 23:15 UTC

Christ on a cracker what a skeezy and unctuous fellow, not a fucking chance

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 23:02 UTC

Don’t trust competitive eaters without nicknames

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 22:52 UTC

Amazing

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 22:51 UTC

❌ And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. ✅

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 18:40 UTC

❌ Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary / Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— ✅ It was late and I was tired. Shit got weird.

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 22:48 UTC

Lfg

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 22:42 UTC

Indian Summer is a delight, not only for the awkward May-December romance that manages to avoid the creepy but also for the lovely commentary on middle age. Howells gets the dramatic irony of a witty man who can’t seem to find happiness.

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 21:14 UTC

Most days my job is Car Pool

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 19:28 UTC

Pairs well with the shit sandwich they serve.

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 20:06 UTC

A new….Horizon, as it were

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 19:47 UTC

Classic Matt, enjoying the feature

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 18:04 UTC

It’s a moving cover like one of those sportflix sports cards from the early 90s, going from sad and mustachioed to smiling and clean shaven

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 18:01 UTC

Incredible finds at the local thrift

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 16:29 UTC

open.spotify.com/album/3K0CvZ...

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 16:26 UTC

New Dirty Three album out today. So that’s good.

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 15:13 UTC

Fuck Around —> Find Out —> Forget —> Fuck Around…

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 15:11 UTC

A little!

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 15:06 UTC

A bunch of rowdy teens pushing over Alito and Thomas as they stand asleep in their fields

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 15:02 UTC

With all the emphasis on velocity among pitchers, it really *is* a farewell to arms out here [*HEY OH*]

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 14:46 UTC

If I keep refreshing, why don't I feel refreshed?

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Joel Calahan @calahan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 14:46 UTC

Oh good, I feel a huge relief that the justices will definitely be guided by precedent

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