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YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

The movement now has its own “Ohio” thanks to Bruce Springsteen‘s “Streets of Minneapolis”:

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A cup of hot chocolate with whipped cream next to a cut crystal glass with a rather generous amount of bourbon in it.

Hot chocolate and bourbon. Extreme conditions demand extreme responses.

As a pizza connoisseur, I have to say that French bread pepperoni pizza is really good and not at all pathetic. It shows a certain flouting of the rules for the sake of taste. The French may find it perplexing, though.

@hcrichardson.bsky.social

One of the ways I resist and make my voice heard is to make art.

#AlexPretti died not only defending a woman from thugs, he died defending rights we all have as citizens of this country (at least for now).

A parking lot in the west side of Lexington (KY) covered in layers of snow, sleet, and ice. The bare tree branches are covered with a crystal-like layer of freezing rain.

A triple-header: snow, sleet, and freezing rain. 🥶

Baby alive! That looks wonderful! 🍕

Electric Avenue is one of the best scenes in cinema.

A white-socked black draft horse standing in the middle of a field at Shakertown (KY).

Draft horse. I’m not sure where they keep the bottled ones. #Horses #Shakertown

Afield on the west side of Lexington (KY) with dead grass in the foreground and leafless trees in the background. The sky is a cloudy light grey.

A bleak day at Cardinal Run Park North. It is very warm for January, though.

Watch out for signs that say “Hidden Driveway”!

A fairly level horse trail at Masterson Station Park outside of Lexington (KY). Green grass and black-trunked leafless trees are under a white cloudy sky.

One of the horse trails at Masterson Station Park west of Lexington (KY). #MastersonStation

The federal prison building just west of Lexington (KY). There is a black wooden fence in the foreground.

This is a federal prison but it was formerly the United States Narcotics Farm where people with opiate addictions could volunteer for treatment. William S. Burroughs was here as a prisoner. The jazz music here was supposedly excellent due to a rotating lineup of patients.

Merci! Bonne année!

YouTube video by NEA ZIXNH Bachman Turner Overdrive - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet 1974 Video Sound HQ

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A fenced paved footpath with tree shadows going across it in Lexington (KY). The sky is a very nice pastel blue.

Happy Winter Solstice! #WinterSolstice

Firebrook’s lower lake full of geese under the (almost) Winter sun in Lexington (KY).

Walking in the bright sun on a pleasant Winter Solstice Eve. Have an excellent Solstice, everyone!

Nice collection! I’m currently reading “National Rhythms, African Roots” by John Charles Chasteen. While it includes Cuba, it also looks at other areas and includes Brazil.

Looking for a skunk ape…

The well-known Norman Rockwell man standing up at a town hall meeting to make a statement.

Dramatic Adam Sandler is much better than comedic Adam Sandler (even though both are fun to watch).

Livin’ on the edge. Nice!

Kyle MacLachlan: ‘David Lynch was just beautifully silly. He loved the banter’ Ahead of a BFI retrospective of the late director’s work, the ‘Twin Peaks’ actor explains their bond and why, for him, Lynch ‘is very much alive’

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Not far behind you. Meatball sub and a dozen garlic breadsticks (I only ate 5: I usually share).

I have no idea how Canadians get such goodness into such a small item, but you do. Nice! 🇨🇦

A blue bottle tree, which is actually a metal stand with inverted blue bottles on its spokes.

This is a blue bottle tree in a yard in Frankfort (KY). These are supposed to trap and destroy evil spirits according to southern US folklore. Hopefully it’s working OK.

A large sycamore tree with yellowing leaves in Frankfort (KY).

Sycamore trees feature in Shawnee and early Kentucky European settler folklore.

The magnificent score by #EnnioMorricone for the third and final installment in Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy, "THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY" (1966) was regarded as among Morricone's greatest achievements

Multiple gingko trees shedding their yellow leaves on a street in Lexington (KY).

The magic of Catalpa Road in Lexington (KY) in early November. Lined with gingko trees, the leaves turn a bright yellow this time of year here. Gingkos were brought to Kentucky by Henry Clay, whose estate is nearby.

A jack-o-lantern and a black cat one a small table.

Happy Halloween 🎃🎃🎃

The gleaming white Loudoun House in the middle of Castlewood Park in Lexington (KY). It is the headquarters of the Lexington Arts League.

The Loudon House in all its shiny white glory. Is it haunted? It’s an old mansion in Lexington (KY), so most definitely.