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Endless Dan Moore

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Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him. Ask me about the Victorians

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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 11h
The thing that's nice about pickleball is that you can play doubles basically all night before you're too tired to keep going or you can play about 80% of one singles match. Something for everybody
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 11h
Very nice kid. We played another game to 5 and then talked for a while before we each left. Then I had to sit in the minivan for like 10 minutes before I had the energy to turn the key
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 11h
Took a college freshman who ran track in high school to 11-8 in pickleball singles before my lungs exploded... after getting married, having kids, and the EarthBound Handbook, the signal achievement of my life
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 22h
Great day for it too... did not realize Sock Heaven was what I needed until the little opening fanfare reminded me of it, but by the time it hit the breakdown near the end my morning was completely restored. Thank you, arcane label reasons
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 22h
Streaming is in general the graveyard of fun ways to bump into songs, but I do enjoy when an album is pulled for arcane label reasons, I forget about it, and then without warning it's back in my likes. Suddenly reintroduced to Steve Taylor's "Squint" today when Sock Heaven hit the van at max volume
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Sock Heaven
YouTube video by Steve Taylor - Topic
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Very happy for you, dishwashers are a huge quality of life upgrade
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Really the list is 1. Cotillion [gap] 2-9. Frederica, Sprig Muslin, The Corinthian, Friday's Child, The Unknown Ajax, The Reluctant Widow, The Foundling, The Convenient Marriage, but that's fine. Most people don't even write Cotillion once
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
That one is a self-indulgent attempt to follow the rules of the exercise, but this one is a valuable public service: The nine best Georgette Heyer novels in order. If you have watched the 1995 Pride & Prejudice more than twice you are the audience for this list and it could save your life
Cotillion, Frederica, Sprig Muslin, The Corinthian, Friday's Child, The Unknown Ajax, The Reluctant Widow, The Foundling, The Convenient Marriage
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Books" is too big a category to really put things into so I stuck to literary fiction and went in rough biographical order, so you can watch my transformation from teenaged would-be novelist to middle-aged Victorian
Nine Stories, Great Gatsby, Dance Dance Dance, Olinger Stories, Moviegoer, Pride & Prejudice, Little Dorrit, Pendennis, Sinister Street
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Going to be honest: A weird song for Jordan Knight to play for all my friends' moms
On May 25 1999 Knight promoted the release by performing the song live on Live with Regis and Kathie Lee
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There was a vacuum museum over in that direction that I thought about visiting a couple of times, but Google has informed me that it closed... unfortunate
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
While I can only rank it the second-best Springfield, I respect wanting to move to be closer to a museum. (In the interest of fairness I have to also give them credit for managing to keep a minor league baseball team, unlike my Springfield.)
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I think that might have been a year or two earlier
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I am shocked to learn that it hit 10 on the Hot 100... my Memory was that every single one of those ex-boy-band singles from when I was in junior high and high school got on TRL, possibly sold some HitClips, and did nothing else
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's one of the most transparent and ridiculous "I'm a grownup now" songs of all time, but Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis are going nuts on "Give It To You" by Jordan Knight... not going to dig up my Rhythm Nation thread but this timely observation about pop music is spiritually a part of that
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Couldn't just post four. Here is the complete list from the essential-if-you-are-reading-the-book-to-your-inquisitive-child Wayside School Wiki wayside-school.fandom.com/wiki/Satoshi...
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Lately I've been doing a lot of posts about stuff I would like to enlarge and hang at my desk but it's not my fault, the world is constantly confronting me with new and beautiful images. So: these illustrations from the Japanese Wayside School translation (by Satoshi Kitamura)
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You're crazy for this one Louis
Dameon had hazel eyes with a little black dot in the middle of each of them. The dots were called pupils. So was Dameon. He was a pupil in Mrs. Jewls's class.
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Bonus Asian market car ad... this one played nonstop when Lindsay was studying abroad in Japan (right before I met her) and the jingle was a major earworm for her even years later. Might hit her with it tomorrow... Maybe I can make it my phone alarm youtu.be/3sHOzvwcczc?...
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2005 Toyota Passo CM
YouTube video by IwataKana
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This one requires even less knowledge of Korean to parse... very aggressive wardrobe use here youtu.be/P5lUDYkrZMQ?...
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Kia Capital 1990 girl commercial (korea)
YouTube video by n35a2
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Was looking for a chance to admire the Kia logo from before they came to America that looks like it belongs to a mall and it took me to these two commercials, which I am now sharing with you youtu.be/Csf0JN1mPkY?...
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Kia Pride good person, good car 30-second commercial (South Korea, 1990)
YouTube video by Green X_
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Saw a Prius with a "keep honking I'm reloading" bumper sticker. Fascinating
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Worst "in bed" I've come across in a while
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yes...
TOYOTA CAVALIER presents

active sedan we've never had.
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Need to print a huge copy of this to hang in my cubicle
Toyota Cavalier ad from Japan
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My relationship to R.E.M. is that I watched a lot of VH1 as a cool ~12–16-year-old, and because I was very afraid of my peers I always pulled for bands and pop acts who were on the edge of washed up. So "Bad Day" might be the R.E.M. song I've heard most. Almost definitely had the video on iTunes
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The recent R.E.M. discourse had me pull up "Bad Day" and the verse that's kind of "beneath this staid decorum there's some hinky stuff going on!" stopped me in my tracks. I miss you staid decorum that masked hinky stuff
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R.E.M. - Bad Day (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by remhq
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Liberty Biberty postseason ad... horrendous. If you're making a Special Sports Playoffs commercial referencing the sport I want to see some money on the screen. Show me a real ballpark, film it outdoors, put some players in there, etc. It's a special occasion
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Watching Yankees-Red Sox. TikTok is running a slow, landscape-orientation commercial with lots of empty air between words, a normal amount of cutting, and human speech patterns... interesting! Interesting interesting interesting interesting interesting interesting interesting
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Started the first Wayside School book yesterday. Mrs. Gorf brought down the house
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We finished A Wrinkle in Time and when Meg realized that she had to love Charles Wallace rather than hate IT and Charles started walking toward her Nancy said "Yeah yeah yeah!!!!" Totally psyched... she's got a loft bed, and from the chair where I read to her I saw her fist shoot up over the railing
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Melvin heard Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard for the first time on the way to daycare this morning and immediately made a date with me to listen two more times on the way home this afternoon
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you're collecting the George Foreman grills that look like iMacs you need to get out to the Goodwill where I buy all my button-downs as soon as possible
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Some kind of lavender lemonade thing, great anniversary-with-kids foofy drink. Lindsay has no faith in her phone camera so I'm just off-screen having a great time in basically all our family photos. They're going to have to Photoshop me into the wedding slideshows
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hey happy anniversary! Would not have picked the children's museum as our main event if we were alone but they didn't get into a single fight there so that's a huge anniversary gift
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
12th anniversary today... I'm not in the picture because we don't have a sitter but take my word for it I have been around the whole time
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Freddy is Heyer's greatest creation. Enormous shame that she didn't put him to work solving mysteries after he successfully got everybody married off in "Cotillion"
‘My Camille!' squeaked Olivia, al-most falling out of the coach into his arms. They embraced passionately. Mr Standen, descending more soberly from the aged vehicle, observed these transports with fastidious pain, and felt that some explanation was due to the interested coachman. ‘French!” he said briefly.
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ah yes, the famous Welsh separatist
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I remember getting stopped in my tracks by a song at the mall and then trying to loiter inconspicuously outside of the too-cool store where it was playing while catching enough lyrics that I could later ask about it on IRC. Operation failed
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I thought "huh, the camera really loves their drummer, especially relative to the rest of the band" and I guess I saw the same thing as the members of Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Chris Kavanagh (born 4 June 1964) is a British drummer, best known for playing in Sigue Sigue Sputnik and Big Audio Dynamite II.

Kavanagh was asked to join Sigue Sigue Sputnik because of his looks and attitude, and only after that was taught to play drums by other band members.[1] He remained with them until 1989. Later he joined Big Audio Dynamite II after Mick Jones reshuffled the line-up completely. He left the band in 1995.[2]
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Every couple of years I get really fascinated by Big Audio Dynamite as an artifact for one day... the "Rush" video is composed entirely of parts of 1991 that did not make it back for the early 90s fashion revival www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h8z...
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Big Audio Dynamite - Rush
YouTube video by bigaudiodynamiteVEVO
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Your boss at the instruction manual factory tells you a Breakout clone is coming out next month and they need you to create a story. It's too late to add anything to the game." would be a solid creative writing class exercise
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I knew that there was nothing to Alleyway, but the logo, cover art, and Nintendo's decision to give it a very evocative name always made me a little jealous of my friends who had it
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wedding Gift Charles McFarlane a fashion historian shopped at a fanciful drug store near Bard Paid for a damsel whose Doctorow royalties weren’t accepted; they only took card
NY Times vows column: They Met at a Corner Store. Their Love Story Took a Few Detours.
Graylen Gatewood, a granddaughter of E.L. Doctorow, and Charles McFarlane, a fashion historian, fell in love as undergraduates at Bard College.On a windy evening in November 2015, Graylen Rose Gatewood, craving Oreos, popped into a corner store in Tivoli, N.Y., where Charles William McFarlane worked part time. Both were undergraduates at Bard College nearby.
When her purchase didn’t meet the credit card minimum, “Charles swooped in and said, ‘I’ll take care of those Oreos,’” Gatewood said. So he comped her.
“She got really red and left rather quickly,” McFarlane said.
Soon after, McFarlane, then a senior, invited Gatewood, a junior, on a date. When she arrived at Otto’s Market, a sandwich shop in Germantown, N.Y., McFarlane was sitting at an outdoor table with a copy of The New York Times.
“I thought that was so charming and a lovely thing to do on your Sunday,” Gatewood said.
They discussed the bevy of Town of Southampton beach stickers covering Gatewood’s car, a 2004 Pontiac Vibe that had belonged to
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Adding a second Charger to my fantasy football lineup this week, which is a sign I should never allow myself to gamble
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Pinkerton being 30 years old does not feel crazy to me, but I am unnerved by Pinkerton Deluxe and those forum arguments being older now (16) than Pinkerton was when it came out (14). That one hits
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There were a lot of arguments on the Weezer forums about whether (and where) Rivers had made any 2010 overdubs on these... I can't say I care now but this one feels pretty clearly 1996. ("Tragic Girl" was not finished at the time and you can definitely hear his 2010 voice creeping in there, I think)
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Getting Up And Leaving
YouTube video by Weezer - Topic
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm always said this
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Not my favorite track but I would like to take this opportunity to invite everyone to pull up "Getting Up and Leaving" off the Deluxe edition. Great song
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Can't wait to show him the Abe Lincoln's Head measurement of tread depth
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