another item from the "what inedible item do you want to eat?" thread that brings me back. I used the strawberry for a while in college b/c it was cheap and made me laugh. When I connected with my college g/f (now wife) one of her first resolutions was, "yeah, we're getting you better shampoo"

this thread, if anyone hasn't already seen it, is the shizzle Bluesky does best. what non-edible (or not-meant-to-be-eaten) item would I pop by the bag? probably these items remembered from my childhood. full of fun little balls!

‘cause they were two of a perfect pair

Let’s goooooo!! The Northeastern Huskies are NCAA Tournament bound! Ryan Gerety from Franklin, Massachusetts singles to right to win the day!! #baseball #NCAABaseball

spent my sick drizzly morning finishing this, which I pulled off the library bookshelf almost literally at random. It’s good.

It is amazing, the scope and variety of ways in which I can miss a garbage can a foot-and-a-half away with a thrown kleenex.

Randomly remembered a kid a few years ahead of me in school who they called Sick Jim. Googled what I remember as his name and it’s possible he was a longtime municipal office holder in the Finger Lakes. Greatness does not always show itself early.

Huh. A Dick Clark's National Music Survey show from @archive.org. Maybe someday I'll listen to this as a counterpoint to all those hours spent listening to Casey Kasem. For now, nah -- it's from 1981 and I don't feel like going there.

checking out old radio airchecks on @archive.org, and the jump from the Beatles' "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" to the Little River Band's "Reminiscing" that opens this one is pretty ... distinctive.

#RedSox fall to 5-21 when opponents score first, 8-22 when scoring less than 4 runs, 7-17 without the benefit of a home run, 6-8 in two-run games, and 3-24 when trailing after 6 innings. #MLB

Gotta love when the Sox dig themselves a hole before @live.rsnstats.com and @rsnstats.com have even finished posting the scene-setting start-of-game info.

using Newspapers dot com to try to nail down the day when my friends and I saw the Santo Gold infomercial on late night TV, spawning various inside jokes that reverberate to this day. Sometime between mid-July and early August of 1987, it seems.

noap

when Al Jardine sang about cotton fields you could practically feel the sweat on the back of your neck

last night I listened to side 2 of Jethro Tull’s A Passion Play for the first time in a while, and not only did I remember every absurd lyric and instrumental flourish, I’m still hearing them in my head this morning.

hey, Adam Levine fans, it was wise of you to ignore my previous post, ‘cause you can now buy the Adam Levine guitar for just about as little as I’ve ever seen an electric guitar sell for

🚨sound the Joe Lahoud klaxon!

It is well past time to renegotiate the wages of sin.

Legends were born Surrounding mysterious lights Seen in the sky (flashing)

my sole memory of this show: a montage of past guests that included a clip of Buddy Hackett wearing a truly sensational buckskin jacket

this is quite good. give it a read

reading on Wiki about the passing of English saxophonist Dick Parry, who you know from all the ‘70s Pink Floyd songs that have sax solos, but whose session discography ranged from Lightnin’ Slim to the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. #RIP

Kellogg’s Corn Flakes have only four ingredients, in keeping with the Cornheitsgebot rules adopted in 1516.

Millis and Norfolk Aggie, the two high schools I saw get steamrolled this past week, today announced a co-op agreement in football. A similar deal for baseball might not be the worst idea in the world.

what Paul McCartney was up to 50 years ago today. I’ve posted about listening to this show during the weekend cooking - it’s a good one

Memories Day dadadrummer.substack.com/p/on-fire-re...

hey, man, Snoopy’s harder to draw than you think

reading the paper from 50 yrs ago, as one does, and refreshing my knowledge of this guy, who had just died. JFK’s college roomie, a US Rep, and the Father of Public Broadcasting. His death in office left a vacancy filled by a young politician named … @markey.senate.gov.

getting my roof redone and the sound of people beating the fk out of one’s house always takes some getting used to. (by 4 or so I should be well accustomed to it.)

Wow. Just found a six-minute graduating-class hype video on YouTube that was shown at my class's graduation. I am blessedly absent from it except for the moment when they pan across the full-class photo in the yearbook, and then you gotta know me to find me.

Gorgeous sherbet-colored sunset while i was out running. The phone wouldn’t have done justice to it. 🌅

did I read the last four words of this in Jonathan Richman’s voice? I absolutely did.

Reading a new team’s name and logo announcement that says: “the keystone shield serves as a nod to Pennsylvania” Well, slap my ass and call me Benjamin Franklin. Who woulda guessed?

JNIL: Mick Jagger owns a place in Syracuse! (the one in Sicily, not the one in Onondaga County)

suddenly reminded of the time spent poring over this issue, as well as the contemporaneous issue with the list of Greatest Concerts

New SABR Games Project jawn🚨: Playing his first minor-league game in 21 years, Carlton Fisk writes his name into South Bend White Sox history. Check it out: sabr.org/gamesproj/ga...

Tabloid hed: NEW YORK TO CAL: DROP (HIC) DEAD

Ska Trek & the Next Generatones (This is blatantly unfair: they were HS kids at a battle of the bands, and they weren’t even objectively the worst band on the bill … but such is my hatred of all things ska that they are my permanent answer to the worst-band prompt, every time it comes up.)

I wonder if Earl Weaver hated bundt cake

I trust that Gigi Romano will be a panelist at SABR 54 in Cleveland, based on her clearly encyclopedic deep dive into the city’s baseball history.

my ever changing moods

I’d like a story about some new-money arriviste who is trying to raise the prominence of their event on the “British gardening calendar.” No, come to think of it, I’d like a British TV series.

New post for the two blog fans: after a gluttonous two-and-a-half months, the salaryman declares himself full of live baseball.

BOOO KCIIO

At 1-17, they are one of the worst high school teams in the state, but they look baller when they're just hangin' out watching their teammates bat.

I believe I just got the goodbye look.

Probably (probably) my last HR game of the season. Local boys getting clocked after one. Sigh.

trying to Find A Guy and went so far as to try an AOL address from a 2001 newspaper article. Miracles, in this case, did not happen. So we try, try again.

Just saw a video clip in which Paul Shaffer was asked to name one desert island disc, and I am reassured to know he has good taste.