reminds me of everyone's favorite Yes song, from everyone's favorite Yes album (the totally necessary and not at all indulgent 9012Live: The Solos)

this week in 1973, one of my absolute favorite lesser-known AT40 jams -- the Ohio Players' "Ecstasy" -- peaks (and that is the correct word) at Number 31. It will be gone from the chart the following week.

Nov. 7, 1970: American Top 40, in its fifth month as a radio thang, tells you where all your favorite hits are. Wonder if any radio stations actually played "Let's Work Together" and "Julie, Do Ya Love Me" back-to-back?

for any Immaculate Grid buffs who still get served my posts, here are my most-used players after 865 completed grids.

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at last an acceptable use of AI: “make me a video of Glenn Frey singing ‘Smuggler’s Blues’ while being gang-spanked by a dozen turquoise Care Bears whose cruel laughter roars out like that of avenging visigoths”

A house I pass on my commute was torn down yesterday. It was a rambling farmhouse-y place that somehow fell into significant disrepair over a fairly short period of time. It was cozy-looking, and lives had clearly been lived there and storms ridden out, and I kinda miss it.

oi mate, you say that like it's a bad thing

I ride a G.S. scooter with my hair cut neat I wear my wartime coat in the wind and sleet

The Boston Phoenix issue of 50 years ago this week is chockablock with great music ads. I won't drown you with all of them, but these roguish gentlemen deserve to be seen on the socials:

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not shown: K-smog and Batboy

"it's a living," says Wm. G. Bogart, as he pays for a carton of Luckies with money from his freshly cashed paycheck from Saucy Movie Tales

You know who I've never used in Immaculate Grid? Bud Podbielan. That's gonna have to change.

To pour! To scoop!

50 yrs ago this week, the Boston Phoenix runs this image on the cover of their music supplement. I want somebody to make a movie about the life and times of the Springsteen pictured here.

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wrap it up, I'll take it

Don't tell me what the poets are doing On the street and the epitome of vague Don't tell me how the universe is altered When you find out how he gets paid, alright

have never wanted to be in Duluth more than I do right now. I would show up with a kalimba and jam 'til my thumbs dropped off

their attempt at a Peaches n' Herb's endorsement flavor fared poorly, alas

Happy 84th birthday to Art Garfunkel, chronicler of hearts in New York.

The foreign leaders Trump would either like to steamroll or be accepted by are getting their start-of-day briefings (which, unlike Trump, they read) and learning about how he got rejected all over the country. I hope and believe they are laughing as they read.

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as a side note to the evening’s other good news, @mayorwu.boston.gov is in the process of winning a second term … unopposed, because she trucked her one attempted rival in the September preliminary election.

Current* conditions near Sodus Point, NY:

40 years ago tonight, the grateful dead open 2 nights in worcester, with bill walton & some celtics pals hanging onstage. tapes, scene reports, notes, etc.: heads.social/@bourgwick/1... #deadfreaksunite

curried chickpeas: some chopped or pureed onion, 3 cans low-sodium chickpeas, one 28-oz can no-salt crushed tomatoes, a healthy dose of curry powder, and a good glug of white vinegar have fed my family on many evenings. with rice, or couscous. (cous AND cous? in this economy???)

1) I am doin' the work for a whole bunch of bitches over here 2) who measures yogurt by weight? 3) does this measurement include the buried fruitstuff or just the yogurt proper?

"Vinegar Candy" is somebody's username-in-waiting

Wave that flag Wave it wide and ... half-staff

No election today where I live. I am sitting on the sidelines of democracy, chewing orange slices and waiting to get subbed in.

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TBH the first item here makes me imagine all these formally dressed men and women shaking their groove thangs … like a fancy dress version of the dance scene from A Charlie Brown Christmas. As you were.

if, like me, you struggle to get to podcast listening, it's worth reading the transcript of this episode.

well, another reason today sucks. #RIP, Donna.

some sort of allergy has kicked in. "honk honk" goes the beak. how's your November?

THE GARY GARCIA BAND

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Congratulations to Ceddanne Rafaela on his first career Gold Glove Award!

Wilyer Abreu takes home his second consecutive Gold Glove Award in right field!

EBROBORG is an anagram of GO ROBBER, by which I conclude this vessel is hauling stolen jewels, and maybe the shiznit from Isabella Stewart Gardner as well. "Board that ship!" yells Encyclopedia Brown

this is kinda that point in time where the Krackel brand submerges into invisibility for 11 months or so

First weekend-cooking-music post of the Darkmonths! Something with “time” seemed appropriate, and I wanted something rockier than Time Further Out.

aw, the sight of young Fernando is a trip back to a good place. He coulda sold me some nectar.

#Dodgers Will Smith caught 73 innings in the 2025 World Series. It’s the most innings caught in a World Series, passing the former record by #RedSox catcher Lou Criger in the first Fall Classic in 1903 vs #Pirates (71 inning in 8 games).

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