Katherine Duke

@katducduk.bsky.social

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Writer. Editor. Comedy geek. Trivia nerd. Podcast junkie. Creator of the book Kissability: People with Disabilities Talk About Sex, Love, and Relationships (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24738917-kissability#CommunityReviews). (she/her)

Toofer has spray-painted the word “GRAFFITO” on a door.
A pan full of partially cooked little red, white, and purple potatoes. Some of the purple ones look dark blue.
A box labeled “goodr” (which looks like “jpoob” upside down).
A store display full of sunglasses. On the bottom shelf are three packages that appear to bear the brand name “jpoob”.
Anna Konkle and Maya Erskine, playing tween versions of themselves in the year 2000 on PEN15.
Top image: Photo I took at a local grocery store of a display advertising "Coconut Water in the Shell!" Middle image: Chidi from The Good Place asking Eleanor, "You mean coconuts?" Bottom image: Eleanor telling Chidi, "No, you're not getting it and my thing is different, so shut up."
The meme of Vince McMahon having increasingly excited reactions to the following: Horror It's set in a forest There's a deer The deer is fucked up
A bottle of Dove brand “coconut & hydration” shampoo on my bathroom sink.
Google listing for AGNI Online's page on David Serafino, which begins, "David Serafino's fiction has appeared."
Jesse Plemons and other cast members of Black Mirror's "U.S.S. Callister" episode.
Twelve little plastic cups of tamarind and mint sauce on my parents’ kitchen counter.
A tattered paper package of cucumber seeds with numerous yellow sprouts busting out of it.
Fudgie the Whale, the classic smiling, whale-shaped chocolate ice cream cake from Carvel.
And we do. We always have. As long as there have been **** sapiens, there have been **** sapiens storytellers from the earliest cave dwellings, cave dwellers telling tales around a fire, or carving records of epic hunts into the walls. Because as it turns out [...]
A rainbow stretching across a cloudy sky behind leafy green trees and telephone wires.
[A list from the Notes app on my phone] Good Names for Bands * Peanut & the Tree Nuts * Speld Rong * Skinner Box * Wire Mother * Milpool
Cast members of North of North
Text messages I sent this evening: “There comes a time in every man’s life when he must have dinner. Nowadays, even some women experience this.”
A tall, leafy green plant growing up out of a pot of soil on my patio. The plant is slightly taller than a nearby table.
Bob's Burgers' Sofa Jester (husband of the Sofa Queen) standing in their furniture store.
A wintry poster at my local café with the caption “the sap is running: enjoy our seasonal maple offerings!”
The side of a truck (as seen through a bus window) advertising Mohawk Sweeping Service.
Pride Month synchronicity on my timeline: a post reading "YALL GAY YET" followed by a post showing a piece of music annotated "Suddenly very gay"
Officer Karen O'Leary (played by the actor of the same name) on Wellington Paranormal.
Half a coconut shell, empty, sitting near the screen door on my patio.
2017 tweet from @TheAndrewNadeau with four images of weird-looking medieval illustrations of horses: HIM: Do you know what horses are? MEDIEVAL ARTIST: Ha ha! Of course I know horkses! HIM: Horses. MEDIEVAL ARTIST:…Horp-horpses.
Icons indicating the initials of people working in a Google doc: A S S
The scene from Heated Rivalry when Shane is trying to talk on the phone but Ilya is starting to... uh... distract him.
A blueberry muffin labeled "Bloob"
Patrick (Noah Reid) on Schitt's Creek
The twist ending of "The Scary Door" in which a mad scientist is creating "the most evil creature of them all" and... "IT TURNS OUT IT'S MAN"
FBI Agent Dana Scully in a confessional.
A plastic bobblehead doll of Fozzie Bear holding a rubber chicken and standing on a pedestal with his name on it.
That viral tweet about how "My sister was about to have a baby, and my brother showed up in a suit because he said, 'First impressions matter.'"
Bob Odenkirk as the dad in Little Women (2019) saying, "My little women."
A list in the Notes app on my phone titled “Thoughts that Come to Me Between Sleeping and Waking”: There are a lot of potential downsides to homeschooling, but at least homeschooled kids don’t have to feel embarrassed when they call the teacher “Mom” If Gwyneth Paltrow sells St. John’s wort—and I bet she does—then she is a WORT PAL, which is an anagram of PALTROW. Heavens to Betsy: a 1970s sitcom about a young woman named Betsy who receives divine guidance from angels
The berry pie I made this evening, with a golden brown lattice crust, fresh out of my toaster oven.
A handwritten note stuck to an egg carton; “Someone take me! Fresh egg; don’t have to be chilled; lasts for many weeks” (last two words underlined for emphasis”
Painting of one big round pig saying to another, “bröther may i have some öats”
Homer Simpson sitting alone at the crowded lesbian bar (that doesn't have a fire exit!)
Jessica Lovejoy asking Bart Simpson, "Do you ever think anything you don't say?"
Screenshot from A Man on the Inside: A bulletin board on which are posted fliers advertising Dance Dance Resolution (Jason Mendoza's dance troupe from The Good Place) and Scare Crow Boat (Andy Dwyer's band from Parks and Rec).
Homer Simpson excitedly writing, "It was the most I ever threw up, and it changed my life forever."
Three bumper stickers on the rear of a car I saw yesterday: “I’D RATHER BE SLOWLY CONSUMED BY MOSS,” “I BRAKE FOR CEMETERIES,” and “honk if you’re letting the soft animal of your body love what it loves”
Three soggy Goldfish crackers “swimming” in the snow runoff next to a curb (where someone has either dropped them or placed them on purpose).
A Venn diagram I made: The blue circle is labeled "Pining for an imaginary woman" and contains the song "Short Skirt / Long Jacket" (by Cake). The pink circle is labeled "Pining for an Asian woman" and contains the song "El Scorcho" (by Weezer). Where the circles overlap is a purple sliver labelled "Pining for an imaginary Asian woman," which contains the song "Ana Ng" (by They Might Be Giants).
A sign at the concession counter advertising a $2 sale price for Swedish Fish, with an image of Alexander Skarsgård from Pillion saying, “i’m swedish and i endorse this sale.”
Calendar listing for a "Sex Week" event at the college where I work: "Sex Carnival @ The Powerhouse"
A photo of Mitch Hedberg next to his joke: "I like baked potatoes. I don't have a microwave oven, and it takes forever to bake a potato in a conventional oven. Sometimes I'll just throw one in there, even if I don't want one, because by the time it's done, who knows?"
“The bald eagle is likewise a large, strong, and very active bird, but an execrable tyrant: he supports his assumed dignity and grandeur by rapine and violence, extorting unreasonable tribute and subsidy from all the feathered nations.”
A chalkboard sign for Frost Cafe advertising “Soup of the Day: No Soup”
Black-and-white screenshot of a young white man in a dark polo shirt, gazing with sincerity at someone out of frame. In the world of the episode, this character is an emissary from a colony of supposedly ugly people-- the irony being that, by our standards, he is very handsome. He's also deeply kind and accepting toward the main character, which makes him even hotter.
The screen door to my patio has had a layer of snow blown onto it, such that it’s hard to see through it to the snow still falling on the ground.
From Wikipedia: "Chinese checkers (US) or Chinese chequers (UK), known as Sternhalma in German, is a strategy board game of German origin that can be played by two, three, four, or six people, playing individually or with partners. ..."