”It’s hard to watch” because it’s all about him apparently.
Beatles and Brit-Rock fan. Old movies. Dogs. Monsters. Comics. Chicago. Mother Hips. Brand new Grateful Dead fan. 30 years of Insurance tech. Go Gamecocks. Views solely my own.
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”It’s hard to watch” because it’s all about him apparently.
"Oceans are battlefields"
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In my early 20s I got in a cab in Minneapolis, and Cannonball Adderley's Somethin' Else was playing. I said something to the driver--a black man of advanced years--about how nice it was to hear Adderly. He seemed surprised that I recognized the piece. Then he flipped down the sunvisor, and...
people keep reposting this but cmon it’s made up. the stock hasn’t “collapsed” (it’s barely down) and there are precisely no numbers on how many subscription cancellations there have been
this exists it is called thinking
I hope come November, we can get some classic film spotlight action.
If you bought a fridge with a screen on it, you kind of deserve this.
13th-century house THIS IS NOT A DRILL
Hey UK, you can keep him. Really.
The first Redford film I can recall seeing in the theater was Jeremiah Johnson. Dad really like it. That’s what I remember most. Also, my mom used to make a desert called the Next-Best Thing to Robert Redford.
They deserve it for bending the knee in the first place.
art deco is short for arthur decoration. not many people know this
He just keeps trying to reply his way out of it.
Congratulations!
I often head the Mother Hips as well.
Fox just played a bit of Scarlet Begonias heading into commercials.
The Gamecocks do not look like a ranked team.
A favorite.
The wheel is turning and you can't slow down, You can't let go and you can't hold on, You can't go back and you can't stand still, If the thunder don't get you then the lightning will.
The Atmos Blues for Allah is really nice. Apple Music>Airpod Max
Sadly, it’s AI generated and not a real photo.
Laura Nyro - Fillmore East, New York City, 6-20-1970 https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/09/laura-nyro-fillmore-east-new-york-city.html
This was a very fun night. Can't wait for Tuesday.
I’m sure many of you need a mental reset today This could definitely be it, it was for me Thank you @bourgwick.bsky.social for your dedication to documenting the history of the Dead. This one really blew me away podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...
Happy 82nd birthday, drummer and percussionist Mickey Hart. 🎂 #GratefulDead #PlanetDrum
I had no wish for him to be murdered, but I’ll harshly judge anyone who flies their flag at half staff for that hateful extremist or talks about honoring his memory. There was no honor in his life.
Time to filter out the world.
He made every movie he was in better.
Never became as popular as "ET Phone Home" did it
Mine unfortunately, is not.
I'm so sad to hear that Polly Holliday has passed away. She was always great to watch. Shown here in the ABC TV Movie Wedding Band (1974). Polly Holiday, Ruby Dee, Clarice Taylor, Albert Hall, Brandon Maggart, and Juanita Clark all reprised their stage roles for the tv film.
We must stand resolutely against political assassination and political violence of all kinds, and just as resolutely against everyone who exploits acts of violence as the pretext or excuse for political repression of political opponents.
Political violence is antithetical to the precious, fragile blessing of American democracy. If we do not already understand this from our history, we risk being forced to learn it again from experience.
Read this short thread.
This is really, really bad news. I don’t care if you don’t like Kirk. No one deserves to be shot. This is dreadful news for people speaking publicly, who increasingly must fear for their safety, and also for the inevitable crackdown that will follow.
R.I.P. Polly Holliday
My first saved post. Well said.
It’s not simply important to denounce political violence because it looks bad not to. It’s the right thing to do on the merits. Even more specifically to this moment it’s important because the forces of fascism are inherently better at political violence than the forces of civic democracy.
Do your mental health a favor and turn this on for today. You really don't want to watch this. It is awful.
There are thoughts better left unsaid.
Your myopic view of the issues that matter right now is disheartening.
Wagon Train. Always a great story.
Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t understand how things work.
That is so cool.
I ever so slightly got my hopes up last night. But in the end it’s just the same old crap year after year.
Otis was born in Georgia. He died in Madison.
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Alexander the Great, the military commander of antiquity, didn’t burn his ships to motivate his men. Nor did he conduct any significant amphibious campaigns. Hernán Cortés, the Spanish conquistador, is said to have done it in The Hunt For Red October (1990), but that is also somewhat inaccurate.
The Challenger astronauts would like a word. If they could.
Gonna be a beautiful weekend in Chicago. Printers Row Book Fair. Mexican Independence Day Parade. Sunday In the Park With Lyric. Bears game Monday. ICE agents getting pelted with Italian beefs throughout.
Farewell to Mark Volman, co-founder of the Turtles, one half of Flo & Eddie, and one of the great eccentrics of the rock'n'roll era. My obituary for the Los Angeles Times. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
He’s such an astonishingly stupid man.
Very cool!
You took the same path I did.
Penn Jillette wrote this in the foreword to Howard Kaylan's autobiography, and I think this sums up why Volman (the one Penn looked like) and Kaylan were important. RIP The Phlorescent Leech
Dang. Hate to hear that. RIP.
I have no idea who they think their audience is now.
R.I.P. Tom Shipley, 84, of '70s West Coast harmony duo & "one-hit wonders" Brewer & Shipley, who died on August 25, 2025. They were best known for "One Toke Over The Line," a song Hunter S. Thompson mentions in Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, but their albums are all worth checking out. More: alt text
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I was born 16 hours later. I wonder what mom watched on TV that night?
These people are creepy and weird. That’s all the message needed to be.
Cream of mushroom soup shake should be banned by the Geneva convention.
$50 says that’s Stephen Miller wearing his skin
I remembered this morning that I had forgotten to listen to this bonus. It was a great way to start my last day away from work. Windows open, dog in my lap, and Lulu.
LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOLLERING ABOUT THE COCKS!
These 4th quarter Gamecocks are better than the previous guys.
This is great! Thank you for sharing.
That was a horseshit call.
I took this one slow, listening to a lot of shows Along the way. Excellent book.
Come on, Gamecocks.
Ya'll won’t complain come inheritance time.
The only College GameDay host who picked Florida State? That would be Lee Corso, the former FSU player. "Florida State is my school, how would I pick against them? Florida State upsets Alabama."
Don’t let me down OSU.
Heck of a b-side. I assumed for years it was a a-side as well, until I got the single.
Fantastic read. There is so much more to the story than I ever knew.
Just watched the first touchdown of the SEC Football season. Man I missed football
It's the King's birthday. Jack Kirby. The Avengers. Fantastic Four. The New Gods. More. Infinite worlds. And remember, he was a Nazi killer. He beat them senseless in NY, and later shot them in Europe. Here's a sketch from Jack of his gal on some stationary he pulled from a dead Nazi. All hail.
A vicious blast of Shirley sarcasm is about to reduce some poor bastard to tears.
Born in Los Angeles, California, in 1925, Pal the Wonder Dog would become best known for originating the role of Pete the Pup in Hal Roach’s Our Gang comedies. hometownstohollywood.com/serials/cani... #InternationalDogDay
Heartbreaking to read how he died. Thank you for sharing.
Roll away, the dew.
Love the history. Thank you!
If Obama or Biden had said this, it would be rightfully understood as them arrogating dictatorial authority to themselves, it would be the only thing anyone in the media or opposition would talk about for a year, and it would probably end their presidency. For Trump, it’s literally just Tuesday.
“Breaks silence” lmao it’s been like 40 minutes
Render into me a f*cking break, please.
Our college paper had Bloom Country, Far Side, Doonesbury and Calvin and Hobbes. Amazing in hindsight.
Excellent! I have an 8 hour drive this week.
I loved the movie OPPENHEIMER about the race to build that world-changing negotiation.
Your boss' peers and above.
The city won’t put up with it for a minute. Even Sister Jean is ready to throw down gloves.
The Chicago Way:
Chicago proud. Good thread.
"I even gave my life to Christ in a Cracker Barrel parking lot" is an Action Bronson line
Via my man Z.
I wish I could vote for a qualified candidate in a Beatles dress.
Another reason to hate the Cubs.
So tired of “boomers had it easy” memes. Pure ignorance of what life was like for that generation.