My first job back in the mid-1980s was at an IGA store, which played Muzak versions of popular songs, including "Rhinestone Cowboy." Initially it all drove me crazy, but over time I started enjoying hearing this particular song, and would sing along to it in my head. Glen's rendition is sublime.
Followed by Hee Haw, or perhaps it was the other way around?
There are people on this site that don't possess the common sense God granted to a bottle of soy sauce.
A yellow metal lunchbox with a groovy, flower power aesthetic around the outside, and illustrations of various character faces from Laugh-in
Day #199: Laugh-In (1968)
Can you read English cursive? Ever wanted to volunteer from the comfort of home for a useful cause? Have I got an offer for you...
The Newberry Library in Chicago is always in need of transcribers to help decipher historical handwritten documents. If this is you, learn more about it below:
Every year, hundreds of people walk silently through the streets of Minneapolis… looking at the windows of the houses.
It's the Wedge Cat Tour: the residents put the cats in the window and the crowd stops to admire them.
Yes. This exists. 😹
This one, too.
#r.e.m. #lifesrichpageant #michaelshannon #jasonnarducy
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I've been fortunate enough to see Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy's amazing tribute to R.E.M. multiple times in past weeks, and this performance is a treasure.
#r.e.m. #lifesrichpageant #michaelshannon #jasonnarducy
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If you didn't catch the names in PTA's speech, the 1975 Best Picture nominees are Barry Lyndon, Dog Day Afternoon, Jaws, Nashville, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. There are no skips; there is no wrong place to start. They will make you love American movies anew, and demand the best from them.
A homemade flyer posted on a bulletin board that reads “Pizza is good, pizza is bad, but pizza is cool—pizza is always cool in Memphis” with drawings of pizza.
Library book display with a sign saying “Who’s mentioned in the Epstein Files? Find them here.” The display features books about Donald Trump, Melania Trump, Elon Musk, Bill Cosby, Bill Gates, and others.
This display at the Minneapolis Central Library is so good. "Who's mentioned in the Epstein Files? Find them here."
#R.E.M.
#Automaticforthepeople
Weaver D's in Athens, GA, recently closed so Dexter Weaver can finally retire, but you can still get a t-shirt.
This link is from Weaver D's Facebook page. weaverds.itemorder.com/shop/home/
Michael Stipe showed up in NYC tonight for the Michael Shannon/Jason Narducy show and sang @remhq.bsky.social "These Days" (!!!!) and "The Great Beyond." 😭 😍https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RiouUSsOIs
[from YouTube description] This was recorded on VHS from the 1991 PBS Austin City Limits with the Indigo Girls, Mary Chapin Carpenter and Julie Gold.
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Guess Bezos laid off all the breaking news folks at the Washington Post. As of 11 pm PT/2 am ET, it doesn’t have the attack on Iraq.
It was fantastic to see you perform with them both last night and tonight! An unexpected treat to hear "Crazy," too! Glad you got to be a part of such a wonderful show, and grateful my sister and I could be there.
Ding Dongs (aka King Dons or Big Wheels, depending on where you're from)!
We were in a small Southern town, and the Baptists were easily offended! The other thing I recall is that a classmate ran the projector, so when it ended they tried to run the filmstrip back to the racy images under the pretense of "rewinding" it, but the teacher got wise and turned off the lamp.
Pretty sure my high school screened Ben (about a rat, with theme song by Michael Jackson). They charged us 25 or 50 cents, and if you didn’t want to go or didn’t have the money (it was a small Southern town with its share of rural poverty), you got sent to the library. I happily went to the library.
For no particular reason, my high school screened Enter the Dragon, and because it was in a small Southern town, the Baptists got upset about the brief nudity.
We watched the filmstrip version of that in my 9th grade English class and the teacher put her hand in front of the projector so we couldn’t see that image!
Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy at the Fillmore, SF 2/17/2026
Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy at the Independent, SF 2/16/2026
It looks like I'll be seeing you two nights in a row now!
THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH A HISTORY MAJOR
A grid of mass market paperback books: The Grass Harp, The Member of the Wedding, Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl, Main Street, Scoundrel Time, Another Country, Invisible Man, Midnight Cowboy, Deliverance, Rebecca, Reflections in a Golden Eye, The Great Gatsby, Butterfield 8, The Blackboard Jungle, Other Voices, Other Rooms, Naked Came the Stranger, The Group, If I Die in a Combat Zone, A Separate Peace, The Maltese Falcon, Up the Junction, The Boys in the Band, The Fugitive Kind The Graduate.
I bought some of these used as a kid back in the 70s and 80s. Others belonged to my parents, and I don't know how I wound up with a few of them.
