Patrick Frawley

@geisty.bsky.social

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Math professor, devoted life partner, old dad to young kids, rather boring and predictable Gen X liberal, student of poetry and motion and civilization and nice clothes. This world is too much. Contemnit procellas. He/him/his.

The infamous "Curtains for Zoosha?" Damien Owens tweet.
Front view of a BMW E24 M6, featuring two pair of round headlights and two rectangular foglights.
Chaparral 2F at the Targa Florio, 1967.
Satchel Paige in a KC Monarchs uniform.
Graphic showing the difference in rear wheel positioning between 1965-68 and 1969-on Porsche 911s.
Quote from the Wikipedia entry on Bernie Sanders (footnotes removed for formatting convenience): While a member of Congress, Sanders sponsored 15 concurrent resolutions and 15 Senate resolutions. Of those he co-sponsored, 218 became law. While he has consistently advocated for progressive causes, Politico wrote that he has "rarely forged actual legislation or left a significant imprint on it". According to The New York Times, "Big legislation largely eludes Mr. Sanders because his ideas are usually far to the left of the majority of the Senate ... Mr. Sanders has largely found ways to press his agenda through appending small provisions to the larger bills of others." During his time in the Senate, he had lower legislative effectiveness than the average senator, as measured by the number of sponsored bills that passed and successful amendments made. Nevertheless, he has sponsored over 500 amendments to bills, many of which became law. The results of these amendments include a ban on imported goods made by child labor; $100 million in funding for community health centers; $10 million for an outreach program for servicemembers who have post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, depression, panic attacks, and other mental disorders; a public database of senior Department of Defense officials seeking employment with defense contractors; and including autism treatment under the military healthcare program Tricare.
Dark violet McLaren W1 on track.
1/24th scale model kit of a Lotus Elan S3 (which was available from the factory as an unassembled kit).
Interior photo of a TVR Chimaera featuring the extremely high and wide copulation-prohibiting transmission tunnel. The dash infringing on passenger(-on-passenger) space is also no bueno.
Interior photo of a TVR 2500M featuring the extremely high copulation-prohibiting transmission tunnel.
Geordi LaForge.
High rear 3/4 view of a 1967 Chevrolet Corvette coupe in Goodwood Green.
Road & Track data panels for/drawings of five Nissan Z-cars: the original 240Z, a 260Z 2+2, the 280Z, the updated 280ZX T-top, and the 300ZX Turbo.
Rear 3/4 view of a 1980s Isdera Imperator 108i.
Watson Indianapolis roadster.
Benz Patent-Motorwagen.
Linus Roadster 8.
Starting grid for the 1967 German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring. Jim Clark's revolutionary Lotus 49 is on pole; Denny Hulme would win the race in a Brabham BT24.
Porsche 959.
Consecutive posts: ‪David M. Perry‬ (@lollardfish.bsky.social‬): one thing about working on public scholarship is that I sure type the word pubic a lot and then have a moment of panic Solomon (‪@solomonmissouri.bsky.social‬) When i write my smut book i expect many of you to purchase it and support my rabble rousing
Mercedes W108 280SE in blue-green paint.
A photo of the set for the Lars moisture farm on Tatooine, home of an adolescent Luke Skywalker.
Forgive me if you’ve heard this story before, but it’s particularly applicable. A while back, a representative from Bell Helicopters was soliciting a wealthy Texan, hoping to sell him one of its helicopters. The salesman told him it would be the perfect solution to the long commute from his West Texas ranch to his Houston office, some 200 miles away. He said he’d take a look, and to bring the helicopter by the ranch. After inspecting the aircraft, the Texan told the salesman that they needed to go to Houston to further the discussion. As the ‘copter whirled into the air, blowing clouds of dust and scaring the livestock, the Texan walked to his garage, hopped in his 500 Superfast and headed east. You might imagine the look on the salesman’s face when he arrived in Houston and the Texan was already there to greet him.
1966 Ferrari 500 Superfast.
Porsche 944
Nissan Altima with noncritical front-end damage.
Movie poster for "The Final Countdown", in which the USS Nimitz time-travels back to December 1941.
1996 Subaru Legacy Outback.
Michael Anthony and Eddie Van Halen.
“This is Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist,” Jackson wrote. “Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this administration always wins.”
Mid-2010s BMW 1-Series 4-door hatchback in white.