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@odysseuscarr.bsky.social
May 28, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Wrote this recently about Family Trauma, Caregiving and Shakespeare medium.com/@jcinrva/to-...
“To Hold the Mirror Up to Nature”: How Shakespeare’s Histories Help Me Live with Trauma
This is a work in progress. The reading. The healing. The writing. All of it.
medium.com
May 17, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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The Great Vinyl Record Buying Swindle (unexpurgated version)
'Martin Gray on the current state of the vinyl record buying circus and the ever-spiralling costs can be justified given the increasingly inconsistent quality control of many new records.'
louderthanwar.com/the-great-vi...
The Great Vinyl Record Buying Swindle
Martin Gray offers his frank and unreserved views on the current feverish obsession with new vinyl reissues in multiple colours and formats.
louderthanwar.com
March 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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1969.

Mad Magazine.
March 11, 2025 at 12:01 AM
A lot of us nerds were doing Eclectic Grandpa before it was cool
While internet crazes are labeled “Gen Z trends,” members of that generation may be the ones most fatigued by the churn. “When you have 18,000 different ‘core’ identities being thrown at you — like eclectic grandpa, or coastal grandmother, or office siren — you’re like, What am I supposed to be?”
Gen Z Is Tired of Chasing the Trend Cycle
Every generation has chased trends. But were there ever this many? And did it ever feel this bad, or this hard, to just want to fit in? To some members of Gen Z, the objects of teenage yearning feel m...
www.nytimes.com
March 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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I’d like to announce my forthcoming US history book, covering a decisive but tumultuous era in that country’s history, titled “The trade policies of the United States: 10:30 am to 1:30 pm on Friday, March 7, 2025” It will be 400 pages.
March 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Stockholm
March 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Everything reminds me of him. In Geysir, Iceland
March 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
March 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Report: Morbid Curiosity Now Accounts For 79% Of Nation’s Snack Food Purchases
theonion.com/report-...
Report: Morbid Curiosity Now Accounts For 79% Of Nation’s Snack Food Purchases
ST. PAUL, MN—Identifying a clear preference for novelty above all other qualities, a report from the University of Minnesota released Friday found that morbid curiosity now accounts for 79 percent of the nation’s snack food purchases. “Whether they’re trying to figure out if a jelly bean really tastes like popcorn or what the deal is with those puffy shrimp chips that apparently are really popular in Asia, we’ve concluded that consumers buy snacks three-quarters of the time purely from an intense desire to determine whether a product corresponds with its purported flavor,” said the report’s author, Carol Souza, adding that almost 20 percent of those purchases alone were prompted by a keen interest in how biscuits-and-gravy was reduced to a potato chip coating. “Many people didn’t even seem to care whether or not the wasabi chocolate or seven-layer-dip Combos were good, only that they tasted anything at all like what they expected. Once they actually tried the products, they generally had no incentive whatsoever to purchase them a second time.” Souza went on to say that an additional 10 percent of snack foods were purchased purely to ascertain whether they tasted the same as they did when you were a kid.
theonion.com
February 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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RHAPSODY IN BLUE isn’t just an American classic—it’s a direct link to history. 🎶 When George Gershwin recorded it in 1924, he gave us a firsthand interpretation of his masterpiece.

More ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/02/18/public-domain-spotlight-rhapsody-in-blue/

#PublicDomainDay
February 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Todays great recording: Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber. You can see where Wagner got his inspiration.
February 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM
@nytgames.bsky.social that wordle answer is spelled with an H
February 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
RIP Paul Plishka
February 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Selective outrage of the right.
February 5, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I am not tolerating Monjauro well. No Ozempic face for me I guess.
February 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Broadway Poster Artist David Edward Byrd Passes Away at 83
Broadway Poster Artist David Edward Byrd Passes Away at 83
BroadwayWorld is saddened to report the passing of graphic artist David Edward Byrd, who died yesterday, February 3, 2025, according to reports from family and friends.
www.broadwayworld.com
February 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Can we please get a good remake of Evita?
January 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
They had to know, right?
January 19, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I finally did it. Deleted Facebook, x, threads and TikTok. Help keep me honest and away from it.
January 19, 2025 at 5:16 AM