@siceloff.bsky.social
Retired newspaper reporter/editor/columnist, husband, father, Fulbright Scholar, traveler, Southerner, Duke English major, “he” in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Don’t ask me
14.11.2025 11:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 04 kids at 48! Yes, mission accomplished and time served.
10.11.2025 13:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"You know what they call couples who use the rhythm method? Parents."
- Mr. Gillespie, sex ed class, 1970
Done
07.11.2025 21:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My News & Observer pal Rick Nichols apparently spent a lot of his Nieman year (1977-8) in the Harvard Faculty Club, where - according to the essay he wrote for The Crimson - they serve an excellent Bloody Mary.
07.11.2025 13:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0captures
06.11.2025 16:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What a story this is. Updated last week with court action and the 2nd birthday for twins who call their foster parents Mommy and Daddy and have never met the 68-year-old multiple-felony defendant who ... well, you really should read it.
02.11.2025 13:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Good work @dpkane.bsky.social & @newsobserver.com team!
Per CJR:
"The N&O’s Power & Secrecy page is packed with more than 30 stories published over the past 16 months, detailing how legislators have been cutting deals to profit themselves & their benefactors."
www.newsobserver.com/topics/power...
An awkward first date! What a terrific movie this is. #Frankenstein
29.10.2025 14:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Gene Nichol: 'A university can’t have one set of expression rules for some groups and a different set for others, the more favored ones.'
29.10.2025 11:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Give me your address there
youtu.be/AVonNDcYjQY?...
Not a fan
20.10.2025 20:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Good story from @skyoutbriout.bsky.social and @newsobserver.com
20.10.2025 15:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I am Toad.
19.10.2025 23:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?
15.10.2025 00:46 — 👍 32370 🔁 9903 💬 897 📌 486Resign.
10.10.2025 03:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This goofy story makes it sound like they are two NC lawyers in private practice. Turns out they are federal prosecutors.
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Electric lawn mower
ELM: same
08.10.2025 12:45 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Nah. It’s not clear until reporters can check statutes, legal precedents, authoritative sources. This first story doesn’t even have expert opinion or partisan comment yet. So until there is more reporting, what you say is: it is not clear yet.
04.10.2025 17:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
gibbering insanity
Before he died, I knew only Danny Thompson’s gorgeous work as RT (no relation) sideman. Now I know he also was a Pentangle founder long loved for work with many musicians. I’ve gotta lotta listening to do.
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RIP Danny Thompson.
I commend to you the snap-whine-thud-boom of his double bass on rock/folker #RichardThompson ’s ‘Live from Honolulu,’ recorded 2006.
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youtu.be/RkxfBqxDsco
Suspense
21.09.2025 11:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Animal Farm book cover
“They had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm
Don't worry! You can get your COVID-19 vaccine! (At least in NC) CVS.com makes this easy.
No warning about barriers or ineligibility. No RFKjr nonsense.
If you're under 65 they ask: Are you eligible and do you want it? Say Yes. That's good enough for CVS. You can now schedule your shot.
Similarly: CVS in NC!
16.09.2025 16:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Bondi? She is only one of the many lawyer-trained speech suppressors we hear this week.
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