GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

As a librarian, I have to say ... FUCK!

SCTV is on Internet Archive if you'd like to enjoy the early work of Catherine O'Hara and her fellow sketch comedy gods. S1: archive.org/details/sctv... S2: archive.org/details/sctv... S3: archive.org/details/19-m... S4-5: archive.org/details/66-s... S6 + Cinemax: archive.org/details/sctv... #TVSky

Welcome to the Occupation 🎸 Document, 1987 Live in Chicago, 1995 www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxCz...

No surprise to librarians, but perhaps surprising to users, demands/prices for ebooks /audiobooks are killing public library budgets. David Szalay's book, Flesh,” costs DCPL: $28.99 hardcopy $59.99 ebook $69.99 audiobook DCPL owns hardcopy; rents & must repurchase ebook & audio book every 2 yrs.

i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

"Ask anyone who has lived in a country that became an autocracy, and they will tell you some version of a story about walls closing in on them, about space getting smaller and smaller. The space they are talking about is freedom." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...

THE song of 2026 (so far). by @axolotmusica on insta & tiktok.

Avoiding my geopolitical anxiety by reading the Harvard Magazine obits, and damn this issue starts off with a banger

We saw one of The Supremes’ White Bread bags, which I hadn’t known about before!! “A plastic bread bag for The Supremes ‘Special Formula’ White Bread that was marketed in 1966 by Schafer Bakers in Lansing, MI, in partnership w Hitsville Merchandising in Detroit.”

I wrote on @boingboing.net about Sally’s Apizza, a tiny, legendary family pizza shop in Connecticut that was bought by an investment conglomerate that plans to make it “the Chipotle of pizza.” boingboing.net/2025/12/22/n...

Betty Reid Soskin, one of the nation's most iconic park rangers, died peacefully at her home in Richmond on Sun., Dec. 21, 2025. She was 104.

I don’t really have any family holiday traditions, but given that I’ve now seen Low Cut Connie at the Stone Pony in December 3 times with my oldest childhood friend, I think this counts as a tradition.

Texas royalty Joe Ely has passed away today.

The Hotsy Totsy Club Albany, CA

Joan Jett Blakk was the first drag queen to run for president. Joan had a major stroke last year- to support her need for lifelong care, her iconic 1992 presidential campaign poster has been re-released as a limited edition t-shirt. I got one! www.willienorris.world/products/x-j...

Richard Shindell's "Arrowhead" www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-Y7...

More sightseeing and dining in Athens, GA.

Sightseeing in Athens!

34yr old JUDI DENCH as ‘Sally Bowles’ in the original London production of ‘Cabaret’ in 1968.

The Masonic, San Francisco 11/13/2025

BATTLE OF THE NETWORK STARS debuted #OTD in 1976. ABC's winning team included (L-R) Robert Hegyes + Gabe Kaplan (WELCOME BACK, KOTTER), Penny Marshall (LAVERNE & SHIRLEY), Hal Linden (BARNEY MILLER), Lynda Carter (WONDER WOMAN) + John Schuck (HOLMES & YOYO). What a time to be alive. #ClassicTV

Hang in there, Todd Snider--we need you. youtu.be/GBD_d9SZYnw?...

Currently watching Sweet Charity. m.youtube.com/watch?v=CNXZ...

Happy belated birthday to Dwight Yoakam. When I saw him perform back in the mid-90s, his jeans were so tight it seemed he could barely stand up straight. This song helped me get through a crushing breakup once upon a time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWrS...

In college, a very cool grad student TA turned me on to Nick Lowe's Pure Pop for Now People (aka Jesus of Cool). Not long after she recommended the album, I found a copy in the dollar bin at my favorite local record store, and that's how I found out about this song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_-G...

If we put half as much resources into metadata and cataloging as we do into dumb AI stuff, we’d way better off in terms of the info/data ecosystem

I don't listen to many podcasts, but this caught my eye/ear, and it's great. Learning that Gordon Gano wrote some of the songs when he was only 15--no wonder the record resonated with misfit teens like me back in the day! I know Spotify is bad, but this is good. open.spotify.com/episode/1QLM...

You can't help but wonder how much bigger the massive No Kings protests would have been if people had seem him tearing down the White House beforehand.

I’m going to tell you a story about my friend Cessilye, the time I killed an entire birth justice org because of her, and why you need to help her now… wawchealth.dm.networkforgood.com/emails/42507...

Sure I was out there protesting fascism in my banana suit, but I think the greatest service I performed was afterwards when we walked past a very tired man with two small children being fussy and he said "Look! Peanut butter jelly time! Peanut butter jelly time!" and I did the dance.

Rewatching Mommy Dearest and it really is over the top. Everyone remembers “no more wire hangers!” but what about “Tina, bring me the axe!” Huge Diana Scarwid fan, which was the main reason I’m revisiting the film.

In Philadelphia, #nokings goes back a long way.

Amazing sign being held by a small child

Andrew, we're voting you off the island and back to the suburbs. Our new ad just aired during Survivor.

I need to wash so many dishes before bed but so many things feel pointless

Do you remember normal weekends?

On this day where librarians consider the closing of Baker & Taylor, I would like to remind you that Sandy Berman still walks this earth and today is his birthday. www.sanfordberman.org

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if the television is not saying what’s true then how can I ever emerge tremfyant

Every time Eric Adams is in the news, I think about this response he gave to the question of what the best concert he ever attended was.

Ms. Moore was a character in Sondheim’s dark musical “Assassins,” which debuted Off Broadway in 1990. In the show, she was portrayed as a hapless revolutionary — “a true flibbertigibbet,” as NYT critic David Richards wrote, “as likely to pull a banana from her capacious handbag as she is a pistol.”

In the TV context, the joke is attributed to Jack Paar (1960), but Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. made the same joke in 1857 in the very first issue of The Atlantic Monthly. (His "Breakfast-Table" columns were a continuation of essays he had written for a different publication in 1831–32.)