Kerfuffle

@lieutmilo.bsky.social

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Eminent physicist, polyglot classicist, prize-winning botanist, hard-biting satirist, talented pianist, good dentist, too. …Lousy poet.

Levon the donkey and a whole buncha goats
Me and my friend dressed as pirates at a themed party, I have cool tattoos-
Me in a blue, pink, and green floral bathing suit holding a pool skimmer, imitating the guy with the pitchfork in American Gothic.
Me with Levon, a brown and white donkey
A 45 of the folk (not Dead) song “Casey Jones” by James P. (Bull) Durham
My friend Cate and I, watching the Mountain Goats play in Athens, GA. Cate is resting her head on her arms against the stage, and I am smiling and looking off into the distance. (Presumably watching the concert, but potentially dissociating. It’s always unclear.)
An armload of Cajun snacks, Cajun pop bananas foster bites, a custard pie, banana planks, and Zydeco chop chop
An altered image of a popular meme that reads “average person goes to a couple tMG shows a year” fa round actualy just statistical error. Average person attends 0 shows per year. tMG Roadtrip Georg, who lives on a ranch & attends over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted”
A meta AI screenshot that reads “the mountain goats, a renowned indie rock band, have FBI interrogation footage surfacing tomorrow”
A hand with three bracelets that say “yes sir, that’s me, I’m him.” The arm is tattooed with a switchblade knife and purple flowers
An earthquake exhibit panel that reads “do you understand the magnitude of the situation”
A white and brown donkey named Levon.
A cardboard box full of crochet possums
Me, alongside a news reporter and a colleague, on a news set with several pieces of Pun-Off ephemera.
Four miniature crochet possums on a yellow legal pad
A pavilion on a Texas ranch with a movie night set up including projector and pallets on the floor. A black and white border heeler stands in the foreground
Me and Benmont Tench, in front of his piano.
A card with “thank you for being here, coraline” with a smiley face and a self portrait drawing in red marker.
A forearm tattoo of a boat on fire surrounded by blue flowers
A carabiner full of tiny lil crochet possum fellas
A photo taken in front of an industrial washing machine of a Kraft Colby and Monterey Jack “Big Cheese Snack”
A red and black forearm tattoo of a ship on fire.
A photograph of me looking particularly crusty punky in a hotel room
A light blue sweatshirt with a mock cross-stitched burning house that says “don’t panic”
A guitar with all the strings taken off at the headstock, they’re goin all sorts of directions
The “me?” meme guy. A young guy in a white t shirt pointing to himself, flabbergasted
A crochet possum keychain with a cassette charm atop a copy of This Year by John Darnielle.
Orange cat asleep on wooden bench, he’s napping so hard his face is kinda smooshed
The cover of John Darnielle’s book This Year, a black background with a decorative white font. My black and white dog and a large green field are in the background.
A crocheted vulva
A handful of brown eyelash yarn
Two guitars and a ukulele surrounded by chord sheets on an outside patio
A photo of me standing in front of a blue theater with a red door. The marquee above the door reads “APPREHENSION”
A brown tabby cat sunbathing in front of several buddhas and succulents lined up along the front of a ranch house
Me, sitting in a trough converted into a small swimming pool
A pile of blue pinback buttons (with one yellow one) that say “support local museums” in black text with a square black border.
One woman photographing another, who is lying on her side in front of a line of Buddha statues in front of a ranch house.
A newspaper excerpt from the Sept. 14, 1936 edition of Rhinelander Daily news that is titled “Two, Fishing, Drown.” The body text says “MAHNOMEN, Minn. Sept. 14 - WM Backstrom, Traill county, North Dakota State’s attorney, and Peter E. Balkan, deputy sheriff of the same county, were drowned in Twin Lakes near here Sunday when their fishing boat capsized.”
A photo of me, comically disheveled
Two small crocheted possums, one much larger and sillier-looking than the other.
A sticker with a rubber stamp-style design of a raccoon, and the text “Austin Museum Day.”
An orange candle with a pink label that reads “Persephone.” It’s topped with a garnet and flowers.
A Duolingo screenshot asking for the translation of the sentence “Mrs. Lopez used to have a big family”
The Google search page for The Dusty Bookshelf, featuring a search suggestion that reads “is there a cat?”
A sleepy black and white medium sized dog using a patterned Weird Al blanket as her bedtime comfort item.
A crocheted possum keychain on a printed tablecloth with a fruit pattern. Craft supplies are in the background.
A black and white medium sized dog chewing on a dog treat
Me cuddling with my black and white dog, Birdie.
The back of my phone case featuring a Mountain Goats sticker drawn by Cathy G. Johnson, the art is a hound with the Choked Out lyrics “everybody’s got their limits, nobody’s found mine.”
Tiny crochet possums with keychains that say “TMG 2025.” One is in progress.
A grocery cart that includes water bottles, a back pain patch, and several powerades
A photo of me with “Weird Al” Yankovic. We are both wearing patterned Hawaiian shirts and staring into the camera menacingly with our hands out.
A person wearing a brightly colored button down shirt holding a “Weird Al” Yankovic backstage laminate
A text thread featuring a photo from a comical low angle of a dog, Birdie (white with black speckles).
A plastic box full of crocheted possums
A crocheted possum keychain with a cord that reads “TMG 2025” with a heart.