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Bill Childs

@billchilds.bsky.social

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Not a real doctor; real worm. I've done radio for kids for a weirdly long time. Not your lawyer, but maybe your amusement park law prof. SpareTheRock.com. Wrote a book: RecreationAndRisk.com (Carolina Academic Press). He/him; my views only here. St. Paul.

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Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · 1h

This is also true about Soucheray about bike lanes

Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · Sep 20

A friendly reminder to others in Saint Paul that you are under absolutely no obligation to read Soucheray about police funding or any other subject

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Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · 2h

Had a ticket and then sold it because the younger kid said he’d come home to go see the Evil Dead with a live ensemble and, well, that won out

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Paula W @toomuchbrudders.bsky.social · 2h

Ahh, Bill - we meet again! All it took was a search for all things Madeleine L’Engle after writing about her friendship with my poet mom: toomuchbrudders.com/2025/10/10/m...

Love & blessings, Madeleine L'Engle | Too Much Brudders blog

My mom was dear friends with A Wrinkle in Time author Madeleine L'Engle. Here are some of their letters from over the years.

toomuchbrudders.com

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Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · 2h

Paula!! So great to see you here.

Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · 3h

Also that

Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · 3h

I mean, we’re beating St. John’s in soccer right now

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daviss @chaddavis.photography · 3h

"Thank God law enforcement intervened and arrested Cepeda before he could have potentially shot or killed anyone."

Here's some pictures i've taken at the Minnesota State Capitol, Governor Tim Walz's Residence and Woodbury.

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Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · 3h

Saaame

Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · 5h

The short-lived kerfuffle between two fedora-wearing dudes at a very chill Jason Isbell show was pretty great

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Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · 5h

Saw that guy the other day. Great vibes

Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · 5h

fun little set for next weekend

songs from a radio show:
Justin Roberts - New Haircut
Ants on a Log - Some Girls Have Short Hair
Alex the Astronaut - Haircut
ID
The Replacements - Androgynous

Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · 6h

Gosh, I love this song, and love playing it on the radio for families.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxym...

Alex the Astronaut - Haircut (Official Video)

YouTube video by Alex the Astronaut

www.youtube.com

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Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · 6h

also does that say "crunchy patriots"

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Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · 6h

anyway subscribe to @racketmn.com

Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 8h

I'm at the Freedom Summit in Alexandria MN today. #pray4keith

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Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · 7h

Come back in time for Evil Dead tonight, just to cleanse the palate

Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · 7h

“Spread truth like a chemtrail” just about ended me

Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 7h

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Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · 7h

That sounds cool as hell

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 7h

a lot of my upcoming cover songs book addresses the question of what happens when the biggest change to the song is the demographics of the people playing it, and this definitely makes the cut

Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · 3d

Hadn’t heard it before! Probably my third favorite version after the original and this one:

youtu.be/ZR6mM_zfxwE?...

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Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · 7h

Also Fastball--yes, Fastball!--did a great almost-hardcore version for an Austin tribute to the Replacements:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkQS...

Fastball "Androgynous" (Replacements cover) 1998

YouTube video by EJ Anderson

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Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · 7h

I forgot yet another version--that I *own*--from the mighty Darkbird:

music.apple.com/us/album/and...

Androgynous - Single by Darkbird on Apple Music

Album · 2023 · 1 Song

music.apple.com

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Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · Nov 18

No context early Christianity scholarship:

“[T]hey ‘fawn upon people who give them things,’ seduce their hosts’ wives, and get drunk at symposia.”

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Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · 7h

Two years later: @svensundgaard.bsky.social is here, everyone, and if we engage maybe he‘ll be active!

Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · Oct 10

Need Sven Sundgaard to join here before winter really hits

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Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · Oct 10

This was in response to who should be Mac's 1989 graduation speaker.

Nick Cave plays the Armory next April.

Jim Reay
Junior Music Major
Sagittarius
"Nick Cave, I saw him last night and think that he captures the spirit of the class of '89. He's almost dead though."

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Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 1d

I know things have been slow but this is all really positive stuff for the neighborhood.

Frederick Melo, Reporter (TwinCities.com, Pioneer Press) @frederickmelo.bsky.social · 1d

What's the future, real and imagined, of the United Village development around Allianz Field? Plans call for a French bakery, Italian pizzeria, acre-sized flower garden, lover's/family-style ice rink, modern art, and maybe a daycare, housing and more twincities.com/2025/10/10/p... via
@pioneerpress

Plans for St. Paul’s Allianz Field: A bakery, pizzeria, garden, ice rink

Regardless of what dreams may come, construction equipment is on the ground turning earth for three new structures.

twincities.com

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Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · 9h

Fun to have the Spelling Bee pangram today be an arcane word with no relevance at all to modern existence

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