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Stage, songs, walks, and stuff. Album ‘Second Husband’: https://ericziegenhagen.bandcamp.com/album/second-husband

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(Government agent looking through five years of my social media) Jesus, this guy LOVES Columbo.

11.12.2025 06:17 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that the Salt Lake Tribune has a full-time jazz reporter. It in fact has two reporters who cover Utah Jazz, the local basketball team. This has now been corrected.

An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that the Salt Lake Tribune has a full-time jazz reporter. It in fact has two reporters who cover Utah Jazz, the local basketball team. This has now been corrected.

My all-time favorite newspaper correction:

10.12.2025 15:24 — 👍 499    🔁 106    💬 7    📌 7
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MacKenzie Scott Announces $7 Billion of Charitable Giving This Year

An important thing about Mackenzie Scott's philanthropy is that all of her gifts are *unrestricted.* She often gives to smaller nonprofits where those unrestricted gifts can have a huge impact, allowing organizations to use the money where it's needed most, not just where a donor wants.

10.12.2025 00:50 — 👍 330    🔁 59    💬 1    📌 14

Nothing worse than signing an email "warm regards" and getting a reply with "warmest regards". Oh, now it's ON.

09.12.2025 14:55 — 👍 1101    🔁 117    💬 80    📌 28
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Is Gen X Actually the Greatest Generation?

Gotta say I love the group portraits here: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/t...

07.12.2025 22:23 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Clooney’s Fresh Air interview from this week has been good on a long walk.

07.12.2025 20:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Cedar Cultural Center marquee reads “We love our Somali neighbors”

Cedar Cultural Center marquee reads “We love our Somali neighbors”

A night out in Cedar-Riverside

06.12.2025 01:45 — 👍 2517    🔁 307    💬 13    📌 8

computer going to take my job? no. i’ll pour water on it

06.12.2025 20:05 — 👍 967    🔁 199    💬 17    📌 4

Imagine being a billionaire and not being a patron of the arts

06.12.2025 04:28 — 👍 79    🔁 19    💬 2    📌 1
The childhood home of Frank Gehry, 1364 Dundas Street West in Toronto

The childhood home of Frank Gehry, 1364 Dundas Street West in Toronto

RIP Frank Gehry: his childhood home in Toronto still exists!

05.12.2025 19:37 — 👍 216    🔁 37    💬 8    📌 3
TONY ALVON & THE BELAIRS - Sexy Coffee Pot [USA - 19690 (Soul)
TONY ALVON & THE BELAIRS - Sexy Coffee Pot [USA - 19690 (Soul)

TONY ALVON & THE BELAIRS - Sexy Coffee Pot [USA - 19690 (Soul)
https://redd.it/3t3o2f
https://youtu.be/9uNn3QPpy8A

04.12.2025 16:56 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

That makes good sense!

04.12.2025 23:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sounds like the earlier adaptation of Harvey was a dud? If so, that one.

04.12.2025 23:20 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The beauty but profundity of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, captured in a letter from an audience member. I saw the same production, and it slew me in a way no other theater experience ever has.

02.12.2025 13:28 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Kept thinking how Pacino and Leonard Cohen went through such a similar transition, from a reedy tenor when they were young to a mature baritone.

02.12.2025 06:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Finally filled the biggest gap in my cultural experience:

02.12.2025 06:29 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
fairway golf, 1700 como avenue, st. paul, minnesota, 1984

fairway golf, 1700 como avenue, st. paul, minnesota, 1984

fairway golf, 1700 como avenue, st. paul, minnesota, 1984

01.12.2025 05:36 — 👍 219    🔁 50    💬 1    📌 7
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This war-crime framing is driving me crazy. There is no war. They don’t even know who they’re killing. It’s murder.

01.12.2025 05:50 — 👍 36    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

Recurring anxious thought about how professionalization of journalism is a relatively recent phenomenon in the US, and for much of our history reporting has been filled with rumors and heresy, and there's nothing that inherently ensures advantage (or even survival) for the former over the latter

01.12.2025 05:10 — 👍 30    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 0
Kenny Rogers & The First Edition - Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town
YouTube video by allallallthetime Kenny Rogers & The First Edition - Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town

Amazing live version: m.youtube.com/watch?v=C1e9...

01.12.2025 01:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Hapco Street Lighting Brackets catalog. A noir-ish illustration of a nighttime scene with a couple seen from behind, walking on a sidewalk under a streetlight. Two sleek cars are on the street behind them. A statue is in the background.

Hapco Street Lighting Brackets catalog. A noir-ish illustration of a nighttime scene with a couple seen from behind, walking on a sidewalk under a streetlight. Two sleek cars are on the street behind them. A statue is in the background.

Trade catalog cover
Hubbard Aluminum Products Co.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Artist not credited
c. 1951

Image: Association for Preservation Technology via @archive.org; archive.org/details/Hubb...

28.11.2025 17:06 — 👍 18    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 1

Thinking a piano/keyboard player (like Second City has for sketch transitions) would be an easy crush target

29.11.2025 04:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

He’s at 60% disproval lol

29.11.2025 01:09 — 👍 3040    🔁 405    💬 70    📌 11

Last hour!

28.11.2025 21:06 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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26.11.2025 21:37 — 👍 720    🔁 167    💬 21    📌 24

Oh man, I saw Arlo on his own at the Carlton Celebrity Room with my dad…probably very early 80s, and even though I was a kid, I could tell he was too wasted and kept stopping the band mid-song.

28.11.2025 05:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My first concert ever (age 5 or so?) was Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie at Northrop.

28.11.2025 04:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

If you can't spot the turkey at the table, then you're the turkey.

28.11.2025 03:58 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Nice when a local arthouse movie theater puts up flyers:

27.11.2025 22:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Rififi movie review & film summary (1954) | Roger Ebert The modern heist movie was invented in Paris in 1954 by Jules Dassin, with "Rififi," and Jean-Pierre Melville, with "Bob le Flambeur." Dassin built his film

“ So meticulous is the construction and so specific the detail of this scene that it’s said the Paris police briefly banned the movie because they feared it was an instructional guide.”
www.rogerebert.com/reviews/grea...

27.11.2025 03:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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