DanglinDon
@danglindon.bsky.social
He/him; younger twin. Former gifted child & ChicagoGay; current un[der]employed Midwestern embarrassment mit "un'aria di frociaggine." Occasionally ina-pro-pro--but mostly showing watches, pens, film cameras, & old records
Know what's tremendously disheartening? Taking all day to clear a driveway & 2 vehicles encased in snow, only to have more snow cover- (& now ice-)over all that (the white expanse in the driveway seen to the right in this video of more snow [illuminated by streetlight] was the hood of a blue truck)
November 11, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Know what's tremendously disheartening? Taking all day to clear a driveway & 2 vehicles encased in snow, only to have more snow cover- (& now ice-)over all that (the white expanse in the driveway seen to the right in this video of more snow [illuminated by streetlight] was the hood of a blue truck)
Well, I'm having fun outside to-day...(video this time includes alt-text in the audio)
November 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Well, I'm having fun outside to-day...(video this time includes alt-text in the audio)
AT LONG LAST: parents' unfriendly neighbor (whose 6-foot-tall-shed has routinely had a door blow off & sit--for weeks--just over the property line, killing my parents' grass) is finally re-organizing shed contents. Stepped out for a schmoke & heard loud bangs & exasperated sighs coming from the area
November 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
AT LONG LAST: parents' unfriendly neighbor (whose 6-foot-tall-shed has routinely had a door blow off & sit--for weeks--just over the property line, killing my parents' grass) is finally re-organizing shed contents. Stepped out for a schmoke & heard loud bangs & exasperated sighs coming from the area
Helpful reminder, on the off-chance your aminals get to bits of candy in the wake of Halloween...
For all of those who watch puppers, I give you this bit of trivial reference: a single M & M weighs 0.032 oz.
November 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Helpful reminder, on the off-chance your aminals get to bits of candy in the wake of Halloween...
"Dark Victory" (I can tell that the song "Time for Tenderness" was released by Warners' on sheet-music, but I have yet to find an extant 78rpm single from around the film's release... youtu.be/UcH3pDY3FN4?...
November 8, 2025 at 2:50 AM
"Dark Victory" (I can tell that the song "Time for Tenderness" was released by Warners' on sheet-music, but I have yet to find an extant 78rpm single from around the film's release... youtu.be/UcH3pDY3FN4?...
Oldest selfie on your phone (speaking of bowties):
December 2009 (back when I still had a flip-phone w/o camera, so it's taken on a 3MP digital camera that I had to then attach to a laptop to upload the photos by sending them as verizon sms attachments...also, more of my face than anyone's seen...)
December 2009 (back when I still had a flip-phone w/o camera, so it's taken on a 3MP digital camera that I had to then attach to a laptop to upload the photos by sending them as verizon sms attachments...also, more of my face than anyone's seen...)
November 7, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Oldest selfie on your phone (speaking of bowties):
December 2009 (back when I still had a flip-phone w/o camera, so it's taken on a 3MP digital camera that I had to then attach to a laptop to upload the photos by sending them as verizon sms attachments...also, more of my face than anyone's seen...)
December 2009 (back when I still had a flip-phone w/o camera, so it's taken on a 3MP digital camera that I had to then attach to a laptop to upload the photos by sending them as verizon sms attachments...also, more of my face than anyone's seen...)
Reposted by DanglinDon
Sk@t you from a different era
![[Not-so-]Bearded [not-so-]bloated guy sits in his backyard (2 weeks after he shaved off his beard for the last time, some 15 years ago) with a Columbia Viva~Tonal crank-phonograph playing behind him, under a 500-year-old-mulberry-tree.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vp6ndksfu42md65257kmdjkt/bafkreiaecs2zba7kmrvnaaypiefjbk5rch7x3oewfrhrgghqpzl6t6xuqu@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Sk@t you from a different era
Good night, all! Kahn & Jones again for the win in this 1924 tune:
November 7, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Good night, all! Kahn & Jones again for the win in this 1924 tune:
Can someone help me find a @mikepeters.bsky.social cartoon done right after the GOP started raggin' on John Edwards for being an attorney? It was something like? a headline stating "a new insult," or something to that effect--but went back to Cheney swearing at Pat Leahy on the Senate floor
November 7, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Can someone help me find a @mikepeters.bsky.social cartoon done right after the GOP started raggin' on John Edwards for being an attorney? It was something like? a headline stating "a new insult," or something to that effect--but went back to Cheney swearing at Pat Leahy on the Senate floor
I get to wear this weirdly-tailored set of coveralls twice each year: in the spring (when I turn it on) & the fall (when i turn it off) accessing the 6-ft-below-street-level-water-valge for my parents' sprinkler system. #ThingThursday
November 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I get to wear this weirdly-tailored set of coveralls twice each year: in the spring (when I turn it on) & the fall (when i turn it off) accessing the 6-ft-below-street-level-water-valge for my parents' sprinkler system. #ThingThursday
Happy birthday to Broadway's original Annie, Andrea McArdle, born in Philadelphia on this date in 1963. Just a few yrs ago, I got to meet her backstage after a 4Girls4 revue in Naperville (for the record, I'm in this picture originally, too--but I used Paint to move me over in front of my Ex)
![Andrea McArdle--dressed in a white jacket & blouse over black slacks, her auburn hair braided-up & pinned back--appears to be leaning-in next to [not-so-]bearded[, not-so-]bloated guy wearing a green button-up-shirt & holding that night's playbill (along with his cap, folded) in his left hand. A yellow-fronted Playbill from Annie's original run at the Alvin Theatre pokes out from behind [not-so-]bearded[, not-so-]bloated guy's left shoulder (held originally by the person standing where [not-so-]bearded[, not-so-]bloated guy currently appears in this terrible paint-amendment).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vp6ndksfu42md65257kmdjkt/bafkreickjqf4jvlltqtytetfmwmdr37nwq2jmvpxqe367n7vco225cob4e@jpeg)
November 5, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Happy birthday to Broadway's original Annie, Andrea McArdle, born in Philadelphia on this date in 1963. Just a few yrs ago, I got to meet her backstage after a 4Girls4 revue in Naperville (for the record, I'm in this picture originally, too--but I used Paint to move me over in front of my Ex)
Sk@t the same actor as hero and villain (& he played demented far too infrequently; truly a shame, 'cause I think he did heavies better than his lighter work):
![Sheriff Andy Taylor [Andy Griffith, lower right of image] holds a nickel in his right hand--pointing with his left index finger at the coin while he describes it to Deputy Barney Fife [J. Don Knotts, upper left of image], indicating the buffalo"'s pointin' the wrong way." From the Andy Griffith Show, S.1ep.19, "Mayberry on Record" [dir. Gene Reynolds; aired Mo.13.II.1961].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vp6ndksfu42md65257kmdjkt/bafkreiamhzyqofrxsilbjxrckx46r22cjmzznw2bybnon7dtoahw2lx234@jpeg)
![Marcia Jeffries [Patricia Neal; seen here from behind & to the right, on the left-hand-third of the image] comes to visit Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes [Andy Griffith; right-hand-side] who's grinning menacingly as he animatedly talks to Marcia--while waiting for hundreds of partygoers to arrive--in a pivotal scene from A Face in the Crowd [1957, dir. Elia Kazan].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vp6ndksfu42md65257kmdjkt/bafkreiav6lxogqmn2ymjr5lih32wvlt7pav4msumvsxaxwgamwtx2agiz4@jpeg)
November 4, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Sk@t the same actor as hero and villain (& he played demented far too infrequently; truly a shame, 'cause I think he did heavies better than his lighter work):
Is an exododus even WIDER than a "usual" dodus?
November 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Is an exododus even WIDER than a "usual" dodus?
My septuagenarian parents have informed me that they've seen their backyard neighbor (husband's in healthcare & maybe his late 40s) using a leafblower to push leaves from his back berm (& the width of the alley) back over into their yard [apparently 'cause the leaves are off my parents' tree?]
November 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
My septuagenarian parents have informed me that they've seen their backyard neighbor (husband's in healthcare & maybe his late 40s) using a leafblower to push leaves from his back berm (& the width of the alley) back over into their yard [apparently 'cause the leaves are off my parents' tree?]
Got distracted going back inside to refill containers Halloween night--& my vice-prop ended up falling into one of the boxes of treats...thankfully my youngest sister pulled it out before some 8-year-old chose it instead of a Tootsie-Roll or some Takis...
Might be lazy & do the Orson Welles getup again for handing out candy--if only because then I am REQUIRED to have a vice present...
![Bearded bloated guy covered in broad-brimmed-black-hat & medium-dark-wool-cloak chomps a[n as-yet-unlit-]cigar while peering thru a wind-up cine-film-camera.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vp6ndksfu42md65257kmdjkt/bafkreicbe4goixbfj22o6q6pwopeqydk75blrulm77tgu6buqnjhjmqo4y@jpeg)
November 3, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Got distracted going back inside to refill containers Halloween night--& my vice-prop ended up falling into one of the boxes of treats...thankfully my youngest sister pulled it out before some 8-year-old chose it instead of a Tootsie-Roll or some Takis...
Most of my problems at ANY time could be fixed with crab rangoon
most of my problems could be fixed with a crab rangoon rn tbh
November 3, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Most of my problems at ANY time could be fixed with crab rangoon
Inappropriate accomplishment for the weekend: I managed to work-in a Rob-Schneider-reference into talking about one of Rodgers & Hammerstein's most inappropriate musical-treatments (and no, Lutellan, it sadly wasn't South Pacific)
November 3, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Inappropriate accomplishment for the weekend: I managed to work-in a Rob-Schneider-reference into talking about one of Rodgers & Hammerstein's most inappropriate musical-treatments (and no, Lutellan, it sadly wasn't South Pacific)
A movie you've seen more than seven times with a .gif [this us a family favorite]
November 3, 2025 at 2:37 AM
A movie you've seen more than seven times with a .gif [this us a family favorite]
Sometimes it's pretty here (as long as you don't stop to consider how long it'll take for the rest of the leaves to fall, & how many follow-up-times you'll be raking them up to keep your parents from having to do so...)
November 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Sometimes it's pretty here (as long as you don't stop to consider how long it'll take for the rest of the leaves to fall, & how many follow-up-times you'll be raking them up to keep your parents from having to do so...)
The artwork of @nikkidawes.bsky.social presenting a reminder for what many of us need to do to-night
#TurnBackTime
#tiiiiooommmmee
#TurnBackTime
#tiiiiooommmmee
![Nikki Dawes--for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette--has crafted a delightful portrait of late-'80s-Cher wearing a midnight-blue-to-black-ensemble (reminiscent of the now-classic Bob Mackie designs worn in a specific video), holding the face of a clock [showing 2:00] in her right hand, while pointing at the hour-hand on 2:00 with her left. A superscript-headline (with sub-heading) declares "TURN BACK TIME // Daylight Saving Time will end at 2 a.m. Sunday. Clocks should be set back one hour."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vp6ndksfu42md65257kmdjkt/bafkreidzzfqfunagz6cv2v7gkhebs56bqhxo4jjyuagm7lt3woxjac3gkq@jpeg)
November 1, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The artwork of @nikkidawes.bsky.social presenting a reminder for what many of us need to do to-night
#TurnBackTime
#tiiiiooommmmee
#TurnBackTime
#tiiiiooommmmee
This entire thread is reminding me of the messenger who swirled his bike-lock over his head [w/a length of thick chain that Marley'd say was too big] after an a-hole in a convertible cut him off, & the Nr.8 bus driver who repeatedly tried to grind me into the curb when I rode home from the Loop...
The anti-car brigade is really fucking weird.
The way they act like someone who drives regularly kills babies and kicks old ladies down the stairs is really fucking bizarre.
The way they act like someone who drives regularly kills babies and kicks old ladies down the stairs is really fucking bizarre.
October 31, 2025 at 11:38 PM
This entire thread is reminding me of the messenger who swirled his bike-lock over his head [w/a length of thick chain that Marley'd say was too big] after an a-hole in a convertible cut him off, & the Nr.8 bus driver who repeatedly tried to grind me into the curb when I rode home from the Loop...
Aaaaahhhh, the Lunar Folk! There's a California Moon-Wine by Paul Masson that holds to that great standard. Like every great moon-wine, it's vintage-dated in the bottle...
#DoesHeDoAnything
#DoesHeDoAnything
October 31, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Aaaaahhhh, the Lunar Folk! There's a California Moon-Wine by Paul Masson that holds to that great standard. Like every great moon-wine, it's vintage-dated in the bottle...
#DoesHeDoAnything
#DoesHeDoAnything
Went to a Halloween party last-minute on Saturday & family friend gave me his Dad's Pentax ME, 2 extra lenses, some of those fun '70s filters, AND two unexposed rolls of expired Superia400Xtra
![1970s single-lens-reflex-35mm-film-camera sits atop its large light brown padded leather camera case, beside lens covers, & 2 additional lenses next to it. The macro is a 55mm Albinar ADG macro zoom [80-200mm, 1:3,9]; beside that, the camera's original 50mm SMC Pentax-M [1:1,7], behind which 2 rolls of 35mm film rest. The camera is currently wearing a 49mm Albinar ADG auto zoom macro [35-70mm, 1:3,5~4,8], along with a black "GENIUNE TOP GRAIN COWHIDE--MADE IN U.S.A." neck strap.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vp6ndksfu42md65257kmdjkt/bafkreicw57qhlt3dzhb7xn7jqzy6h75q5f4krcbx367znskfrakhp33vda@jpeg)
October 27, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Went to a Halloween party last-minute on Saturday & family friend gave me his Dad's Pentax ME, 2 extra lenses, some of those fun '70s filters, AND two unexposed rolls of expired Superia400Xtra
Celestial Cucumber, Nr. 3 [in which God shows He's a trans-ally]
![Sunset of blue & a very pale orange lights the altocirrus-clouds shades from a deep [almost-brick-]red to the palest pinks; when viewed behind the houses & school buildings of the neighborhood (as-seen thru these aged dirty garage windows; someone remind me to find the squeegee the next time I'm looking into there) in-person the stripes greatly resembled the Trans-Pride-Flag.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vp6ndksfu42md65257kmdjkt/bafkreig2w5w65yjjcspzhzybktw4zcq5ruq22kk7shepuwcdx3ws746fcm@jpeg)
October 27, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Celestial Cucumber, Nr. 3 [in which God shows He's a trans-ally]