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The Mount Rushmore of Braves folk heroes*: Hurricane Hazle, Francisco Cabrera, Ian Anderson, Ray Kerr *where "folk hero" is a player who didn't have much of a career, but who never has/had to buy a drink in Braves country again because he came through in a big game, or series, or part of a season

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...

The chief justice used to preside over a Supreme Court whose members were afforded more privacy and freedom than many other public officials. Once, years ago, Mr. Lipson and the chief justice found themselves up the peninsula from Port Clyde without a car, Mr. Lipson recalled in an interview. So he stuck out his thumb by the side of the road and a pickup truck pulled over. He and the nation’s top jurist hopped in the back and hitchhiked back to town.

Now, Mr. Lipson said, he is cautious about introducing his friend to strangers. This year, on an outing to nearby Monhegan Island, people recognized the chief justice as he walked by a brewery and started to chant: You should be ashamed.

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Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Reality show competition staple - 10 minutes to go in the episode, while discussing evidence-based vote out possibilities, someone out of the blue says, "what about {Black woman contestant}, I don't trust her", and presto, she's as good as gone. Happened again on The Traitors, I think I'm out.

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Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Dan Carlin, asked why he doesn't take more external opportunities for exposure, said he didn't want to betray his core audience bc once you do, they never come back. Better to enjoy the simple, mutually appreciative relationship he's spent decades nurturing. Makes a lot of sense.

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Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Steve Wynn is an honorary Athenian at this point, but tonight was The Dream Syndicate's first ever Athens show. They were great!

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Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Elf Power at the 40 Watt tonight. Local legends, great show!

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Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

He looks like a bruise that someone dripped semigloss white onto.

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Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Only two more albums until Shannon has to make the call on "Shiny Happy People"! Ngl I'd pay to see him perform it in sorority pledge letter mode...

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Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You couldn’t win at either of the downtown Athens record shops. I once bought the Big Star CD *that was playing in the store at the time* and the clerk witheringly said, “Yes, please get this out of here.” Big Star! FFS!

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Harris @ohkiv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@sansho1.bsky.social @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social Shannon/Narducy playing Document at the 40 Watt in May. 2-ticket max and will call only. They are trying to combat the bots this time. www.eventbrite.com/e/michael-sh...

Michael Shannon & Jason Narducy and Friends play R.E.M.’s legendary album Document.

SATURDAY, MAY 8
40 Watt Club
$61
Doors: 6:00 PM
Show: 7:00 PM
On sale: Friday, Oct 2 at 10:00 AM
Ticket Link - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2002116864437?aff=oddtdtcreator

MONDAY, MAY 10
40 Watt Club
$61
Doors: 6:00 PM
Show: 7:00 PM
On sale: Friday, Oct 2 at 10:00 AM
Ticket Link - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2002117442165?aff=oddtdtcreator

IMPORTANT TICKET INFO
Maximum 2 tickets per person
Will Call only
Your ID must match the name on Will Call

Photo Credit: Christy Bush

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Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Have Sanchez and Windhorst ever been seen together? 🤔

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Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Another personal Rubicon of cultural obliviousness has been crossed - I have not heard this song, or of the song, or of the artist. I imagine this is how people born in the 1800s felt when "You Light Up My Life" unseated "Mack the Knife".

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Plaza Atlanta @plazaatlanta.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🖤 Ken Russell’s THE DEVILS is coming! See it restored in 4K & fully uncensored for a special #PLAZADROME (@videodrome.bsky.social) screening on Oct 15th at 9:30 PM New prints by Ashley Anderson & Jordan Kady will be available Ticket link in bio! Poster art by @sisterhyde.bsky.social

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Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Me at a midnight screening of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre circa 1983.

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Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Me at a midnight screening of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre circa 1983.

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Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Your bank's automated phone tree has announced it's no longer opening for Ed Sheeran.

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Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Your bank's automated phone tree has announced it's no longer opening for Ed Sheeran.

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Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I haven't seen Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma yet, but apparently it is indebted to Sleep Sleepaway Camp, so I'm checking that out (on Tubi, ofc). Ludicrous movie so far, but this kid is cracking me up. No lines, just a variety of lewd gestures.

Shot from Sleepaway Camp of a kid flipping the bird

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Scorigami @nflscorigami.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

🏈 CHI 59 - 37 CAR FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1096th unique final score in NFL history.

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Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I accidentally just experienced 15 seconds of Terry Bradshaw. We really are, as a society, out of ideas.

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Vanessa Briscoe Hay @pylongurl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Essay written by Bob Hay (Squalls) a little more than 10 years ago and published in the online mag Eldredge Atlanta. What downtown Athens,GA was like in the late 1970s-early 1980s for a bunch of artists and musicians who worked and hung out at the El Dorado. www.eldredgeatl.com/2016/07/14/m...

eldredgeatl.com

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Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Far in the distance, faintly so that only old Falcons heads and @jonbois.bsky.social can hear...could that possibly be....Kim McQuilken's music???

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Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The closest I came to thinking this was walking around that afternoon, passing strangers on the sidewalk and thinking "we're probably thinking about the same thing". One conversation with my family disabused me of the notion of a shared bond.

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Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

OK, not sure the Melbourne red-eye game should count here, need a ruling.

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Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I was in Seattle, jobless for months and 3000 miles from most anyone I knew, wondering what to do with my life but glad I still had a chance at it.

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Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It was ever so, but was once limited to, like, VFW bitch sessions, and would only escape contain at holiday dinner tables. Painful, still, but we could shrug it off.

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Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Former Braves pitcher Ian Anderson didn't sign with a team in 2026. Meanwhile, Jethro Tull is currently touring. Guess it's decided, then.

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feral streep @feralstreeep.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

new vision board brought to you by Family Feud

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Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Record heat, garbage pickup to be delayed due to holiday, kitchen trash already starting to turn. If I take it out, two full days of baking in the heat. Tough call, tough call.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

me: hey, aren't you jack reacher? reacher: poster. mid-tier, by the look of it. you were on twitter until it became x. now you're just on one of the knockoffs, most likely bluesky, because you don't have the self-confidence for instagram or tiktok. me: ok t— reacher: peaked in the buzzfeed era.

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Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Bluesky, the only sports app you'll ever need

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Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm weirdly invested in Stetson Bennett never playing a down. I do want his career to continue, just to see how long we can do this.

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Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Champ's kid sounds like a player. Also, just a shout out to the AJC's Ken Sugiura for such an elegant game account. A classic example of the structure and flow of great newspaper writing.

ajc.com

Brayden Bailey, son of Champ Bailey, has himself a day for Holy Innocents’

Holy Innocents' defensive back Brayden Bailey, son of UGA great Champ Bailey, helped limit Georgia WR commit Taurean Rawlins in a 51-14 win over Mount Vernon.

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Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Champ's kid sounds like a player. Also, just a shout out to the AJC's Ken Sugiura for such an elegant game account. A classic example of the structure and flow of great newspaper writing.

ajc.com

Brayden Bailey, son of Champ Bailey, has himself a day for Holy Innocents’

Holy Innocents' defensive back Brayden Bailey, son of UGA great Champ Bailey, helped limit Georgia WR commit Taurean Rawlins in a 51-14 win over Mount Vernon.

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Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm weirdly invested in Stetson Bennett never playing a down. I do want his career to continue, just to see how long we can do this.

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Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This could have some ramifications, not necessarily for Simmons, but for the easy complaisance between large media companies and the gambling industry, casting the cheerful pimping of a destructive addiction in a fresh light (will also complete Simmons' heel turn, I wouldn't want to work for him).

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Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Frank and Joe Hardy, always being misled ("MY-zzled")

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Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Frank and Joe Hardy, always being misled ("MY-zzled")

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Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Saturday Night Discourse Brokedown Sarcasm Detector

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Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

the five simpsons lines i’ve uttered most 5. Let's none of us have a cow 4. It tastes like burning 3. (to cat) My cat's breath smells like cat food 2. Wave of the future! 1 (tie). Yessssss, tied with D'oh

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Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

ngl I'm finding this season of Reacher a bit miscalibrated. Either that or a crucial role was miscast.

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Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Chief Deputy Marshal Art Mullen!

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🎥 Kathy 📼 Fennessy 📽️ @kcfennessy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My Pop Con paper about Tim Curry's pop music career. I said a lot of what I had to say about him here. A witty man, a great friend--especially to Holland Taylor and Annie Potts--and an enigma who supported his many LGBTQ fans, but kept his private life private, even in his memoir. Rest well, icon.

siffblog2.blogspot.com

"I Do the Rock": A Stimulating Study of the Song That Defined Tim Curry's Pop Career

Here is the text of the paper (and a portion of the slide show) I presented at the Pop Conference on April 23, 2022. Full title: "I Do ...

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Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Apollo 11, primarily that I couldn't get my parents to pay attention to me (I was not quite 3 years old, but could describe the layout of the living room in the apartment we rented that year). First event I actually absorbed was the Munich '72 Olympics terrorist attack.

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