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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Picture of the staff who operate this Bluesky account.

Photo of Armand from AMC’s Interview with the Vampire between two people, whose heads have been replaced by the faces of both old and young Daniel Molloy. Devil’s Minion if you will!

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Post someone who looks great in a hat…

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

👀 … not my photo, but a friend sent similar …

The side of a collaped building in the wind and rain

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

If you see this, post something pink

A photograph of Sigmund Freud, looking the the camera, holding a cigar. His image has been tinted pink. The text reads Pink Freud.

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

#Stein25 🎸🔥 #MusicChallenge Day 19 - Dog defense … William Boroughs, Kansas, neighbours … Drop ins welcome! Details attached …

19 Dog defense

I called Burroughs, who had moved away from New York and spent more time in Lawrence, Kansas, and asked if he could tolerate my company for a while. I stayed there for two weeks. Bill lived in a very normal house on a very normal suburban-type street. He knew all his very normal neighbors and they all liked him. In his basement, he had this big tube set up on a stand to more quietly shoot guns through. He had a bunch of cats and I think this was around the time he wrote his short book The Cat Inside, which discusses his relationships with felines and their effect on his spiritual and psychic life. He didn’t like dogs much and said the cane he carried was in part for dog defense. - Chris Stein

19 Dog defense
20 Poet-Warrior
21 Powers of memory
22 Bleak and colorless
23 Wandering by the river
24 The Silver Mask Award
25 Conceptual materialism
26 Ectoplasm
27 Freudian aspects
28 Gold-rush town
29 Politicians
30 Big shade trees
31 Pursuit of Nostalgia

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

#Stein25 🎸🔥 #MusicChallenge 17 Saved by cats … flames … freezing … boiler … Drop ins welcome! Details attached …

17 Saved by cats

The only ones in the loft were Debbie, Gary, Howie, and myself. In the middle of night, the cats woke Gary and Howie and those guys woke us. The flame had gone out in the boiler and instead of heat, it was pumping whatever sooty oily substance fueled the thing into the building. I was quite dizzy and we all had black around our nostrils from breathing this stuff. We ran around opening windows and sat there freezing while the place aired out. The cats had without a doubt saved us. - Chris Stein

17 Saved by cats
18 B-side
19 Dog defense
20 Poet-Warrior
21 Powers of memory
22 Bleak and colorless
23 Wandering by the river
24 The Silver Mask Award
25 Conceptual materialism
26 Ectoplasm
27 Freudian aspects
28 Gold-rush town
29 Politicians
30 Big shade trees
31 Pursuit of Nostalgia

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Welcome in the winter (dependant on storage) but roulette in the summer. These two don’t look confident of the former. Pre-Snatcher.

Two 70’s school children, not in uniform, drinking milk with straws from child-sized glass milk bottles.

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

#Stein25 🎸🔥 #MusicChallenge 15 Maybe fate … stilettos … loft … volunteer …. Drop ins welcome! Details attached

Maybe I was just attracted to this gorgeous girl who was a good singer, and maybe fate had conspired to put me in this spot at that particular moment. I gathered that the Stillettos band was nonpermanent, made up of transitory musicians. Elda knew who I was as a result of my association with Eric; she might even have seen me play with him somewhere, so as soon as I was able, I was at her loft volunteering for band duty. - Chris Stein

15 Maybe fate
16 Warm steamy night
17 Saved by cats
18 B-side
19 Dog defense
20 Poet-Warrior
21 Powers of memory
22 Bleak and colorless
23 Wandering by the river
24 The Silver Mask Award
25 Conceptual materialism
26 Ectoplasm
27 Freudian aspects
28 Gold-rush town
29 Politicians
30 Big shade trees
31 Pursuit of Nostalgia

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

#Stein25 🎸🔥 #MusicChallenge 14 - Biba … eyeshadow … (the) dolls … theater … Drop ins welcome! Details below …

14 Biba

I got a couple of small black eye shadows that lasted for years. All their packaging was very severe and cool: shiny black containers with gold writing and deco design elements. There was even a theater in Biba’s where the Dolls had played earlier in the year. - Chris Stein

14 Biba
15 Maybe fate
16 Warm steamy night
17 Saved by cats
18 B-side
19 Dog defense
20 Poet-Warrior
21 Powers of memory
22 Bleak and colorless
23 Wandering by the river
24 The Silver Mask Award
25 Conceptual materialism
26 Ectoplasm
27 Freudian aspects
28 Gold-rush town
29 Politicians
30 Big shade trees
31 Pursuit of Nostalgia

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

If you see this post something orange

Debbie Harry wearing a plastic orange shirt / overalls(?). She is at a dock, or by a river with industrial looking buildings/train carriages(?) close behind her. Sunglasses. Hair quite fluffy.

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

#Stein25 🎸🔥 #MusicChallenge 12 Reel-to-reel … drag-based skits … public-access television … Visual Arts … Drop ins welcome!

Reel-to-reel

These four would do comedic drag-based skits that Joey and I would video on the ancient Sony reel-to-reel machines. I had previously (some of the things I’d shot at Visual Arts were played at the station) discovered the existence of Manhattan Cable public-access television. - Chris Stein

13 Crime syndicates
14 Biba
15 Maybe fate
16 Warm steamy night
17 Saved by cats
18 B-side
19 Dog defense
20 Poet-Warrior
21 Powers of memory
22 Bleak and colorless
23 Wandering by the river
24 The Silver Mask Award
25 Conceptual materialism
26 Ectoplasm
27 Freudian aspects
28 Gold-rush town
29 Politicians
30 Big shade trees
31 Pursuit of Nostalgia

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

#Stein25 #MusicChallenge - Rock and Roll moments Joni Mitchell telling elements of the Isle of Wight crowd that they were acting like tourists … • Joni Mitchell • Raised on Robbery Live in ‘79 🎸🔥 youtu.be/3xKSrUks8Go

11 Rock and roll moments

Kevin’s hair dramatically caught fire with fairly large flames leaping off the back of his head. It took him a minute to realize what was going on. I’ve seen a lot of rock and roll moments but this was up there. He just shook his head until the fire went out and kept playing with smoke pouring off his singed hair. They didn’t miss a beat and the audience went insane. - Chris Stein

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

#Stein25 🎸🔥 #MusicChallenge 10 - I See We Meet Again … Hendrix … sleeping bag … Star Spangled Banner … Drop ins welcome!

10 I see we meet again

The sea of abandoned mud-covered sleeping bags was exposed. It was the only time I saw Hendrix. I was very close to the stage. When he came out he looked around at the crowd and said, “I see we meet again,” which I thought was amazing. Later I heard “The Star Spangled Banner” as we were walking around. We drove back to Brooklyn. - Chris Stein

11 Rock and roll moments
12 Reel-to-reel
13 Crime syndicates
14 Biba
15 Maybe fate
16 Warm steamy night
17 Saved by cats
18 B-side
19 Dog defense
20 Poet-Warrior
21 Powers of memory
22 Bleak and colorless
23 Wandering by the river
24 The Silver Mask Award
25 Conceptual materialism
26 Ectoplasm
27 Freudian aspects
28 Gold-rush town
29 Politicians
30 Big shade trees
31 Pursuit of Nostalgia

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

#Stein25 🎸🔥 #MusicChallenge 9 Fairy-tale Top of a hill, twinkling lights, Chris was at Woodstock watching Joan on the stage … Drop ins welcome!

9 Fairy-tale

I made my way to a hill overlooking a big brightly lit stage area and saw Joan Baez finishing her set. It was all very fairy-tale and twinkling lights. - Chris Stein

10 “I see we meet again”
11 Rock and roll moments
12 Reel-to-reel
13 Crime syndicates
14 Biba
15 Maybe fate
16 Warm steamy night
17 Saved by cats
18 B-side
19 Dog defense
20 Poet-Warrior
21 Powers of memory
22 Bleak and colorless
23 Wandering by the river
24 The Silver Mask Award
25 Conceptual materialism
26 Ectoplasm
27 Freudian aspects
28 Gold-rush town
29 Politicians
30 Big shade trees
31 Pursuit of Nostalgia

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

#Stein25 🎸🔥 #MusicChallenge 8 - Bait and Tackle … San Pablo … self-storage … Drop ins welcome!

I don’t know exactly what the logistics were but my friends from Brooklyn had rented a big house on San Pablo Avenue right near to the Bay Bridge. The house is gone now, replaced by a self-storage place and a bait-and-tackle store. - Chris Stein

8 Bait and tackle
9 Fairy-tale
10 “I see we meet again”
11 Rock and roll moments
12 Reel-to-reel
13 Crime syndicates
14 Biba
15 Maybe fate
16 Warm steamy night
17 Saved by cats
18 B-side
19 Dog defense
20 Poet-Warrior
21 Powers of memory
22 Bleak and colorless
23 Wandering by the river
24 The Silver Mask Award
25 Conceptual materialism
26 Ectoplasm
27 Freudian aspects
28 Gold-rush town
29 Politicians
30 Big shade trees
31 Pursuit of Nostalgia

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

#Stein25 🎸🔥 #MusicChallenge 7 Beat-up station wagon … flamboyant … street scene Drop ins welcome!

I got back to San Francisco and ran into another friend from the MacDougal Street scene, Spade Steve. Steve was a flamboyant and very likable energetic kid. Someone had given him an old station wagon and he told me he was going to drive back to New York and did I want to come along. Of course I was down with this spontaneous plan and the next day we set out in the old beat-up station wagon. - Chris Stein

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

#Stein25 🎸🔥 #MusicChallenge DAY 6 - International Arrivals … JFK … subtext … Drop-ins welcome … Details attached:

6 International Arrivals

Bob Fass was a DJ on WBAI radio. He had a popular sort of underground show called Radio Unnameable. One night he started talking about what a great time he’d recently had at JFK Airport, just grooving around in the International Arrivals Building. The subtext seemed obvious: that he meant he had been totally stoned. He named a date in February when people should go out to the airport for this big celebration known as the Human Fly-In. - Chris Stein

6 International Arrivals
7 Beat-up station wagon
8 Bait and tackle
9 Fairy-tale
10 “I see we meet again”
11 Rock and roll moments
12 Reel-to-reel
13 Crime syndicates
14 Biba
15 Maybe fate
16 Warm steamy night
17 Saved by cats
18 B-side
19 Dog defense
20 Poet-Warrior
21 Powers of memory
22 Bleak and colorless
23 Wandering by the river
24 The Silver Mask Award
25 Conceptual materialism
26 Ectoplasm
27 Freudian aspects
28 Gold-rush town
29 Politicians
30 Big shade trees
31 Pursuit of Nostalgia

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Yeuch (sociopaths, not Soup Dragons)

A Soup Dragon from the 70s UK animated children’s TV show The Clangers. A green puppet dragon with a golden jug of soup.

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

#Stein25 🎸🔥 #MusicChallenge DAY 4 - Hatbox … record player, Lolita, tape-recorder … Drop-ins welcome … Details attached:

4 Hatbox

I played certain tracks over and over. (My neighbors once complained to my parents when I’d spent a day playing “Lolita Ya-Ya” by the Ventures repeatedly.) I had a little blue console record player, one of those things that’s the size of a large hatbox. I also had an old Wollensak model 1515 tape recorder that my uncle, Stel’s brother-in-law, had donated to me. - Chris Stein

5 LSD Dimension Button
6 International Arrivals
7 Beat-up station wagon
8 Bait and tackle
9 Fairy-tale
10 “I see we meet again”
11 Rock and roll moments
12 Reel-to-reel
13 Crime syndicates
14 Biba
15 Maybe fate
16 Warm steamy night
17 Saved by cats
18 B-side
19 Dog defense
20 Poet-Warrior
21 Powers of memory
22 Bleak and colorless
23 Wandering by the river
24 The Silver Mask Award
25 Conceptual materialism
26 Ectoplasm
27 Freudian aspects
28 Gold-rush town
29 Politicians
30 Big shade trees
31 Pursuit of Nostalgia

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

#Stein25 #MusicChallenge 🎸🔥 3 Sociopathy We’ve all had run-ins 👀 Use the above prompt or the attached para to decide your choice of track … drop-ins are welcome!

3 Sociopathy

My school life was like unto the ninth circle of hell. I had teachers who were full-on sociopaths, who shouldn’t have been allowed to interact with other human people let alone children.
- Chris Stein

4 Hatbox
5 LSD Dimension Button
6 International Arrivals
7 Beat-up station wagon
8 Bait and tackle
9 Fairy-tale
10 “I see we meet again”
11 Rock and roll moments
12 Reel-to-reel
13 Crime syndicates
14 Biba
15 Maybe fate
16 Warm steamy night
17 Saved by cats
18 B-side
19 Dog defense
20 Poet-Warrior
21 Powers of memory
22 Bleak and colorless
23 Wandering by the river
24 The Silver Mask Award
25 Conceptual materialism
26 Ectoplasm
27 Freudian aspects
28 Gold-rush town
29 Politicians
30 Big shade trees
31 Pursuit of Nostalgia

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

#Stein25 🎸🔥 #MusicChallenge 2 Uncaring aisles … Or Woolworths, parakeets, mannequins … see attached!

My mother and me were in the basement of a Woolworth’s department store in the neighborhood. I must have gotten separated and was wandering around in the uncaring aisles. Suddenly two things happened simultaneously. There was a pet section and an escaping parakeet or parrot began screeching furiously, and at that exact moment I rounded a corner and came face-to-face with a plaster mannequin that had half its head creepily caved in. I still remember this juxtaposition sixty-five years later. - Chris Stein

3 Sociopathy
4 Hatbox
5 LSD Dimension Button
6 International Arrivals
7 Beat-up station wagon
8 Bait and tackle
9 Fairy-tale
10 “I see we meet again”
11 Rock and roll moments
12 Reel-to-reel
13 Crime syndicates
14 Biba
15 Maybe fate
16 Warm steamy night
17 Saved by cats
18 B-side
19 Dog defense
20 Poet-Warrior
21 Powers of memory
22 Bleak and colorless
23 Wandering by the river
24 The Silver Mask Award
25 Conceptual materialism
26 Ectoplasm
27 Freudian aspects
28 Gold-rush town
29 Politicians
30 Big shade trees
31 Pursuit of Nostalgia

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Happy New Year, lovely people. All the love and luck going into 2025 …

(A somewhat reserved looking) … “Rod Stewart, Ron Wood, and Ian Mclagan of The Faces drinking sake at a reception for the band in Tokyo, April 1974 [Photo by Koh Hasebe]”

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

#Stein25 🎸🔥 #MusicChallenge 1 Moon shot 🌗 Attached from Debbie Harry in the foreword:

“Reading about the early days, and all the things we did, and how hard we worked actually made me tired and dizzy when I first read some early pages. But it also gave me many wonderful feelings and refreshed remembrances that we shared as we flew headfirst on our fantastic “moon shot” on the good ship Blondie” - Debbie Harry

2 Uncaring aisles
3 Sociopathy
4 Hatbox
5 LSD Dimension Button
6 International Arrivals
7 Beat-up station wagon
8 Bait and tackle
9 Fairy-tale
10 “I see we meet again”
11 Rock and roll moments
12 Reel-to-reel
13 Crime syndicates
14 Biba
15 Maybe fate
16 Warm steamy night
17 Saved by cats
18 B-side
19 Dog defense
20 Poet-Warrior
21 Powers of memory
22 Bleak and colorless
23 Wandering by the river
24 The Silver Mask Award
25 Conceptual materialism
26 Ectoplasm
27 Freudian aspects
28 Gold-rush town
29 Politicians
30 Big shade trees
31 Pursuit of Nostalgia

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

#Laurel24 #MusicChallenge 31 Striking Sparks - HNY! 🥳🎉 Thank you to everyone who has taken part, it has been great to see your picks - From 1st Jan, #Stein25 begins, based on Chris Stein’s “Under a Rock” memoir.

As Hunter S. Thompson recalled of his stint living in San Francisco in the 1960s, he could point his motorcycle in any direction and be “absolutely certain that no matter which way I went I would come to a place where people were just as high and wild as I was . . . you could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.” - Michael Walker

1 Moon shot
2 Uncaring aisles
3 Sociopathy
4 Hatbox
5 LSD Dimension Button
6 International Arrivals
7 Beat-up station wagon
8 Bait and tackle
9 Fairy-tale
10 “I see we meet again”
11 Rock and roll moments
12 Reel-to-reel
13 Crime syndicates
14 Biba
15 Maybe fate
16 Warm steamy night
17 Saved by cats
18 B-side
19 Dog defense
20 Poet-Warrior
21 Powers of memory
22 Bleak and colorless
23 Wandering by the river
24 The Silver Mask Award
25 Conceptual materialism
26 Ectoplasm
27 Freudian aspects
28 Gold-rush town
29 Politicians
30 Big shade trees
31 Pursuit of Nostalgia

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

#Laurel24 #MusicChallenge 30 Theater Baffling * Use the daily prompt (or attached paragraph) from Laurel Canyon by Michael Walker as inspiration for selecting your song choice. * Tenuous links actively encouraged. * Drop-ins welcome …

Glam performers gave off fuzzy sexual vibes—even though most were avowed heterosexuals—a bit of theater baffling to American rock and rollers and frightening to large swaths of the country. “I mean, nobody had seen anybody like us in Mobile, Alabama, in 1972,” says Michael Des Barres, who moved to L.A. from London with his glam band, Silverhead. “I’m in a yellow dress and blue cloche hat, and these rednecks want to fuck me or kill me, they didn’t know which.” - Michael Walker

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

#Laurel24 29 Launch * Use the daily prompt (or attached paragraph) from Laurel Canyon by Michael Walker as inspiration for selecting your song choice. * Tenuous links actively encouraged. * Drop-ins welcome … #MusicChallenge

29 - Launch

“My whole life came alive that night, musically, emotionally . . . everything,” Elton John recalled of his 1970 stand at the Troubadour, which had been so critical in launching his career and the club’s legend. “It was like everything I had been waiting for suddenly happened. I was the fan who had become accepted as a musician.”

29 Launch
30 Theater Baffling
31 Striking Sparks

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

#Stein25 A January ‘25 challenge inspired by Chris Stein’s “Under a Rock” memoir. Use the daily prompt (or attached paragraph) as inspiration for selecting your song choice. Tenuous links actively encouraged. Drop-ins welcome … #MusicChallenge #Laurel24

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

#Laurel24 28 Carpet * Use the daily prompt (or attached paragraph) from Laurel Canyon by Michael Walker as inspiration for selecting your song choice. * Tenuous links actively encouraged. * Drop-ins welcome … #MusicChallenge

Carpet

[Henry] Diltz could wander over to Micky Dolenz’s house, just across the street from Alice Cooper’s and up the road from Mitchell’s, where “Harry Nilsson, John Lennon, and Ringo Starr would come over because Micky had a great little record room downstairs, all carpeted, and they would hang out at all hours.”

28 Carpet
29 Launch
30 Theater Baffling
31 Striking Sparks

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

#Laurel24 26 On-Stage Charisma * Use the daily prompt (or attached paragraph) from Laurel Canyon by Michael Walker as inspiration for selecting your song choice. * Tenuous links actively encouraged. * Drop-ins welcome … #MusicChallenge

25 - On-Stage Charisma

Des Barres, no stranger to onstage charisma, was astounded by the Pistols’ singer, Johnny Rotten (né Lydon). “For me, he’s the Bob Dylan of that era. It was a combination of his utter confidence, the certainty that what he was doing was completely new and completely himself: ‘This is me, take it or leave it. I could give a fuck what you think.’” The audience, Des Barres says, “was in silence, unbelievably mesmerized, and Rotten just looking at them. The last thing he ever said onstage was, ‘You ever feel you’ve been cheated?’ And meanwhile, Sid”—Sid Vicious, the band’s bassist—“is on his knees picking up the money they’ve thrown. Then, blackout, and they were gone.”

27 Gnomish
28 Carpet
29 Launch
30 Theater Baffling
31 Striking Sparks

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

“You’ll be visited by three spirits.” 🍸🥃🍷

BBC 70’s TV show cartoon characters, Mary (human girl), Mungo (doggy) Midge (mousey). Midge is “perching” on Mary’s finger and Mary has her other hand kind of sinisterly forcing Mungo’s face against Midge’s. Last bit jk.

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Settling down at my ex’s with *my* Lionel Rich Tea mug. Tea-leaf. Donated. #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

A cosy living room with a Christmas tree and presents to the left. A sofa with blankets, toys (bat, octopus, teddy, bear), and the festive Radio Times and the @dontlikeyourtie.bsky.social book. Scottish cottage pictures adorn the wall. At night, a local owl’s hoot adds a spooky touch. 🦉🎄

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

#Laurel24 #MerryChristmas 25 - Laurel 🕊️ Use the daily prompt (or attached paragraph) from Laurel Canyon by Michael Walker as inspiration for selecting your song choice. Tenuous links actively encouraged. Drop-ins welcome … #MusicChallenge

28 - Laurel

- In 1910, an engineer and speculator named Charles Spencer Mann began selling house lots halfway up Laurel Canyon on a tract of steeply sloped land thick with chaparral, sycamore, and California bay laurel—the latter’s jasmine-like flowers had given the canyon its name. - Michael Walker

25 Laurel
26 On-Stage Charisma
27 Gnomish
28 Carpet
29 Launch
30 Theater Baffling
31 Striking Sparks

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

#Laurel24 #MusicChallenge 24 Accoutrements Use the daily prompt (or attached paragraph) from Laurel Canyon by Michael Walker as inspiration for selecting your song choice. Tenuous links actively encouraged. Drop-ins welcome …

24 - Accoutrements

Rock-star indulgences of the ’70s nevertheless seemed only to get ever more indulgent. Ward Sylvester, the manager of the Monkees and teen idol Bobby Sherman, gutted a Boeing 720B—a four-engine intercontinental airliner similar in size to Air Force One—and converted it into the Starship, a flying pleasure dome chartered by Led Zeppelin, Elton John, Alice Cooper, and the other big bands of the day (accoutrements included a built-in organ and a master bedroom suite in the rear cabin). - Michael Walker

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

#Laurel24 #MusicChallenge 23 Detritus Use the daily prompt (or attached paragraph) from Laurel Canyon by Michael Walker as inspiration for selecting your song choice. Tenuous links actively encouraged. Drop-ins welcome …

23 - Detritus

Henry Diltz, beholding Woodstock’s sad, sodden detritus from the stage as Hendrix played the last morning of the festival, had a vision that, in hindsight, would be an omen for what was to come. “There were probably just a few thousand people left. And I remember looking around, and the mud, with the forgotten sleeping bags and flotsam in the field, reminded me of an old Civil War image—after the battle. - Michael Walker

24 Accoutrements
25 Laurel
26 On-Stage Charisma
27 Gnomish
28 Carpet
29 Launch
30 Theater Baffling
31 Striking Sparks

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

#Laurel24 #MusicChallenge 22 Recluse Use the daily prompt (or attached paragraph) from Laurel Canyon by Michael Walker as inspiration for selecting your song choice. Tenuous links actively encouraged. Drop-ins welcome …

Strick photographed a story on the Manson followers during the trial. “They were vicious, weird people. Afterward the editor of the newspaper said: ‘Don’t ever talk to them again, don’t go near them.’” Strick says the writer of the story refused to answer his door for months afterward. - Michael Walker

23 Detritus
24 Accoutrements
25 Laurel
26 On-Stage Charisma
27 Gnomish
28 Carpet
29 Launch
30 Theater Baffling
31 Striking Sparks

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

#Laurel24 #MusicChallenge 21 Mock Tudor Use the daily prompt (or attached paragraph) from Laurel Canyon by Michael Walker as inspiration for selecting your song choice. Tenuous links actively encouraged. Drop-ins welcome …

21 Mock Tudor
22 Recluse
23 Detritus
24 Accoutrements
25 Laurel
26 On-Stage Charisma
27 Gnomish
28 Carpet
29 Launch
30 Theater Baffling
31 Striking Sparks

21 - Behind the Rainbow’s ye-olde mock-Tudor facade was a dining room shaped like a horseshoe with a fireplace at one end and banquettes upholstered bordello red, supplemented by two bars and a snug upstairs dance floor. The dark, chockablock layout and mysterious twisting staircases gave the place the feel of a pirate’s ship run aground in the middle of the Strip, and rock and rollers took to the atmosphere instinctively. - Michael Walker

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

#Laurel24 #MusicChallenge 20 Mirrored Use the daily prompt (or attached paragraph) from Laurel Canyon by Michael Walker as inspiration for selecting your song choice. Tenuous links actively encouraged. Drop-ins welcome …

20 -Michael James Jackson, who didn’t use, was in the middle of a job interview at A&M Records when he was offered a line. He politely declined. “One of the things I did at Elektra when I was working there was little promotional items,” says Sally Stevens. “And for Carly Simon’s ‘You’re So Vain’ I did little coke mirrors. Everybody gave mirrors. It was very socially acceptable.” - Michael Walker

20 Mirrored
21 Mock Tudor
22 Recluse
23 Detritus
24 Accoutrements
25 Laurel
26 On-Stage Charisma
27 Gnomish
28 Carpet
29 Launch
30 Theater Baffling
31 Striking Sparks

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

#Laurel24 #MusicChallenge 19 Chateau Marmont Use the daily prompt (or attached paragraph) from Laurel Canyon by Michael Walker as inspiration for selecting your song choice. Tenuous links actively encouraged. Drop-ins welcome …

19 Chateau Marmont
20 Mirrored
21 Mock Tudor
22 Recluse
23 Detritus
24 Accoutrements
25 Laurel
26 On-Stage Charisma
27 Gnomish
28 Carpet
29 Launch
30 Theater Baffling
31 Striking Sparks

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

#Laurel24 #MusicChallenge 18 Troubadour Use the daily prompt (or attached paragraph) from Laurel Canyon by Michael Walker as inspiration for selecting your song choice. Tenuous links actively encouraged. Drop-ins welcome …

18 - “Everyone would end up at the Troubadour at night,” says Henry Diltz. “These would be the same people you might bump into in the daytime, but you’d be sure to bump into them at night at the Troubadour.” The Eagles probably wouldn’t have existed without the Troubadour. “The Troubadour was the first place I went when I got to L.A.,” recalled Don Henley. “The first night I walked in I saw Graham Nash and Neil Young, and Linda Ronstadt was standing there in a little Daisy Mae kind of dress. She was barefoot …” - Michael Walker

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

#Laurel24 #MusicChallenge 10 - Magazine Use the daily prompt (or attached paragraph) from Laurel Canyon by Michael Walker as inspiration for selecting your song choice. Tenuous links actively encouraged. Drop-ins welcome …

“So here was the Buffalo Springfield doing their sound check and I could have been in there shooting thousands of photos but I was shooting people walking down the beach. When they walked out, I said, ‘Why don’t you stand in front of that mural and I’ll take a shot of you.’ And that was my first rock-and-roll shot. I wasn’t even thinking; I just took it because it would be a nice picture. Then a magazine called me and said, ‘We hear you have a picture of the Buffalo Springfield; we’ll give you a hundred bucks.’ And that started my career that day, and it was just because I walked down the hill and happened to bump into Stephen Stills.” - Henry Diltz/Michael Walker

10 Magazine
11 Close To Anarchy
12 Radio/Record Store
13 Uncolonized
14 The Brill Building
15 Morass
16 Ginsberg
17 Lackadaisically
18 Troubadour
19 Chateau Marmont
20 Mirrored
21 Mock Tudor
22 Recluse
23 Detritus
24 Accoutrements
25 Laurel
26 On-Stage Charisma
27 Gnomish
28 Carpet
29 Launch
30 Theater Baffling
31 Striking Sparks

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

#Laurel24 #MusicChallenge 9 Jam Use the daily prompt (or attached paragraph) from Laurel Canyon by Michael Walker as inspiration for selecting your song choice. Tenuous links actively encouraged. Drop-ins welcome …

9 - Jam

[Paul] Body’s first night at the club was instructive. “Dr. John was playing and the place was packed. I was working the back door and I hear a knock. And it’s Cher. Have to let Cher in. Then a little later it’s John Lennon and Elton John. And some of the guys in the Band. Then the next thing I know there’s Lennon and Elton onstage, jamming with Dr. John.

9 Jam
10 Magazine
11 Close To Anarchy
12 Radio/Record Store
13 Uncolonized
14 The Brill Building
15 Morass
16 Ginsberg
17 Lackadaisically
18 Troubadour
19 Chateau Marmont
20 Mirrored
21 Mock Tudor
22 Recluse
23 Detritus
24 Accoutrements
25 Laurel
26 On-Stage Charisma
27 Gnomish
28 Carpet
29 Launch
30 Theater Baffling
31 Striking Sparks

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Just read on another thread that on a US radio station they gave fair warning and many were able to take precautions. Safe travels.

A commiseration meme for those who have lost Whamageddon. Andrew and George in golden light looking up to the sky and the text:
“Have a seat, enjoy the mead. Feel free to singalong”

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Jelinor 🌍🕊️ @scrawl.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Off to #Whamhalla for me - (Ashley Storrie show on Radio Scotland, she gave no f**ks) but the upside is that I can now use Last Christmas as my alarm tone … Good luck to fellow participants ✊🎄 #Whamageddon

A record cover of Wham’s Last Christmas. Both Andrew and George dressed up, A as a reindeer, G as Santa. Snow effects, blue background. The pair look full of Christmas cheer and japes.

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