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AheadByEcho

@aheadbyecho.bsky.social

Not quite drowning in books, music and movies as much these days.

created December 7, 2023

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Profile picture Mr.Eddie8976 (@mreddie8976.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

“…and if he dies before I wake, I hope to Hell the news ain’t fake!”

1/9/2025, 7:05:00 PM | 96 11 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Maureen (@liberallady5678.bsky.social) reposted

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2/9/2025, 11:04:06 AM | 5851 564 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rokey (@rokey.bsky.social) reposted

I fucking hate fireworks. That is all.

1/9/2025, 12:42:43 AM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

Only if they kill me too.

2/9/2025, 12:31:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Jack Brown (@drjackbrown.bsky.social) reposted

Read every banned book you can get your hands on. Give them as gifts. Quote from them every day.

1/9/2025, 11:43:03 PM | 3867 786 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social) reply parent

And yes, I know he was one of the 'good guys' but I'm fed up with all these old white cats.

1/9/2025, 11:57:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social) reply parent

Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out, old man.

1/9/2025, 11:55:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social) reply parent

And if the Democrats don't do this there will be hell to pay. They should NOT escape prosecution. They should be imprisoned so no one tries these horrors again. EVER.

1/9/2025, 11:30:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

Oh my god, I met Jedi this afternoon. Cue up Graham Parker's Children and Dogs.

1/9/2025, 11:25:48 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

Proudly wearing my Sandwich Against The Machine t-shirt this Labor Day.

Ahead By Echo in his Sandwich Against The Machine as he is surrounded by his posters (The Gunshy, Lambchop, Nick Cave and Robyn Hitchcock) and his music after extracting a dead bunny from Krystal’s house where I kinda got really stoned.
1/9/2025, 11:22:57 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social) reply parent

I know! Life is hard enough without this nonsense.

1/9/2025, 11:19:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social) reply parent

I fully agree.

1/9/2025, 11:18:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

Someone in Decatur, Illinois is destroying Little Free Libraries. I know of four that have been torn down and defaced.

1/9/2025, 10:38:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Xavier (@xavierck.com) reposted

Roller derby team called Chicks and Balances who dress like supreme court justices

1/9/2025, 6:44:32 PM | 44 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

Mrs Echo drives all over Central Illinois to offer strangers communion but if I go to a friend's house to pick up a dead bunny from her garage, I'm told I am being used by my friends. I live in a parallel universe where nothing is ever what it seems.

1/9/2025, 10:33:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alex (@theunorthodox.bsky.social) reposted

My favorite thing about ChatGPT is that I will never use it

1/9/2025, 12:53:29 PM | 214 36 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

I'm proof of this.

1/9/2025, 4:42:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

#NotADragQueen

1/9/2025, 3:21:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ksrnow (@ksrnow.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

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1/9/2025, 2:31:22 AM | 308 49 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

I cannot play Desolation Row loud enough at the moment.

31/8/2025, 9:08:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social) reply parent

Anyone know where George Clooney and Taylor Swift are?

31/8/2025, 9:06:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

Tonight I was alone. And then I went home played Highway 61 Revisited and then I was whole again.

31/8/2025, 5:39:39 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

Your daughter is gorgeous

31/8/2025, 4:52:21 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

I’ll die for this post.

31/8/2025, 4:51:20 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

(Steve) How in the fuck is it September?

31/8/2025, 4:50:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social) reply parent

Knowing this cunt it is nothing more than a pizza in the shape of Eric’s gums.

31/8/2025, 4:44:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social) reply parent

That is a true portrait.

31/8/2025, 4:42:12 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

One of me and my mother’s favorite character actors!!

31/8/2025, 4:41:31 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

Were this the 60’s it would be on the cover of LIFE.

31/8/2025, 4:40:38 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture QueenCityJamz (@queencityjamz.bsky.social) reposted

Love the vibes of the H61 cover photo outtakes.

30/8/2025, 10:57:41 PM | 25 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

I’m talking Cam and Joe with the president Yes it’s a problem sir but it can be bent!!

31/8/2025, 4:35:02 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social) reply parent

My first thought and impulse.

31/8/2025, 4:30:01 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

That wise, wise spider.

31/8/2025, 4:28:38 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Marilyn Munster (@heyfren.bsky.social) reposted

🤣

Picture of white smoke coming from the White House.
31/8/2025, 4:01:10 AM | 40 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Citizen Screen (@citizenscreen.bsky.social) reposted

Joan Blondell behind the scenes of Wellman’s NIGHT NURSE (1931)

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31/8/2025, 1:30:08 AM | 78 14 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

This until I am dead and then for two centuries more.

31/8/2025, 2:55:24 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture QueenCityJamz (@queencityjamz.bsky.social) reposted

1. Keef 2. Charlie 3. Brian 4. Nicky Hopkins 5. Billy Preston 6. Mick Taylor 7. Chuck Leavell 8. Bobby Keys 9. Bill 10. Jack Nitzsche 11. Lisa Fischer 12. Ian Stewart 13. Jim Price 14. Ernie Watts 15. Blondie Chaplin 16. Ian McLagan ------ 398. Mick

30/8/2025, 11:41:28 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social) reply parent

I just about said, Mick belongs nowhere on this list. And then I saw what you did and laughed so loud!

31/8/2025, 2:53:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Reader of Banned Books (@readerofbannedbook.bsky.social) reposted

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30/8/2025, 11:52:35 PM | 84 17 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture IdahoLark (@idaholark.bsky.social) reposted

Friday funny: be careful where you leave your car tonight.

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30/8/2025, 2:21:26 AM | 813 62 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture everocks.bsky.social (@everocks.bsky.social) reposted

Mood Elvis Costello and the Imposters youtu.be/eJ1ZQ99pKbY

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31/8/2025, 12:31:11 AM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Scotty Ray (@theterminizer.bsky.social) reposted

this is why I pay for photoshop

the movie poster for Midsommar with the young woman wearing a floral laurel around her head and crying is replaced by the face of Ernest P. Worrell from the Ernest movies making one of his trademark contorted expressions with one eye pointing inward and one looking at the camera and his mouth twisted into an O-face with an Elvis lip curl. The poster says
31/8/2025, 12:30:30 AM | 5118 730 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sheady Omahrt (@sheadyomahrt.bsky.social) reposted

Banning books instead of guns is exactly what radicalized me.

30/8/2025, 9:55:47 PM | 2860 420 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh hell yes!

30/8/2025, 10:52:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow (@tomtomorrow.bsky.social) reposted

Make Death Rumors Great Again

30/8/2025, 9:29:51 PM | 417 25 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social) reply parent

Love it!! Americans should do the same for the Felon.

30/8/2025, 10:27:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social) reply parent

First poor Chuck has to find a woman stupid enough to breed with him and I’m pretty sure no woman is that stupid. Unless of course they are in the Trump Administration.

30/8/2025, 8:07:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

Maybe they are building the robot that will portray the felon like they accused the Democrats of building a robot to replace Biden.

30/8/2025, 8:02:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Hunter (@hunterub.bsky.social) reposted

What if the National Guard was sent to DC because the WH had reason to believe street parties would soon break out.

30/8/2025, 3:40:43 AM | 276 26 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rokey (@rokey.bsky.social) reposted

Stopped at the post office and the flag was at half-staff and, readers, my heart leapt...

30/8/2025, 1:04:27 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rokey (@rokey.bsky.social) reposted

Just. In. Case.

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30/8/2025, 1:54:48 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colleen Paige (@colleenpaige.bsky.social) reposted

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30/8/2025, 11:38:19 AM | 364 82 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture William Shakespeare (@shakespeare.lol) reposted

How now? Where’s the King?

30/8/2025, 1:27:57 PM | 661 121 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture nypapajoe.bsky.social (@nypapajoe.bsky.social) reposted

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30/8/2025, 7:09:40 PM | 18350 4296 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

Perfection.

30/8/2025, 7:39:37 PM | 59 11 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ray Radlein (@radlein.bsky.social) reposted

Goodness, if the President has a serious health problem I certainly hope he follows the expert medical advice of his Secretary of Health and Human Services

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Profile picture Billie Etchison (@sybilte420.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture RIO LINDA MEX 🇺🇸🇲🇽🇨🇦🦍 (@riolindamex.bsky.social) reposted

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30/8/2025, 2:04:18 AM | 3429 805 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social) reply parent

For a moment there I was afraid the dog was going to pull a Lenny and crush one of the kittens to death!

30/8/2025, 7:34:20 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social) reply parent

That kinda sums up most anime I've ever read!

30/8/2025, 7:28:31 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

What would Fellini say about Cindy Tastes Like Barbecue?

29/8/2025, 6:21:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social) reply parent

And again.

29/8/2025, 5:56:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mary Ann 💙 (@mac827.bsky.social) reposted

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29/8/2025, 1:59:33 AM | 331 91 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social) reply parent

Told ya it was a literary bar.

29/8/2025, 5:51:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

Jacqueline, the Winery bartender, was just gifted three Japanese anime and her and I are laughing so hard.

All three volumes of Berserk
29/8/2025, 5:50:39 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

My phone telling me I am at the Winery makes me think Steve Jobs mighta been a genius. Wow.

29/8/2025, 5:27:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social) reply parent

I love them so much!

29/8/2025, 2:33:12 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social) reply parent

JFC the gif breaks my heart even more.

29/8/2025, 2:32:27 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

As an atheist I can honestly say I’d rather believe in God than see Oasis.

29/8/2025, 2:06:16 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

I swear the book I am reading at Brew Works during open mic almost had me in tears and the Nikki came up and asked how Trivia Night went. Thank goodness!

29/8/2025, 1:49:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

Sautéing his vegetable.

28/8/2025, 3:25:02 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

Why is my body demanding food again? Doesn’t it realize I just ate twice yesterday?

28/8/2025, 2:36:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

My friends.

Tony the Tiger, which I was called endlessly for 30 years, and it was a derogatory statement then but dang! It’s fine.
28/8/2025, 7:58:33 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture NY Times Pitchbot (@nytpitchbot.bsky.social) reposted

We wanted to know if Trump's attempts to bully the Fed could unintentionally cause mortgages to become more expensive. So we talked to a podcaster who'd spent the past 6 hours trying to get Grok to say the N-word.

28/8/2025, 2:48:31 AM | 1257 133 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social) reply parent

Kinda more than brilliant

28/8/2025, 5:43:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

My all time endless favorite Aimee Mann album

28/8/2025, 5:27:06 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

In an America without guns John Lennon would still be live.

28/8/2025, 5:26:00 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

“Enough with the Sandy lady.”

28/8/2025, 5:23:47 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

Bought it when it came out

28/8/2025, 5:19:45 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

Looks like me when I read Blue Sky News about the shape of things.

28/8/2025, 4:57:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 40% Chickpeas (@chickpea7.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

They will put limits on Lisa Cook.

28/8/2025, 12:33:19 AM | 25 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

Texting Zoe lyrics to All Along The Watchtower like she knows what the fuck I’m talking about

28/8/2025, 4:33:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

Sandy Denny is at the Winery again.

28/8/2025, 3:56:00 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

James just accused me of having jungle fever. I hate him.

28/8/2025, 3:26:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

I got a journalism degree back in ‘80 because when I learned they could take down a president I was like, damn. And today morals have changed and I’d burn my degree like it was a flag if I hadn’t already shredded it a decade ago.

28/8/2025, 2:48:07 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

Sad pathetic people sitting at the only occupied table at Brew Works commiserating over the pizza we miss most from Donnie’s and they’ve only been closed two weeks.

28/8/2025, 2:44:22 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social) reply parent

Imagine!!

27/8/2025, 7:12:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

All fucking day long.

27/8/2025, 7:10:53 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

Time again for THAT post... Big Sky feels sad when he sees the children scream and cry But the Big Sky's too big to let it get him down

27/8/2025, 7:10:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

Sitting in my car getting a car wash while Yo La blares Spec Bebop in my JukeBug.

27/8/2025, 5:07:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

Mrs Echo is putting Smile Jesus Loves You on our food containers in the fridge. Sigh. I hate this timeline so much.

27/8/2025, 2:59:23 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture QueenCityJamz (@queencityjamz.bsky.social) reposted

prolly my fave pic of jimi hendrix and carlos santana

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27/8/2025, 2:43:02 PM | 30 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social) reply parent

Unhelpful. What a quaint word for an illegal and unconstitutional action by the President. Confound these old white men still living in 1975.

27/8/2025, 2:55:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pat Bagley (@bagleycartoons.bsky.social) reposted

During his speech, Grant remarked that "if we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason & Dixon . . . but between patriotism & intelligence on the one side & superstition, ambition & ignorance on the other."

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Profile picture Aoi (@bluebunaoi.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

true patriotism isn't blind loyalty. It's a willingness to question authority and make changes to improve things for your countrymen.

27/8/2025, 8:48:44 AM | 10 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

The Sandwich King is victorious!

27/8/2025, 2:51:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

I have a friend who is using ChatGPT for personal counseling and it terrifies me. She claims it is helping. I claim that since she is 24 she can’t possibly understand what is happening.

27/8/2025, 2:50:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

The Ten Commandments sure stopped that shooter.

27/8/2025, 2:43:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sande (@sande0724.bsky.social) reposted

Every day and twice on Sunday. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🩵🩷

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Profile picture AheadByEcho (@aheadbyecho.bsky.social)

Cat box cleaned! Bathroom cleaned! House vacuumed! Two loads of laundry done! Shrimp fried rice made for breakfast! Next up: mowing, then to work to work on the bookmark project! Then and only then do I get to the day’s highlight: hosting trivia night at Brew works with @orangulent.bsky.social

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