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At least our next (🤞) senator seems better at reading the room than either of our current ones

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.bsky.social · 9h

Your most earnestly supported not for profits do not *actually* conduct the activities they claim in their corporate objects, but some other more general purpose, part CCCLXII

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 28/09/2026

Right, they'd still have an audience, but not to the extent of a Funko Pop Jerry Only existing, which is the world we got

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 28/09/2026

In that timeline my guess is they would not have made the $5.98 EP which probably means the Misfits remain cult-level. Beloved like Minor Threat or Bad Brains, maybe, but that's it.

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 27/09/2026

The previous owner of this album was bored I guess? I love the bonus DIY artwork.

The inner sleeve of Exciter's VIOLENCE & FORCE LP, with the front cover art traced in marker

The marked-up inner sleeve superimposed on the front cover of the LP, as a bored teenager likely did when tracing the artwork decades ago.

The front cover of Exciter's VIOLENCE & FORCE LP, which I bought for 99 cents at 2nd Hand Tunes in Evanston IL. It has appreciated in value, if you believe Discogs.

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 27/09/2026

Yes I know it's unlikely the bus actually hit black ice but it's a great tune, as is its b-side youtu.be/PC4K49H-vOg

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Aragorn - Noonday

YouTube video by NoiseFilthFury

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 27/09/2026

An appropriate day to play this prophetic NWOBHM nugget too www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgAt...

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Aragorn - Black Ice

YouTube video by Metal80sgroup

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 26/09/2026

And then there's the thing that led me down this rabbit hole: When I watched Detroiters, I had no idea the Deveraux Wigs ad was based on a real local Detroit TV commercial. And guess who sang it! (the male part I mean) www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3XT...

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 26/09/2026

I also knew Larry's music from Hot Fudge, a local Detroit kids show that also aired in Chicago (and I'm sure other cities). He was like hipster Captain Kangaroo. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkYk...

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Larry Santos - Listen To Yourself (official live video)

YouTube video by Larry Santos Fan Page

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 26/09/2026

In another timeline, Larry did this as a duet with Linda Ronstadt, Streisand/Diamond-style (to bring Neil back into it)

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 26/09/2026

Neil Diamond gets credit for writing Urge Overkill's biggest hit, but that performance owed at least as much to Santos, particularly his version of "Long, Long Time." Larry posted a video for it to his own YouTube channel and it's as melodramatic as you'd hope. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHRM...

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Larry Santos - Long, Long Time (official music video)

YouTube video by LarrySantosOfficial

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 26/09/2026

I'm finding very little in the way of tributes to him, but if you watched American TV in the early 1980s, you heard Larry Santos www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBPB...

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1984 Budweiser Light "Bring Out Your Best": Larry Santos Detroit

YouTube video by TelevisionDetroit

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 26/09/2026

Happy 5th anniversary (give or take) to my favorite album for a fall afternoon

A picture of the album LEAVING NONE BUT SMALL BIRDS by The Body and BIG|BRAVE.

A copy of FRAYED KNOTS by Luxurious Bags is also in the shot.

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 22/09/2026

The theme music choice for Willy's show is perfect, on multiple levels

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 21/09/2026

2007: visited the UK & saw a certain model of small, ½-length car everywhere Soon after: they are all over the place in the US too 2026: these cars are memory-holed so hard I can't remember the make or model name

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 20/09/2026

A rare sight last night: A 12 string parlor guitar and a Fender Bass VI

The band Contorno performing last night on the Judson & Moore distillery stage in Chicago

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 17/09/2026

I knew only one, about a decade ago: a coworker, Harvard Law grad who switched to software development. Center-left views and a Mayor Pete fan. Mentioned reading Ross for non-Trumpy conservative takes.

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jenn schiffer 😎 @jennschiffer.com · 17/09/2026

a lot of folks are asking how someone can do something so "stupid" as hard coding a secret token, and i'm telling you that you are holding software developers and companies on way too high a pedestal if you still think there's secure, quality code being sent out into the world

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 16/09/2026

I'm presuming the white bicycle is a callback

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 15/09/2026

Yes! Even for big businesses. I feel for the graphics person who put in the work only to have THAT design make the numbers go down. Their boss is going to bring it up at their annual review and it's my fault.

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 13/09/2026

Looks like SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE in the middle of the middle row? I can't make out anything else.

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 12/09/2026

What's that, like the difference of 1 spoon of "O"s? Nice work.

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 12/09/2026

I've been thinking about this after hearing Lisa Carver on @turnedoutapunk.bsky.social A bunch of them came up in conversation as friends/acquaintances and she didn't come off as having rethought things?

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 11/09/2026

genius.com/America-sand... This is the first song about 9/11 The Genius annotation says "the beginning does not seem to connect to the rest of the song" It does if the song is about 9/11, which it is It took 30 years for the world to catch up

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America – Sandman

The second track on the first album of the group, released in 1971, and then re-released again in 1972, this time including America’s first major hit – A Horse with No Name

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 10/09/2026

@1089thehawk.com I keep getting news alerts that are just excerpts from Wisp's memoir

Google news alert saying "Ozzy and I were in a bathroom peeing together…"

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 09/09/2026

I haven't paid *that* much to 1password or digitalocean over the years but it's fun to hear David Hamburger Helper getting a piece

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jenn schiffer 😎 @jennschiffer.com · 09/09/2026

if your bosses are making a thing that’s apparently going to kill people then literally what am i supposed to do that you don’t have more access to do? buy stocks?

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 09/09/2026

I married a Belleville West* graduate and cannot be objective about Wilco [* the high school Jeff Tweedy and the other Uncle Tupelo founders attended]

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 09/09/2026

"dreamed I was E Bloom, but I woke up Joe Bouchard"

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 07/09/2026

What's the most cursed record in your collection? For me, it's this Dave Major & the Minors LP, signed by Dave himself. He would go on to murder two people, and die during a police shootout afterward.

The front cover of the 2nd album by Dave Major & the Minors

A portion of the back cover of my copy of the 2nd Dave Major & the Minors album, showing Dave's autograph. He signed it to someone named Ruth and doodled a trumpet or some other kind of horn under his signature.

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 07/09/2026

I watched a training video for work last week and one of the actors was wearing a tank. He also had a huge handlebar mustache so the effect was 1900 circus strongman. Distracting!

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 02/09/2026

Catchy tune, 4 on the floor beat. I'll allow it, even if it means something like Neil Young's "Barstool Blues" counts too.

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 02/09/2026

Apple caved but "nobody" inside supported it? Really? Did dveryone up and down the chain refuse to make the change, forcing Tim Apple to log in and do it himself? MapQuest is holding strong: www.mapquest.com/us/lake-onta...

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Lake Ontario, US - MapQuest

Get more information for Lake Ontario in null, null. See reviews, map, get the address, and find directions.

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 31/08/2026

Meanwhile over at MapQuest it's Lake Ontario as always

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 31/08/2026

$GOOG uses whatever names USGIS tells them! Their hands are tied! This remains true when an executive order renames it "Sundar Pichai Sucks Lake" It's the policy!

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 27/08/2026

RS did not want to give 5 stars to anything alt-rock coded. That's reserved for Mick Jagger solo albums. Good try, Sinead!

Rolling Stone gives Sinead O'Connor's 2nd LP 4½ stars

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Josh Kantor @jtkantor.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The super amazing @magicbeans.bsky.social turned me on to this song ten years ago, and I still go back and re-listen to it every few months in a never-ending quest to determine whether or not the bass part is more deranged than the guitar part. Proceed with caution, but do proceed.

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Electric's Theme

YouTube video by Rhythm Rockers - Topic

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Pee Wee Herman & Dolly Parton singing a duet? Here ya go...

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Shermerville @shermerville.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Incredible photos. I've seen this fox in my neighborhood but never this close.

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 22/08/2026

A list of greatest greatest hits albums (soft rock division) should include BEST OF BREAD, but only side 1

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 22/08/2026

Immaculate Collection and ABBA Gold both succeed almost too well. They're completely satisfying in a way that (oddly) makes me not feel the need to dig deeper into their catalogs.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 21/08/2026

Terribly sorry for the grief all 'round, but we're necessarily evolving out of a very childish view of techno-capitalist "progress" that was embodied by Elon Musk at his heights: the avatar of "we can do good and do well at the same time." How did that work out? Still wonder why the vibe shifted?

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 18/08/2026

(a lot more in the alt text)

The picture shows a man is about to knock over a domino, which will knock over increasingly large dominoes. The smallest domino has the label "Re/Search publishes INCREDIBLY STRANGE MUSIC" and the largest one has the label "NPR plays 'Stormy Weather' when stocks are down.

That thing where NPR plays "Stormy Weather" or "We're in the Money" or "It Don't Mean a Thing (If it Ain't Got That Swing)" depending on the stock market situation has been going on for years and it really blows. It's like they wish their listeners are all 27 year old men smoking cigars.

The dominoes in the middle might include:
* Dan Clowes' Lloyd Llewellyn comics
* "Cocktail Nation" (Urge Overkill)
* "Cocktail Nation" (Combustible Edison)
* "Cocktail Nation" (Squirrel Nut Zippers)
* "Cocktail Nation" (the movie Swingers)
* "Cocktail Nation" (Gap commercials with Matrix-style "bullet time" swing dancing)
* Mancow telling Anthony Bourdain about his 3 "S"-es: sex, Sinatra, and "this sandwich" that he was eating

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