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Peter Cashwell

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Writer, birder, teacher, generalist. Author of THE VERB 'TO BIRD', ALONG THOSE LINES, THE AMAZING Q, etc. Tar Heel Born and Honorary Substitute Legionnaire. he/him. guitar/keyboards/vocals.


Peter Cashwell's avatar Peter Cashwell @petercashwell.bsky.social
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Jesus H. Judeochrist.

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Got my FOY Yellow-crowned Night Heron this morning, so that much has been accomplished.

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That's not even the greatest John Goodman line reading from a Coen Brothers movie:

youtu.be/Ypa0vpmCzdc?...

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They also have the rare Chicken Satay pizza if you're ever in the mood.

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BTW, I do want you to sample our local pizzeria at some point: Zombie Pizza. They don't deliver or have tables, so it's pickup only, but they make a terrific crust.

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I'm honestly not sure which of them I'm more like in a dating situation, but I feel the strip as a whole captures me pretty well.

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I'm a little surprised you hadn't hit an I&O before now.

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Peter Cashwell's avatar Peter Cashwell @petercashwell.bsky.social
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Without downloading new pics, what is it like dating you

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It's pretty much a Greatest Hits of every GOP policy idea you've ever found objectionable.

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I don't live in NC any more, but I worry that many of my friends and family are among the "folks" Robinson is after.

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Ooo, I want a Fieldfare of my own. Hoping one will turn up in Scotland next month.

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Once more with feeling:

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People who were, presumably, ranked lower than you. Jesus. The last two high schools I've worked in don't publish class rank. I usually think that's a good idea, but things like this make me wonder.

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I dipped on the Yellow-crowned Night Heron, alas. I did see the year's first Green Herons, though. And got a great look at a Spotted Sandpiper in full pump mode.

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Harvard gets applications from over 5000 schools per year. SCHOOLS. There are roughly 1500 freshman slots. That's at least 3500 valedictorians getting rejected right there. And Harvard doesn't want a freshman class full of valedictorians.

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Well, your honor, with all due respect, the first thing I wanna say is "Mandate, my ass."

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It won't be the last time my pain amuses someone.

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Just had an inexplicable craving for Red Lobster stymied by discovering that Endless Shrimp is only on Monday night.

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go into your photo roll or whatever and post the first image that makes you laugh literally out loud

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Guys, guys--there is only ONE Lord of the Ring, and he does not share power!

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I'm starting to understand why y'all are thinking about moving.

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Brain just coughed this up: The people panicking that Biden has to quit the race are like people who think the easiest solution to climate change is terraforming Mars.

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But you'd be so much better at it than most of them are!

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Thank you for noting this. It was bothering me.

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A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.

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Have Republicans done anything to protect you?

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So if I have this right, Biden is too old to be president because he's the same age Trump would be two and a half years into his term.

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The Democratic Party’s reaction to their candidate having a bad debate substantially outpaces the Republican Party’s reaction to their candidate being convicted of multiple felonies, held liable for rape, and owing judgments in the hundreds of millions for defamation and fraud.

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Luckily, by the time I heard this song, Monty Python had made sure I knew what "git" meant.

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I'm bailing, using the excuse that I've already seen how each governs and can therefore operate from first-hand experience.

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I'm saying vinegar, but I'm from eastern NC, so that's kind of a given.

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Peter Cashwell's avatar Peter Cashwell @petercashwell.bsky.social
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We watched THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH the other day and were wishing there'd been a MST3K episode with it. As it was, when Candy Clark said, "Tommy, can you hear me?" I had to reply "Can you feel me near you?" myself, like some sort of quasi-Joel watching THE PAINTED HILLS.

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I'm glad to see my Fanboy-sense still tingles accurately.

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I know a lot of people confuse BLM (Bureau of Land Management) with BLM (Black Lives Matter), but I may be the only person who habitually sees NRLB as NRBQ.

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I haven't listened to XTC's ENGLISH SETTLEMENT all the way through in a long, long time, and that's a sentence I wouldn't have believed possible in 1982.

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Did they even mention books anywhere in that article?

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Sometimes K and I take a good picture together. Our friend Sarah took this one about 21 years ago.

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Understandable. There are rosy-finches, after all.

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It's not the hat that impresses me so much as the glasses.

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Vote like you get to turn the key on Trump's prison cell.

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