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November 20, 2017
November 19, 2017
Alt_Waylon
Not that industrial rock (if that’s that term) album that turned up a while back, but a different arrangement (not sure about that word either) of a song I really thought I knew. It’s like that slowed-down “Born in the USA”—you hear the song all over again for the first time. Pretty excellent. And? Back …
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November 18, 2017
Impressions
I forget who says it, but a while back someone was talking about how the good singers and musicians and actors, they can always do pitch-perfect impressions of their contemporaries. Maybe comedians too? Bet so. Actors, of course. Anyway, just stumbling upon this, from the year I was born. Merle, man, he so had everybody …
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November 17, 2017
November 15, 2017
November 12, 2017
Weird question, Solid answer
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November 11, 2017
Blood Business
Good time at Tattered Cover last night, with a whole TOC’s worth of us there—enough that we needed a spinner-wheel to figure out who got to read: [ photo: Catherine Spader ] Which? My number spun up. I had to borrow a woman from the audience’s reading glasses, since my arms are only so long, but …
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November 9, 2017
Shawn Kemp
In my weakest moments, I imagine that there’s some version of myself in some distant iteration of Earth, dunking like Shawn Kemp:
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November 7, 2017
So cool
This shot of Bruce the shark about to eat little Alex Kintner in #JAWS was cut from the film. pic.twitter.com/TpFXQAsn7Y — Stan Winston School (@SWinstonSchool) November 7, 2017
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November 6, 2017
Hooded Justice
Man, had no idea about any of this. And, it’s just a shade away from the slasher, too: masked, punishing the “guilty,” using violence the law can’t use, preferring the night. How the KKK Shaped Modern Comic Book Superheroes
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