"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 18mThe 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. 010
"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 22mThe 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. 100
"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 1hLeo Durocher would have fked somebody up with the fat end of a pool cue if they did this to him. 270
"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 2hYeah! 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. 110
"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 3hOr maybe I was supposed to say: Sail On Sailor For Tax Purposes 010
"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 3hStill working through the contents of the revived iPod and I’d forgotten the CRB ever played this. A pleasant surprise. 210
"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 3hli’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 020
Reposted by "smokey stevenson"Liz - High and Inside @lizzierie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026NOW 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 ❤️ 13723
Reposted by "smokey stevenson"J Bogart @jonathanbogart.net · 7hi'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. 12210
"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 7hcongrats to Dave Fenyves, who contributed to both the ‘82-‘83 and ‘86-‘87 champions 010
"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. 020
"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 10hDigital Underground, The D-FLO Shuttle (“didn‘t have a dime, a nickel, penny, pot to piss in”)youtu.beDigital Underground - The DFLO ShuttleYouTube video by Tommy Boy 010
"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 11hFor the Love of Money (brother, can you spare a dime?) 030
"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 11hOn Broadway (one thin dime won’t even shine your shoes) 050
"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 12hconversely, it is a shame that the hot shoe is no longer burnin’ down the avenue 110
"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Barnstable 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.org1980 Presidential Election Statistics 000
"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.) 220
"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 15/10/2026but not a George Michael fan, apparently. 020
"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 15/10/2026I 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. 120
"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 15/10/2026You’re gonna find this drawing again five years from now and think, “I drew an animatronic bird … why, again?” 040
"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14/10/2026within five years I bet the media will have adopted a new toothless euphemism for firing: "asked to turn in their hoodies" 020
"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14/10/2026laughing out loud in the cube at “Melodic son-of-a-bitch, isn’t he?” 030
"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 010
"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Erdelyi/Fjelstad is: - a pretty great producer/engineer combo - a pair of really tough Scrabble draws 010
"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14/10/2026A kindly, thoughtful response from the archivists to my silly question! Thank you, and rock on. 030
"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? 230
"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14/10/2026and of course the entire approach reminds me of the opening of Robert Lowell’s “Notice” 000
"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14/10/2026youtu.beGreat SoulYouTube video by The Tragically Hip - Topic 200
"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I have managed my pop culture intake in such a fashion that I perceived this first and foremost as a Gord Downie reference. Me FTW 111
"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14/10/2026commute 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. 000
"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14/10/2026yes, opening yesterday’s mail at 6 am is a Thing Normal People Do 000
"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Baseball Hall of Fame fundraising letter starts with Jacques Barzun and FFS, folks, find some fresh material 110
"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14/10/2026has there ever been a by-election on a Whitsunday? 010
"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14/10/2026it would be great if they used, say, Are You Being Served? the way Americans used the Simpsons 120
"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I love the #vintagehockey tag for blue Whalers unis ... give me green or white if you really wanna go back 010
"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14/10/2026it 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!) 100
"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14/10/2026The 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. 030
"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14/10/2026when peanut butter is outlawed, only outlaws will have peanut butter 110
"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 13/10/2026as the song-players go, he was earlier than most 130
"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 13/10/2026As long as I gaze on A Waterloo tequila sunrise I am in paradise 030
"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Or 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 000
"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 13/10/2026in 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. 100