Taffeta V.
@taffetav.bsky.social
First of all, I am a DELIGHT. Writer. Late night DJ on KOPN. Voice actor. Midwest AF. Probably shorter than you think. Beginner bass player. Filled with rage, topped with sprinkles. she/her My site: taffetav.com My radio show: mixcloud.com/TaffetaV/
Tomorrow is the last day to file for a special election replacing McConnell in Kentucky, so I expect sometime after Five o' clock tomorrow night he might suddenly pass away due to complications from a fall he suffered some weeks back.
My dear friend @matthewsocey.bsky.social has been hosting his Blues House Party show on our local NPR station, @wfyi.bsky.social , for TWENTY THREE YEARS as of tonight! Congrats, Matt, well done.
@matthewsocey.bsky.social · 4d agoYear 23 of The Blues House Party starts tonight at 7 on @wfyi.bsky.social and wfyi.org, at 6 on WBAA 101.3 FM and wbaa.org plus 89.1 FM and lakeshorepublicmedia.org and at 9 on WBAA 101.3 HD-3. Oh, this is my co-worker Brylee Stubbs. When she heard BHP is 23, she said “That’s my age.”
When it’s humid like it is today, heavy & muggy, I think about all those years I spent in the bookstore, and the way covers of paperbacks on the tables near the door would curl up in the damp, like slow motion films of flowers blooming, each one making the C-shape of The Great Wave off Kanagawa
GenCon is happening in town this weekend, which is fine, but I wanna know what con is populated by people who will understand if I cosplay Connie Rudrud, former Mount Rose Princess youtu.be/NTriy1729l0?...
St Paul Pork Products
YouTube video by Cam Williams
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A cool thing to say before someone shoots you would be "those bullets better be silver, playboy"
If Fetterman was born 100 years earlier his parents would have just sold him to the circus and everyone wins but the moving picture shows ruined all that
Embracing my inner Judy Gemstone because it's too hot and humid
Taffeta V.@taffetav.bsky.social · 4w agoFuck hot girl summer - have a Judy Gemstone summer. Toxic and angry and tacky and taking zero shit.
"You're an old man yelling at clouds," they say, about my distrust of GenAI, but they are wrong. I'm the old man who lives in a cabin on top of a mountain who is the only person who still remembers how to do a thing, and commands a very high price. 
In today's rousing game of Can You Guess the Theme for This Episode of Late? Your clues are: - features of Hefner's midwest vs LA mansions - parts of a midcentury short story that became a film - music from Florence + the Machine, Sly & the Family Stone, Morphine, Superchunk, and more
I spend a probably unreasonable time imagining my leitmotif. I really WANT to be the kind of cute breezy girl who gets the "There She Goes" needle drop, but honestly it's probably just gonna be O Fortuna from the Carmina Burana, or maybe that Baby Elephant Walk thing by Mancini. Goddammit.
Ai is awful for a million reasons, some of the smallest/saddest are that I’ve been robbed of awe, of delight. Because now when I see something awe-inspiring from the natural world, before I swoon & smile, I think ugh, is this Ai? This is probably Ai. And instead of feeling happy, I’m wary. Skeptical
You know what happens if you google "Joan Crawford slap montage"? Well, I'll tell you.
Joan Crawford Slap Montage - A Compilation of Joan's Best Slap Scenes
YouTube video by The Bette & Joan Archives
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The shape of summertime is the big corn dent in a stick of butter
Can confirm. It’s been super demoralizing
Julie DiCaro@juliedicaro.bsky.social · last wk.I expanded a bit on my post about being unable to get a job after being laid off in 2024. I was, honestly, shocked by how many of us are in the same boat. The job market sucks, but it REALLY sucks for GenX women.
Francis Dolarhyde had a job and was a home owner with a flair for interior design, he had great fashion sense, and could spontaneously plan a date to pet an anesthetized tiger. Hear me out…
Doing a short reading from Alice In Wonderland for the Bugs episode, but reimagining the Caterpillar as a contemporary character - flat affect, vape-hitting, vocal-fry kinda thing
I joined @devondeanindy.bsky.social on my old pal @matthewsocey.bsky.social’s show to talk Sam Neill, Brenda Fricker, and Dave Kendall— a great time, as always! ❤️
@matthewsocey.bsky.social · 2w agoHave a great weekend, everyone! @wfyi.bsky.social @taffetav.bsky.social @devondeanindy.bsky.social www.wfyi.org/show/film-so...
Just reminding everyone that in the mid 80s, fantasy illustrator Boris Vallejo was commissioned to do ads for Chess King, and they are magnificent wearethemutants.com/2017/04/25/c...
Barbarian Chic: Chess King Ads by Boris Vallejo, 1986
Boris Vallejo was at the height of his fame when he took on this commission for Chess King, an American retailer specializing in hip young men's fashion, in 1986. Vallejo moved to the United States in...
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Well now that I know about this bug, I have to tell people. (new season of Late, coming soon-ish)
IT’S CICADA TIME! LET’S SCREAM! ZZZZZZZZZRRRRRRCHKZXXXXXXXXZZXZZZZZZZZZRRRRRRCCCHHHK
I feel really proud that I can throw out a query this hyper specific and get multiple immediate answers and recognition of what crazy thing I’m talking about. Warms my black heart, you fucken weirdos
Taffeta V.@taffetav.bsky.social · 2w agoI don’t want to search for this, for obvious reasons, but maybe someone can help: In the mid-late 90s I bought a compilation CD of soundtrack music from vintage porn. It was GREAT music, and I’d love to find it again, no idea the title. And searching with keywords yields obvious gross, wrong hits