Chris Steller

Some of us have worked tirelessly ever since to make a meme out of this scene.

The cover of the November 21, 1983, edition of Newsweek, with the text: "TV"s Nuclear Nightmare Public Service or Propaganda? How Will It Affect Children? Below this is a color photo of a scene from the movie (oversaturated in orange and yellow) of a large mushroom cloud rising over a road and farm fields, as a young man runs toward the camera while glancing back over his left shoulder at the cloud.

The cover of the November 19-25 edition of TV Guide with the text: "America is Hit 'The Day After Brings Nuclear War Horror ... and Hot Controversy" The cover is a color photo montage of a nuclear fireball, in front of which are running (toward the camera) a young boy in a striped short-sleeve shirt and dark pants and, behind him, an older man (John Cullum) in a plaid long-sleeve shirt and blue jeans.

Tonight in 1983, more than 100 million Americans saw multiple thermonuclear weapons destroy Kansas City, Missouri, in “The Day After” on ABC. A.C. Nielsen Company reported that 62 percent of television sets that night were tuned to the film. I watched in my packed college dorm lounge. How about you?

Let’s go over this again: yes, at the end of every meeting someone should haphazardly throw chunky files into a capacious briefcase & shove it under his arm & storm out but THE REAL CONCLUDING GESTURE comes after: a bright & definitive click! as the meeting’s true victor snaps her pocketbook shut.

lolol you are grandfathered in

I blocked someone for being mildly annoying. Sometimes that's worse than being majorly annoying.

Or Friendly?!

YouTube video by dave randall Skeleton Ed - Fridley Bound

If this is a Skeleton Ed reference I am here for it

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New Strib word game for print subscribers only: finish the headline

meme of old man on train talking to girl

That photo contains multitudes of memes

Nov. 16 front page New York Times article Outrage Over Death of Kit Kat By a Driver Who Has No Heart (beloved cat killed by a Waymo)

Nov. 20 The Minnesota Star Tribune article screenshot The Minnesota Star Tribune Minnesota News You Can Use NEWS & POLITICS Driverless ride-sharing company Waymo expanding to Minneapolis Testing will begin Thursday morning. No date has been set to start offering rides to passengers. By Tim Harlow The Minnesota Star Tribune A driverless robotaxi from Waymo is parked on a street in San Francisco on May 16, 2024. (JIM WILSON/The New York Times)

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Dylan, wearing glasses, sings & plays his gutar, as Suze watches.

Bob Dylan and Suze Rotolo by Joe Alper, 1962

"Bob was charismatic: he was a beacon, a lighthouse. He was also a black hole. He required committed backup and protection I was unable to provide consistently, probably because I needed them myself."

I was wondering ....

That must be why

Yes!

You should never have a "highly valued friend." Thats the wrong kind of friend.

That was so obvious no one was saying it

Oops!

IIRC Kurosawa's "Runaway Train" (like Lightfoot's song based on a news magazine article and with its own parallels to "Pelham 123") was mostly shot in Alaska. So that would be an option but you'd have to optically reduce the mountains somehow.

YouTube video by magus26 Joe Strummer - Trash City (Promo Video)

But I would rank "Trash City" higher among Clash/Strummer "___________ City" songs
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YouTube video by theclashVEVO The Clash - Inoculated City (Remastered)

This is the only song I know of about inoculation
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Ken Burns’ documentary did mention Washington’s decision to inoculate the troops, but it missed a tremendous opportunity to talk about how inoculation, and public health generally, was being discussed as both a duty of government and a right of the people. It wasn’t just a smart tactical move.

#ChevyVanguard

The fact that this did not happen for the 50th is an indictment of the U.S. entertainment industry

Screenshot of the cover of an audiobook about the Edmund Fitzgerald, called “The Gales of November” by John Bacon

Next audiobook up, and also I’d really like a movie about this with a “Taking of Pelham 123” dingy, beige, 70s vibe but in the Rust Belt Great Lakes instead of NYC

An inflatable Jesus balloon

[King Missile voice]

Grand Funk Railroad has been coming up A LOT lately and no one knows why

Thanks, we needed that

🎶 "You did a bad job retracting your claws ..."

- sung to the tune of "Bad Time" (for falling in love) by Grand Funk Railroad

Harv and Marc and Glen

Marc and Alex

They have Marc and Arod's ownership sign now up at Target Center.