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jb@jabartlett.bsky.social |
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Writer (mostly at thjkoc.net), radio jock, beer geek, Badger fan. Tempting the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing.
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"July 5, 1976, was a Monday, the legal holiday celebrating Independence Day and America’s Bicentennial. But on July 5, the Bicentennial was a balloon with a slow leak."
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just as funny now as when we were teenagers
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before this Fourth is over, here's the one 50 years ago
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evergreen
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Today's Barnaby Jones episode is set partially in a strip club, but they can't call it a strip club or show skin, so it looks like a place where men go to watch young women in their mothers' lingerie twitch to disco
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I wrote something new today, about a highly unusual American Top 40 show from 50 years ago this week. There are enough clickable links in it to keep you occupied all afternoon, so pour a drink and have at it. It's what I'd do. thjkoc.net/2024/07/04/d...
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believe so
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FWIW, there was not a regular American Top 40 countdown on the Bicentennial weekend. Instead, there was this: thjkoc.net/2018/07/06/s...
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huge deal IIRC but I'd have to look into it. The most popular/important cut was Springsteen's live version of Mitch Ryder's Devil With a Blue Dress medley. Haven't heard it in years but as I recall it's a rager
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i think you should go sit in the corner for a while and think about what you've done here
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story contains comments from Walker and another top GOPer criticizing "activist judges" seriously, boys, you're really gonna accuse judges of making law THIS WEEK of all weeks?
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the gigantic black cinnamon-bun tires were kind of ominous somehow
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i saw a Cybertruck in the wild last week it looks like a refrigerator had sex with a concrete barricade
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here, have a day
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today's text, from my journal "waking up and living through every day in this country is like being assaulted"
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1999 was 25 years ago and I do not like it
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junior high school bus vibes
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ngl, communing with baby goats yesterday was very calming and pleasant but thinking about how the futures of all the young families with children at the farm have been ruined by politicians, courts, and the rich, made me powerfully sad short version: fk the Supremes and bring me more goats
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good morning everyone
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we must return
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do not disturb i'm in a meeting
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Burtun LeMauk
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Come what may, social media will always be divided evenly between the people saying “WE’RE ASS DEEP IN ALLIGATORS” and the people saying “so how come the horse doesn’t have a name? didn’t anybody think that was weird”
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let others worry about Joe Biden, this is the kind of ephemera I'm here for
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this dude might be the single most dangerous theocrat in the country. No conscience and pure ambition. He'd gladly light the fire to burn people at the stake
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today's Barnaby Jones episode stars future Berlin singer Terri Nunn as a teenage villain at a private school and Betty pretending to be a gym teacher, with a big sign around her neck that says "undercover agent"
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the Supreme Court has ruled in a 6-3 decision along party lines that people have had enough of silly love songs
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The Supreme Court has ruled on a 6-3 decision along party lines that all who wander can be considered lost
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Venus: smokin' hot The Captain of Her Heart: cool as the other side of the pillow
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Bela Lugosi’s Meds
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today's text, from my journal: "the thing about horrible shit is that there's so much of it now you can hardly remember one incident to the next"
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would eat
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You tell me Marv
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good morning, I have a question for all the people at the New York Times and elsewhere screeching for Biden to drop out it's more of a comment, really are you high
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This may not be one day in your life, but it's one day in mine:
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seriously tho, it sucks that Milwaukee has to endure this. Dems were supposed to be there in '20 but went virtual, then did not immediately commit for '24 it's going to be like an occupying army coming to town, and it'll be a miracle if nobody gets shot by one of them
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meanwhile i'm thinking about how gus zernial sounds like a Yiddish curse
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Chicago and Stories make Van Halen sound like pussies. Delta Dawn is an underappreciated banger. Zep and the Eagles do what they do, Manu gets down, and Maureen takes 2 minutes and gets to no. 1.
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restaurants gonna be full of people ostentatiously praying over their buffalo wings and then stiffing the waitstaff
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fine print: also WISM in Madison, Wisconsin
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cosign
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I have thought for a while that as a country we have been failing at the traditional task of slapping someone on the back of the head and telling them "that is the dumbest thing I've ever heard, what the fuck is wrong with you"
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would wear
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sad: i have a favorite spoon sadder: using it at breakfast is probably gonna be the highlight of this day
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you'll want to read this and then go listen
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game 7 of the Stanley Cup final is the first NHL game we've watched all year those electronically generated ads on the dasher boards need to be shot into the sun
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Andy Karl-Son of Dracula
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TODAY IN MADISON, WI, HISTORY Elvis Presley used his karate skills to break up a midnight fight on his way downtown from the airport! Mollified by The King's fearsome stance the young thugs agreed to resolve their differences more peacefully in the future.
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"Close but No Cigar: he Harry Saferight Story"
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i'm having whiskey and fig newtons tonight fight me
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i just read @juliusgoat.bsky.social on "humans as a problem to be solved" in light of what i wrote this week about Alpha Media (see my earlier post on the Skyline this AM)
"the purpose of society is to benefit money rather than humans"
if you believe that, you'd do *exactly* what Alpha Media did
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