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Kate Hastings @kastings.bsky.social · Mar 20

It was outstanding radio. I subbed to her podcast. Thank you.

Kate Hastings @kastings.bsky.social · Mar 15

Jeanne Shaheen has announced that she’s not seeking reelection….

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Kate Hastings @kastings.bsky.social · Feb 14

Thank you to @kairyssdal.bsky.social who went out on a limb to affirm the importance of the rule of law on Marketplace today. We are trained to withhold our own opinions in our reporting, so it feels like breaking the fourth wall when a journalist sounds an alarm. That’s courage. Well done.

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Kate Hastings @kastings.bsky.social · Jan 21

I went to the college activities fair to support the student newspaper that I advise. A dean challenged me to write a haiku using an old Magnetic Poetry set.

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Kate Hastings @kastings.bsky.social · Jan 20

That could happen to anyone, so no.

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Kate Hastings @kastings.bsky.social · Jan 20

The next time you see your doctor, they’ll ask, “Have you fallen in the last six months?” Just lie. It’s a can of worms not worth opening.

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Kate Hastings @kastings.bsky.social · Jan 15

I am deliriously happy to report that the Criterion Collection will issue Jean De Florette and Manon of the Spring in April. Long overdue!

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Kate Hastings @kastings.bsky.social · Jan 10

Straight Man by Richard Russo

Kate Hastings @kastings.bsky.social · Jan 10

Hank, the Austin Chronicle’s Best Boy Ever, died recently and was given a full obituary. RIP Noisemaker. obituaries.austinchronicle.com/obituary/han...

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Kate Hastings @kastings.bsky.social · Jan 9

Camp Josepho, an 84-year-old Scout camp owned by the Western Los Angeles Council of Scouting America, is another historic landmark that was consumed by fire yesterday. The 110 acres were donated to the Boy Scouts of America in 1941.

Kate Hastings @kastings.bsky.social · Jan 8

This.

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Kate Hastings @kastings.bsky.social · Dec 24

How about some big-ass Barbara Bush pearls?

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Kate Hastings @kastings.bsky.social · Dec 24

We watched The Tree of Life last night, and it evoked dreamlike memories of growing up in a small town before the television took over childhood. Running through alleys, playing in the river, living out of doors on the lawn with no patio, no deck to mediate. All hail Malick, Lubezki, and Fisk!

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Kate Hastings @kastings.bsky.social · Dec 19

We watched Jamie Foxx’s Netflix special “What Had Happened Was” about the aneurysm and stroke he suffered last year. I’m calling it now: He will start a mega-church, and it will be a Good Thing.
Also—watch it with a young adult who can call out all of the hip hop references.

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Kate Hastings @kastings.bsky.social · Dec 13

A lot of cool Chicagoland resources are actually in northern Indiana.

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Kate Hastings @kastings.bsky.social · Dec 12

Gerry Gold majored in Sculpture at Penn State and returned to my little town to join his dad’s plumbing business. He used his talents to create decorations for our town. Tonight we honored him posthumously at his Christmas sculpture at the south end of town. That’s his widow Jean with the horse.

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Kate Hastings @kastings.bsky.social · Dec 11

I live in a town of 2,300 people, and we have to make our own fun. On Sunday night, people put Christmas lights on their cars and drove around in a “Caravan of Lights.” My Scout troop put lights on its Klondike sled and pushed it through the streets. It was a blast.

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Kate Hastings @kastings.bsky.social · Dec 8

Are we Spartacus?

Kate Hastings @kastings.bsky.social · Dec 8

A long-distance drive presented an occasion to introduce my college sophomore to Tim Buckley, k.d. lang, and the Fagles translation of The Odyssey. So much better than 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall.

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Kate Hastings @kastings.bsky.social · Dec 5

I see your Brew-skee, and I raise your Brew-skee. 🍻 Here’s to Blew-skee; long may she reign.

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Kate Hastings @kastings.bsky.social · Nov 27

What do you do with the plant material that you remove? Is it hard to dispose of?

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Kate Hastings @kastings.bsky.social · Nov 26

Tom and I are on our own for the first time since never, so we decided the theme would be puff pastry. Roast vegetables and Manchego on puff pastry. Baked apples in puff pastry. Etc.

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Kate Hastings @kastings.bsky.social · Nov 26

Ah, journalism from the Hellmouth itself—the good old days.

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Kate Hastings @kastings.bsky.social · Nov 22

My colleague thought the name of this platform is pronounced “BLEW-skee,” and now I can’t hear it any other way.

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Kate Hastings @kastings.bsky.social · Nov 20

What are some iconic films that include a caravan of itinerant performers like The Seventh Seal and La Strada?

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