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Doug Schwartz @dougschwartz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In 2025 they were 60-102. Who are these guys?

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Doug Schwartz @dougschwartz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Anyone who needed 23 minutes has never seen the word “nonpareil”

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Doug Schwartz @dougschwartz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Transcribing this hilarious set of birthday songs (productions really) for Al Newman from the collection of @jonburlingame.bsky.social and it’s on a reel of tape I’d never encountered: Ampex 414. It’s comparatively rare, so no wonder I’ve never seen it. Very dark oxide, non-backcoated. Viva analog!

A ten inch reel of Ampex 414 tape cued up on the mighty Studer A80 VU MK IV tape deck.

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Doug Schwartz @dougschwartz.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Dude chases all around looking for old thing, loses it to bureaucrats

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Doug Schwartz @dougschwartz.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

But can you hear the cello? There’s always room for cello.

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Doug Schwartz @dougschwartz.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Ran out of superlatives by about the 3 minute mark

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Doug Schwartz @dougschwartz.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Looks like 4th of July came a little late this year, but these are fireworks I can get behind! #bloomscrolling

Boophane disticha is a bulb native to Africa. Specimen plants can become a cherished family heirloom passed down through generations. A fan of distinctive waxy leaves gives way to this scintillating inflorescence, which becomes a dry globular seed dispersing tumbleweed.. one Afrikaans nickname for this plant roughly translates to “frighten the horses” as the wind driven globes have been known to do just that.

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Doug Schwartz @dougschwartz.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

You’re gonna need a bigger plate!

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Doug Schwartz @dougschwartz.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Might I suggest it would pair nicely with the top of the ninth of Dodgers/Twins.

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Doug Schwartz @dougschwartz.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I loved Loulie, what an amazing woman

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Doug Schwartz @dougschwartz.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Guessing Riz Ahmed in “Bait” doesn’t count?

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Doug Schwartz @dougschwartz.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Up with this slop I will not put

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Doug Schwartz @dougschwartz.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Great article for the non-dorks out there (I personally don’t know any but I understand they exist). Read and share!

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Doug Schwartz @dougschwartz.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

That was a very fertile period for Maynard

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Rogue NASA @roguenasa.altgov.info · 14/04/2026

An engineer could fix this. WHERE IS SCOTTY?!

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Doug Schwartz @dougschwartz.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

“Are they yelling in Atlanta, Ted?”

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Doug Schwartz @dougschwartz.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Which replaced Tommy’sTrattoria?

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Doug Schwartz @dougschwartz.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Per this thread, I left the theater spitting angry. The money spent for this! I scrolled down this entire thread to chime in here.

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Doug Schwartz @dougschwartz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Happy (?) 55th anniversary of the 1971 San Fernando earthquake to all who observe. My dog woke me up just prior, by jumping on the bed and refusing to get off. My alarm would’ve gone off at 6 anyway, so I got out of bed and then—

At 6am on February 9, 1971 in the City of the Angels, a 6.6 magnitude earthquake struck with an epicenter five miles northeast of the city of San Fernando. Though the quake lasted just 60 seconds, 64 people lost their lives, property damage was extensive, and residents got a reminder they might’ve forgotten since the last major earthquake, the 1933 Long Beach earthquake which killed at least 115 people.

Amongst the estimated half-billion dollars worth of property damage caused by the earthquake was the partial collapse of the lower Van Norman reservoir at the north of the San Fernando Valley. This critical failure was the reason approximately 80,000 people were evacuated for four days while a frantic effort to drain the reservoir was undertaken. Had the dam failed completely, the flood would’ve washed away homes from Granada Hills, North Hills, and Van Nuys before filling the LA River and likely causing additional damage as it washed to the sea.

Another dramatic effect of the earthquake was the collapse of a section of the Newhall Pass interchange (I-5 / CA14) which was still under construction at the time but substantially completed. Two 191 foot bridge sections fell about 140 feet down, along with one of the support pillars. This photo is the album cover of The Doobie Brothers 1973 release, “The Captain And Me” with their hit song “China Grove”.

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Doug Schwartz @dougschwartz.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Can I get a participation trophy?

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Rod Serling Memorial Foundation @rodserlingmemfndtn.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

“…where there’s hate…”

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Doug Schwartz @dougschwartz.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Full grown chickens still eat from them to this very day!

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Doug Schwartz @dougschwartz.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Can you get it from listening to the radio?

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

"I think the role, and the play, have tremendous significance in these times — certainly far and above the usual junk that shouts at you from the television box." — Joseph Schildkraut (Becker) on Serling's Twilight Zone episode "Deaths-Head Revisited" #TwilightZoneMarathon

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Doug Schwartz @dougschwartz.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

So sharp, Paddy would’ve loved it.

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Doug Schwartz @dougschwartz.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Observed at Circle X 12/20/25: Padre’s Shooting Stars (Dodecatheon clevelandii) showing up early in the season-likely the November rains helped. Always a happy sight! #bloomscrolling #flowers #flowersonbluesky

Padre’s Shooting Star growing in gravelly scree on a high plateau in full sun near the coast in Ventura County, California

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Doug Schwartz @dougschwartz.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Behold: the Cherokee Studios/Steely Dan Memorial Gardens.

A tribute on the outside of the recording studio originally called “Cherokee Ranch”, which was started by the Robb Brothers (Bruce, Dee, and Joe) featuring the cover of their album, and Steely Dan’s “Pretzel Logic” alongside a picture of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen.

The three brothers from Wisconsin were a touring band with a recording contract with ABC Records but found far greater success as studio impresarios, beginning at Cherokee Ranch then really hitting their stride after moving their studio business to 751 N. Fairfax in West Hollywood, a studio complex formerly owned by MGM Records. It was that facility on Fairfax that George Martin proclaimed was “the best studio in America”.

These gardens and artwork at the early location is literally on “the backside of the barn”, as the studio was originally equine lodging in the remotest hinterlands of the San Fernando Valley.

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Doug Schwartz @dougschwartz.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Even in true blue California, we have room for red from time to time.

A crimson sunrise over the San Fernando Valley on 11/18/2025

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Doug Schwartz @dougschwartz.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Despite the darkness, the sun rose again. Good Sunday morning to all!

“Nature’s hardest hue to hold”-gold and rose hues on the horizon as the sun rises.

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Doug Schwartz @dougschwartz.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

So deeply saddened. Single-handedly keep the big band genre alive and vital. Who will carry the torch for such acoustic brilliance? Waynard step up. 😔

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Eric Stephen @ericstephen.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

this is one of my favorites. sometimes simplest is best

Far Side comic with a salesman approaching a gate to a yard with the sign "BEWARE OF DOUG." In the yard, hiding behind a tree yet still visible is a man, presumably Doug.

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Doug Schwartz @dougschwartz.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Neil, this is why every two or three years you should just go ahead and splurge and get yourself a new bank.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

when millennials take control of the process I think he will be

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Doug Schwartz @dougschwartz.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever”

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Doug Schwartz @dougschwartz.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Hopefully we’ll be told he played 24 innings of WS baseball in, what, 26 hours. Fits the definition for me :)

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Doug Schwartz @dougschwartz.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Easily 20 years after this episode aired, I saw Jonathan Winters in the hallway at United/Western studios. I approached him and said “Say, aren’t you Fats Brown?”. He immediately dropped into character and started telling me he was the best that ever was. Turns out he was right!

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Doug Schwartz @dougschwartz.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

A good start would be to embroider “Sánchez” “Luzardo” and “Suarez” on the back of their jerseys.

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Doug Schwartz @dougschwartz.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

“Who’s at the front door?” “Another extra from Resident Alien”

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Doug Schwartz @dougschwartz.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I look outside and it seems so dark today, it’s raining But I walked by this living thing and it is in bloom Still. I think it’s been in bloom at least since Jan 20, if not before Through the heat and the wind, never failing Now the rain honors it I’m standing in the rain

A wooly blue curls plant in the yard, Trichostema lanatum. Reputedly fussy about its culture, this individual stubbornly continues to bloom.

Closeup of the blue curls. If lightly rubbed, the leaves release a scent reminiscent of pine or cedar.

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