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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

old Milwaukee memory unlocked

1960s vintage (?) commercial sign, "Kalt's BAR & Restaurant".

It was on Oakland near Locust.

Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Look at this poster, LOOK AT IT!!! Isn't this the most 1971 thing you ever saw?? As I remember it, it was a minor cultural moment. I should rewatch this one of these days it's been a few decades

Movie poster for the animated TV show "The Point"

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Okay, hear me out, a Lord of the Rings remake but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:

Al Lewis and Fred Gwynne in "The Munsters"

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

First time I went to Manhattan was 2003 or 2004. Took a long walk from midtown to the ferry dock downtown. I saw a FDNY pumper slowly cruising down a street, about 7 or 8 guys in fire gear riding on the outside, slowing down and catcalling whenever they approached a sufficiently young pretty woman.

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

one of my kid's bands that is to say one of the multiple bands that one of my multiple kids is in. That's them on the floor

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Statue in a downtown park I never noticed until just now. "Dedicated to the valiant immigrant mothers", it says.

Statue "dedicated to the valiant immigrant mothers"

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: A Sicilian child watches some movies

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Describe your musical taste in three artists, no genres 1. Voces8 2. Little Feat 3. heroin-period Bill Evans kinda difficult to limit it to 3, here

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

For @planecrazy.bsky.social , a pen at the Abraham Lincoln museum, Springfield IL Year is late 1862

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I will yell "Mambo!" from the audience every time I see West Side Story. No apologies forthcoming. Incidentally, West Allis community theater's current production punches above its weight. You can still go see it tonight 7pm, Sunday 2pm at the Liberace auditorium @ 50th & Greenfield

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I guess a photo of someone holding a loaded weapon and pointing it in their mouth is goddamned funny to a certain kind of mind. To me it just provokes feelings of deep sadness. I hate it. I didn't expect it to show up on my feed. I don't expect I'll miss reading their comments.

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

You know what sucks? Being a descriptivist with aesthetic sensibilities.

"[Artificial Intelligence] lets you throw 'compute' at that problem. "

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

A child moonlights as a movie theater projectionist

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

One great-grandfather, a former Secretary of State of Wisconsin, was kicked out of the banking industry for using a bank's assets to make (and lose) stupid bets on financial shenanigans. One of his sons was on the State Banking Commission at the time, this must have been extremely embarrassing

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Citation needed on "most", bub. Raw milk cheeses younger than 60 days exist in Europe. Canada, too. But most cheese is commodity cheese, everywhere, and that's all going to be made from pasteurized milk for quality control reasons.

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Introducing myself with 10 bands or artists I've seen live: Tame Impala Bill Monroe & the Bluegrass Boys Paul O'Dette & Ronn McFarlane (at the same time!) Janelle Monáe John Fahey Peter Schickele Willie Dixon John Hartford MJ Lenderman John Prine

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

This bit's been going on for so long it's impossible to think of something good that no one's done before. Someone even did "Size 9 Feat" already. Okay ... Slightly increase a band Art Blakey & the Jazz Zoom Meetings sorry. stuff like that's all that's left

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Cream City all the way! photo by @bobbytmke.bsky.social , stolen from onmilwaukee.com/articles/cre...

Italianate home at 800 N. Marshall St., Milwaukee Wisconsin USA, constructed from the local yellow brick. Photo from Bobby Tanzilo/Onmilwaukee.com

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Fancy Mango Old Guy Knee Pain

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

It was 1977, and the sleazebag who ran Champion Chicken on 87th & Lisbon paid me $1.76/hr to wash dishes and bus tables and get yelled at. That was the special wage for tipped employees but I was not actually a tipped employee. Worked all summer, came away with pocket change.

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Hey we just had a 500 year flood 8 months ago... Close to 2" rain in the last 30 minutes

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Carrizo Plain and the Temblor Range in the distance, California. Wildflowers are just starting. California Poppies and yellow things are blooming up in the hills.

Wildflowers and mountains, near Soda Lake, Carrizo plain, California

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

So I recently learned something about the commercial beef tallow process that I didn't know before, and I think it's a really interesting bit of chemical engineering. Me, I'm an occasional soapmaker. (Those occasions are basically my ADHD brain's random dicta. Anyway, years ago when I needed 1/

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTbS... Nonesuch was an amazing label back in the day

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The English Lute: Paul O'Dette, 1979 - Nonesuch H-71363

YouTube video by davidhertzberg

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Other lives I might have led happily: - Great Lakes freighter 2nd mate - symphony orchestra 3rd horn - pastry chef - violin maker - cartographer - furniture maker - cheesemaker - dilettante with a generous trust fund

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Some (Saxony, Pomerania) were "Old Lutherans", who didn't want to join the official half-Lutheran half-Calvinist state Frankenchurch. Others (Mecklenburg, more Pomeranians) were draft dodgers. I usually get a chuckle from South Germans when I tell them my ancestors were sick of being Prussians

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I believe this is an op. He's neither popular or likeable, but legacy media outlets discussing the possibility of a presidential run is sure to get Democrat-haters on the left yelling at Emanuel-dislikers online and vice versa. Voilá, Dems in disarray again.

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

O they had better not do this, "Anne Boleyn's Lament" is RIGHT THERE www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK8W... Those dissonances with every "...I die..." are [chef's kiss]

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Anne Boleyn's lament: O death, rock me asleep; Anna Dennis & Voices of Music 4K UHD

YouTube video by Voices of Music

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I was reading an online archive copy of the Summer 1976 issue of CoEvolution Quarterly, as one does, and found this improved version of the crappy, cheesy Spencer Gifts poster half the people my age seemed to have on their walls:

The Gestalt Prayer

"I do my laundry, and you do yours.
I am not in this world to listen to your ceaseless yammering,
and you are not in this world for any discernible reason at all.
You are you, and I am I, and I got the better deal.
And if by chance we find each other, it will be unspeakably tedious.
Fuck off."

-- Annie Lamott
Bolinas, California

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Remembering that VZ had this weird beauty pageant mania some years ago before their financial collapses, in the same era that Trump had his own beauty pageant fetish, makes me wonder how long it'll take before Trump publicly gets involved in Venezuelan pageants after this latest caper

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Scott Gunn @scottagunn.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

"When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled..." Tyrants are always afraid of love, terrified of grace and mercy because it undermines their coercive grip on power. By God's grace, the Herods of this world don't have the last word. #9lc 🕯️

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

It's not always that the commissioned carol is one I want to hear again. This is one of those times, the music and text are lovely #9LC

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

The King's College Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols service booklet is here! Download link at this address: www.kings.cam.ac.uk/rsdam/2025-n... #9LC

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2025 Nine Lessons And Carols Order Of Service

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

I borrowed the excellent 1979 BBC production of "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" from the libary, and its opening scene really impressed me. Here are the four men at the top of a fictional spy agency in cold war Britain, one is a mole working for the Soviets. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShPP...

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979) - Opening Sequence

YouTube video by Richard Clarke

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Corelli, "Christmas concerto", op. 6 no. 8, Madison (WI) Bach Musicians, at their annual Baroque Christmas concert with Evanston IL's Bella Voce ensemble

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

The looks he gives me when the rotisserie chicken is all gone

A fluffy orange cat, sitting in the refrigerator where HE DOES NOT BELONG, throwing accusatory looks at me

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

George Washington: "May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants — while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree and there shall be none to make him afraid."