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Bud Grant Green @boxy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Brief cameo in the 'I don't even believe in Jebus' Simpsons episode:

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Bud Grant Green @boxy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It also includes the soundtrack to 'Colors,' but not the soundtrack to 'Cocktail.' It's an injustice!

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Bud Grant Green @boxy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Christina Rossetti, 'A Bird Song':

Christina Rossetti's poem 'A Bird Song':

It's a year almost that I have not seen her:
Oh, last summer green things were greener,
Brambles fewer, the blue sky bluer.

It's surely summer, for there's a swallow:
Come one swallow, his mate will follow,
The bird race quicken and wheel and thicken.

Oh happy swallow whose mate will follow
O'er height, o'er hollow! I'd be a swallow,
To build this weather one nest together.

https://www.poetry.com/poem/54927/a-bird-song.

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Bud Grant Green @boxy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Biggest regret of my career."

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Bud Grant Green @boxy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Good news: the CDs Walter Becker left in the car are included.

A selection of CDs including Rico's 'Warreika Dub,' 'King Tubby on the Mix Vols 1 & 2,' and Josey Wales' 'The Outlaw.'

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Bud Grant Green @boxy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"No one likes changing the clock, me included" 😂

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Bud Grant Green @boxy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I voted for YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT, because, to whatever degree objectivity is really a thing when it comes to stuff like this, it seems like the objectively better album.

Photo of the box from a toy gasoline truck with Wilco Gasoline livery

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Bud Grant Green @boxy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Jack: "I wish I could cut my tongue out, or take out the part of my brain that has opinions. Or cares. I wish I could be simple. Be quiet, introverted, or shy." Julian: "What day is it today? Friday? Every day is like Friday for me. Man I sound like a douche."

Photograph of Julian Casablancas (The Strokes) and Jack White (The White Stripes). JC wears a trucker cap that reads '100% Irish' and makes a shaka sign. White wears a white suit with a red shirt, red pocket square, white tie, and white... fedora? I don't really know men's hats. He appears to have an unlit cigarette in his mouth

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Bud Grant Green @boxy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Something something haters, so vote VESPERTINE

Photo of Björk, a white woman in a red shirt, circa Post, on a desktop PC.

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Bud Grant Green @boxy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Move into the Wilco condo, if you must, but vote VESPERTINE

Photo of Björk by David LaChapelle, 2001. She wears a white top with a stylized swan's head on it and red high-heeled boots, against a background of a cloudy sky.

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Bud Grant Green @boxy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Something about Bobby always reminded me of this guy:

Ness, the silent protagonist of the video game EarthBound. He's a boy with black hair, a red cap, a blue-and-yellow striped shirt, blue shorts, white socks, and red sneakers.

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Bud Grant Green @boxy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"For those of you that hated/ You only made us more creative" Vote MISS E... SO ADDICTIVE

Promo photo of Missy Elliott in 2001. It's a black and white photo, and she's wearing a studded leather-looking jacket and pants and sticking her tongue out in a way that some people might compare to Michael Jordan

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Bud Grant Green @boxy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

HBD! Sabrina Imbler's 'How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures' is a blend of marine biology and memoir that you might like

The cover of Sabrina Imbler's 'How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures' shows a whale shark as if seen from above in shimmery dark water

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Bud Grant Green @boxy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I double-checked the votes, and, seeing as it's been proven irrevocably that TAKE OFFS AND LANDINGS is a better album than "LOVE AND THEFT," I had no choice but to vote for it over DISCOVERY. It's just math.

YouTube screenshot from a calculator cover of Daft Punk's 'Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.' Four calculators are lined up on a wooden table, with two hands manipulating them. The two robot-headed members of Daft Punk are superimposed on this picture.

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Bud Grant Green @boxy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Punks jump up to get beat down Talk strange like Björk Baby girl, better known as Aaliyah Music to Drive By Friday:

On-set picture of Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue from the 'Where the Wild Roses Grow' video. It's a black and white photo, with Cave in a white dress shirt and Kylie in a white shirt and black sweater. They're hugging, and Nick's eyes are closed while Kylie smiles at the camera.

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Bud Grant Green @boxy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

With alt text (and a slight edit for length):

gillianwelchofficial: My 10th birthday was supposed to be a wondrous slumber party with all my friends, a backyard piñata, and a trip to a famous ice cream parlor, where a mountain of ice cream scoops in a wooden trough was paraded to the table while someone banged a bass marching drum. But as the afternoon progressed, I had begun to feel decidedly peaky, clammy, and queasy. When they put the 30 scoop sundae down in front of me I realized with horror that I was going to be sick and bolted for the bathroom in front of all my friends. I did not make it.... The party was ruined, the slumber party cancelled, and all the parents were called to collect my friends. But some of them could not be reached, and so while I suffered on the pullout couch in the guest room with a bucket next to my bed, I could hear the rest of my friends down the hall in sleeping bags in my room laughing and playing games and having a grand time. It was the worst birthday ever. The next morning, feeling miserable and dejected, I heard a soft knock at the door and in walked Dolly. She stood in the open doorway with the full force of the Southern California sun blazing behind her, making a radiant halo of her platinum hair. She looked like an angelic visitation in casual denim. She had come over to rehearse a musical number for a TV show she was doing with my parents. With the utmost tenderness and understanding she said, "Oh honey, I heard you were sick and your party was all ruined. I'm so sorry."

I am so sorry that all that sunshine, compassion, and towering humanity and artistry is now gone from this earth. I believe that Dolly is now one with the light that she shined all around her everywhere she went. She left us so much music and truly made the world a better place, through her art and her example. You will be so missed, but you will never be forgotten. Rest now. Nashville mourns.

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Bud Grant Green @boxy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Do juv books count? This one was published in 1983:

'Pac-Man and the Gost Diggers,' Golden Press; Racine, Wisc., 1983

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Bud Grant Green @boxy.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Sensory: Life on the Spectrum: An Autistic Comics Anthology, edited by Bex Ollerton (Andrews McMeel, 2022)

The cover of 'Sensory: Life on the Spectrum: An Autistic Comics Anthology,' edited by Bex Ollerton, is a drawing of a bunch of adaptive tools including a toothbrush, a timer, earplugs, earbuds, noise-canceling headphones, various fidget toys, notepads and notebooks, a timer and an alarm clock

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Bud Grant Green @boxy.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

A red bird? Wow, what are the odds?

The northern cardinal is a red bird that hangs around people and birdfeeders and is a year-round native to most of the central and eastern United States.

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Bud Grant Green @boxy.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

"Compliant LLC says the G.L.O.V.E. shouldn't be used on people just for exhibiting "verbal defiance or belligerence," which is a statement delivered with a wink and a nod, given who its customer base is. (Look at the merch they offer.)" The merch:

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Bud Grant Green @boxy.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

C.A. Cutter, not just the Cutter Table guy.

A Cutter Table describes how to convert an author's last name into a combination of an initial letter and a series of numbers. It's still used in Library of Congress classification (and, much more rarely, in Dewey Decimal classification).

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Bud Grant Green @boxy.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Me: I don't know, Professor Hoppington, something about you is a little familiar. Professor Hoppington: That's because you can learn to make me on Creativebug. We could make it a library program. Me: Okay, that's a really good idea.

Photograph of Professor Archibald 'Archie' Hoppington, a crocheted frog with a brown jacket, a light brown bag, and tan pants. He is an entry in the Berkeley Public Library's fiber mascot contest, submitted by crochet artist Twinkie Chan

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Bud Grant Green @boxy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Crystal Castles? Le''s see where they're going with this.

A 1980s-looking poster for the Atari arcade game Crystal Castles shows a castle level in the background. In the foreground are a brightly-colored drawn Bentley Bear, the main character, holding a gem, and a photo of someone standing at the arcade cabinet

A somewhat more modern-looking but still very '80s-coded poster has a crystal castle model that looks like it's made from acrylic or something next to a stuffie Bentley Bear. He's still wearing a red hat with stars on it. This looks like it was more expensive than the last poster

A more modern-looking poster depicts a cartoon Bentley Bear, really leaning into the 'bear' part. He's heavily muscled, with a heart tattoo on one bicep and a tank top that exposes his belly. He's also wearing tight shorts with stars on them and a baseball cap with a B on it.

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Bud Grant Green @boxy.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Q-bert, upon learning this new information:

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Bud Grant Green @boxy.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

In 1998, to promote her previous album, Mercury Records released this promo EP, 'Lucinda Williams talks with Jeff Tweedy of Wilco.' It was recorded on her tour bus. Absent any evidence, I'm going to choose to think of it as a brilliant piece of cross-promotion. Vote ESSENCE

The cover of 'Lucinda Williams Talks with Jeff Tweedy of Wilco' shows part of a steel guitar and a lot of white text. Lucinda And Jeff Discuss: Time It Took To Record "Car Wheels," Producers Gurf Morlix, Steve Earle And Ray Kennedy, Playing Guitar Parts On Their Records, Writing For Albums And Afterwards, Literary Writing And Miller Williams (Lucinda's father, a somewhat well known poet), Lilith Fair And The Newport Folk Festival, Re-recording "I Lost It," and Awareness Of Lucinda's Previous Work By Critics. Recorded on Lucinda's tour bus, 8/16/98 MECD 184

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Bud Grant Green @boxy.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

That one booth at the farmers market that everyone thinks is operated by members of a cult

The USDA's booth at the Great American State Fair offers up corn and potatoes that look suspiciously like they came from the supermarket, decorated with large posters of Donald Trump and Ag Sec Brooke Rollins

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Bud Grant Green @boxy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Today I learned that that video was a planned cross-promotional deal with Atari. Unfortunately, 'Do You Compute?' makes Paper Mate/'Turn Up The Radio' look like 'My Adidas.'

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Bud Grant Green @boxy.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

In the words of Howard Zinn, you can't be neutral on a moving train.

The cover of Howard Zinn's 2002 memoir, 'You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History'

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Bud Grant Green @boxy.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I've seen a lot of ALA posters, but I don't think I've ever seen this Margaret Sanger one before in my life.

A poster shows a black and white photo of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, a smiling woman in a crowd of people. It has her last name at the top, and the slogan 'Great minds meet at the library' at the bottom, in a sort of seafoam green. At bottom right, there's a quotation: "Life has taught me one supreme lesson. This is that we must--if we are to really live at all, if we are to enjoy the life more abundant promised by the Sages of Wisdom--we must put our convictions into action. My remuneration has been that I have been privileged to act out my faith."

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Bud Grant Green @boxy.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

1985, the First Farm Aid. This lineup just doesn't quit--I especially like the string from George Jones to Rickie Lee Jones to B.B. King to Carole King.

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