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Mr. Dan Kelly @mrdankelly.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Pointed out by @rachelmcpadden.bsky.social. Thank you for bringing this to the world's attention. www.juliensauctions.com/en/items/229...
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Rick Nielsen | Black Overcoat Peed on by Nikki Sixx
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Rachel Lichtman @rachellichtman.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
This is just phenomenal. 🤎
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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 03/10/2026
sign, xanadu foam house of tomorrow, route 13, wisconsin dells, wisconsin, 1988
sign, xanadu foam house of tomorrow, route 13, wisconsin dells, wisconsin, 1988
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Larry Karaszewski @larrythek.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Elvis Presley in “Midnight Cowboy.” He would have been fucking amazing. No damn way the Colonel would have let him do it. But Elvis is Joe Buck: “Women like me, goddammit. Hell, the only one thing I ever been good for is lovin’. Women go crazy for me, that’s a really true fact!”
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Post Marone @jazwgn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m going to record an audiobook of this.
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Sitcom People @sitcompeople.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Rodney Anonymous @rodneyanonymous.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I had a dream on Monday night that a short man who was a Paul Newman impersonator, and billed himself as "Small Newman", was calling into radio shows asking for a lift from the airport to center city so that he could appear on the Mike Douglas show.
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Gumby Screens @gumbyscreens.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Frame #1555 from E24 Witch Way
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Cat Randall @catrandall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“No way, man, don’t hang that name on me!”
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Rach @rachelmcpadden.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In the ‘90s, a friend and I used to get a sweet potato pie from a bakery in North St. Louis on John Coltrane’s birthday bc they had some intel it was his fave. Baking one today for JC’s 100th
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Rach @rachelmcpadden.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The package I sent to Pasadena from Philly has made it to New York in just 6 days. Sounds like airplanes and gov agencies are fine
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Sitcom People @sitcompeople.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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Kedge @kedgehog.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
They bought a fuckin' zoo @rachelmcpadden.bsky.social
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captain bleach @blainecapatch.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
movie pitch: what if the North won the Civil War
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Rach @rachelmcpadden.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Happy 100th birthday, Mel Brooks!
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Trailers From Hell @trailersfromhell.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Before she became a global superstar, Olivia Newton-John starred in Toomorrow. Glenn Erickson revisits the unusual 1970 sci-fi musical in a new CineSavant review. trailersfromhell.com/toomorrow/
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Toomorrow - Trailers From Hell
Dennis Bartok brings an oddball film back from obscurity — an unreleased big budget comic Sci-fi musical given a big 1970 premiere, only to drop out of sight for decades. The immediate point of intere...
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Air-Conditioned @air-conditioned.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
It's sad to see Ardent shut down. Ardent was the most important and successful studio in Memphis, beginning in the late 1960s. I spent a lot of time there and have many fine memories. I loved that the studio and my hometown were a magnet for so many artists. news.radiofacts.com/memphis-hist... 1/2
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Memphis’ Historic Ardent Studios Shuts Down – Radio Facts Regional News Archive
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Sitcom People @sitcompeople.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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columbo screenshots @columboscreens.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕥 @thatsgoodweb.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
1991
enesco garfield figurine, 1981

garfield hitting a computer and it says “compute this sucker”
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But Dave Died 10 Years Ago This Very Night @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
in these anxiety-increasing times we all need a comfortable place that is welcoming. so I've renewed Elvis Costello Dog www.elviscostellodog.com
a dog that looks like elvis costello
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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Album cover for a scary seeming band your older sibling listens to and then you finally play the album one day and it’s just ska
Children practicing the «Duck and Cover» protection method with a real atomic bomb explosion in the background. The photo was taken in Nevada, 40 km from the epicentre.
1952.

(Photo of same)
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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 29/05/2026
boardwalk stores a.m., wildwood, new jersey, 1978
boardwalk stores a.m., wildwood, new jersey, 1978
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Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
youtu.be/WTcykI8m4xA?...
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Devo - Love Without Anger
YouTube video by DevoOfficialVEVO
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Victoria Law @victorialaw.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
From Chicago’s Public Housing Museum: Darkroom in 1929 public housing closet (Jane Addams House). The mom let her teen son set up the darkroom so long as she could keep her linens in that closet! He offered to develop film & print 2 images from each negative for 30 cents!
Very narrow closet with red lightbulb,  clothesline of small photos, shelves with developing chemicals and supplies, and kitchen/bedroom linens.
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Kedge @kedgehog.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Leonard Cohen had hoes
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Compulsive Communicator @ferrabee.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
My dad was proudly ignorant of everything after Carole King’s Tapestry. When I was in my late teens we walked by Van Morrison on Holland Park Road. He was walking facing the wall. Ever since then he referred to any music by asking “is this Van Morrison?”
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columbo screenshots @columboscreens.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
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Sitcom People @sitcompeople.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
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Maggie Serota @maggieserota.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Trump bringing Bette Davis energy to Mueller’s passing.
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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
of interest to few certain strains of music heads: huge stash of NME back issues now dropping on @archive.org, 300+ issues, 1969-1983 (so far). archive.org/search?query...
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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
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Fun City Editions @funcityeditions.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
There are just over 30 FABULOUS STAINS deluxe editions, WITH STICKER SETS, left in stock at FCE. After that, the limited edition deluxe 4K UHD/Blu-ray set remains in stock with box, poster, and 64-page perfect bound book. www.funcityeditions.com/shop/p/fabul...
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Rach @rachelmcpadden.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
For women’s history month, all genders should decenter men
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Alan Partridge - Quote of the Day @apartridgeqotd.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Remembering Emitt Rhodes on his birthday. Here's a video for Birthday Lady filmed in 1971 at Bristol Temple Meads station for some reason
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Larry Karaszewski @larrythek.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Organizing 35mm film reels and boxes of sound for the underrated 1974 cult movie “Buster and Billie.” Some of this stuff is so rare it’s still labeled under the original title “Black Creek Billie.” Thanks to Mark Silverman for digging all this stuff up.
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Your Canadian Girlfriend @yourcanadiangf.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
no nominations for Husker Du, Black Flag, Sonic Youth, Pere Ubu or Television.
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Sweet Spoony the Good Boy @thespoony.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Throwing snowballs at a cop is cool and any cop who would complain about it is a silken hemorrhoid pillow.
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Michael Azerrad @michaelazerrad.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Au revoir, Eliane Radigue. If you ever want to have a peak (musical) experience, start playing her three-hour _Trilogie de la Mort_ maybe an hour before dusk and just look out the window, preferably with a view of the sky.
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Rach @rachelmcpadden.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
My friend @kedgehog.bsky.social typed “JFC Jr.” by accident and now it’s my favorite exclamation
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Rach @rachelmcpadden.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
How much do you tip when your therapist says you have a perfect complexion
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Rach @rachelmcpadden.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Please sign my imaginary petition for heart-shaped pizza to be sold year-round 💘🍕
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Rach @rachelmcpadden.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
In general
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julia davidovich @juliadavidovich.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
two wizards kissing
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Rach @rachelmcpadden.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
To celebrate the great Lee Ranaldo’s 70th birthday, here’s a Sonic Youth smoking party on public access in 1983
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🎥 Kathy 📼 Fennessy 📽️ @kcfennessy.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
She's all three members of Sleater-Kinney at once.
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Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
anyway I did write something last week, it's about one of my favorite cult classics, LADIES & GENTLEMEN, THE FABULOUS STAINS which was just released on disc. in my mind it was always on Night Flight, but I learned they only showed it about half a dozen times! www.salon.com/2026/01/27/t...
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The punk rock movie that taught a generation of girls not to put out
The reissue of "Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains" reclaims the film as a vital precursor to riot grrrl.
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Rach @rachelmcpadden.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
me re: anything
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Rach @rachelmcpadden.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
me re: anything
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Language changes organically, I'd never be one of those people who gets mad cos the meaning of a word cha- NOW HANG ON JUST A MINUTE
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