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Señor Cinco（他妈/他妈的） @tenletters.bsky.social · 9h

I got a dozen old MAD paperbacks on Friday to add to my long-held collection (which is heavily weighted in favor of the magazines.) Only one is a duplicate, albeit with a different (updated, but otherwise similar) cover:

12 paperbacks from the MADison Avenue offices of MAD Magazine; 4 columns each 3 books tall; L-R: MAD BARFS; LIKE, MAD (1973 edition); MAD LOOKS AT OLD MOVIES; THE MAD BOOK OF WORD POWER; THE SPARE MAD; THE RECYCLED MAD; MAD ABOUT MAD by Sergio Aragonés; MAD'S DAVE BERG LOOKS AT THE U.S.A; LIKE MAD (1960 edition); MAD'S AL JAFFEE SPEWS OUT STILL MORE SNAPPY ANSWERS TO STUPID QUESTIONS; THE SELF-MADE MAD; MAD CLOBBERS THE CLASSICS

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Nick M @plodinnotts.bsky.social · 21h

behind the bed

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Vince Tuss @vtuss.bsky.social · 21d

More scenes of Detroit: Skyline highlights on the way to Comerica Park and from inside. The first is the stylish Book Tower.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Feb 17

‘It was like she was possessed’: how Q Lazzarus made Silence of the Lambs’ most bewitching song – and then vanished

Her track Goodbye Horses soundtracked one of the 90s thriller’s most memorable scenes, but the singer ended up driving cabs and dying in obscurity. Now a new documentary lets her tell her story

www.theguardian.com

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Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 22h

Readers of my first book Tilting at Windmills may be interested to learn that the inner sleeve of @warringtonruncorn.com’s new LP depicts the ‘betong’ category of miniature golf course, as utilised in international minigolf tournaments to this day. Hats off to that dead town planner!

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Matthew Sullivan @sulli864.bsky.social · 18h

Never read ‘Gunsights’ from 1976 before, but I think I’ve cracked most of the other westerns.

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Matt Clark @disappearer.bsky.social · 9d

Think like I saw the film of the year this week...

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 19h

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

A comic strip in six panels. The panels inerlock like a jigsaw with knobs and sockets. Two stick figures walk right to left through all the panels.

Panel 1: Person 1 says "I hear you're working on a new theory."
Panel 2 & 3: Person 2 says: "Yes, I'm calling it the jigsaw model. I think it could change our whole View of reality."
Panel 4: Person 1 says "When Will you publish?:
Panel 5: Person 2 says "But a couple of things are still bothering me." (this piece/panel is a bit squint)
Panel 6: This piece is rotated ninety degees and fits to the others very badly. Person 2 is saying "Soon. I feel like I'm really close"
A second look at the whole comic shows that the last two panels read in the wrong order because the jigsaw has been put together incorrectly.

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 1d

As a young boy in 1940s Duluth, Minnesota, Bobby Zimmerman lived around the corner from Albert Woolson, who would soon become the oldest surviving Union soldier from the Civil War. Both played guitar professionally.

map showing houses less than 500 feet apart

Woodson as an old man in the1950s with a young girl, playing a drum as he did in the Civil War

Bob Dylan's home in Duluth, where he lived until age 6

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Matthew Sullivan @sulli864.bsky.social · 19h

Somewhere on this globe it is still Elmore Leonard’s 100th birthday. Many happy returns to the ‘poet laureate of wild assholes with revolvers’ as the NME, (I think) called him. Away for a fortnight & before I knew it was his centenary 6 of the 12 books I packed were his.

Glitz, Bandits, 52 Pick Up & Gunsights, all in paperback, all by Mr Elmore Leonard.

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Sitcom People @sitcompeople.bsky.social · 1d

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 1d

One of her finest line readings

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Albumism @albumism.com · 1d

Belle and Sebastian released their eighth studio album 'Write About Love' 15 years ago on October 11, 2010 | Discover where it ranks in our readers' poll here: album.ink/BandSpoll

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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 1d

In honor of Elmore Leonard's centennial today, here's the tribute I wrote in 2013 when he passed. This was the first of the @ebertvoices.bsky.social tributes I became known for (and still do on occasion) at the site. I became a writer, Dutch. Told you I would.

www.rogerebert.com/features/elm...

Elmore Leonard, 1925-2013: An Appreciation | Features | Roger Ebert

The first rule in Elmore Leonard's ten rules of writing is "Never open a book with the weather." It could never be a "dark and stormy night" in Leonard's

www.rogerebert.com

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Spy Fi 🇺🇦 @spy-fi.bsky.social · 1d

More by David Mattingly.

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 1d

Fireball 500 (1966) is nuts. Murder mystery, moonshine, feds, bloody fist fights, stock car crack ups… but with Frankie and Annette bursting into song! Definitely entertained.

With several songs and a blistering, start to finish Les Baxter score, I’m incredulous there wasn’t a soundtrack album!

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 1d

I'm glad Abbott was challenged on his cherry-picking & 'interpretation' of history by Fitzsimons. Abbott displays a peculiar coldness and incuriousity about oral & other accounts of the fate of Aboriginal people murdered here since the 1700s.

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 1d

Rome might not use those words but Rome has thrown open the door to them being used, and clearly backs them. Think about that.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Belinda Carlisle @belindacarlisle.bsky.social · 1d

I cant! 💔💔💔 Diane Keaton was such a talent and a BIG part of my career. She directed two videos of mine - "Heaven Is A Place on Earth" and the video for "I Get Weak."
She was kind and eccentric and I was blessed to know her. This is such a big loss. 💔💔💔 RIP Diane, you will be missed.

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Michael Daly @michaeldaly64.bsky.social · 5d

Halloween is coming...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

Nixon’s crimes look like harmless high school pranks compared to the now-daily unprecedented illegal & unconstitutional crimes being committed daily by this president & his staff

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 1d

Thread. This was important. Even a blaspheming heretic like me realizes that.

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

It's always good to see priests who still remember there are *seven* Catholic social principles. Also, that noise you hear is the USCCB screeching to the Vatican and getting back nothing, lol

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

But in case you missed it, Fr Dowling's statement takes the time to make it explicit: "Father, forgive the ones who do not know what they are doing. Have mercy on the souls of those who know exactly what they're doing."

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

For any Catholic, the sight of a Eucharistic Procession being turned away at the gates of the destination is the embodiment of Jesus being denied entrance. You don't have to be Catholic to get the symbolism in that!

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