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Music geek, movie geek, politics geek, food geek, happily engaged to the unicorn-haired Queen of the G Dimension, retired state droog and all-around Irascible Old Fart.

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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
So Fat Bastard is giving Iran everything it demands, while we get nothing, and lose plenty. Is this the "winning" that fat fuck never shuts up about ?
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Drumph is threatening to sue Trevor Noah for a joke Noah made at Drumph's expense last night - But Drumph will settle if Kendrick Lamar gives Drumph one of his Grammys.
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Saigon, 2/1/1968 Minneapolis, 1/24/2026
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
"Art is art. Everything else is everything else." - Adolph Frederick "Ad" Reinhardt, abstract painter and art theorist, b. 1913, Buffalo, NY
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Today in History, December 24th, 1955: Aldous Huxley drops acid for the first time; He had already tried mescaline in 1953, which inspired him to write "The Doors Of Perception".
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
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The Lazy Cowgirls - Sock It To Me, Santa - 1986
YouTube video by PKPurvis
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Cover Of The Day: "The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly" (Ennio Morricone), released 12/23/1966 Low Cut Connie did this while on Covid Lockdown, as part of a the "Tough Cookie" series of "home concerts" youtu.be/OrfelkMCilI?...
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Theme from THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY - Low Cut Connie (Ennio Morricone tribute)
YouTube video by Low Cut Connie
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Today, in Musical History, December 23rd, 1940: Git-picker extraordinaire Jorma Kaukonen (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna, solo work), b. Washington, D.C. Can't resist posting this: youtu.be/yKQacQ9LugE?...
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Jorma Kaukonen - Christmas Rule
YouTube video by clauzikowski
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
"The system does not choose the best, it chooses the most compliant - and that is dangerous." - Albert Jacquard,, geneticist, essayist, and science popularizer, b. 1925, Lyon, France
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Today in History, December 23rd, 1938: On the set of "The Wizard Of Oz", Margaret Hamilton suffers 2nd-degree burns when a pyrotechnic stunt goes wrong, igniting her copper-based green make-up. She returned after 6 weeks of healing. Is it ironic that no water was used to put out the flames ?
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Wicked Witch Actress Seriously Burned Filming "Wizard Of Oz" (1939)
YouTube video by Porfle Popnecker
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
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Evan Johns and his H-Bombs / Please,Mr.Santa Claus
YouTube video by hankgwe
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Cover Of The Day: "Telstar" (Joe Meek), #1 Pop, 12/22/1962 (the Tornadoes) Cover by Thurston Moore and Don Fleming. from a 1997 single youtu.be/iceY07zZxBw?...
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Telstar - Thurston Moore & Don Fleming
YouTube video by Music Without Borders
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Today, in Musical History, December 22nd, 1980: Stiff Records releases an album in the UK, "The Wit and Wisdom of Ronald Reagan". The album is 40 minutes of complete silence.
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
"Life is full of horrible things that will eventually get you and everything you care about. Laughter is a universal way to lift up your head and say, 'Not today, you bastards'." - Anthony Jeselnik, b. 1978, Pittsburgh, PA youtube.com/shorts/gRTh6...
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Anthony Jeselnik's Most Problematic Joke Yet
YouTube video by Laugh Lifters
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Today in History,December 22nd, 1964: Lenny Bruce and Howard Soloman, owner of the Club Au Go Go, where Bruce's allegedly "indecent" stand-up routine took place, are convicted of obscenity, and Bruce gets 4 months in a workhouse. Bruce got the first posthumous pardon in New York history in 2003.
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
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Noel Ye Faithful
YouTube video by TriBeCaStan - Topic
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Cover Of The Day: "In My Room", #23 Pop, 12/21/1963 (the Beach Boys) Cover by Shovels & Rope, w/ Sharon Van Etten, from their 2021 third covers album "Busted Juicebox, Vol. 3" youtu.be/wbsA-CICx3M?...
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Shovels & Rope - In My Room (ft. Sharon Van Etten)
YouTube video by Barzán Bazaar
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Today, in Musical History, December 21st, Ornette Coleman records "Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation" at A&R Studios, NYC youtu.be/iPDzlSda8P8?...
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Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz (1961) (Full Album)
YouTube video by Jazz Time with Jarvis X
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
"Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future." - Benjamin Disraeli, British statesman and Prime Minister, b. 1804, Middlesex, England
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Today in History, December 21st, 1989: Vice President Dan "Dumbo" Quayle sends out 30,000 misspelled Christmas cards. His wife, Marilyn, who has a law degree from Indiana U, hand-wrote the contents of the card, and misspelled "beacon" as "beakon" - and nobody at the print shop caught the mistake.
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
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Reggie Watts - 'Santa Claus is Coming to Town' (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Brainfeeder
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Cover Of The Day: "Leavin' On A Jet Plane" (John Deutchendorf), # 1 Pop, 12/20/1969 (Peter, Paul & Mary) Cover by Drivin' n' Cryin', from their 1997 album "Too Late To Turn Back Now". youtu.be/gV0N9YYllFQ?...
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Leaving On A Jet Plane
YouTube video by Release - Topic
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Today, in Musical History, December 20th, 1975: Joe Walsh joins the Eagles bringing fun, class and gonzo-ocity to the most joyless, tight-assed and self-important rock band in Los Angeles.
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
"In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face, and live with, the truth about itself." - Sidney Hook, philosopher, pragmatist, historian and educator, b. 1902, NYC, NY
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Today in History, December 20th, 1990: The world's first website and server go live, at CERN; Initially operating strictly internally, it opens to the public 8 months later.
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
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Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings "Funky Little Drummer Boy"
YouTube video by DaptoneRecords
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Cover Of The Day: "Come See About Me" #1 Pop, 12/19/64 (the Supremes) Cover by the Afghan Whigs, a b-side to "Uptown Avondale", 1992 youtu.be/YldOmKacoq4?...
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The Afghan Whigs - Come See About Me
YouTube video by Sub Pop
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Today, in Musical History, December 19th, 1940: Phil Ochs b, El Paso, TX youtu.be/CjRwMgHvrhQ?...
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Outside Of A Small Circle Of Friends
YouTube video by Phil Ochs - Topic
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
"The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong." - Carter J. Woodson, historian, author, journalist, and founder of the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, b. 1875, New Canton, VA
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Today in History, December 19th, 1732: Benjamin Franklin, the clever old fart, publishes "Poor Richard's Almanac". Sales quickly reach 10,000 per week, averaging that for 25 years - Quite a feat for a largely illiterate population that was increasing by 30,000 a year, from a base of around 630,000
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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Linus And Lucy
YouTube video by Game Theory - Topic
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Cover Of The Day: "Contempt" theme (Georges Delerue), released 12/18/1964 John Zorn and Naked City's version comes from their 1989 debut album, "Naked City" youtu.be/JCqnR3UdgW8?...
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John Zorn Contempt
YouTube video by StickManga
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Today, in Musical History, December 18th, 1917: Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, b. Houston, TX youtu.be/_8ADhlmLSWg?...
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Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson - They Call Me Mr. Cleanhead (Live at the Keystone Korner)
YouTube video by Jazz Everyday!
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Quote Of The Day: The motto of the GOP, "It doesn't matter who votes that counts. What matters is who counts the votes", spoken by their political ancestor and spirit animal, Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili, AKA Joseph Stalin, b. 12/20/1878, Gori, Tiflis Governate, Russian Empire
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Today in History, December 18th, 1865: The 13th Amendment, the one abolishing slavery, is adopted into the Constitution. FOX News blames Hillary Clinton.
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
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Christmas Twist
YouTube video by Jeffrey Bowie
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Cover Of The Day: "Life On Mars ?" (David Bowie), released 12/17/1971, on "Hunky Dory" " (It's fun to think that Bowie now has an answer to that question...If you believe in that kind of stuff, anyway.) The Bad Plus' version comes from their 2007 album, "Prog" youtu.be/Cz09i4EOjtE?...
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The Bad Plus - Life on Mars
YouTube video by The Gardenhead
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Today, in Musical History, December 17th, 1937: Arthur Lanon "Art" Neville, b. New Orleans, LA youtu.be/rojheQCZVS0?...
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What's Going On
YouTube video by Art Neville - Topic
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
"Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct." - Penelope Fitzgerald, novelist, poet, essayist, and biographer, b. 1916, Lincoln, England
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Today in History, December 17th, 1538: Pope Paul III excommunicates Henry VIII. And Henry VIII does not give a single solitary god damn.
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
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Christmas Blues
YouTube video by Canned Heat - Topic
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Cover Of The Day: "Piece Of My Heart" (Jerry Ragavoy), #62 Pop, 12/16/67 (Erma Franklin) 1971 single cover by Hortense Ellis, w/ Lee Perry's Upsetters youtu.be/_HeK9VA_gLQ?...
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Hortense Ellis (Mahalia Saunders) - Piece of My Heart (Official Audio) | Pama Records
YouTube video by Pama Records
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Today in Musical History, December 16th, 1974: John Lennon releases "#9 Dream", from "Walls And Bridges" youtu.be/-ms6mJv-Z64?...
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#9 Dream (Remastered 2010) - John Lennon
YouTube video by 배철수의 음악캠프 선곡표
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
"if you talk to gangsters long enough, you'll find out that they're just as bad as respectable people." - Murray Kempton, American journalist, and social and political commentator, b. 1917, Baltimore, MD
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Today in History, December 16th, 1961" William Melvin "Bill" Hicks, b. Valdosta, GA youtu.be/pJSZcxXe7IQ?...
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Bill Hicks - Crosses
YouTube video by Bill Hicks
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
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Silent Nite
YouTube video by The Brantley Family Band - Topic
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Cover Of The Day: "Armenia, City In The Sky" (John "Speedy" Keene), released 12/15/1967, by The Who, on "The Who Sell Out" Cover by Bob Mould's Sugar, as a B to the 1992 EP "A Good Idea" youtu.be/4m7rw6ow-YI?...
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SUGAR w/ Bob Mould -Armenia City In the Sky LIVE
YouTube video by 1Devilwolf 👹🐺
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Today, in Musical History, December 15th, 1959: Paul Simonon, of The Clash, b, London, England "But, y'know....Why can't we all be lunatics ?" youtu.be/E58BXd2Pr30?...
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Galen & Paul, Galen Ayers, Paul Simonon - Room at the Top (Official Video)
YouTube video by GalenAndPaulVEVO
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
"Liberty will look easy if nobody has to die to get it." - Maxwell Anderson, playwright ("Anne Of The Thousand Days", "Both Your Houses" (Pulitzer, 1933)), screenwriter ("All Quiet ON The Western Front", "Death Takes A Holiday"), poet, journalist, and author, b. 1888, Atlantic, PA
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Wrecked Czech @czechwreck.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Today in History, December 15th, 1939: "Gone With The Wind" premiers in Atlanta, GA I appreciate a really cheap shot as much as the next guy, but that one was EPIC.
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