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I'm feeling the Da Boll's Christmas wish of December 1930. Better Luck Next Year?
December 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I'm feeling the Da Boll's Christmas wish of December 1930. Better Luck Next Year?
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“People sometimes forget
that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones
but on the backs of the ordinary ones
....ordinary musicians.”
-Cab Calloway #BOTD
Calloway and his band perform Geechy Joe (1943)
that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones
but on the backs of the ordinary ones
....ordinary musicians.”
-Cab Calloway #BOTD
Calloway and his band perform Geechy Joe (1943)
December 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
“People sometimes forget
that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones
but on the backs of the ordinary ones
....ordinary musicians.”
-Cab Calloway #BOTD
Calloway and his band perform Geechy Joe (1943)
that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones
but on the backs of the ordinary ones
....ordinary musicians.”
-Cab Calloway #BOTD
Calloway and his band perform Geechy Joe (1943)
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This may be the cheeriest Christmas post I have ever contributed to the hive mind.
Here is a piece I wrote a few years ago that is meant to be read aloud to dogs as they are seated in the glow of holiday related lights. It is, for dogs, a seasonal tale of HOPE AND RENEWAL. And it is about my dog Lewis. open.substack.com/pub/merrillm...
It's a Wonderful Lewis
A Christmas Tale of Hope and Renewal. For Dogs.
open.substack.com
December 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This may be the cheeriest Christmas post I have ever contributed to the hive mind.
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“In the last ten years, before all this current craziness began to happen, I lost all of my training at being startled.”
Brothers Keepers
Mysteries & Thrillers · 2019
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December 14, 2025 at 11:47 PM
“In the last ten years, before all this current craziness began to happen, I lost all of my training at being startled.”
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Only been a couple years since the supreme court was like "YOU ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO LET A PUBLIC SCHOOL FOOTBALL COACH LEAD PRAYERS AT THE 50 YARD LINE" and now here we are getting prayer in the national divorce
“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be “no more prayer” in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility…”
Is there any part of the First Amendment the Trump administration isn’t happy to violate?
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
Is there any part of the First Amendment the Trump administration isn’t happy to violate?
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
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November 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Only been a couple years since the supreme court was like "YOU ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO LET A PUBLIC SCHOOL FOOTBALL COACH LEAD PRAYERS AT THE 50 YARD LINE" and now here we are getting prayer in the national divorce
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Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔
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September 12, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔
on.ft.com/3K05vhS
on.ft.com/3K05vhS
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Local friends if you like Asian markets, you may like this place. 1001 W Chicago Avenue. Fairly good food stall section with six or seven stalls and seating. The grocery has lots of ordinary things like Cheerios and Mr Clean, but tons of Korean, Chinese, and Japanese items. I had already
August 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Local friends if you like Asian markets, you may like this place. 1001 W Chicago Avenue. Fairly good food stall section with six or seven stalls and seating. The grocery has lots of ordinary things like Cheerios and Mr Clean, but tons of Korean, Chinese, and Japanese items. I had already
as a retail employee, had to regretfully tell the person shopping with Ben Kingsley that we didn't carry the perfume she was looking for.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
June 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
as a retail employee, had to regretfully tell the person shopping with Ben Kingsley that we didn't carry the perfume she was looking for.
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In a sentence never before uttered by humans, I am delighted to share that an alligator stole my conservation instructor’s hat by jauntily walking into the water while wearing it 🐊
February 8, 2025 at 12:20 AM
In a sentence never before uttered by humans, I am delighted to share that an alligator stole my conservation instructor’s hat by jauntily walking into the water while wearing it 🐊
If you see this, post a concert photo you took
Nancy & Beth, May 2019
Nancy & Beth, May 2019
November 10, 2024 at 11:08 PM
If you see this, post a concert photo you took
Nancy & Beth, May 2019
Nancy & Beth, May 2019