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jackviertel.bsky.social @jackviertel.bsky.social · 1d

They are the body snatchers. Particularly this schmuck.

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jackviertel.bsky.social @jackviertel.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty Goddamn good.

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jackviertel.bsky.social @jackviertel.bsky.social · 1d

Not a musical. The eels don't sing.

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jackviertel.bsky.social @jackviertel.bsky.social · 1d

The Times likes our book a lot! Why wouldn't they. read it here (behind a pay wall, alas.) And then buy a book. You'll like it too.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/b...

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jackviertel.bsky.social @jackviertel.bsky.social · 2d

I apologize from the depths of my heart.

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jackviertel.bsky.social @jackviertel.bsky.social · 2d

Saroyan can be classified as a hopeless writer who, nonetheless, can do no wrong in my book. And his nephew wrote and performed "The Witch Doctor" and all those Chipmunks songs.

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jackviertel.bsky.social @jackviertel.bsky.social · 2d

I imagine you suffered through the Encores! version. Not a triumph, and probably a last gasp for a show that should be lots more fun.

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jackviertel.bsky.social @jackviertel.bsky.social · 2d

You'd think he'd satisfied to write "MGM has got a Leo but Mamma has got a trio," but first he had to INVENT Leo -- or so we're taught to believe. The creative mind works in mysterious ways.

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jackviertel.bsky.social @jackviertel.bsky.social · 5d

zowie!

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jackviertel.bsky.social @jackviertel.bsky.social · 7d

I have two comic heroes, one stoic, one manic. One of them has a birthday today.

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jackviertel.bsky.social @jackviertel.bsky.social · 8d

It's a laugh riot. Like Waiting for Godot in Miami.

jackviertel.bsky.social @jackviertel.bsky.social · 9d

Are you Don's offspring? I dealt with him many years ago.

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jackviertel.bsky.social @jackviertel.bsky.social · 9d

Congratulations to you both. Stand up and be counted.

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jackviertel.bsky.social @jackviertel.bsky.social · 9d

And let's not forget "Don't Laugh" from Hot Spot.

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jackviertel.bsky.social @jackviertel.bsky.social · 9d

Aren't there a few "Marianne" songs? I particularly like the one from The New Moon, but, of course, that was a hit.

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jackviertel.bsky.social @jackviertel.bsky.social · 9d

Summer Is Over wins that battle. But Harmony is pretty great Kander.

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jackviertel.bsky.social @jackviertel.bsky.social · 9d

And I could go on.

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jackviertel.bsky.social @jackviertel.bsky.social · 9d

Begin with "There's a Room In My House."

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jackviertel.bsky.social @jackviertel.bsky.social · 13d

And the punishment goes on forever.

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jackviertel.bsky.social @jackviertel.bsky.social · 13d

Time to reread Devin Gordon's excellent biography of my favorite team So Many Ways to Lose after today's final indignity for the New York Mets. I guess we wait till next year.

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jackviertel.bsky.social @jackviertel.bsky.social · 14d

You need to spend more time on it. I mean, what the hell else are you doing?

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𝕭𝖑𝖆𝖈𝖐𝖔𝖚𝖙 𝕻𝖗𝖎𝖓𝖈𝖊𝖘𝖘𝖊𝖘 @doomdisco.bsky.social · Aug 5

We had a world where lawnmowers had cigarette lighters and we threw it away

An old Sears riding mower with a cigarette lighter

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jackviertel.bsky.social @jackviertel.bsky.social · 14d

That's just what I say.

jackviertel.bsky.social @jackviertel.bsky.social · 14d

As Son House frequently said, "you got to rhyme it up good or it don't do nothing for nobody."

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jackviertel.bsky.social @jackviertel.bsky.social · 14d

If only I had the wall space!

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