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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 18m
The local cross-country course was in the same park and included a few elements of the haunted parkway. I could swear I have pictures of runners going past some of this stuff, but I can’t find ‘em. Must have been a highlight of the season for visiting teams.
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 22m
The town in PA where I used to live unexpectedly canceled its annual haunted-parkway event. We only took the “haunted” ride once … but it was a tradition for the family to walk in the daytime through the public park where it was set up, and pose with the props.
Two young Caucasian boy-children, elementary to young middle school age, stand in a sort of clearing in a wooded area. They are smiling. One holds a red plastic bottle marked BOTTLE OF BLOODHigh elementary or low middle school boy, bespectacled, smiles as he holds a big painted sign that says WHITEHALL PARKWAY PENITENTIARY Two boy children (same ones described earlier) stand on a dirt path in a wooded area. Above them is a spray painted cloth banner that reads PRISON OF THE UNDEADBoy, high elementary age, tries on a scary clown mask with green hair. What looks like a wheat field is immediately behind him
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 1h
Leo Durocher would have fked somebody up with the fat end of a pool cue if they did this to him.
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 2h
from Episode 702, VENGEANCE IN THE BLOOD ROOM
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 2h
Yeah! i liked them, and Chris seems content to not just move on from them but to erase them. (pretty sure, for instance, that their live downloads got taken down a few years ago.) Unfortunate.
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 3h
Or maybe I was supposed to say: Sail On Sailor For Tax Purposes
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 3h
Still working through the contents of the revived iPod and I’d forgotten the CRB ever played this. A pleasant surprise.
Screen of iPod in the dark shows that the owner is listening to the Chris Robinson Brotherhood cover the Beach Boys’ “Sail On Sailor”
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 3h
li’l slick on the Mighty Mac today but that’s all right. hands on the wheel, crank up the Red Sovine, and don’t look down
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Liz - High and Inside @lizzierie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NOW until whenever I decide all book orders ship for FREE!! No code needed! Help me reduce stock before moving! I appreciate all the support you have given me the last few years ❤️
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J Bogart @jonathanbogart.net · 7h
i've been spending a lot of time in century-old newspapers over the past few years and it's hard to overstate just how much they remind me of the social internet - punchy, full of topical humor and catchphrases (what we now call memes), incredibly racist, smothered in ads.
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 7h
congrats to Dave Fenyves, who contributed to both the ‘82-‘83 and ‘86-‘87 champions
Three red banners hang in the atrium of a hockey arena. They honor the Rochester Americans’ Calder Cup titles in 1982-83 and 1986-87, and their division title in the latter season
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 8h
more fun than fish on leather
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 9h
“Fat Man in the Bathtub”: “don’t want nobody who won’t dive for dimes” I sense a theme.
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 10h
Screen grab of Reddit thread. Picture shows a young Izzy stradlin in early Guns N’ Roses days (a skinny long haired Caucasian hard rock guitarist) playing a great big thick-bodied jazz box guitar
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 10h
Digital Underground, The D-FLO Shuttle (“didn‘t have a dime, a nickel, penny, pot to piss in”)
youtu.be
Digital Underground - The DFLO Shuttle
YouTube video by Tommy Boy
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 11h
For the Love of Money (brother, can you spare a dime?)
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 11h
On Broadway (one thin dime won’t even shine your shoes)
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 12h
conversely, it is a shame that the hot shoe is no longer burnin’ down the avenue
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 13h
the bass player is always where it happens
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 16h
You changed the history of baseball!
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Barnstable County, Mass. (Cape Cod) was also in Anderson's top 10. Conversely, there were two counties in Texas -- Loving and Kent -- in which Anderson drew no votes at all. The best and worst counties for each candidate are summarized here:
uselectionatlas.org
1980 Presidential Election Statistics
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
#TIL that two of the three US counties where John Anderson got the highest percentage of the vote in 1980 were in Massachusetts. Unfortunately, they were Nantucket County and Dukes County (aka Martha's Vineyard.)
black and white photo of a gray haired caucasian male, clean shaven, wearing glasses with fairly thick dark frames. He is in the middle of saying something and is gesturing by bringing his thumb and forefinger together. This is independent US Presidential candidate John Anderson, as depicted in the October 14, 1980, issue of the Kennebec Journal newspaper of Augusta, Maine
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
but not a George Michael fan, apparently.
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I recently saw the obituary of an American man, born in early 1985, whose first and middle names were Andrew Ridgeley. I bring this up not to make fun of the gentleman (RIP) but just to say that's not a thing I've seen before.
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
You’re gonna find this drawing again five years from now and think, “I drew an animatronic bird … why, again?”
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
within five years I bet the media will have adopted a new toothless euphemism for firing: "asked to turn in their hoodies"
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
laughing out loud in the cube at “Melodic son-of-a-bitch, isn’t he?”
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
“One can only wonder what new directions Neil would have given to popular music, had he but lived…” - National Lampoon, Good-Bye Pop, 1976
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Erdelyi/Fjelstad is: - a pretty great producer/engineer combo - a pair of really tough Scrabble draws
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
A kindly, thoughtful response from the archivists to my silly question! Thank you, and rock on.
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
naw, dude. Marimbas are the way to go
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
#AskAnArchivist Has your fingertip ever appeared in a scanned document? Do you ever do that on purpose just as an Easter egg for future researchers?
Screen grab from newspapers dot com showing an archivist’s finger holding down the edge of the newspaper. Can’t remember what paper it was
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
and of course the entire approach reminds me of the opening of Robert Lowell’s “Notice”
First lines of Robert Lowell’s poem “Notice,” about the interactions between Lowell and his doctors during one of his late-life manic episodes
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
youtu.be
Great Soul
YouTube video by The Tragically Hip - Topic
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I have managed my pop culture intake in such a fashion that I perceived this first and foremost as a Gord Downie reference. Me FTW
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
commute music was the end bit of T-Swift’s Midnights and the beginning of Bowie’s Pin-Ups and I can’t say either of ‘em moved me all that much.
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
yes, opening yesterday’s mail at 6 am is a Thing Normal People Do
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Baseball Hall of Fame fundraising letter starts with Jacques Barzun and FFS, folks, find some fresh material
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
has there ever been a by-election on a Whitsunday?
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
it would be great if they used, say, Are You Being Served? the way Americans used the Simpsons
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This is pretty good!
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I love the #vintagehockey tag for blue Whalers unis ... give me green or white if you really wanna go back
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
when I searched for Bison yogurt, and forgot to include the much-needed "-ai" tag, artificial supersnazzy intelligence provided me with two "answers" -- information on the Bison brand of dairy products from upstate New York, and an assurance that actual bison milk is not commercially produced or sold "because bison are wild, undomesticated animals that do not tolerate regular milking." I mean, you could say the same of me, so I guess fair's fair
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
it has been a long day full of competing stuff to think about, but progress has been made on several fronts, so three cheers for that much. Tomorrow we'll do it again (but not all of it!)
very young Caucasian boy-child (we'll say three) with thick brown hair chopped into a bowl haircut shovels peach yogurt into his ravenous maw. He wears what looks like a one-piece light blue pyjama with a zipper down the front. An olive green plastic cup sits on the counter next to the cup of yogurt (Bison brand). Nowadays I opt for the no- or low-sugar varieties of yoghurt but I shovel it in just as eagerly. Oh, reader, let us seek joy
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The Alt Text on this makes me think of rather wilder things than are actually shown in the picture. I'm imagining Buckler frothing at the mouth while he assaults a squadron of bobbies.
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
when peanut butter is outlawed, only outlaws will have peanut butter
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
as the song-players go, he was earlier than most
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
As long as I gaze on A Waterloo tequila sunrise I am in paradise
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Or perhaps I would have been a second-rate novelist, spending the entire ship voyage hoping some reporter would corral me when I disembarked, and polishing just the right bon mot for my arrival
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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
in another life I might have been a shipboard reporter, accosting second-rate stage actresses, British novelists and Polish classical pianists for the daily batch of irrelevance as they got off their ocean liners.
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