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@chrisvognar.bsky.social Nice work in your piece in last Sunday’s Boston Globe on the prescience of the 1976 film “Network. “

Photo of youthful NPR host Susan Stamberg

@NPR @Susan Stamberg
What a loss with Susan Stamberg gone! Years ago I published this (fictional) account of getting to meet her: intertext.com/magazine/v3n... (The contact info from 1993 is way out of date.)

#skunk #Salem #Halloween

Newcomer to our Salem,Mass. , neck of the (suburban) woods. Critter seems decked out for our Halloween season. Not your usual skunk?

Our Saturday standout in Salem, Mass. , could have used some reinforcements today.

Happy to spread the word. I’m enjoying your Substack pieces too.

Time to replace the flavor bars on the old Weber grill.

#grilling

Curious to know what topics outside your wheelhouse.

Maybe by moving to Canada? (Funny bridge column headline)
#bridge
#humor
#journalism

Think I’m in the ballpark??

#politics
#Salem
Our local elections season has kicked off in Salem, Mass., with preliminary run-offs in early September.

Work by Charles Sheeler in the Currier Museum in Manchester, NH, depicting local scene. (Good visit today)

My long-ago college classmate Katherine Day Bremer has released HEADHUNTER CONFIDENTIAL: The unwritten Rules for Landing a Job You Love. Know anyone still looking for that kind of work?

NO KINGS Salem, MA · No Kings **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...

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We still have baseball at Fenway.

Glimpse of ordinary life in Boston: commuter rail board in North Station at rush hour.

Don’t think that she’s just a big tipper?

How would you say it in French?

Oui

Zero Day?

A Penny for Your Thoughts In a recent article that appeared in the Salem News, poet and educator Rod Kessler suggested that instead of discarding pennies (our leader…

Happy to see that the Lincoln penny dissent pin is getting some notice.
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Just read and enjoyed your thoughtful piece.

Supplies

It takes sandpaper, glue, butterfly clutches, and cleaned pennies. Got a nearby hobby shop? Or go online.

I’m still promoting the Lincoln penny lapel pin as a show of dissent. I’m glueing these together as quickly as I can and handing them out.

#HandsOff2025
Salem, Mass.

In Salem, Mass.

Consider adopting the Lincoln penny pin as a progressive, pro-Democracy symbol. (I’m making my own. You can too!)

Just an hour collecting trash along the nearby road, woods,and cove has lifted my mood today.