John

Ask any Clevelander about Linndale

Stay safe, Portland friends.

The Vice President is guest hosting a commercial podcast form the WH.

Beyond parody.

We were debating in the boys text at what setting Iron Mike was punching here.

We settled on 10%.

(History week continues!)

TIL Gene Kranz (Mission Control Chief, Apollo program) is also still alive.

Also, he’s from Toledo, and the airport is named after him.

She has better PR and is quieter about it, but like often seeks like.

Again, I have heard she’s lowkey just as unpleasant

TIL Che Guevara’s widow is still alive

Good God in Heaven

@flubby.bsky.social I did not think you would overlook Ms. Stark’s first appearance of the season tonight

Labor Day has always been the weakest of holidays for me, not that the sentiment isn’t nice.

It’s so anticlimactic, it’s like, let’s just get on with fall already.

This guy nails a lot of the issues in this thread

'The Books That Made Us' is available for pre-order.

Part memoir, part literary criticism, part theological analysis, it's a journey of religious deconstruction through the modern Christian classics: the writings of Chesterton, Eliot, Lewis, Tolkien, O'Connor, etc.

Links to order below.

It’s a really good likeness!!!!

I worked at a used book/music store around 2010/11, and I had a same age coworker who was also bemused by the rivalry.

Some Blur CDs came in one day. I held one up and asked him, “Hey B., Oasis vs Blur, who’s better? I believe the answer is Pulp, right?”

He nodded soberly. “You are correct, sir.”

Howlin' Wolf w/ Robert Plunkett, Hubert Sumlin & Detroit Junior, Eddie's Place (1815 Club), 1815 W Roosevelt, Chicago, c.1974. Wolf's musical home at the end, one of the few old-style South Side clubs perceived as friendly to white people. Later a church (fancy that), now a hardware store.

F1. In IMAX. Original, not really, but a lot of fun.

Aw buddy 💞

There was a band and saxophone teacher I knew who was good friends with him.

You could also include Joe Walsh, who is spiritually from NE Ohio, but is actually from Wichita.

I had to help clean my dad’s ileostomy, etc. I did it because I loved him, but it was rough to do and also to see him so helpless.

I really should have included Carmen

Don’t misunderstand; he’s a Jersey artist.

But he has always had a very special relationship to this town. Adopted son thing.

The modern answer is sadly MGK 🙃

Between that and “Blinded By The Light” being covered by Manfred Mann, it paid his bills and allowed him to build momentum til his career exploded with BORN TO RUN.

Cleveland, all-time?

Michael Stanley (deceased) is the true local answer.

But Springsteen is actually the big one. He owes his career in big part to the heyday of WMMS, and he was constantly playing college gigs all over here before that.

@msrobin.bsky.social look at this

It’s like double-barreled fascism, military parades and anonymous police squads.

The former is mostly comical, the latter is terrifying. Both are so sad.

WTF happened to our country?

Maybe it’s just the stuff that was always there and always will be, and the curtain has not just been thrown back, it’s been set on fire.

I’ve said for a long time that electing a person of color broke a lot of people’s brains in this country.

Yup