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Same. Honey, stoneground, Dijon, and spicy beer & brat.

Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hm. We used to go out to cabins in Walhalla on 10. Don’t recall the Scott Rock but that was 30 years ago. I do remember Scottville, the Clown Town.

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Her nasty stringy hair hanging over the food was really the final straw for me. DNF.

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My library (in the US) has Help the Witch. It's checked out and has one hold.

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

People in the UK and Ireland seem to love old Motown soul and R&B. Heard it a lot when we lived in England in the late 80s, plus there was a whole move about it in the 90s.

tv.apple.com

The Commitments - Apple TV

Funny, musical and occasionally dramatic, this is the story of tumultuous rise and fall of a Dublin Soul band, The Commitments. Managed by Jimmy Rabbi…

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Terrible people are not necessarily also stupid and that’s annoying and inconvenient

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Nosy question: Were these records around the house? Were you spending your allowance on records? I am always curious how people 10-15 years younger than I am have so many overlapping musical touchstones.

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Stopped at a rest area in Ohio on the way home and this cracked me up. #goblue

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Well that’s that I guess

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey, we were driving on WV until literally a minute ago!

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There are faces everywhere!

Vintage green double coat hook and the screws look like eyes with elaborate winger eyeliner to me. I guess you had to be there.

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They are French fried potatoes shaped like thick chips

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I neglected to post the bouquet of the week! I bought it at the farmers’ market on Saturday and it’s still looking perky.

A colorful bouquet with red zinnias, orange marigolds, yellow coneflowers and some fill.

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's quite loud -- I had already closed the windows because it was getting chilly.

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I hear a great horned owl right outside our house!

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Aha! That is why you were looking for interesting content in a bland cover! The downside of the flipbook is that the VAST majority of the books research libraries have digitized are walls of text, so you wouldn't often find something too interesting while flipping.

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

But the we can eulogize his career with a snappy O Rare

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My BFF, who is a marketing professor, says it is "brand differentiation" when my kids (now adults) are like this, as in "Ew no, they can't be like each other!" I know she's joking but as they have gotten older, they are getting more similar in what they like so maybe she was actually correct.

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

GE thought of it in 1928 when they put out their refrigerator brochure -- have your fruit cocktails ready to go in the fridge so you can impress your post-theater guests with your modernity as you serve them snacks!

Illustration from a 1928 GE refrigerator brochure showing a woman in a flapper dress taking cocktails out of a refrigerator to serve to another woman and two men in tuxes.

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The blanket will be a good reference point for heft.

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ann Arbor PTO Resale shop on S. Industrial has yarn but you would probably end up with a Garment of many colors because that is indeed A LOT of yarn. My mom knitted me an afghan and she said the heft gets to be a lot hanging on the needles. Crochet would definitely mitigate that somewhat.

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oh, no doubt, but I want to see a basic age/gender/race breakdown because I have my suspicions....

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Not really surprising the Aussies have the summer vacation version of the affogato.

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I would LOVE to see a demographic breakdown of the voters.

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I am guessing you were at the Clements Library, a very fascinating place.

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

When you think about it, pigeons must really focus on people's feet a lot more than anything else

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The "dusty archives" trope in The Chronicle -- drink! "Segal’s archive, though, which consists of more than 53 dusty unprocessed boxes at Harvard’s Houghton Library...." www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

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Opinion | The Yale Classicist Who Wrote a Best-Seller and Lost His Job

Remembering Erich Segal’s academic love story.

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Belated bouquet of the week is the same as last week! No wonder they called Meijer’s the “thrifty acres” back in the day — these have held up well #flowers

Week-old flowers, mostly mums,in an oatmeal pottery vase

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

That sort of thing always makes me think “it’s a bird-eat-bird world” and I feel so droll.

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

God help you if those stars are older women, though

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Same, but I watched “Ride or Die” 😢

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Those are the EXACT words I thought

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I have so many questions and the article doesn’t have a good answer for any of them

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

That’s exactly it! And it’s why I’m so tired — everything is trying to make me pay attention to stupid shit all the time and yet I also have to still pay attention to the things I’m paid to do/need to do.

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Who are what, mostly max five feet tall considering the schools that are there?

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Are you going to Red Hook to have a Red Hook?

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Basing class on money earned is what's a useless category

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I think the B1G Tailgate show has done merch giveaways like that. Have they been here this year? My daughter had a BTN baseball cap that she wore to death and still has saved.

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My first thought was, “Shall we play a game?”

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Chris @cynicalgrrl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I say it’s fake. No one inspects produce anymore, we know that from all the various vegetables that have been giving everyone killer diarrhea

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