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well I could always go back to being judgy if you’d prefer that

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he probably has something to say about the unique aroma of Bugles, though

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certainly this is not directed at ME

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fortunately for you I am far more tolerant/a little less judgy of other people’s musical taste than I was back in 1993

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Same reason I used them in high school: because it’s cool

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my kid’s contribution was an article about whether you should be polite to AI and one of the kids from this debate said “I am not polite to AI. I do not like to use AI.”

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I love the 12 year old’s school newspaper, there’s always something good, like this debate between two kids about whether chocolate or vanilla ice cream is better

(Kid name), you might think that chocolate is better than vanilla, but your evidence is irrelevant. First, chocolate's
"more developed" and "more flavourful taste" makes it very bitter, and some people don't like it. Vanilla is sweeter and less bitter. Second, vanilla does have some flavour but it isn't as harsh as chocolate's.

(Kid name), chocolate is not bitter, it has a rich flavor. One reason chocolate is better than vanilla is because with chocolate they work on the taste more than vanilla. For vanilla they just toss it into a bowl and give it to them. With chocolate they get melted milk and put chocolate into it to make it more flavorful.

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don’t forget that kickass Mr. Horse impression!

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I guarantee that if I called my friend Robin and said “are those Bugles I smell?” she’d remember good old Dustin

we were sharing a sleeping bag on the floor of his friend’s dorm room and he was raving about stone temple pilots and the more he talked the more I thought “what the fuck am I doing here, why am I in this situation”

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fun fact: “he likes stone temple pilots” was a contributing factor when I broke up with a guy I’d been seeing in early 1993. that said, my memories of him involve his comments about the smell of Bugles and a spot on-impression of Mr. Horse from Ren and Stimpy so it wasn’t like this was going to last

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nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

guy who keeps getting fired for sexual harassment

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crabs do not even have skeletons, this is ridiculous (of course I bought it. it was on sale and I can add it to the Halloween tableau)

A skeleton crab on the shelf at the store

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nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

given the vast amount of questionable shit I can order from Ingram, that’s impressive

this is central Illinois erasure and I’m not having it the horseshoe was invented in SPRINGFIELD, not Chicago. I never experienced the joy of the horseshoe until I moved to central Illinois

Place hot meat (any type), crisp french fries, and a drizzle of cheese sauce on toast, and you have a horseshoe sandwich, created by a Chicago chef and his wife in 1928.

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we called it “diarrhea gravy”

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this is a really cool idea!

my kid’s favorite line was the very deadpan “my family really enjoys this meal” towards the end

you WOULD enjoy such a thing

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better that than “Liz Fraser Sings the Complete Works of Tool”

when I went to college in 1991 my code word to send to my dads pager if I wanted them to call me I would send the digits for “catbutt” (228-2888) because I thought this was so funny that I made my parents watch it

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Dear Neko Case, please cover “Mambo No. 5.”

nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

what you said at conference last year was completely appropriate and absolutely relevant to libraries. thank you for everything that you did during your time in ILA leadership, you were thoughtful, inspiring, and a powerful advocate (as always)

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A’ja is awesome! last season, the Illinois women’s basketball team found out she was in Chicago and invited her to come to Champaign for a game and she did! I thought that was an incredibly cool thing for her to do.

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nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

my kid, after spotting a police car: “Mommy! It’s the PIGS!”

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nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

please tell me that my child is not the first person to look at this marble wall and say “oh hey are those chicken drumsticks?”

A beige marble wall with dark brown markings that look a little bit like chicken drumsticks, actually

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nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I got my this mortal coil box set there (and many other hard to find goth/industrial import CDs)

nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Armageddon in Chicago? I remember that place!!

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nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

fun night: going to exile to pick up my joy division box set (!) then to bread company for a fondue/French onion soup dinner (!!) then to Krannert to see Sasha Velour perform (!!!)

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in my defense that is Robin’s side of the room

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here let me help you with that

A slovenly dorm room, with the banana shaped maracas and the Ren and Stimpy postcards circled in orange

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you’re just jealous of my banana shaped maracas and my Ren and Stimpy postcard collection

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…and I was like hahaha no dude but good to know you are into some light bondage. good luck with that anyway this album and pure guava by ween were the soundtrack to that excellent semester

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anyway there’s a video of me drunkenly singing “Frank Mills” before we went to a terrible party at one of the off-campus houses named after a type of cheap, shitty beer (probably “the Icehouse”). a guy from the previous semester’s human sexuality class tried to hit on me in the kitchen…

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my hair was freshly dyed and looking cool even though my hands, forehead, and ears were purple. Robin had swiped a bottle of Chianti from an Italian restaurant in Florida but we didn’t have a corkscrew so we improvised and the cork fell in the bottle (we called it “cork wine”)

I finally got my hands on some purple manic panic hair dye over the break, and now that I was free from the scrutiny of my parents, I dyed my hair purple…not knowing that I should wear gloves and put Vaseline around my hairline to prevent staining

nanette @nanette.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

listening to it’s a shame about Ray by the lemonheads and it reminds me of January 1993. I had just moved in with Robin—it was our first night back after winter break. this was our dorm room circa March or April (check out the boognish head on the window)

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I love seeing how many of my favorite Best Album folks made the list!

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

wow! she’s extremely talented!