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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 18h

Oh, I agree with this, even though I haven’t lived in Maine for quite some time

Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 18h

IDK, if you ever have to drive to Massachusetts from anywhere in Maine, Boston traffic feels like it starts in Portland, no?

Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 18h

Just read this aloud to my wife. Helps to have 1) read those Douglas Adam’s books and 2) to have seen a lot of subtitled foreign movies (including BICYCLE THIEVES). Good stuff, and thanks for the product test!

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 1d

Phillies made that final inning tense! As a Cubs fan, I’d like to know what that’s even like

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 2d

Boy, Byron Allen is going to have to invent some new shows to rehab the reps of so many comics

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 2d

I wa totally unsurprised to learn that Ken Jennings is (was?) Mormon

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 2d

It’s entirely possible my grandfather, who moved to Utah and converted to Mormonism, introduced these books to our household. I knew some Mormons growing up. They always seemed well-adjusted to me, and if you’re a theater or choir kid, they’re kind of a blast.

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 2d

Yes! Apt description. I was also a bookworm although not a troublemaker, but was frequently alone and left to my own devices to occupy myself. These boys were so inventive!

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Désespérer @decervelage.bsky.social · 2d

The Great Brain by John D. Fitzgerald was like a Mormon ‘boy’s adventure’ version of Ann of Green Gables. The Brain was a cocky Utah kid who scammed his pals, ingeniously dunked teachers, and found ways to make money. E. L. Doctorow was the series’ editor. Jimmy Osmond starred in the movie version.

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 2d

Loved this series as a kid. To me it felt more like a less pandering Little House vibe. The kids were easy to identify with. Seemed normal.

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 3d

Egad, it’s *Gillson* Park. Clearly my memory ain’t what it used to be.

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 3d

I couldn’t remember whether the park extended to the temple. I got some nice pix there one summer but no longer on my camera roll, or I’d share

Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 3d

Nearby Gilman Park is an awfully pretty spot, too

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 3d

Tonight of all nights I’m going to re-up my benediction for Chicago.

We are everything.

dansinker.com/posts/202…

No matter what happens in the coming weeks, we are Chicago. We rose from the ashes. We never quit.&10;&10;We are the lake in the morning, the sun rising over the water, its reflection drawing a line straight to our shores.&10;&10;We are the Haymarket Martyrs, the Pullman strikers, always demanding better than what we've got.&10;&10;We are the words of Sandburg and Algren and Brooks and Wright.&10;&10;We are the 90s Bulls, making the impossible possible.&10;&10;We are the dipped Italian Beef. Messy, sure, but incredible.&10;&10;We are the humidity in the summer, the frostbitten cheeks in the winter.&10;&10;We are smoke-kissed rib tips.&10;&10;We are elotes on the street. We are pierogis in a pot.&10;&10;We are Curtis singing Hush now child.

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 3d

Ceci n’est pas une pipe.

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Bavacado Ghost @bavacadotoast.bsky.social · 3d

These are the vibes I want for my spooky season.

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 3d

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 3d

Kind of incredible that this, PSYCHO, and Bava’s BLACK SUNDAY (MASK OF THE DEMON) came out the same year

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 3d

Totally gratuitous pre-bedtime kinky lingerie scene seals the deal on it

Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 3d

@faceyouhate.bsky.social worth it for the replies

Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve never seen Miller’s Crossing

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 3d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · Oct 25

Another Halloween rerun. For a good time, watch Hammer’s Dracula A.D. 1972

India ink drawing of Christopher Lee as Dracula in process of chewing on Caroline Munro in Hammer Studios' "Dracula A.D. 1972". Absolute banger picture if you want your horror to be heavy on early 70s London hipsters.

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 3d

A feel-good thread to brighten up your Sunday. HT @paulduane.bsky.social

Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 3d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 3d

Great article, Robert, thanks for reposting!

Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 3d

History rhyming pretty hard about now

Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 3d

“I would like to know by what authority United States troops come in here and shoot our citizens without the slightest warning,” the mayor of Hammond, Indiana, said in 1894. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/22/i...

In 1894 Pullman strike, Illinois’ governor fought president’s decision to send in troops

During the Pullman Strike of 1894, the governor of Illinois decried President Grover Cleveland’s move to call in the federal troops.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Lee David Dalton @leedaviddalton.bsky.social · 3d

Apparently even the laws of physics are woke terrorist leftist ICE abolitionists

Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 3d

Oh. Hang on. So the guy feds tried to pile drive into the concrete was preceded by the “ramming” incident? In which feds apparently rammed themselves and a civilian vehicle? And disabled their own car driving through a construction area? Do I have that right?

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 4d

per reddit this is the 'ten car' incident -- weird!

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