Steve Gisselbrecht

Effete liberal Northeast urban atheist homosexual academic. He/him BUT SINGULAR THEY IS FINE. Profile pic is me donating platelets!

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2024-09-05 00:00:05

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You're the tall one?!?
I don't know why I'm surprised, but you just don't give a lot of "the tall one" energy to me, somehow.
(I myself am very much not the tall one, to be clear.)

2024-08-31 19:43:30

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JESUS HOW MANY LANGUAGES DO YOU SPEAK?!?

2024-08-29 20:00:41

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You gotta take care of yourself; the world needs you!

2024-08-20 22:28:15

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So delighted to see my instance on this list!

2024-08-12 16:17:10

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The llama KNOWS.

2024-08-12 06:11:15

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But the thing that's always really gotten me is the expression on the llama's face. There is something knowing, something subtly *complicit* about the expression that you rarely see on the faces of llamas in paintings.
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2024-08-12 06:09:18

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The proportions are insane. It's not like you'd call it "good" exactly. There is a demonic aspect to the nun's face that bespeaks real Catholic school trauma.
And what the hell is going on with the llama's ass? Is that a literal "fig leaf"? Did the artist just cover up something that wasn't working?
Moose's theory is that this was not necessarily the work of a mind that had one unified thing going on in it, if you know what I mean.
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2024-08-12 06:05:35

I believe it's time to show you the Nun.
We saw this picture in the shop of a man named Moose, who sold … stuff. Mostly photos, some bric-a-brac. He said someone found this in the trash and brought it in, and he stretched and mounted it. Boston's Museum of Bad Art wanted him to donate it but he's got bills to pay. We were enthralled but reluctant . ("We can't hang it in the guest room.") Eventually Moose threatened that someone else was sniffing around the nun, and we bought her.
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2024-08-09 17:36:44

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Whoa, I hadn't even noticed but I see it too!
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2024-08-06 15:51:31

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So much this!

2024-08-06 06:52:56

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I'm sorry you have to think about that, but also thank you I guess?
Someone asked me a while ago about queer-friendly live music venues in Boston, and I gave it some thought and realized that, no, I truly believe that at absolutely any of the places we go, if you told the sound person that between sets two drag queens were gonna come out and read poems about butt-fucking, they'd say, "Will they need monitors?"

2024-08-05 15:26:43

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Good luck!
My father-in-law lives on St. Simons Island and we're … monitoring.

2024-08-05 01:36:36

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Oh wow, are you already getting rain bands?
Good luck! Be safe!

2024-08-05 00:44:05

I will now leave the lab, go home, and order a pizza to be delivered to me, AS IS MY RIGHT AS AN AMERICAN.

2024-08-04 20:14:51

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We've had these in my town for several years now; my personal favorite was in front of one of my favorite rock clubs and the box was painted to look like an amp.
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2024-08-04 19:38:05

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Oh lord, and he's cute, too!

2024-08-03 19:21:08

Work's been VERY rough and I need to remind myself that I'm living the dream, I actually love being a scientist and I get paid to ask impossibly hard questions and once in a very great while even answer one. I need to sleep for a month but also I am lucky and happy if only I remember it.

2024-08-02 19:48:48

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You know, I thought about it. But that's a line of creepiness I am not yet ready to cross.

2024-08-02 19:17:21

There is a new hot security guard at my workplace and he is SO CUTE OMG!!!!!
I dearly hope he's "the new guy" and not just, like, filling in for someone.

2024-06-30 03:16:34

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Seriously. FL should be covered with shirtless men or what is it even for???

2024-06-30 00:52:15

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About 10 and a half miles, as it turns out.
It was, as I suspected, too hot and humid for a run in still air, but it was often breezy and that made it okay. I took it really slow. Then during mile 11 the nausea started, and that's one of like the Big 4 symptoms I won't just push through.
Still, you know. Got some exercise. Saw some shirtless dudes. (And a LOT of bunnies today, for some reason.)

2024-06-29 20:45:23

Probably not a half-marathon day but we'll see what I've got in me. #SlowBoizRunClub

2024-06-21 16:11:21

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Oh no! Rest well and feel better!!!

2024-06-20 03:59:12

Return of the maple strawberry shortcake, now with alpine strawberry garnish.
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2024-06-18 00:55:39

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My best friend lived in London for 2 years. She said that one of the first things she learned living there is that, to a good first approximation, no one in America drinks. And no one is EVER drunk in public.

2024-06-16 03:28:38

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Okay this is excellent. I'm not gonna track down the applause gif from Citizen Kane and post it here and write alt text just to appreciate this post, but that's because I'm too lazy, not because it's not worthy of it.

2024-06-15 22:55:42

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Yes please!

2024-06-11 16:30:09

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Yeah, this seems like a serious "Be careful what you wish for" moment. (Good luck!!!)

2024-06-09 04:48:17

Man, what a day. There were afternoon and evening shows at the Midway today, two different (VERY different) sets of bands that we know and love, and so we decided to make a day of it. Three powerhouse power-pop bands in the afternoon (we did not get there for the first band because I woke up around 1), then tacos, then four crazy-noisy art rock acts in the evening. So many great people! So much great music! It was like old times! We got to hold hands a bunch and I am very lucky and happy.

2024-06-07 20:44:27

I have been stressing out about work because I had a deadline bearing down and could not figure out how to handle the data to be able to write a paper before the deadline. My poor boss is stressing about MANY deadlines and yesterday I finally got her to spare me a little time to look at the issues I was having, and while she couldn't make them go away, it turns out for other reasons that the deadline has gone away! (Well, moved out by several months.) I feel like I can breathe again.

2024-06-05 17:54:07

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YES!!!

2024-06-05 15:17:50

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GOOD LUCK!!!

2024-06-03 03:47:13

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2024-06-03 02:18:26

Tom's been growing alpine strawberries (the tiny little intensely flavored "wild" strawberries that the French call fraise du bois) and usually he'll get a couple in a day, if he gets any at all, but today a dozen were all ripe at once. And that's getting to be enough for a dessert. And we have leftover maple fudge buttercream. So I'm gonna make a quick little sponge cake and layer it with maple fudge buttercream and top it with alpine strawberries.

2024-06-01 18:35:36

Hello it is June and I am GAAAAAAAAYYYYYY!!!!!!!!

2024-05-30 06:08:55

Before and after frosting.
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2024-05-27 19:15:16

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❤️

2024-05-27 18:28:24

Gosh I love reading about how current and former Democratic presidents "should have codified" various left priorities as if US presidents could make laws./s

2024-05-26 19:27:26

Breakfast is the first fresh cherries of the season!
Yes it is 3:30 pm here and I am eating breakfast and yes I'm quite pleased about that thank you.

2024-05-24 16:32:18

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There's a character in Margaret Atwood's INCREDIBLE novel "The Robber Bride" who is a historian who focuses on warfare. And she says at one point that other historians, especially other female historians, are constantly asking her why she likes war, and contrasts this with the fact that cancer researchers are never asked why they "like" cancer.

2024-05-22 16:16:17

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GLASSES SELFIE!
GLASSES SELFIE!!!

2024-05-17 15:54:46

Greetings from Massachusetts, where legal gay marriage was introduced to the US 20 years ago today.
It took us 8 days to get everything together so our anniversary's not 'til next week but the big public one is today.

2024-05-16 17:10:01

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Keep us posted!
(Or don't, I mean, it's your medical privacy and you can share what you want to share, I do HIPAA training every year!)

2024-05-16 16:15:01

Well, it finally happened.
I reviewed a paper, then got the editor's decision note and looked at the other reviews, and *I'M* the picky jerk reviewer this time!

2024-05-14 04:02:41

Tonight I made fresh pasta and a deeply weird sauce that I make by puréeing watercress and chestnuts, then mixing it with Greek yogurt and sautéed garlic.
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2024-04-15 16:02:46

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Here in MA it is a holiday so our deadline is actually even later and my husband has not yet filed. (We file separately.)
In previous years it made me crazy because I needed his federal # for my state taxes but this year it turns out I no longer do so I'm just looking at him running his life this way and thinking, glad it's not me!

2024-04-13 18:50:19

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LOVE that for you!

2024-04-09 03:44:27

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My husband leaves his until the last minute, which has really annoyed me in the past because I wanted to get it done (and I have, like, a JOB, I'm BUSY) and even though we file separately I needed his federal AGI for my state return. So this year I extracted an agreement that he would not wait until April, and last weekend (i.e. not the one that just happened) I said HEY GUESS WHAT IT'S ALMOST APRIL and made him give me the #, and when I did my MA taxes I no longer needed that #.

2024-04-05 20:01:57

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WAIT WAIT WAIT that show had THIS guy in it and all the talk was about the supposedly "Hot Priest"?!?!?

2024-03-24 03:52:12

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Oh my goodness, yes he is.
I'm getting young Henry Winkler.

2022-12-19 21:34:56

I never did an #Introduction, but I'm a 55-year-old gay biologist and music-lover living with my beloved husband in Boston, MA, USA. At work I'm a Research Specialist for Brigham and Women's Hospital and study transcriptional regulation in Martha Bulyk's lab. At home I love to cook and bake—I'm "The Chocolate Guy" to a lot of people—and when it's safe to be in a crowded room breathing other people's exhalations I love live music. We hope to retire to Paris et parler un peu de Français.