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mostrowski52.bsky.social @mostrowski52.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A new Ben Katchor will be released in October. I started reading his strips in the Village Voice and elsewhere. He is a unique and brilliant writer and illustrator.

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mostrowski52.bsky.social @mostrowski52.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Build the road of peace before us Build it wide and deep and long; Speed the slow and check the eager Help the weak and curb the strong. None shall push aside another None shall let another fall. March beside me, Oh my Brother All for one and one for all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMVn...

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Theme From Beethoven's 9th Symphony

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mostrowski52.bsky.social @mostrowski52.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

There Oughta Be A Law (1944-1985) I remember reading this strip in the papers. Nowadays, its faith in the legal process is touchingly naive.

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mostrowski52.bsky.social @mostrowski52.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

These rules remind me of First Year Latin and dear old Brother John. But if the first two letters are ever the same I drop them both, then say the name Like Bob, Bob, drop the B's for Ob Or Fred, Fred, drop the F's for Red Or Mary, Mary, drop the M's for Ary That's the only rule that is contrary.

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mostrowski52.bsky.social @mostrowski52.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A song for August 5, Enola Gay by Utah Phillips Look out, look out from your schoolroom window Look up young children from your play Wave your hand at the shining airplane Such a beautiful sight is Enola Gay www.youtube.com/watch?v=nouX...

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Enola Gay

YouTube video by Utah Phillips - Topic

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mostrowski52.bsky.social @mostrowski52.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The Snood Abides. "I think this recliner really ties the whole porch together."

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mostrowski52.bsky.social @mostrowski52.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Picked this up somewhere. Still disturbing after all these years.

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mostrowski52.bsky.social @mostrowski52.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I'm Your Man (Ich bin dein Mensch) 2021 Movies about humanoid/human relationships are proliferating, but I've never seen a better one than this. Both leads are amazing. Available free on Kanopy if you've got it.

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mostrowski52.bsky.social @mostrowski52.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

"I'm going to kill that boy." Who else was shocked to find out later in life that their favorite boyhood tv dads, like Herbert T. Gillis and Steve Douglas, had a dark noir pasts?

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mostrowski52.bsky.social @mostrowski52.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Kembelford, Gloucestershire, with a murder rate roughly equivalent to Roaring Twenties Chicago. On the bright side, 100% of cases are solved, despite the fact that the police always initially arrest the wrong person.

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mostrowski52.bsky.social @mostrowski52.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The Tall Ships in the harbor made me think of my favorite sea shanty, Get Up Jack, John Sit Down. Do you have a favorite? www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbCJ...

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The Jolly Rogers - Loose Cannons: Get Up Jack, John Sit Down

YouTube video by The Jolly Rogers

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mostrowski52.bsky.social @mostrowski52.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Do you have a favorite Gil Scott-Heron song? Maybe it is (or will be) The Train From Washington? www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9QC...

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gil scott heron - the train from washington (1980).wmv

YouTube video by MrSpacefunk

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mostrowski52.bsky.social @mostrowski52.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The great Larry Storch played The Groovy Guru, a villain on what classic tv comedy? Hint: it wasn't Batman.

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mostrowski52.bsky.social @mostrowski52.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Charles Coburn was born June 19, 1877. His visit to Duffy's Tavern was very funny. www.youtube.com/watch?v=77q_...

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Duffy's Tavern - Guest Charles Coburn

YouTube video by Old Time Radio Researchers

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mostrowski52.bsky.social @mostrowski52.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

It's good to know that in this troubled world, We All Love Football! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dzH...

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RWT - Football

YouTube video by ivorykisses

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mostrowski52.bsky.social @mostrowski52.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I miss the Car Talk guys, even though they never used my employee suggestion: Director of Long-Term Planning: Dustin DeWind.

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mostrowski52.bsky.social @mostrowski52.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I found out that window-rattling noise over my house last night was part of Trump's fighter protection as he returned to NYC to ruin the Knicks game. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOPk...

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Jet Fighter Sound Effects - High Quality

YouTube video by VNK PRODUCTIONS

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mostrowski52.bsky.social @mostrowski52.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Jamming with Jack Benny. Tony Martin, Fred MacMurray, Dick Powell, Kirk Douglas and others meet at Jack's house for their weekly jam session. (All the refreshments are in vending machines!) A great episode of the tv show.

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mostrowski52.bsky.social @mostrowski52.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Korvette's died in 1980 but I still have records I bought in their great music section. Anybody else remember this department store chain? www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jCo...

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Korvette's: The Discount King Who Built 58 Stores And Watched Them All Die In One Night

YouTube video by Silent Collapse

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mostrowski52.bsky.social @mostrowski52.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Mediation Mama by The Mamas & The Papas A deep track that's my favorite of theirs. Transcendental woman travels; Feet barely touch the ground. Time don't mean a thing Except that the world goes around. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NioX...

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Meditation Mama (Transcendental Woman Travels)

YouTube video by The Mamas & The Papas - Topic

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mostrowski52.bsky.social @mostrowski52.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

August 21, 1923 Michigan: Kalamazoo passes ordinance forbidding dancers to gaze into partners' eyes.

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mostrowski52.bsky.social @mostrowski52.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

The life and career of Staten Island's own, David Johansen (1950-2025) in this 2022 documentary by Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi, centered around a fantastic 2020 Buster Poindexter show at the Hotel Carlyle. Buster alone is Hall of Fame worthy. You can get it at NYPL.

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mostrowski52.bsky.social @mostrowski52.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Information Please - a popular radio quiz program (1938-1951). Listeners sent in questions and won a modest prize if they stumped a panel of experts. Oscar Levant was a frequent panelist, displaying his great musical knowledge and mordant wit.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Lessons learned, from the thing that happened one (1) week ago, which is like ten years in Trump time. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

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Lessons learned

A cartoon by Tom Tomorrow.

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mostrowski52.bsky.social @mostrowski52.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Thought of this one today, stuck in Manhattan traffic. Chaplin's post-war talkies were a wonderful cap to his amazing career.

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mostrowski52.bsky.social @mostrowski52.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Seven inch glass won't save him when his time is up. As Gram Parsons said: On the thirty-first floor a gold plated door Won't keep out the Lord's burning rain www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcU0...

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Sin City

YouTube video by The Flying Burrito Brothers - Topic

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mostrowski52.bsky.social @mostrowski52.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

On Duffy's Tavern in 1943, Dinah Shore sings Archie's masterpiece "Leave Us Face It (We're In Love)." www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln6t...

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Leave Us Face It (We're in Love) (1943) - Dinah Shore

YouTube video by Croonr1

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mostrowski52.bsky.social @mostrowski52.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Remember: When they use the word "kinetic" they're talking about tearing brown people limb from limb.

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mostrowski52.bsky.social @mostrowski52.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I rewatched Robert Altman's The Player (with great enjoyment) for the first time since its release. The usual bunch of great Criterion Collection extras. I'd put this on the Mt. Rushmore of super-cameo-rich movies, except I don't think there are three even close. Any contenders?

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mostrowski52.bsky.social @mostrowski52.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Time travel wish? Be in the live audience of an Old Time Radio show.

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mostrowski52.bsky.social @mostrowski52.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

This is a great song from a great album, Maria Muldaur doing the blues of Victoria Spivey. Full of entendres that strive for double but reach maybe 1.1. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2hb...

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Organ Grinder Blues

YouTube video by Maria Muldaur - Topic

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mostrowski52.bsky.social @mostrowski52.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Pasta Fazool: Sont des mots qui vont très bien ensemble Très bien ensemble

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mostrowski52.bsky.social @mostrowski52.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Some things you just have to hear for yourself. I got this from the library and it really is true. So bad it's not even funny.

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mostrowski52.bsky.social @mostrowski52.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

God bless the memory of Mark Twain. A fierce anti-imperialist in our first Gilded Age and a great cat man. Where is his like today?

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mostrowski52.bsky.social @mostrowski52.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Who the hell told Trump that it was a good thing to end all his deranged posts with "Thank you for your attention to this matter," like an assistant night manager at McDonald's putting up his mopping schedule.

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mostrowski52.bsky.social @mostrowski52.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Any fans of Avenue 5? I'm enjoying the first season DVD very much. From the creator of VEEP and The Death of Stalin. And that's saying something.

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mostrowski52.bsky.social @mostrowski52.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I thought I knew some history but this book is opening my eyes.

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mostrowski52.bsky.social @mostrowski52.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

What group consisted of these original members? Niles Caulder, Rita Farr, Cliff Steele, Larry Trainor

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mostrowski52.bsky.social @mostrowski52.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

The Picture of Donald Trump by Oscar Wilde. The story of an aging reprobate whose youthful portrait ensconced in his Florida retreat mysteriously doesn't age while his actual body decays before the eyes of the world.

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mostrowski52.bsky.social @mostrowski52.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Unfortunately, At 6"9' Barron Trump is one inch taller than the maximum height allowed for US military service. Of course, if he knew somebody who could pull some strings....

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mostrowski52.bsky.social @mostrowski52.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor without warning while still engaged in negotiations with the U.S. That was why it was a "dastardly" attack. Who are the dastards now?

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