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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 2h

EXTREMELY RON HOWARD VOICE: It did not.

All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 2h

#EdwardGoreyMusic #MusicChallenge Day 7 - “Tennis,” watercolor and ink "Tennis Court," Lorde (2013) youtu.be/D8Ymd-OCucs?... I am simply not going to even check and see just how many people used this for this illustrated prompt. I AM ORIGINAL AND REFUSE TO CONSIDER OTHERWISE!

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 11h

I’m very happy being a one-minivan, one-cargo bike household, but sometimes I miss that versatile little bastard.

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 12h

It’s called Vibe-based automaking

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ah yes, the TIHIBAYE button Thanks I Hate It But Appreciate Your Expertise

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“I mean, I asked if they had a hattery they worked with for special orders or something, and the lady just kept saying, ‘We don’t have anything larger than Size 8.”

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I like how your “claims” all need to be backed up by data, but OP can apparently float wild conspiracy theories with no evidence.

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I love* that the ceiling dancing is played straight and never explained. I guess the party is so hot that the laws of physics are literally breaking down? The video leads me to believe this is not a metaphor! *I'm about 80% sure I love this, but 20% chance I actually hate it

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

*(I did not search for any evidence one way of the other.)

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#EdwardGoreyMusic #MusicChallenge Day 6 - “I Saw Dracula” - from Edward Gorey’s 'Dracula' "I Thought I Saw Your Face Today," She & Him youtu.be/BfCBJR55GYE?... There's no evidence Zooey was singing about Dracula here, but neither is there evidence she *wasn't* singing about Dracula.

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I, too, think this is right having watched the clip. And, let's not forget, the crowd ATE IT UP.

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is often paraphrased to simply, "If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time," but Wharton never actually wrote that. We strive for accuracy here at Read & Play!

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#readandplay (821) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play🎶

Quote from Edith Wharton's short story THE LAST ASSET (1904): "There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time."

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#EdwardGoreyMusic #MusicChallenge Day 5 - Bustopher Jones: The Cat About Town, from Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, by T.S. Eliot “Man About Town,” Danage danage.bandcamp.com/track/man-ab... A fashionable feline in London of yore, a stoner in Oakland of today…they may have things in common!

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Shout out to everybody in Berkeley High School Class of 1983 whose drama got featured in a Top 10 single.

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You are probably aware, but Club Nouveau is a spinoff of Timex Social Club, the former founded by the producer who released “Rumors” and with some shared membership between the groups. To the point that YouTube has identical (as near as I can tell) versions of “Rumors” attributed to both groups.

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My denisty has pought me to you.

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#EdwardGoreyMusic #MusicChallenge Day 4 - Les Urnes Utiles (“Useful Urns”) "Asylum - Luncheon - Crematorium - On Fire," Danny Elfman (from SCROOGED: ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SCORE) youtu.be/__VZqfTwP7s?...

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#EdwardGoreyMusic #MusicChallenge Day 3: “Tea Room” from The Tea Room Tryptych “I’m Watching You,” The Monks (recorded 1967, released 2017) youtu.be/DptE1oMSZoA

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#EdwardGoreyMusic #MusicChallenge Day 2 - “The top of the zagava tree was frequently where they had tea.” - from The Osbick Bird "The Birds Would Understand," Putnam Smith youtu.be/cDkSrVLPaRY?...

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#EdwardGoreyMusic #MusicChallenge Day 1 (catching up): Les Passementeries Horribles (“The Horrible Tassels") "Don't Go to the Woods," The Decemberists youtu.be/VHulgKKeMWM?... Am I really going straight to The Decemberists—the Edward Gorey-est indie rock band of all time—on Day 1? Yes, yes I am.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph

Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

TIL: "The progenitor of polo and its variants was an equestrian game named chovgan (Persian: چوگان), which was played from the 6th century BCE to the 1st century CE in Persia (Iran) and Central Asia." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polo

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Polo - Wikipedia

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The source page for this notes: "This metaphor of life as a polo game appears in some translations of the Rubaiyat (particularly FitzGerald), but not in the Bodleian manuscript." Sorry to all the Bodleian manuscript stans! wist.info/omar-khayyam...

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Omar Khayyam - Rubáiyát [رباعیات] [tr. Whinfield (1882), # 204] | WIST Quotations

Blame not this ball, impelled by bat's hard blows, That now to right and now to left it goes, That One who wields the bat and smites the strokes He knows what drives thee, yea He knows, He knows. This...

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#readandplay (818) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky 🍁 🍂🍃 “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play🎶

Blame not this ball, impelled by bat’s hard blows,
That now to right and now to left it goes,
That One who wields the bat and smites the strokes
He knows what drives thee, yea He knows, He knows.

Omar Khayyám (1048–1123) Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer [عمر خیام]
Rubáiyát [رباعیات] [tr. Whinfield (1882), # 204]

Source: https://wist.info/omar-khayyam/72212/

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I *almost* put in "Skeletons" for a bonus, but once again I managed to pick a 1987 song that someone else ended up choosing as their main 🤷‍♂️

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Maybe he meant it is mind-boggling that the U.S. business community and travel industry in particular didn’t use its political muscle to prevent Trump’s election and still talks about the GOP like it is fostering a business-friendly environment rather than running it into the fucking ground???

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It doesn't even have the part of the song that might translate well to nu-metal!

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#MusicChallenge #WorldAtoZ Day 30 - from a place you want to go: Mexico City Someday soon, I gotta see North America's most populous (and perhaps most vibrant?) city. "Terracentric," Rodrigo y Gabriela

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Terracentric

YouTube video by Rodrigo y Gabriela - Topic

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That's all for me for #NowHearThis: 30 songs I love that have <750K streams AND I've somehow never posted about on bluesky dot com. Playlist: music.youtube.com/playlist?lis... I don't know about you all, but I discovered a bunch of new-to-me songs. Thanks @savemeaseat.bsky.social for running this!

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#NowHearThis - atcl

Playlist • Bill Chapin

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#NowHearThis Day 30 "Merry" Suddenly, Tammy! (1995) Spotify plays: 2,769 #LancasterPA #PianoPop Stop me if you've heard this one: a guitar-less trio, debuted in 1995, did both snarky piano-rock & gorgeous ballads. This is the latter, and a pivotal component of my "Melancholy Christmas" playlist.

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Merry

YouTube video by Suddenly, Tammy! - Topic

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A cell phone that costs thousands of dollars every month and some people aren’t allowed to buy it and you might die if you don’t have it.

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not sure if any of my co-hosts notified you already, but the cover songs mini-challenge for October is #5CoverSongsTrick, October 27-31.

#5CoverSongsTrick
October 27-31, 2026
Early posting starts 6 p.m. Eastern the night before
Each day post a cover song that significantly reinterprets the original (i.e. different genre, different tempo, different mood)

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And by the way, this song would qualify for next month's 5 Cover Songs theme: #5CoverSongsTrick. The trick is to post a cover that significantly reinterprets the original. The treat, as always, will be sampling and reveling in all the wide-ranging music that you all share over five days!

#5CoverSongsTrick
October 27-31, 2006
Early posting starts at 6 p.m. Eastern the night before
Each day post a cover song that significantly reinterprets the original (i.e. different genre, different tempo, different mood)

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#5CoverSongsEvens #MusicChallenge Day 5 - "Cum on Feel the Noize," Bran Van 3000 (covering Quiet Riot covering Slade) I think most Americans are more familiar with the hair metal version than the original glam rock version. But maybe everyone should focus on the Canadian indie pop version!

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Bran Van 3000 - Cum On Feel The Noize

YouTube video by BranVan3000music

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tbh I had a vague recollection that there was some famous band from Devon, but I had to Google "bands from Devon" in preparation for today's post to remind myself who it was!

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#NowHearThis Day 29 "The Salt Trucks" Great Lakes Myth Society (2005) Spotify plays: 5,615 #Michigan #folk-rock You know I wouldn't let a "songs more people should know" #MusicChallenge go by w/o mentioning GLMS. The opening track to one of my favorite albums, full of Michigan imagery & history.

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The Salt Trucks

YouTube video by Great Lakes Myth Society - Topic

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#MusicChallenge #WorldAtoZ Day 29 - from a place you've been to I regret to report that I really haven't traveled much outside the U.S. My most recent international excursion include a few days in Devon, and so here is Teignmouth's finest. "Knights of Cydonia," Muse (2006)

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Muse - Knights Of Cydonia (Video)

YouTube video by Muse

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#readandplay (815) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play🎶 American actress & singer Madeline Kahn, #botd in 1942.

Madeline Kahn, from a 1989 interview as reported by The New York Times: "Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex."

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#5CoverSongsEvens #MusicChallenge Day 4 - "Quattro (World Drifts In)," Robert Plant & Alison Krauss (covering Calexico) How about some non-English even numbers? For Day 4, it's the Italian word for FOUR. At least I think that's what's going on in the song title.

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Quattro (World Drifts In) by Robert Plant & Alison Krauss from Raise The Roof

YouTube video by Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#MusicChallenge #WorldAtoZ Day 28 - XYZ: Zimbabwe "Chekudya Chose," The Bhundu Boys (1983) Discovered during #BPHM8285 ... and, by the way, the next round covering black pop music from 1986 to 1989 is about to start up. #BPHM8689

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Chekudya Chose

YouTube video by Bhundu Boys - Topic

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#NowHearThis #MusicChallenge Day 28 "Walk Away" Bree Sharp (1999) Spotify plays: 41,933 #NYC #ByWayOfPhilly #folk-rock Sharp had a brief novelty breakthrough with "David Duchovney (Why Won't You Love Me?)," but this track from the same album proves she could also pen an aching '90s power ballad.

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Walk Away

YouTube video by Bree Sharp - Topic

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

*through a mouthful of cookie* “no problem”

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