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Gopher Prairie, MN. Cat grandma. Data analyst, bookseller in previous lives. BA Russian Language & Culture, UMN '73; Я почти все забыла. The man of my dreams is Warren William. Deal with it.
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If the tater tot hotdish recipe you are using calls for “one 2 pound bag of tater tots” please know that that is a DAMNABLE LIE. You will need AT LEAST one and 1/4 bags. Quod erat demonstrandum:
A tater tot hotdish covered with one 2-pound bag of tater tots. Obviously this is not enough.
December 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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About to go into the oven:
first tater tot hotdish of the season
On a pullout breadboard, a tater tot hotdish in a glass baking dish. The tater tots are placed with geometric precision. Mostly.
December 13, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Wordle 1,638 2/6*

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🎵 I got a badge, I got a badge, I got a badge hey hey hey hey 🎵
Screenshot of Wordle statistics page showing a person has gotten Wordle in two 60 times
December 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Is the vowel you're talking about "ы"?
Photo of a Cyrillic keyboard, with the vowel ы circled in red
December 11, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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#BOTD in 1893, actress
Fay Bainter

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Fay Bainter with Anton Walbrook in THE SOLDIER AND THE LADY, 1937. RKO’s film of the Jules Verne novel “Michel Strogoff”, using lots of footage from the 1936 French and German versions, which also starred Walbrook, billed then as Adolf Wohlbrück. Bainter played Walbrook’s mother. It was her first film.
December 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Oh, you mean *this* Stuart Erwin?! Hmm. 🤔 Might be worth considering…
maybe.
Poster for MAKE ME A STAR, 1932, starring my Joanie ❤️ and Stuart Erwin, and Zasu Pitts and Ben Turpin.
December 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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I have a rotating list of actors whose heydays were in the '30s, '40s, or '50s, who regularly claim the title of "man of my dreams." This week the man of my dreams is Charles McGraw.
Hubba hubba ❤🎥
Watch him tonight in THE NARROW MARGIN, at 7pm Central, on moviestvnetwork.com

#SundayNightNoir
Movie poster for THE NARROW MARGIN, 1952 starring the divine Charles McGraw and the goddess Marie Windsor.
December 1, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Well all the other kids are doing it
Mamdani campaign sign fonts saying "Take off every zig For Great Justice"
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Shout out to whoever’s sticking these up. Well done, you!
A sticker is on the bathroom, safety rail, text says “Republicans protect pedos”
November 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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That was the title of the Mad magazine parody. (Mort Drucker ftw!)
Page 1 of the Mad magazine parody “Voyage to See What’s On the Bottom” 1966
October 26, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Reposting because looking at Peter O'Toole made me forget how to crop images. Le d'oh!
better cropped image of Peter O'Toole and Audrey Hepburn in How To Steal A Million (1966.)
October 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
Peter O'Toole and Audrey Hepburn in How To Steal A Million (1966.)
October 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Advice from 2018 Me's cubicle wall. Still good.
On a cubicle wall, a black rectangular sign with white text: "You don't have to attend every argument you're invited to."
October 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Call Tom Emmer today.

It's the patriotic American 🇺🇸 thing to do.

#NoKingsOctober18
Contact information for Rep. Tom Emmer MN-R
October 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Ope. Wrong Nash's can. On closer look, the coffee can Frances used to foil a robbery was a one pound can of Nash's Toasted Coffee, with "Coffee" written in script. Same vintage, circa 1930s.
Follow me for more tips on how to pursue tiny details to reveal their ultimate irrelevance.
Close up of Frances Farr's hand, holding the coffee can used in foiling a robbery. A Nash's Toasted Coffee can. Note the word Coffee is in script.
October 9, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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The weapon used by Frances Farr was identified as a one pound can of Nash’s Regular Grind Coffee, a product of Nash Coffee Company, Saint Paul Minnesota
A photo of a vintage (circa 1920s-1930s) one pound can of Nash’s Regular Grind Coffee
October 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Michael Palin saying "The Bishop!"
October 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Music written for History Is Made At Night, perhaps?
Goes with the Lobster Cardinal a la Cesar, and the Pink Cap ‘21 champagne…
Cover for the Criterion Collection edition of History Is Made At Night complete with Charles Boyer and Jean Arthur surrounded by an ocean liner, Colin Clive, Leo Carrillo (aka Chef Cesar) and little white silhouettes of a lobster, the Eiffel Tower, a pearl necklace, couples dancing, the Statue of Liberty. (All have plot significance.)
October 2, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Sean Bean/Boromir One Does Not Simply meme generator: ONE DOES NOT SIMPLY DELETE WEIRD AL
September 29, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Age yourself with a film you saw in a cinema as a kid.
The cast of Journey To The Center Of The Earth (1959), on the raft they built out of giant mushrooms, sailing on the Saknussem Sea at the center of the earth. L-r: Peter Ronson, Thayer David, Gertrude the Duck, James Mason, Arlene Dahl, and...ok, well I guess i have to include awful, tedious, smarmy Pat Boone.
September 28, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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What’s your sign
A green sign with white lettering that reads:"KEEP OFF DUNE" Someone has attached a piece of white paper with words written in black ink: "UNLESS KWISATZ HADERACH"
September 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Nice. Looks strangely familiar!
A loaf of honey whole wheat bread on a cooling rack. The 13x4 Pullman loaf pan and lid are next to it.
September 22, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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I am missing Katya (2010-2022) whose full name was Екатерина Великая, императрица всех русских голубых котят.
Morrigan shall be my new queen! ❤️
A Russian blue cat lying on the back of a brown leather couch, with shadows of Venetian blinds shining over her like a noir movie from the 1940s.
September 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Currently slogging through the slough of despair and in need of a thoughtful, intricate, beautifully-written book.
Thanks, Benjamin.

RIP Thomas Perry

Just borrowed from Libby:
Screenshot of the opening page of the Libby app showing the book Vanishing Act by Thomas Perry, just added to my bookshelf
September 17, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Oh for dumb.

Uhh, thanks, NYT. I guess.

[adds obligatory
"Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!" quote]
Screenshot of a "badge" one can earn by getting Wordle in 2. I have apparently earned this badge 56 times. Yay me!
September 14, 2025 at 10:47 PM