Tim Sniffen
@mistersniffen.bsky.social
jackbox director | NYer writing & cartoons | magic tavern VO | 🏳️🌈🤘
In Nolan's Odyssey, the sirens sing about "all the promises you never kept", which means their song to me would be at least partially about offering someone a ride back to Chicago from a contra dance weekend in Madison WI & then leaving without them because their goodbyes were taking too long
I might be away for a week but I will never be out of reach. NEVER.
Every Possible Way To Reach Me on Vacation
As you may have seen in my previous seven all-company emails, I’ll be on vacation next week. You read that right! I’ve taken the advice…
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In this week's @sevendaysvt.bsky.social! It's okay if we don't know everything about Patricia. Let's enjoy that we have Patricia at all. #cartoon #television
NEWS: If the dept of homeland security runs out of money we could be invaded, another country could overturn our government and disrupt our way of life ME: go on
With all the #Frankenstein talk being thrown around, please enjoy this story of another writer present for Lord Byron's scary-story contest. (It goes badly.) 🏰🖊️
How Mary Shelley Ruined My Vacation
Mary Shelley conceived Frankenstein while visiting Lord Byron in Lake Geneva. But who else was there?
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I'd love a pin to wear that signals "There's no need to interact with me, retail person. No smile, no chit chat. You can ignore me. You SHOULD ignore me."
La vache est fachée@vacheestfachee.bsky.social · 10mo ago"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper. They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer. If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help." 🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
In a recent @sevendaysvt.bsky.social! Shout-out to the ONLY type of pizza delivery box I saw during my Long Island youth. #cartoon #pizza #inclusivity
NPR is dear to my heart and after @arnieniekamp.bsky.social pointed out my tendency to recommend Fresh Air episodes, I’ve realized it’s about 90% of my personality. As lawmakers attempt to defund it, some @npr.org cartoons:
Bummer it's ending, especially with a shortened season, but if anyone exemplifies "I was expecting a little more time than this" it's Pike 🖖
‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ to End With a Shortened Season 5
Paramount+ orders a final season of the series ahead of its third season premiere.
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Scam texts getting closer to mapping out my entire motivational system
It's Cartoon Covers day where New Yorker cartoonists "cover" each other's work, and I had the great pleasure of trying out the supreme badassery of @ngoziu.com! Original on the right. Follow #nyercartooncovers to see them all.
(every #severance thread I'm seeing right now) Ok, I’ll be unpacking that last ep for years. Anyone struggling with the mysteries of this show: try Bluey, this is NOT for you. Can’t get into ALL things I instinctively intuited from this episode, but some reactions: (1/6)
Saw in a post office & the sheer incongruity with the world right now left me no choice but to buy them
