Quarry Girl
@quarrygirlri.bsky.social
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Academic librarian with a love for music, art, history, archaeology, gardening, movies, books. Anglophile New Englander. Mostly avoiding politics these days for my mental health.
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#LookAndSee #MusicChallenge

Ride Captain Ride -- Blues Image

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Finally the news media is doing something right instead of just kissing the ass of the dictators
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One down, four to go! Nicely engaged group of students this morning.
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Beginning of a four day week with five classes to attend!
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On my list of top ten favorite albums (even though it's a compilation).
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I remember laughing out loud at the "Isle of Lucy" remark when I first saw it.
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After complaints about Timothy Dexter's A Pickle for the Knowing Ones (1797) being entirely devoid of punctuation, in future editions the eccentric businessman supplied a supplemental page so that people “may peper and solt as they please”: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dexter-pickle
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I'd say 7:00 pm when I've finished dinner and any chores and am ready to put on my pajamas and just relax for the evening (before I get too sleepy).
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Beginning of a four day week with five classes to attend!
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That's always been my argument. Funny how they leave that out...
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I watched this again few months ago and for the entire movie assumed he was Tom Hanks's son. It was uncanny.
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#LookAndSee #MusicChallenge

Lola -- The Kinks

"Well, we drank champagne and danced all night / under electric candlelight"

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Oh, I've loved Queen ever since "Killer Queen" came out.
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No. 7? I don't remember this song at all (though I just looked it up and I like it).
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I love their singles -- Bad Time, Some Kind of Wonderful, We're an American Band.
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Why did people hate Grand Funk so much?
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Reminds me of the dog my brother used to have, also a husky. A sweet boy but possibly the dumbest dog who ever lived.
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Also loved him with Judy Garland in "The Clock." I saw his son on an episode of "Columbo" and was very confused bc he had dropped the "junior" and looked just like his dad. I kept thinking, "but I thought he died."
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Me too. Thanks, older brother and sister!
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Oh man, that's hard. For me, probably "English Settlement" by XTC.
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America
Kathy's Song
The Boxer
An American Tune
I Am a Rock
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The mondegreen my friend and I heard was "Keep on to the post office / bus stops and you're getting off."