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David Daniel
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Husband & father, American Jew, entertainment journalist, environmentalist, reader, regular blood donor. SoCal native, home after Boston & Atlanta sojourns. “Find the good, and praise it" - Alex Haley
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Rachel McAdams is to be honored with the 2,833rd star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in the Motion Pictures Category, on Tuesday, January 20.

Guest speakers: Sam Raimi, director of her new film "Send Help," and Domhnall Gleeson, who starred with McAdams in the 2013 movie "About Time."
Headshot of Rachel McAdams. She's looking directly into the camera with a slight smile. She's standing against a red step-and-repeat background with white type, her dark blond hair laying on the shoulders of her gray patterned blazer.
January 13, 2026 at 11:09 PM
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TV “Indian Head” black-and-white sign off test pattern
January 10, 2026 at 6:18 AM
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We bought it and devoured it! Thus my pull-quote: I love when you’re in A Cave State of Mind.
Hardback copy of THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP by Sarah Kendzior, “Bestselling author of They Knew.” The book sits on a blue-and-white checked tablecloth.
January 9, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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Okay, I’ll play; guess I have Too Much Time On My Hands…
Styx “Paradise Theater” cassette and case
January 9, 2026 at 7:48 AM
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My daughter included this sticker in her holiday card to me, in recognition of the year we’d just been through.

Looks like we’re all going to need it even more in 2026.
A round sticker reading “Radical Resilience Merit Badge (Self Approved) Learned It. Earned It.”
January 3, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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Book cover: The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson.
January 2, 2026 at 3:17 AM
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I’ll take it!
Screenshot of a Merriam-Webster post: “Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2026.” My word is “blissful.”
January 1, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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Happy New Year from Southern California!

Goodbye to 2025, which brought use fire and ICE and a death in the family, but also family and friends and good times and another Dodgers championship.

May 2026 bring less grief, more joy, and a kinder world for all.
2 clinking champagne glasses, with a raspberry in each, held by an unseen couple.
January 1, 2026 at 8:05 AM
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AC & AC are great, but my #CNNNYE is not complete until the awesome Sara Sidner shows up. Hello, Austin!
Sara Sidner and Cari Champion hosting CNN New Year’s Eve in Austin, Texas.
January 1, 2026 at 5:36 AM
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I'm grateful to @billmckibben.bsky.social and @thewaroncars.bsky.social for two of the best, and most important, books I read this year. Both are extremely accessible, and combine terrific research (both data and anecdotal), important warnings, and viable solutions. (2/5)
The hardback book covers of Here Comes The Sun by Bill McKibben, and Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile, by Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon, and Aaron Naparstek.
December 31, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Alan Cumming will be the first Hollywood Walk of Fame honoree of 2026!

He'll be honored with the 2,832nd Walk of Fame star, in the Live Theatre/Live Performance category, on January 8.

Guest speakers: Brian Cox and Monica Lewinsky.
Photo of Alan Cumming, standing with arms folded in a studio with spotlights behind him. He's wearing round black glasses, and a blue jacket with white lines over a black t-shirt.
December 29, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Full house today at my local Red Cross! Great to see so many people here to donate. Making my 179th whole blood donation, then grabbing some Nutter Butters at the canteen!
Guy with salt-and-pepper hair and beard and a blue Red Cross “Give Blood Give Hope” t-shirt, smiling even though he has a blood pressure cuff on his arm and a bandage and gauze covering a needle below it.
December 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Pretty good Hanukkah gift from my brother – we went to Game 3 together.
Back of a t-shirt: I SURVIVED THE 18 INNINGS OF HOPE AND HISTORY NO SLEEP ONE HEART DODGERS FOREVER
December 26, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Despite finding myself in more malls, restaurants and airports than usual this holiday season, I somehow avoided The Boy, once again winning @littledrummerboychallenge.com... and once again, it was for Fawn, a friend gone far too soon.

Listening (after Bing & Bowie) to a mix Fawn made me. Miss her.
Typed cover of a mix CD, titled Chasing Away the Mid-Winter Blahs 1. Whenever I Call You Friend -- Kenny Loggins & Stevie Nicks 2. Hallelujah, I Love Her So -- Ray Charles 3. Let the River Run -- Carly Simon 4. I Go to Rio -- Peter Allen 5. Arthur's Theme (The Best That You Can Do) -- Christopher Cross 6. I'm a Believer -- The Monkees 7. Happy Together -- The Turtles 8. City Lights -- Livingston & James Taylor 9. Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show -- Neil Diamond 10. Son of a Preacher Man -- Dusty Springfield 11. Uncle John's Band -- Jimmy Buffett 12. Tell Him -- The Exciters 13. And When I Die -- Laura Nyro 14. For Once In My Life -- Stevie Wonder 15. Mockingbird -- Carly Simon & James Taylor 16. New York State of Mind -- Billy Joel 17. Sweet Caroline -- Neil Diamond 18. The Rainbow Connection -- Dixie Chicks
December 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Whoa: I-5 closed between Penrose Street and Lankershim Boulevard in the northeast San Fernando Valley in L.A. due to several feet of floodwaters on the freeway. ktla.com/weather/torr...
KTLA screenshot of the flooded I-5 freeway. It's flooded on both sides of the divided highway, with a police cruiser, its lights on, stopped well beyond the flooded portion in the background.
December 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Yup. Staying put.
Flash flood warning that interrupted my podcast, with “additional details” to watch for including rock slides, mudslides, and debris flows.
December 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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This is an ad my mobile game just served up. Gosh, wonder if they used AI?
Illustration of a man in a suit with a briefcase, looking at a spiral staircase in a dreamlike scene with a clock face and gears scattered around him like planets, with galaxies above and a planet far below. Nine of that is important. What’s important is the text at the right. First, it runs off the screen: poor placement. Worse, when you examine the text, it (the visible part, anyway) reads, in increasingly shaky letters, “Master secret techquaselfing – secraluing prove self-growth through…” and the words within the action button below are not in any alphabet I know.
December 24, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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PBS is extending the free streaming window for THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION on PBS.org and the PBS app through December 31.

PBS will also rebroadcast the series over 6 Fridays, January 9 - February 13, and air it over 3 Mondays and Tuesdays, April 20 – May 5, followed by a marathon June 27-28.
Artwork for "THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, a film by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein & David Schmidt." The artwork shows the quoted copy over a gold background showing the preamble to the U.S. Constitution. In the right foreground, next to the copy, is a Revolutionary War scene in shadow, with a rider atop a hill brandishing a sword that turns into a white feather suggesting a quill for writing.
December 22, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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The last of the last lights of Hanukkah.

Praying for light through, and into, the new year.
A gold-colored metal Hanukkah menorah aglow for the eighth and final night of the holiday. The white candles have burned low, though the flames are still bright. White salt and pepper shakers are out of focus behind the menorah.
December 22, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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The current U.S. schedule calls for vaccinations to protect against 18 infectious diseases, including covid-19, according to a Food and Drug Administration presentation in December, compared with calls for vaccinations to protect against 10 infectious diseases in Denmark. Denmark does not recommend vaccinating children for influenza, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and chicken pox, among other common pathogens. Public health experts say comparisons to Denmark are misleading, noting the countries differ sharply in population, health systems and disease burden. They argue what works in Denmark’s small, universal health care system does not easily translate to the far larger and more diverse U.S. population with uneven access to quality care.
December 19, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Awesome Hanukkah gift from my brother, who went with me to Game 3 of the Dodgers – Blue Jays World Series. (And yes, we stayed for all 18 innings.)
Me, a grinning white guy with salt-and-pepper hair and beard, hands on hips, wearing a blue t-shirt with white type reading “18-INNING CLASSIC” with the line score from this year’s Game 3 and images of four Dodgers. I’m standing in front of brown kitchen pantry doors, next to a silver metal refrigerator. The back of the t-shirt from the first image, reading: I SURVIVED THE 18 INNINGS OF HOPE AND HISTORY NO SLEEP ONE HEART DODGERS FOREVER My arms are raised, and I’m pointing at the shirt with my outstretched thumbs. A fairly geeky pose, but (1) I was excited about the gift, and (2) I’m a fairly geeky guy.
December 19, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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ICYMI: @colbertlateshow.bsky.social is auctioning off items from the set, including two tickets to the final show next May, to benefit World Central Kitchen @wck.org. www.ebay.com/str/thelates...
A screenshot of four featured items, with captions (truncated), current bid, number of bids, and time left to bid, and photos, in the Late Show with Stephen Colbert eBay auction benefitting World Central Kitchen: Stephen's DESK from the pandemic-era set of "A Late Show with Stephen..." $14,000 / 57 bids / 8d 12h 2m Autographed SCRIPT from Episode #0001 of "The Late Show with..." $6,000 / 72 bids / 8d 11h 55m Stephen Colbert's Aviator Glasses + Paul Rudd's "People" Sexiest Man... $13,400 / 84 bids / 8d 12h 0m Two (2) VIP TICKETS to the final episode of "The Late Show with..." $27,000 / 138 bids / 8d 12h 4m
December 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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The cover of a paperback copy of BALL FOUR by Jim Bouton, edited by Leonard Schecter. It shows the title in green block capitals, and below Bouton's name, it calls the book "The controversial bestseller that tears the cover off the biggest names in baseball." Below the title, a hand is shown holding a baseball with a knuckleball grip. It's a Dell paperback, priced at $1.75.
December 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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OP is saying it's a joke without saying it's a joke, and a poke at how seriously people take things on LinkedIn. (It's certainly effective engagement farming: 1,000+ reactions and 400+ comments on the initial post.)
A pair of comments on the LinkedIn "flying in a straight line on the map from Europe to LA is more cost-effective" post: Kimran D says "To protect what remains of my faith in humanity, I'll assume this post is sarcasm...." [SMH emoji] Yolanda Cabrera, the original poster, replies "This is LinkedIn. We don't do sarcasm, we do actionable insights and disruptive thought leadership that drive optimal market synergies."
December 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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When I *have* to drive, and I'm (inevitably) stuck in traffic, I appreciate folks who provide a little reading material.
The rear of a dark gray Honda minivan with a variety of white stickers around the rear windshield, including: Let Me Guess... License & Registration [with a dinosaur picture] i am unstoppable An apple a day will keep anyone away if you throw it hard enough [in the style of oval "26.2 miles" stickers for marathoners] 0.1 I TRIED SORRY FOR DRIVING SOOOOOOO CLOSE IN FRONT OF YOU... cool minivan! - nobody BUY A HYBRID: I NED THE GAS! 0 -> 60 Eventually Let's just pretend this ISN'T A MINIVAN [with a minivan illustration] never say never I DO / I DID / I'M DONE
December 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM