Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026October 5, 1949: Happy 77th Birthday, saberstar Bill James! Similarity Scores 1. James Stokely 2. Gilbert Van Camp 3. Jack Unterweger 4. Ann Rule 5. Seymour Siwoff 6. Jack Abbott 7. John Forbes Nash 8. Jay Robert Nash 9. Sean Forman 10. Dick Allen 130
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Time for a CBGB Witness Another pop culture "Turn-On" from Jeffery Vogel’s fake “TV Guide” section in the Jan. 1979 issue of the NY Rocker! With the Ramones, Chris Stamey & the dB's, the Feelies, the Fabulous Poodles and a special guest slot for Robert C+hristgau! 030
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026A few yrs ago, I moved a geetar outta the closet & behind it was an Estrus Records poster for the 1992 Garage Shock Memorial Day bash at the 3-B Tavern in Bellingham, Wa.! With: Prisonshake! Dead Moon! Gas Huffer! Girl Trouble! The A-Bones! Fastbacks! Untamed Youth! Mono Men! The Muffs & many more! 131
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It was at that very moment...Dr. Robert Morgan realized he had forgotten to hang a fresh garlic wreath on his front door. 000
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 03/10/20261979 ad for that great radio station PIX-102! (save that toupee soufflé wonder, right-wing goon Mark Simone) "The Next 25 Years of Rock N Roll" lasted only *𝟓* more months. PIX's 2-year run of pissing off WNEW-FM ended, Muni & crew went back to their abhorrent task of killing off Rock & Roll music 120
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Hey, Strum Thurmond! No reason to buy! That's because that's around this time (1974) hero R. Meltzer was no longer writing for Zoo World...and it became a whorey rag just like the rest. 000
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026October 2, 1949: Happy Birthday, Richard Hell...77 irreplaceable years old today! To help celebrate, here's a cool Nov. 1980 love comes in blurb spurts review ad in the NY Rocker for the fab Richard Hell & The Voidoids (Part III)/Neon Boys EP on Shake Records. 160
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026HEADLINE: GOP Super PAC pauses US Senate ad spending in NC, where GOP’s Michael Whatley trails in polls I haven't seen a Whatley embarrassed like this since Pez Whatley was forced to wear a mop wig after losing a wrestling match to Ron Garvin!nytimes.comRepublicans Pull Money From North Carolina Senate Race As Midterm Prospects Dim (Gift Article)As the Republicans try to hold their majority, the Senate Leadership Fund is diverting resources to Kansas, which has become a growing concern for the party. 100
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026E Pluribus Funkless 1967: Terry Knight, Ed McMahon and Robin Leach. 000
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Sabermemory - 2009 David Cone: "I found that Andy Pettitte’s numbers are very, very close to those of another Yankee HOF pitcher who’s nickname was “The Knight Of Kennett Square”. Failed Yankee historian, Michael Kay: "Was that Lefty Gomez?" 010
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 30/09/20261976: 50 years ago, Nicholas Ray on dangerous ground at CBGB. Johnny (Ramone and/or Thunders) Guitar, if you will. 010
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There is stupid and then there is the MLB Network STILL using the Elias Sports Bureau for nincompoop junk stats. 000
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Can someone please tell lunky Lou Merloni that RISP is a descriptive stat, NOT a predictive one and that it's also 2026. 001
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Another neat pull from my '70s Punk/Psychotronic crate... 1978: Keep on Gobbin'! A rotten figure in a BOMP! T-shirt ad! Or as hero R. Crumb once said about his hippie-hording "Keep on Truckin'" drawing: "I didn't want it to turn into a greeting card artist for the counter-culture!" 050
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Mark Teixeira spits the bit-o-money from his disturbing exmoor horse-face on how he first got into politics: "I've always loved America and it was 2008 when Obama became president and I'm like...𝐇𝐔𝐇? 𝗜 𝗗𝗢𝗡'𝗧 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧! 𝗜 𝗗𝗢𝗡'𝗧 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧! 𝗜 𝗗𝗢𝗡'𝗧 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧! So I started to donate to candidates." 020
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 27/09/20261977: That time Rod Stewart won best "𝐌𝐀𝐋𝐄 𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐑" and finished 8th (between Demis Roussos and Queen) for "𝐁𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑" in Record Mirror's Poll Results. Guess we know how the Record Mirror artist voted... 020
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 27/09/2026And yes, I still think Brad Parscale's grotesque chest meat area looks a helluva lot like Leon Janney as Flattop. 000
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The biblical battle of the brainwashing Jesus Won jerseys! Keith Olbermann: "Been fighting it all year and I'm confident the voters will go with Sal Stewart (because voters always see Bob Hamelin before they see Jim Edmonds or Manny Ramirez) but Carson Benge is, in fact, the NL Rookie of the Year." 051
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026So freakin' terrifying...even Myra Hindley and Ian Brady shit wet peat bogs! 010
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026As a nation struggling terribly through these hellish times... 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐖𝐄 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐒𝐔𝐅𝐅𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐃 𝐄𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐆𝐇?!rollingstone.comU2 Announce New Album, 'Carnaval de Luz,' Out Nov. 13U2 announce a new album, 'Carnaval De Luz,' out Nov. 13. The first single, "Silencio," is out now. 100
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The shrinking of testicles, infertility and bustling gynecomastia due to prolonged misuse of anabolic steroids is REALLY strong in this one! 020
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 24/09/20261973: Hero Michael Burke to Steinbrenner after he bitched about Bobby Murcer striking out on Opening Day. "Knock off that shit, George! Murcer will strike out again, knock in runs again, hit home runs again. So unless you want to destroy the boy, let's not have any more of that chickenshit stuff!" 150
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Another righteous pull from my '70s Punk/Psychotronic crate... Sept. 1977: 49 years ago...a wild week or so worth of shows at CBGB! With The Mumps, Nervous Rex (Nervus Rex)!, The Senders!, The Rousers, Sucide!, The Dead Boys!...and coming Richard Hell! 130
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 24/09/202662 yrs later & I'm still pissed that "Double-Header" was turned down by that eternal snot-rag Saturn Girl and the Legion of Super Heroes when he/they tried to join! I mean, the super-power to look like Baron von Raschke and Fritz von Raschke at the same time is unmatched in subhuman history! 170
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Sept. 23, 2000: 3B supremo, Aurelio Rodríguez...gone 26 years now In a cosmic coinkydink of egad proportions, Aurelio Rodríguez, Aurelio López and Aurelio Monteagudo are the only 3 players in MLB* history named Aurelio and all three were killed in car accidents between the ages of 44 and 52. 110
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Bomp 1978: 48 audience pummeling years ago...groovy Greg Shaw reviewed The Cramps' second killer single "Human Fly" (Vengeance Records)...and juke boxed the ears offa James Chance in the process! 0112
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 22/09/2026A wild pull from my '70s Punk/Psychotronic crate...this 'un from 1974. There are a lot of things I've hated in my life...and Robert Conrad is most of them. 100
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Another find in my stuff: A 1979 ad for New York's The Mod Frames' (who were led by noted rock/sports crit Billy Altman) "Still Smiling Today" single. A neat slice of '60s powerpop...never got their second single. Plus the Bruce Gordon/Frank Nitti inside biz is an absolute killer! 040
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Sept. 21, 1984: 42 tonsil removing years ago..went to see the Replacements again at Maxwell's with quirky They Might Be Giants opening. While J.J. Smuggo hoisted the moist to the Mats, he no likeee They Might Be Giants. Smuggo: "If I wanted to see a freakin' novelty act, I'd go see P. D. Q. Bach!" 120
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Sept. 21, 2020: The incredible Roy Head...left the floor 6 years ago. Sir Doug Sahm: "When Roy's "Treat Her Right" first hit the airwaves, everybody went crazy, crazy!"youtube.comRoy Head - Treat Her Right [stereo with full horns]YouTube video by Twodawgzz 061
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Just came across a couple more Ray Robinson-fueled “Baseball Stars” books that I thought were long gone (I'm looking at you dim-witted step-family from hell). Gots 1959 to 1973 and only missing the 1970 book. The series began in 1950 (then took a few years off, came back in 1953) and ended in 1975. 110
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Was just reading in an old Mr. Snitch column that in 1963, Hoboken had *219* taverns, 34 liquor package stores and 17 clubs with bars. No wonder that drinker with a writing problem, Brendan Behan went on that infamous early '60s Hoboken bar-closing, pub crawl! 041
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Another one from my '70s Punk/Psychotronic crates... A 1979 subscription ad (act quick to get yerself a free Germs LP!) for the fab Slash fanzine...which folded about a year later. Think I have more Slash ads that issues of Slash, as I always had trouble locating them. 032
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Just knocked off Richie Unterberger's excellently loaded 800 page-turner of a book, "Do What You Fear Most: The History of The Velvet Underground"...and my one great takeaway comes from the lips of Lou Reed's girlfriend Barbara Hodes: "Lou 𝐇𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐃 Bill Graham!" 140
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Dee Dee Ramone and wacko Trumpian brain surgeon Ben Carson were both born on September 18, 1951. Coincidence? I think not! 010
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Hey, another worthless find my stuff... A 1975 Rigby: Dial-A-Concert hotline ad which always used to be placed next to the Titus Oaks Record Exchange ad in the Voice! Or as my old pal Lott the Snot used to say: "They better have fucking Tull listed today!" 130
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 17/09/2026They tried to seduce Pat Clayton with Elvis, The Everly Brothers, The Twist, Johnny Angel, Kenny Ball and even freakin' Acker Bilk...yet she remained most firm and said 𝐍𝐎!youtube.comPat Clayton - I Said No (Dra) 1962YouTube video by DJ Pete Pop 000
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Another flipped-out find in my Psych/Punk crate... Damn, the Oct. 1975 CREEM - BOY HOWDY! Wham-O FRISBEE offer that I never filled out and sent in! "throw it at the adam's apple of your favorite popstar!" (start ducking, Sheeran!) 130
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Super find in my '70s Punk/Psychotronic crate.. Sept. 1976: Week plus of shows at the fab Max's Kansas City! Sept. 16: *𝟓𝟎* yrs ago, Cheap Trick's first gig at Max's where they were promoting their forthcoming debut LP and lots of other great bands...Mink DeVille!, Demons! Chris Stamey's Sneakers! 040
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Another find in my '70s Punk/Psychotronic crate A 1975 Village Voice ad for John Waters' "Female Trouble"...with a sex-spankin' Rex Reed blurb! "Extraordinary perversity" lovers unite! 072
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 16/09/2026With microbial spoiled ginger-head Ed Sheeran all over the news. I've always wondered who is a fan of his duff stuff. I recalled that wee Mike Lupica was a fan after he posted this pic of his going to see Sheeran a few yrs back. Lupica musta been worn out from yelling "𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐈𝐍 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐓!" all night. 010
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 15/09/2026For the love of Clydesdale Tolson!wired.comThe FBI Doubles Down on Easing ‘Bestiality’ Hiring StandardsFBI director Kash Patel claimed to US senators that the removal of a bar on hiring people who had engaged in bestiality was aimed at protecting sexual assault survivors. 120
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Sept. 15, 1979: 47 noise annoying yrs ago...went to see the wicked triple bill of The Buzzcocks (who destroyed their gear on stage), the fab Monochrome Set & the crushing onslaught of Mission of Burma (their first show out of the Boston!) opening at that pus-eruptin' cauldron, the Diplomat Hotel! 041
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Till the Pounds Roll By Since I can never find a photo of Buster Crabbe wearing his "Ribbed Girdle T-Shirt"...this 1969 ad of career GOPeabrain Tony Martin and his tummy-throttling "Waist-Away Belt" (which looks as tight as Cyd Charisse's pectineus muscles) will just have to do! 010
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Then the first friend of the Lehman and Salomon Brothers swallowed the sea. And all the fish were left high and dry at the bottom of the sea. And all the treasures of the sea lay uncovered. The old man was delighted. 000
Repoz2 @repoz2.bsky.social · 13/09/2026After the Riot at Brighton 1966 Thrifty Drug Store ad for "Chet Atkins Picks on the Beatles" album. But why Chet Atkins is wearing a disturbing Jean Shrimpton side-part bangs wig is beyond me. 110
