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Bob M @rsmjr.bsky.social · 2h

I may be the only white Gen X guy who doesn't like Rush, but Geddy Lee is a cool guy. He donated an incredible collection of baseballs signed by Negro League players to the Baseball Museum in Kansas City!

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 3h

The Kendrick Lamar vs. Drake World Series oh my GOD.

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Bob M @rsmjr.bsky.social · 3h

Haha not even close.

Nothing against Toronto fans' passion, they're a hell of a baseball town, but no... not even close

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Bob M @rsmjr.bsky.social · 3h

Vlad vs LA pitching is going to be a treat 3-5 times every game, but I need Springer to go 0-for-the-rest-of-his-life.

Bob M @rsmjr.bsky.social · 3h

Toronto is a great team with fun players and it won't be bad if they can win a ring, but I need Springer to go 0-for-the-Series, or perhaps his knee can disintegrate on the flight to LA.

Chicken Puppet @chickenpuppet.online · 3h

Dan Wilson can never set foot in this country again

Bob M @rsmjr.bsky.social · 4h

As someone who routinely gains some pounds every winter, putting on my favorite cycling gear and feeling it a little too snug every spring is some nice added incentive to get back on track

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Bob M @rsmjr.bsky.social · 8h

I've got something they can eat.

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 9h

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Monday criticized the media and politicians, including Gov. JB Pritzker, for “trying to demonize” federal immigration agents and she urged citizens to thank law enforcement officers and “cook a meal for their families.”

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem accuses Gov. JB Pritzker and media of ‘trying to demonize’ immigration officers

Speaking in Florida, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem criticized Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and the media, and she urged citizens to thank law enforcement officers and “cook the…

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Bob M @rsmjr.bsky.social · 8h

I'd make 'em some good old fashioned shit-on-a-shingle, but I wouldn't want to remind them of Noem's face.

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Bob M @rsmjr.bsky.social · 8h

You can smell it everywhere...

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 15h

also see:

"the media has a liberal bias"

"conservative censorship"

"cancel culture"

the appropriation of "woke"

propaganda works

David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 16h

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 16h

“Following his lecture, Yarvin will debate the legendary British historian David Starkey on history and the future of conservatism.” Everything about this is so cursed. Masks off at the University of Oxford.

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Bob M @rsmjr.bsky.social · 1d

There are some great Ricky Jay clips on YouTube. Sometimes I'll pull one up that I've already seen ten times and still go "whaaaaaat?"

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Bob M @rsmjr.bsky.social · 1d

We live down the block from The Magic Lounge in Chicago, and their shows are consistently packed, re regardless of the day of the week, time of year, or the weather.

People freakin' love sleight-of-hand.

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Bob M @rsmjr.bsky.social · 1d

I hope whoever they sell the jewels to pays them in a sack with a big "€" sign on the side.

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Bob M @rsmjr.bsky.social · 1d

I hate that chicken!

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Bob M @rsmjr.bsky.social · 1d

Five movies to get to know me:

Robocop
Young Frankenstein
Sanjuro
How The Grinch Stole Christmas (animated Chuck Jones version)
The Thin Man

Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 1d

5 movies to get to know me:

Ran
Phantom Thread
A.I.
Bright Star
RoboCop

Rebecca Boone @rebeccastmaries.bsky.social · 1d

5 movies to get to know me:

Wings of Desire
Harold and Maude
Ikiru
The Exorcist
Airplane!

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Bob M @rsmjr.bsky.social · 1d

I'm hesitant to watch the whole movie again, but in 1994, I remember dismissing it as a lame attempt to recapture the magic of "Bram Stoker's Dracula," right down to the title.

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Bob M @rsmjr.bsky.social · 1d

DeNiro's creature has a solid monologue questioning how his unnatural origins have led to his unnatural sense of self, & it's OK that the doctor doesn't have answers, but Branagh's direction betrays that he has no idea how to address those questions either.

(still love his Hamlet and Much Ado tho)

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Bob M @rsmjr.bsky.social · 1d

Good dog, Fisher!

Bob M @rsmjr.bsky.social · 2d

Larson's sensibilities have become so woven into the fabric of cartooning over the past 35 years that his new work has an almost quaint quality, but that doesn't make it any less welcome. And no one can match the amount of personality he gives his characters with so few lines (both drawn or spoken.)

John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 3d

It's kinda cool that Gary Larson is doing new cartoons because he picked up a digital tablet, taught himself how to use it, and it made him love drawing again.

www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

New Work by Gary Larson | TheFarSide.com

Get an exclusive look at brand new cartoons and artwork from cartoonist Gary Larson, creator of the iconic comic strip The Far Side®.

www.thefarside.com

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Bob M @rsmjr.bsky.social · 2d

What finally happened?

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Bob M @rsmjr.bsky.social · 2d

Hi, Maggie!

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Bob M @rsmjr.bsky.social · 2d

Infant kaiju?

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Bob M @rsmjr.bsky.social · 2d

For god's sake, what's the dog's name!?!?

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Bob M @rsmjr.bsky.social · 2d

I'm a proud member of the "You Gotta Be Shitting Me" Club.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 2d

somewhere in portland, there's one person, or a small handful of people, who came up with the inflatable costume idea, and I feel like they deserve our immense respect for defining the obvious developing aesthetic of the contemporary battle against fascism

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