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Robert Ham @robertham.bsky.social · 9h

How soon do we think the Yankees home office takes before they boot Aaron Boone. First thing in the morning? End of the day?

Robert Ham @robertham.bsky.social · 10h

With all due respect to some of my friends on here:

Haha! Fuck them Yankees.

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Robert Ham @robertham.bsky.social · 12h

Pronounced "balrog."

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Robert Ham @robertham.bsky.social · 15h

Was crucial reading during my HS years.

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Robert Ham @robertham.bsky.social · 15h

The library bookstore once again giveth.

Books! THE NEW TROUSER PRESS RECORD GUIDE, ASHLEY HUTCHINGS: THE GUV'NOR & THE RISE OF FOLK ROCK by Brian Hinton & Geoff Wall, BASQUIAT: A QUICK KILLING IN ART by Phoebe Hoban, K-PUNK: THE COLLECTED AND UNPUBLISHED WRITINGS OF MARK FISHER (2004-2018) and LADIES AND GENTLEMEN LENNY BRUCE!! by Albert Goldman

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Robert Ham @robertham.bsky.social · 16h

Oregon. Or Couch.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 18h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Robert Ham @robertham.bsky.social · 16h

www.brooklynvegan.com/is-bob-mould...

Might this be why Mr. Mould played no Sugar songs when I saw him last?

Is Bob Mould reforming Sugar with original lineup?

There's been no official word, but the Sugar instagram account is followed by the band's Bob Mould, David Barbe, and Malcolm Travis.

www.brooklynvegan.com

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Robert Ham @robertham.bsky.social · 22h

Today's Thrift Haul™️

(This is how it usually goes at my regular spot.)

CDs by Love & Rockets, Smashing Pumpkins, and Steely Dan

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Robert Ham @robertham.bsky.social · 1d

@nedl.bsky.social and I just dropped the first of many @recordstoreday.bsky.social Black Friday preview posts today over at @vinylcut.net, starting with the jazz & blues releases arriving in stores that day.

www.vinylcut.net/record-store...

Record Store Day Black Friday 2025 Preview: Jazz & Blues

Welcome to The Vinyl Cut’s first installment of our preview of Record Store Day’s Black Friday 2025 event, which comes to independent record stores on—you guessed it—Black Friday (that’s Friday, Novem...

www.vinylcut.net

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Robert Ham @robertham.bsky.social · 1d

My pastor said I'm not allowed but I'll show him.

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Robert Ham @robertham.bsky.social · 1d

Oh I believe it. I'll just sell it for four bucks at my shop and be happy. But those cases yes are going to be super helpful to me

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Robert Ham @robertham.bsky.social · 1d

Today's Thrift Haul™️

CDs by Ella Fitzgerald, Pink Floyd, The Mekons, and Decontrol

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Robert Ham @robertham.bsky.social · 2d

More Memorials

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Robert Ham @robertham.bsky.social · 2d

Memorials

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Megan Burbank @meganburbank.bsky.social · 2d

link for those who are curious meganburbank.substack.com

Burbank Industries | Megan Burbank | Substack

Reproductive health policy reporting. Pop culture commentary. Click to read Burbank Industries, by Megan Burbank, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

meganburbank.substack.com

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Robert Ham @robertham.bsky.social · 2d

Whisper Hiss

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Robert Ham @robertham.bsky.social · 2d

Something dumb that delighted me just now: thrift store near my house does Media Mondays where all the movies and music are 4 for $1. Woman who looks like one of the Goodfellas wives stormed in with a shopping cart and PURPOSE. First record she grabbed? Donny Osmond.

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Robert Ham @robertham.bsky.social · 2d

Over at @vinylcut.net today, I reviewed the lovely 45 RPM edition of The Sundays' second album BLIND and my colleague @nedl.bsky.social looked into a new pressing of the 1967 debut album by The Litter

www.vinylcut.net/vinyl-review...

Reviews: The Litter and the Sundays

Distortions is back on yellow vinyl, and the black vinyl repress of Blind is much improved. Today we’ve got two quick vinyl reviews of some recent represses. The Litters’ Distortions is a garage-rock...

www.vinylcut.net

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Robert Ham @robertham.bsky.social · 3d

Why do the Yankees keep Judge in RF? There's no urgency at all to his fielding. The big error in the game tonight is further proof of that.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 3d

Broken Eggs, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1756

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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 3d

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Robert Ham @robertham.bsky.social · 3d

Classic.

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Cinematic Vinyl @cinematicvinyl.bsky.social · 3d

Some great Cancon™️ in HELLO MARY LOU: PROM NIGHT II (1987, dir. Bruce Pittman): a poster for a gig by Ontario experimental band Violence and the Sacred

A bulletin board featuring a poster advertising a gig by Violence and the Sacred with the band Blunt Instruments opening up.

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Robert Ham @robertham.bsky.social · 3d

Rare photo of me and the missus on date night.

A screenshot from HELLO MARY LOU: PROM NIGHT II with a large bohunk staring off in the distance while his date stares at him with a look of...confusion? lust? terror?

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Robert Ham @robertham.bsky.social · 3d

Tape a penny to this postcard and send it in.

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