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Richard Melo

@fun-times-ahead.bsky.social

Astoria, Oregon. Sometimes writer, always music enthusiast. Easily dragged into politics, media and sports

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Food for thought: Maybe the Epstein files are the real distraction from everything else that’s going on

17.11.2025 23:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s the handsome hair that got them

16.11.2025 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The difference between Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson is just a few words here and there. Their fundamental beliefs and actions are pretty much the same

31.10.2025 16:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Dodgers are more like a big pile of cash money than a baseball team

31.10.2025 12:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I thought the Steelers had a chance tonight until I saw those uniforms

27.10.2025 00:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s not impossible. Doesn’t word of mouth count for anything?

25.10.2025 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Ronald Regan Impersonator from Alpha House
YouTube video by TheAlmightPat Ronald Regan Impersonator from Alpha House

Whole gag in Garry Trudeau's short-lived sitcom "Alpha House" of a Reagan impersonator performing at a GOP Senate retreat. They're all lathered up for red meat, and the impersonator only delivers quotes saying nice things about immigration, etc.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo4l...

24.10.2025 15:05 β€” πŸ‘ 529    πŸ” 97    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 4

McConnell is supposed to be the β€œquarterback whisperer,” but the Vikings are mediocre because of quarterback play. He’s the most overhyped NFL coach since Chip Kelly.

24.10.2025 15:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

All that calling someone a nepo baby does is help level the field for kids without famous parents

24.10.2025 02:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Jets ran the worst two-minute drill I've ever seen

12.10.2025 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Buck up, MAGA. At least the Nobel didn't go to Bad Bunny.

10.10.2025 14:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’d rather win a Super Bowl here and there than never get close to playing in one but be known for grit

09.10.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Does RFK have an alibi for the Chicago Tylenol murders in the 1980s?

09.10.2025 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you fear retaliation from someone not given a peace prize, the retaliator didn’t deserve the peace prize in the first place

09.10.2025 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Do you know what else agitates and irritates crowds? Troops!

08.10.2025 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

She looks like a member of KISS

03.10.2025 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Long Goodbye is better than I remember. Amazing photography of scene with Nina Van Pallandt & Sterling Hayden with camera outside the windows of the beach house and reflections of the waves. Impressionistic, oh yes.

30.09.2025 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The @criterion.bsky.social channel selections available right now are amazing. Rewatching another Robert Altman movie every night.

30.09.2025 20:54 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

#filmsky

A 40-year-old Tony Perkins could totally have played Pete Buttigieg in the biopic.

20.09.2025 01:24 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

King Charles is a cancer. It’s like melanoma photographed alongside leukemia

19.09.2025 03:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Watching All the President’s Men to see Robert Redford and find myself actually mourning the @washingtonpost.com

18.09.2025 03:46 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œPeople always ask, β€˜Who’s your ideal reader?’ Mine is somebody who reads a few pages and then falls asleep and has a fantastic dream.”

From our Art of the Essay interview with Eliot Weinberger in our new Fall issue. buff.ly/PIJNDC7

16.09.2025 15:30 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

The Washington Post is the darkness that wants us to watch democracy die

16.09.2025 01:38 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
#SoundalikeSongs

Post 2-3 songs that share a riff and/or vibe:

Twin Peaks Main Theme
Requiem: 8:20 Latham - The 5th Dimension

It's uncanny how when you listen to this amazing 5th Dimension song from 1967, it starts off as its own song and then gets very Twin Peaksy

15.09.2025 17:26 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
#SoundalikeSongs

Post 2-3 songs that share a riff and/or vibe:

(These are famous examples but the song in all its incarnations is definitely amazing)

The Air That I Breathe - The Hollies

Creep - Radiohead

Get Free - Lana Del Rey

11.09.2025 18:16 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Calling for thoughts and prayers? A better solution to political violence is limiting access to guns.

10.09.2025 19:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
#SoundalikeSongs

Post 2-3 songs that share a riff and/or vibe:

I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend - The Rubinoos

(I Thought) You Wanted to Know - The dB’s

Gardening at Night - R.E.M.

10.09.2025 00:08 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
#SoundalikeSongs

Post 2-3 songs that share a riff and/or vibe:

Killing Joke - Eighties
Life Goes On - The Damned
Come as You Are - Nirvana

08.09.2025 18:59 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Sonny & Cher "I Got You Babe" on The Ed Sullivan Show
YouTube video by The Ed Sullivan Show Sonny & Cher "I Got You Babe" on The Ed Sullivan Show

#SongsAboutBeingBrokeAndRelationships
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky

Just post one song of your choice by day, about being poor and maybe in love or too poor to be in love.
Day 11- Sonny & Cher - I Got You Babe

07.09.2025 23:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Truly thrilled to see the movie!

06.09.2025 20:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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