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Ian Donovan

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Lanky nerd, music geek.


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Original keyboard not included, but a Logitech wireless keyboard is. Trackpad is a little cracked thanks to cats, but still works.

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Model: iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015). Sold as is. I bought it new about 8 years ago. It’s in decent shape. SD card reader doesn’t work, but I’m including a usb one. This model can’t be used as an external display for a different computer.

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Des Moines folks: want to buy my old iMac for $300 OBO? Need a YouTube machine for your garage/workshop/basement/whatnot? I’d rather give someone I know a great deal instead of selling it to someone I don’t know.

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I love it when a manual goes off the rails.

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Today we attended Des Moines Arts Festival. We got a few things. The artist wrote Dollar Bill on the back of this piece, but I’ve named them Li’l ‘Minati.

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DES MOINES! Yesterday I visited the art center, ate a grilled cheese at Cheese Bar, had 2 scoops at Black Cat ice cream, went up to EMC overlook, scooped the loop, and marveled at the view from the Capital building.

Today at 2:30 I’ll be at Beaverdale books!

beaverdalebooks.com/event/sarah-...

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Friends! if you are in the Des Moines area, I'll be hanging out at Beaverdale Books this Sunday, June 23, at 2:30pm! Come say hi, I'd love to draw dumb little cartoon food guys in your books! 🍞 🥟 🍜 🥰

beaverdalebooks.com/event/sarah-...

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My 7th grade basketball coach was taking attendance at first practice, got to my name, said “Like Donovan’s Reef?”, I replied yes since I was familiar from it being on TBS or USA or whatnot, coach did the approving-head-nod-thing then continued with attendance.

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Sarah and I took today off to go to the antique festival in Walnut, Iowa. I bought something. I figured I should probably get it after saying “strong emotional response” out loud after seeing it.

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I am currently at Pride in Des Moines, waiting for Monét X Change to perform, a drag queen I became familiar with due to them being a great guest/player on a D&D show I watch. Other headliner tonight is Rebecca Black (yes, that one).

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In college I remember always seeing many copies of Meatloaf’s Bat Out Of Hell when looking through bins of used LPs & CDs, and for a brief moment I considered making it “my thing” to always purchase every copy of this album I encountered to see how many I would accumulate over a lifetime.

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What would the equivalent be in 2024? A QR code that links to a YouTube playlist?

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In June 2013 I put out a sign-in sheet at the apartment building I lived at, and it asked people to write their name and a song. Then a coworker had a great idea to turn that list into a mix CD and leave a stack for my neighbors. So I did, and people seemed to enjoy it.

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RIP Richard Sherman. The interesting documentary about him and his brother’s amazing and troubled collaboration (The Boys: The Sherman Brothers Story) is streaming on Disney+ and rentable elsewhere.

youtu.be/FOQr7fYME34?...

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I watched the whole thing. I can’t believe it.

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I was shitposting on Reddit on my lunch hour and it whipped so much ass Warner Brothers hired me to write a screenplay

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One xenomorph takes one Ewok but 100 Ewoks beat 100 xenomorphs

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Me to my wife, who had just called me: “I was watching a 4 hour long video on YouTube about the Star Wars hotel, but I love you enough to have paused it. What’s up?”

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I watched the Augbert episode of Very Important People on dropout.tv, and it might be one of the best things I’ve ever watched.

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Kid Rock: the stinking man’s Coldplay.

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Interpol: the blinking man’s Coldplay.

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Andrew WK: the drinking man’s Coldplay.

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RIP Steve Albini. I only saw him perform once. It was back in 2001 in Chicago for his band Shellac. Fugazi and The Ex also played that night. It was a great show.

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Stunned by the loss of the coolest man in Chicago. He did his art, pursued his passions, and simply did not care what anyone else thought of any of it.

pitchfork.com/news/steve-a...

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Did I just buy a bootleg Repo Man t-shirt served up to me by the algorithm? Maybe.

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Folks, Toki Wartooth Becan-Baranowski, aka The Young Prince, aka my Tokyo Banana, turns SEVEN today. “But Sarah,” you ask, “Seven? How is this possible, when he is so clearly baby??” And I have no answer: it is one of the universe’s grand mysteries.

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If you see this, post pet* w alt text!

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My Easter gift to my neighborhood is taking down the last of our Halloween and Christmas decorations.

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Babe wake up it’s almost Śmigus-dyngus

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Me? You know, normal Saturday stuff. Buying a Margaritaville shirt for my dog.

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Little Richard’s biography is eventful.

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