John A Nelson

Work in NY, Live in NJ. Working on my house, my lawn, and my kids are my hobbies.

[John A Nelson @johnetic]

@JDVance When you think you are Vince but are very clearly Turtle.

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@BBCWorld No.

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@harrynzmi @chrizmillr The crack in the spaceman’s helmet was the detail that pushed this over the edge into truly great for me. My 1980s era Lego Space figures all had cracks in the same place. So lovingly crafted, such care taken with such a small detail

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@recapitations @plymptoons I remember seeing this at Sundance and it’s a masterpiece

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@mattyglesias A Fugazi donut has to be on Ian MacKaye’s list of most stupid appropriations of the Fugazi ethos. I get a DC shop wanting to pay homage to one DCs finest, but if my eyes roll any further I would sever my ocular nerve.

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@Samantharae48 Every place where vouchers or public funds to private schools are tried it only helps people who are already sending thier kids to private school, at the expense of everyone else. It’s terrible from an incentive perspective.

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@valentinavoight Yeah TENCEL is the real deal. For sheets it is great and long wearing so over time if you can afford it it’s worth it. I’ve been testing textiles and fabrics professionally for 15 years for all kinds of stuff and genuine tencel cotton is some of the best you can buy

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@LRB @TriciaLockwood Incredible read.

[London Review of Books @LRB]

In which @TriciaLockwood meets the pope.

https://t.co/5GuPf0f4yx

[(feat. Jools Evelyn) @joolsevelyn]

The alternate definition of the verb, ‘tweet’, as in, ‘to make a posting on the Twitter online message service’, is in the actual dictionary. No other social media app has anything like it. Imagine disposing of that level of brand recognition because of a mid-life crisis.

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@BevInsights

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Reading "Pride and Prejudice" on the train on the way to the office. Google Books version, which means it's a photographed copy of some random person's book. This margin note make me guffaw on the train.

OK - I knew it all along.
#prideandprejudice #janeausten

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@ABarr83 @zillowgonewild Def an apricot.

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If I didn't know the historical fact that Jane Austen's father was in the clergy, I would guess it by her description of Mr Collins. She is the patron saint of passive aggressiveness.

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@rparloff This doesn't seem true on it's face. I used to work in an office on Third Ave in NYC across from Sen. Schumer's office. There were protesters, advocates and the like there all the time! So do those protests and advocacy also reside in the DC Circuit?

[John A Nelson @johnetic]

And those that don't, don't matter when you have support from the people who love you. In short, Paul Rubens left the world a better, more colorful, more tolerant, more creative place. His memory will be a blessing for me and millions more.

[John A Nelson @johnetic]

Imagine you are a TV executive in the 80s. You get pitched a TV show where a skinny dude in a crew cut wearing a tight, high water grey suit and red bow tie wanders around a set that looks like it was made from carpet scraps and paper mache.

[John A Nelson @johnetic]

Pee Wee taught me it was OK to show the world your white socks and put streamers on your bike. That if you approach who you are with honesty, those who understood would accept you, and protect you.