Hester Pangs

I remember the adults in my world as a child just really not liking him when I was a kid, but never really knowing why and now I'm retroactively understanding why that was.

YouTube video by Stephen Jester The Mystick Krewe of Clearlight (2000) [Full Album]

are you a fan of this album? I listen to this "NOLA sludge guys having a fun time jamming" record every year on Mardi Gras.

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YouTube video by CONELRAD6401240 LBJ: Dogs Have Always Been My Friends

things I show my student worker who's currently teaching high school history.

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Cleveland councilman wants city to pause rollout of new parking program Cleveland Councilman Kevin Bishop (Ward 2) is asking the city to pause its new parking program to gather feedback from residents, businesses, and others affected by increased costs.

Look, I am not mad about paying for parking but the city has this habit of doing things and not ever thinking about how using an app and not having the option of 15 minutes to run in and pick up something means a lot of people are just going to go elsewhere.

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The levels of incompetence, shamelessness, and malevolence are off the charts here.

I'm always on the east side on Fridays but Blessed Trinity has homemade desserts and apparently the salmon (not fried) with the dill sauce is very good.

St. Mary's Romanian is great, I went there a few years ago. On the east side, I've done Tavcar Catering in Euclid & the Bohemian Hall.

easily the cringiest stuff.

from the I'm From Cleveland instagram page - A new social network (@clockout.app) that’s claiming to only accept “smart people” is gaining popularity across Cleveland as it reaches 500,000 users nationwide. Accepted users say they use the app to attend private dinners, mixers, and galas, but many are saying they didn’t get access. We do not know how the app decides who is “smart” enough to get accepted or not.

If I was a gambler, I'd bet that Bobby George or maybe that guy who got fired from CSU over publishing race science stuff under the name of the school were behind this.

Congratulations to Brendan Carr on his masterful gambit of suppressing an interview on broadcast television with a guy whose star has risen due to viral online clips being shared by people too young to watch late-night network shows, that'll show him.

Marco Rubio just flew to Budapest to deliver a speech in which he provided a full endorsement of Viktor Orbán in the upcoming Hungarian elections.
Here is the letter he signed in 2019 warning about Hungary's "downward democratic trajectory" under Orbán
h/t Carrick Ryan

the amount of times I've had to get crabby at folks about these two...

realizing that my being grumpy about brewpubs 15 years ago when I lived ina gentrified neighborhood had a lot to do with guys on tall bikes that had big Mumford & Sons energy that's thankfully dissipated.

Someone tell Hillary that this is her husband’s legacy too

I think this is part of why I didn't stay too long in an otherwise wonderful Episcopal church. It's like, we say the credo every week and then a deacon is telling me "yeah I don't believe in any of that."

and my family is still going to tell me that Bari is the victim here.

I grew up reading the Plain Dealer (one reason I am a writer!) and it was an absolute thrill to write for them later. This hurts my heart and infuriates me. When I report, I picture stories coming together. It’s exciting and energizing. Can’t fathom turning that over to AI.

Here is the cover of a report from the ACLU in 2016, which found that at least 56 individuals died in ICE custody during the Obama administration

YouTube video by John Doe - Topic Ready

what I would give for a full album of John Doe & Kristin Hersh singing together.

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Lada Niva Armenian advertisement poster replica.

It's a little creepy how well dialed in my Instagram algorithm is because I love Lada Nivas and Armenian typography.

WAIT WHAT.

It's pretty great, surprisingly clean and well organized and very weird.

I saw them open for Shonen Knife in 2005 and they were absolutely amazing.

also Star Supply which is a weird surplus hardware and scrap metal store down there has these incredible beaded curtains with dogs on them for like $4.

Feeling less crazy for noticing that some really interesting things can happen when you get the thoughtful punks and the do-gooder religious folks in the same room.

I just picked this up on your recommendation and DUDE.

Photo of the interior of the Golden Dawn restaurant in Youngstown, with red vinyl booths, neon signs, and Valentine's Day decorations.

we went to the most amazing old-school Italian restaurant in Youngstown for Valentine's Day yesterday.

Also reminded of when my uncle did a genealogy family visit to Belfast, he couldn't hang out with the Scotch Protestants he's descended from his dad's side on at the same time as the Irish relatives that his mom comes from.

lol SCOTTS-IRISH

Again we really need people to understand this going forward: even ignoring him platforming fascists on his podcast, which is already disqualifying, any Democrat that hates homeless people and doesn't believe in trans rights has zero interest in fighting fascism or the GOP in any meaningful way.

Our state school partnered with the art museum for a project that involves my old students handling, cataloging, and photographing ancient art objects, and we're ecstatic because we always assumed we had to be at some old money school to even get that kind of experience.