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Seriously
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Seriously
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No — no basement. Apparently just a wormhole that keeps stretching down to infinity as each day unfolds
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
Sounds like a very smart Terminator Machine to me. 🤣
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
I actually need to do that too
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
But he didn’t explain his story about how the song could never hit number one before 1970 ? Unless there was hidden meaning in his caseysplaining? More likely just edited out? #AT40
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
And now that I think of it, with six husbands, Candi really never did Stand By Her Man. But still love Candi #AT40
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
Whoa. Didn’t know that. Then looked it up to see that we had the Six Hubbies of Candi Staton. One after another. And then learned that one of the hubd was former Atlanta Brave Otis Nixon, a hero of 91-92 teams. And mind blown again to learn that, before Candi, Otis was married to Pebbles #AT40
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
Same !
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
It is indeed #AT40
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
Well they ain’t no Nickelback are they?🤣
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
Psychedelic/Protest Kenny is easily the best Kenny #AT40
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
*Bobby lol
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
#AT40 This is one of my favorites from our friends up to the north. Also on one of the very first three albums I bought from Ye Olde Columbia House Record Club #ElbowsUp Canada!! 🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦🍁
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
Had a neighborhood babysitter named Julie and she would bring over this among other 45s to play while parents were out and we would dance to this song over and over again as she sang the lyrics and saying yes Bonny she did #AT40
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
Keep that history lesson close. I have been buying old US history and Government textbooks to stash away for my grandkids. As if it’s contraband. Even just bought a History of Slavery book last week
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
Prost !
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s not just in the running here. It IS my fave of his. #AT40
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m with Zeke. Even that Frog was a good friend of mine. I would help him drink his wine any time! #AT40
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
For trivia, this was very first #1 on very first #AT40 back around July 4. Knocked out J Five’s The Love You Save
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
And yet, if I had to choose …
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
Promises, promises all I get are promises, promises #AT40
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
Started out playing for the wrong team, eh?
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
Well they do change, albeit perhaps only briefly. Then the wheel turns again and back we go. Unfortunately, sometimes making us long for the good old days of just garden variety confusion instead of the hellsvspe of today #AT40
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
It doesn’t get much better than Temps doing Ball of Confusion during their protest era. #RapOn !! #AT40
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
Even older than me thank god #AT40
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Always amazed by this lineup at the Atlanta Pop Fest few weeks earlier. Roster of all time greats, all 3 days for only $14, incl free parking and camping in a pecan grove. Apparently was largest crowd ever to see Hendrix play. Was too young to go at 11yo but my older hippie cousin was there. #AT40
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
How about The Who?
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
Ernie ain’t helping. But it actually ends with a fantastic top ten
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s A Shame you are unsure about these classics from 1970 ! #AT40
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
Should be great with tons of classics in every genre. Gonna be Groovy, baby ! #AT40
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
I think it looks like he is aging very well ! Better than many to most I think !
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
Since we are on the subject, heard a great description of RFK yesterday. His wizened face is basically just a ballsac with eyes
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
So fkn true
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
God that’s true
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
So so true
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
Obviously an excellent choice. The girls go crazy for a Sharp Dressed Man
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
Ollie-true story. Heard 80s ch in car when Alan Hunter read “a nice email from ‘Tammy in Merced CA’”. She apparently gushed how “cute” Alan was. He aptly pointed out that the voice she hears only on the radio now may not be as cute as the old picture she still has in her head. know any Tammys?
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Hello, everyone. Today, thanks to @sbg1.bsky.social and @newyorker.com, I learned a new word. The word is: "butt-snorkeler."
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
youtu.be/xZKuzwPOefs
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
The Ollie AI Dream Generator cannot draw a shirt as that concept has not yet been inputted into the machine
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
🎯 you have it nailed
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
If I know Ollie, she is now dreaming about herself riding a white horse with Mark Farner
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
Yep. Methinks that be the plan
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
As I seem to have said just like two or three weeks ago ( sigh Groundhog Day), I used to think of the Pirates when hearing We Are Family, but now I immediately think of the great Gene Hackman #AT40
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
One of my favorite videos of all time. Besides the fact I love the song, Suzi and “some dude” Chris Norman just seem to be having so much fun singing together #AT40 youtu.be/0AbvnTgGH8s
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
I have about a dozen such books stocked up for my grandkids
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
Pro tip: buy some old ( like more than five years old) textbooks on American democracy, the constitution, slavery, just history in general. It will be easier to find an old library card catalog than books that accurately portray history before you know it
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social)
Casey dusting off the #AT40 “reference shelf” to caseysplain idiom origins. These days we use the fancy Dewey Decimal System
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social)
May of 79. Again feels like Groundhog Day, so instead of retreading yet another fratbro pic, let’s dig way back in the #AT40 archives to May 61. Here’s me at 2.5 yo with my Nana, trying to get ahead of the latest fashion trends already being sported by @dirkwilbury.bsky.social on the other coast
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
That’s his next tweet to tell us to do that as part of “how to make America healthy again”. And oh yeah do t forget about last week bringing back the virtues of Malathion. Sick Fuck. No apologies for my Klingon dialect
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
Hey hey RFK How many kids you kill today?
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
Too many witnesses there
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
This ⬆️
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes this is the correct interpretation. I was expecting the windows to start mysteriously opening around him by July 4, but just off by a couple months. Thiel and his thugs expected the creature to die of natural causes by now. And they are tired of waiting. They have next steps to take.
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m stealing that and using it at my next protest
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
True that. Unfortunately sci fi of Walking Dead will become reality the way things are heading. Covid and MMR are bad enough but next pandemic right around the corner, whether arising in nature or intentionally weaponized
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
I’d even wager a stack of chips that he is the ringleader of the Gang of Thugs. Using Deranged Donnie’s cult following to get a foothold in power and then have his sofabitchboy Vance be just an open window or Big Mac binge away from being Dear Leader
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
And yet, wouldn’t be surprised to see Deranged Donnie try to appoint Kenboy to a Governor post on the Fed Reserve
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
I will see your shiny nickel and raise you a bicentennial quarter.
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
Great great song. Saw he just died this year at 85. But learned today he was married to Annette for 60 years and was Cook County Commissioner for 33 years after his music career. Great life ! #AT40
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social)
Today’s #AT40 Song of the day is Only the Strong Survive by the great #JerryButler Powerful classic soul tune, but sadly gets the nod today as we enter the Regime’s Culling of the Herd phase thanks to the madness of #RFKJr Still, everyone try to #StayStrong and #Resist youtu.be/XPkd9ZQOtbI
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
Cassidy was in a unique position of experience, respect and power and could have stopped the madness before it began. But he failed his senate duty and ignored his Hippocratic Oath. Every single one of the many needless deaths that are coming will be on Cassidy. He owns the body count.
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social)
You happy #BillCassidy ? You and you alone were in a unique position of experience, respect and power to stop the #RFKJr madness before it began. You failed duty as a senator and you failed your Hippocratic Oath. The upcoming body count of death is entirely on you @msnbc.com @washingtonpost.com
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
You happy #BillCassidy ? You and you alone were in a unique position of experience, respect and power to stop the #RFKJr madness before it began. You failed duty as a senator and you failed your Hippocratic Oath. The upcoming body count of death is entirely on you @msnbc.com @washingtonpost.com
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
Narrator: actually, it never even made it to its 249th birthday. America died right at 248.5. It was a good go while it lasted. But, quite literally, #ETTD
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m stealing that description. So damn perfect. Thanks
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
I seriously think that the eventual goal is not to kill us all but to cull the herd to a minimally necessary size while killing off those who are the biggest drains on Medicare and Social Security, thus making drastic cuts in those programs easier to swallow for those human laborers remaining
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
Incoming Exec Order: Deranged Donnie discharges current DC Grand Jury and issues edict that he will appoint the new handpicked members of all future DC Grand Juries so they aren’t soft on crime. After all, he is the “President” and can do what he wants
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
Good point.
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
Also kills the elderly so they can enact more Medicare and Social Security cuts with fewer aging bodies to worry about feeling the impact
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
And also said he wants a “War Department”
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social)
He is clearly braying “Release the #EpsteinFiles “. And now!
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
He clearly is braying “Release the #EpsteinFiles “
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes I know. That does give me mixed emotions and I even still think that Thiel will lead Deranged Donnie to an open window so that the real Pretorian Candidate, JD, takes power. But as long as the creature dies of natural causes there won’t be the cult following around JD. Just damned either way.
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
“Blessed Be” sayeth the coven in unison after the delivery of the Peace Prize Prayer by Warlock Witkoff
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
The thousands notifications greeting me on my cell phone as I woke up, announcing the happy news and leading me to play Hansel’s Messiah at full volume at 630am. Sadly, that’s what didn’t happen 🥵
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
You give the drowning pool far too much credit there.
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
Are you old enough to remember the bipartisan decorum and grace, with the wonderful Helen Thomas of AP always getting the honor of asking the first question? #ETTD
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Just Jack (@just-jack-1.bsky.social) reposted
He’s wanted to declare martial law from day one. Bypass all checks and rule as a tyrant. Many have speculated how he’d do it. Now his gambit is clear. DC was a test. He’s using manufactured crime stats to send troops into blue states & cities. This is not a drill. Democracy is at defcon 1.
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
Hmmm says Shaun Cassidy. Sounds like the agent for Lionel and the Commodores might be prime suspects in the Case of the Lingering Lady
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
One of the kids who used to live across the street spent two years playing hockey in Germany ( yes from here in Atl-his dad from Pittsburgh plays and coaches hockey at 58). Guy had a blast
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
I don’t believe the Caseysplaining. Something is fishy in Babylonia #AT40
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
This top 14 being all the same as last week is mighty suspicious. Someone cooking the #AT40 books
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
One of my good college friends would literally flunk out this coming semester, playing #68 and rest of Bat out of Hell on endless loop from midnight to 6 am and then sleep all day missing his classes and then rinse was repeat. We literally tried to do an intervention, but it was too late #AT40
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
Unfortunately, last time I checked, we are not in that world. Not even close
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
Now we are back in musical synch as usual #AT40 Evelyn was gggrrreeaatt
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
Cranky Rod is in the house today ! Here’s some meds
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
What are the odds of even one mention of Babylon on an #AT40 and today we had both Rivers of Babylon and a separate song referencing Babylonia !
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
That just means east Germany. But still doesn’t explain these strange strange “ballett” dance covers of apparently every song imaginable once you start looking. Freaky stuff done by these Germans. Ollie—discuss
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
Well. Looks like Jezza’s video came from Dutch Top of the Pops and was a different “ballet” version. In researching, there is in fact a German fernsehballett version of the song with an equally weird weird video. As well as a friedrichstadtballett version. Very weird . Need @ollie209.bsky.social
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
No. John Paul Young was a normal looking solo guy. Dont know what in world it is but I do now care. You have me intrigued. I’m wondering if it is related to this Weird German dance show that had something called Fernsehballet dancers. Their performance of Popcorn was equally weird. I’ll report back
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
Mighty mighty mighty strange now that you mention it #AT40
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
You should really go old school and get you an old mag card reader and then have your secy type up a bunch of mag punch cards and then carefully keep them in the right order while carrying them to the reader machine. I remember someone actually dropped a big stack once ugh
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
Everything was so hard back then. I remember long hours redlining changes on big docs by hand, with underlines and carats and strike throughs. Then if you made a mistake you needed to start that page all over again instead of just punching the compare rite button and presto
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
I think only thing that kept YLUML was that it spanned two partial years so it thankfully never finished as high as it otherwise would have been #AT40
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
Thankfully I have forgotten how to Shepherdize, whether hard copy or online. I just take whatever garbage Wiki or AI gives me and that’s good enough for me at this age ! #AT40
Mark (@santorinidreaming.bsky.social) reply parent
Looks like I am on a Boney M island by myself. But I will gladly hang out there all alone and dance ! #AT40