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"smokey stevenson"
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It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black.
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · Jun 27
Mick Jagger as seen in the video for the Stones' "Waiting On a Friend." He is standing in a doorway wearing a multi-colored striped shirt and a sort of jazzy salmon-coloured fedora. He is looking off to the side. The closed captioning says "I'm trying to make sense," which, y'know, isn't that just all of us?
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@jeremylittau.com yard goals
keithpille.bsky.social K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 3m
Pulling the most recent police log led me to once again see an incredible holiday decoration picture a cousin in Omaha sent me
An inflatable Death Star with a wreath around the primary weapon and text printed on it saying “May CHRIST be with you”
November 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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This week 50 years ago in the Boston Phoenix: Sure, the big arenas in town are busy, but check out the smaller rooms.
all four ads in this post are from the Boston Phoenix alternative newspaper dated November 25, 1975. All are black and white and are text-based. This one promotes a free concert by Terry Riley at Cambridge's Sanders Theater. Oddly, the date of the concert is Nov 24, one day before the issue date of the newspaper ad for the Unholy Modal Rounders' weeklong stand from Nov 24-29 at the Inman Square Men's Bar in Cambridge. I think I have a recording of one of these shows ad for a Boston club called the Sugar Shack. Upcoming attractions include Betty Wright, Bobby Blue Bland, Willie Hutch, Tavares, and the Manhattans. By happenstance I was just listening to Bland's landmark Two Steps from the Blues album in the car yesterday Ad for a drum clinic to be held by famous jazz drummer Louis Bellson at the EU Wurlitzer music store on Newbury St, Boston. The ad goes hard: "Words are unnecessary to describe the merits of this clinic -- so the facts: Monday nite Dec 8th"
November 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Mom *could* have gotten the one that had all the NFL helmets on the side ... but noooooooo.
discontinuedfoods.bsky.social Discontinued Foods! @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 2h
Day #168: The Exciting World of the Metric System (1976)
A white metal lunchbox that reads "The Exciting World of Metric!" surrounded by images of: A motorcyclist and 2 race cars A power plant 3 Olympic runners and a shot put athlete A downhill skiier Pharmacy accoutrements A white metal lunchbox with a red handle that reads "The Exciting World of Metrics: A Decimal Measuring System" It is surrounded by images of: A snail An inchworm A thermometer An old timey circus strongman holding triangular weights An ice cream sundae and milkshake
November 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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⚾️ Immaculate Grid 969 9/9:
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November 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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The skyline converses with itself
Two adjoining posts on my feed, with contradictory text as to whether something seems good or not
November 26, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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I saw 69 Seconds Later at Murphy's Lounge, opening for Gutpunch Myself. It was pretty lame actually
boston.solar.v.cx Solar Boston @boston.solar.v.cx · 18h
The sun will rise in #Boston #Massachusetts tomorrow at 6:48, 69 seconds later than the day before.
It will set at 16:15, 31 seconds earlier than the day before.
November 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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#RIP to former Red Sox and Royals pitcher Dave Morehead, known for:
- pitching a no-hitter at Fenway in 1965
- having classy flow
kurtblumenau.bsky.social "smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · Jul 12
don't mind me, just learnin' some new slang over here
clipping from the August 1, 1967, Boston Globe. Red Sox pitcher Lee Stange welcomes teammate Dave Morehead with the greeting, "Hey, Moss," which we're told is "players' slang for a man with classy hair"
November 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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you know what would be phat? some mood snow
November 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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an answer for anyone who wondered: "where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?"
beautyofagame.bsky.social Beauty of a Game @beautyofagame.bsky.social · 1d
Yankee legend Joe DiMaggio was airbrushed out of the photo (taken at an Old Timer’s Day) used as the record sleeve art for Terry Cashman’s “Willie, Mickey & The Duke - Talkin’ Baseball” because he doesn’t appear in the lyrics.
November 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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There was a time when Americans could count on newspapers to stand up for their interests.
beginning of article headlined The CB Rip-Off, outlining how the FCC, scammers, and US Congress are all taking advantage of American CB users. This ran in the October 11, 1976, Rochester (NY) Democrat and Chronicle. The logo above it -- a cartoon of a man happily gabbing into a CB set -- suggests that this was perhaps part of an ongoing series of CB-themed articles
November 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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⚾️ Immaculate Grid 968 9/9:
Rarity: 10
IMMACULATE!
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November 25, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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pleased to meetcher, Tuesday
(and a bunny too)
Nice pinkish-purple sunrise above a series of yards and bare trees Rabbit sits in cold yard in the early morning. Almost everything in the photo is some shade of dull brown
November 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Well, shucks, an attractive gal at home in the world of baseball. She's "curvaceous," too, the AP says.
Associated Press story from January 1963 about Anne Holt, the president of the minor-league baseball team in Corning, New York. Headline says "Attractive Gal At Home in World of Baseball." Aw, shucks, how about that, reader? (Which paper gave us this gem of a headline? Some idiot provincial rag in the sticks? Try the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.)
November 25, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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signed, Bart Starr
November 24, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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shapes of things
lake-superior.live Lake Superior! Live! @lake-superior.live · 1d
Current* conditions near Duluth, MN:
Rotating view East to North from the top of the Park Point Marina Inn overlooking Lake Superior. // Image captured at: 2025-11-24 21:11:29 UTC (about 8 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Duluth: 53.72 F | 12.07 C // Precip: clear sky // Wind: NNE at 6.912 mph | 11.12 kph // Humidity: 58%
November 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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On Dada Drummer Almanach, some thoughts about “live” albums dadadrummer.substack.com/p/sly-fidelity
Sly Fidelity
The Paradoxical Vitality of "Live" Albums
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November 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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holy sh!t, how have I never seen this among the floods of packaged SNL highlights? This is astonishing. His *entrance* alone makes you sit upright.
bowiesongs.bsky.social Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 1d
Goodbye Jimmy Cliff. His vocal in this 1976 SNL performance, good lord---one of the best singers of his generation, of any generation. vimeo.com/155135842
many rivers to cross
jimmy cliff on saturday night live, 1976.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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whistling "Fife & Drums Theme" sorry (not sorry)
markscds.bsky.social The CD Project @markscds.bsky.social · 1d
The Vince Guaraldi Quintet - A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (1973/2023)
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November 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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IT'S MY DAY, BITCHES
statue of legendary Pacific Northwest skyjacker DB Cooper at the Seattle Museum of Flight. He is a caucasian male, maybe about 5'10", wearing a dark business suit and a parachute and carrying a brown bag with money poking out of it. He also has a pair of sunglasses that he is rakishly adjusting with his right hand, and an expression that hints at a smile
November 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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this is known in legal circles as the Hetfield Exception
mobydickatsea.bsky.social Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 2d
And if you cannot kill them all at once, you must wing them, so that they can be afterwards killed at your leisure.
November 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Back where we started
Here we go ‘round again.
Bowl of microwaved oatmeal sits in middle of white stove with black burners visible on either side. Reader, I have found store brand oatmeal to be preferable to Quaker (which I bought ‘cause it was on sale.) after eating my oats I will pull my weight like a scottish pony
November 24, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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⚾️ Immaculate Grid 967 9/9:
Rarity: 8
IMMACULATE!
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Immaculate Grid #967 was shared with you
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November 24, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Screen shot from immaculate grid baseball trivia puzzle showing former major league pitcher Tim Harikkala
November 24, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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soup/stew vibe strong tonight
screenshot of two consecutive posts from two different people addressing the topic of making soup or stew (a topic I addressed in a few posts of my own earlier this evening, only heightening the soup-vibe)
November 24, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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and, if you're still feeling the donna jean love, 50 years ago tonight, the keith & donna band (with billy kreutzmann) in boston, with cool promoter intro, 17-minute "farewell jack" (mostly drum solo, but still), & actual earned encore. heads.social/@bourgwick/1... #godchauxfreaksunite
newspaper ad for Kingfish & Keith & Donna Godchaux Band
November 23, 2025 at 11:53 PM