Wes Flinn (now with new trombones!)

@wesflinn.bsky.social

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Composer. Music theorist. Lowbrassman. Director of the School of Music at Louisiana Tech. In an alternate universe, the second-most popular optometrist in Bedford, Indiana. Son of Pinhook, citizen of the world. Views my own.

The NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL MUSIC cover but it reads NOW IS THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT
Too many notes
A black and white picture of a man sitting and a woman behind him. The man is Isaiah (Zade) Flinn and the woman is Jane Greene Foster Flinn, his second wife. They are my dad’s grandfather and step-grandmother.
A screenshot of Google Maps showing a Thai restaurant in Utqiagvik, Alaska.
Miss Dionne Warwick looking at you as if to say “no, we’re not going to do that.” I don’t mean to engage in digital blackface with this, but I can think of no better reaction to the great and terrible pun in the quoted skeet than this expression.
An audio setup. Turntable on top, then (in descending order) stereo AM/FM receiver, 5-CD player, and dual cassette deck.
Homer Simpson in a toga carrying Marge through the kitchen. He was inspired by The Erotic Adventures of Hercules (with Norman Fell as Zeus).
A blue poster for the Louisiana Tech School of Music with a picture of Jimothy the pop-culture sensation of a raccoon and text that reads Jimothy Says WELCOME BACK! GO PRACTICE!
Homer Simpson attempting a boudoir photo in the basement.
My home media setup.
A tweet from Ed Burmila that reads “I saw a moment of a UK rugby match on TV once. One announcer said ‘___ charges like a Viking into battle!’ and after a pause the color guy mournfully said ‘Those poor monks at lindisfarne didn’t stand a chance’ and I cannot believe British people get that and we get Joe Buck.”
A panel from a comic about Sun Ra, words by Harvey Pekar.
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
An AI-generated “photo” of the border junction of Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky. The problem is…
Father Guido Sarducci (Don Novello), gossip columnist and rock critic for L’Osservatore Romano.
The poster for Conclave, distorted as if viewed by a concave lens
A cartoon of some kind of beaver or something with an older white dude in a bowling style shirt. The caption is “Papaw ain’t been the same since his barber went on to glory. He was the last one that could do a Possum George Jones haircut. Now papaws just settling for a Porter Wagner.”
A tweet from @kennykeil that reads “how does a Matrix movie work in 2021? I’m supposed to be scared of living in a fake reality, trapped forever in 1999? Shit frost my tips and log me in”
An ad for Tintin Orange
Generalissimo Franco with a glass nearby.
Titles from the show “Police Squad!” tonight’s episode: THE WRITER’S BARELY-DISGUISED FETISH
Dick Butt
Ancient Egyptian graphic featuring drinking
Eva Perón, having a cocktail
Sorrell Booke as Jefferson Davis “Boss” Hogg from The Dukes of Hazzard. Any resemblance to Pierre Poilievre is purely intentional.
Trappist monks looking at a glass of beer
The Winchester Arms
The “attempting to order Chinese food” segment from The Bob Newhart Show, episode “Over The River and Through The Woods”
Tucker, an orange and white cat, sleeps peacefully on a brown loveseat. He is the sweetest of the sweet bois.
The Dude holding a White Russian
Roy Scheider in Jaws
Bob and Doug McKenzie drinking beers, eh
Brian Dennehy as Bobby Knight
Diamond Joe Quimby, mayor of Springfield, with his sash.
Fucking idiot account or terrible bit suggests someone is an aristocrat for spending 14 bucks on Culver’s shrimp
Spock (Leonard Nimoy), Kirk (William Shatner), and Septimus (Ian Wolfe) with another actor in the background in a still from the ST:TOS episode “Bread and Circuses”
Together for the First Time! The Virtuoso Brass of Three Great Orchestras Performing the Antiphonal Music of GABRIELI The Philadelphia Brass Ensemble The Cleveland Brass Ensemble The Chicago Brass Ensemble
The original “large boulder the size of a small boulder” post
A poster for the miniseries “Washington Behind Closed Doors” with Andy Griffith, Jason Robards, Cliff Robertson, and Robert Vaughan.
The opening of Superman (1978) with the best Main Title John Williams has written to date.
The Dril “im not mad” tweet
The Lrrr meme, with text “Why doesn’t Wemby, the tallest and longest, simply eat the other players?”
An Instagram story about Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show that has a headline that reads “The Sweet Prince of Peace”
The infamous dril Betsy Ross Museum tweet.
A Walgreens sign. It should read “Get your shingles shot today” but someone mixed up the I and the O, so it reads “Get your shongles shit today.”
The Geert Wilders “We hebben een serieus probleem” tweet
Tucker, a white and orange cat, with the crossed paws. He is on a red and white comforter. He is a sweet boi.
A close up of Tucker, a white and orange cat. He’s been sick, but he is now improving and is almost 100% back. I’m so grateful.
Alice Bowie (Cheech Marin)
The front cover of a program for the Artisan Trombone Quartet
Tucker eating his special wet food
Lawrence from Office Space
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
The Yoda “good to drive I am” meme
The Waffle House logo, but it says Maison Waffle
Tucker with an empty plate. The plate most recently contained tacos.
The Japanese parliament WOULD meme