Not sure the folks at NBC/Peacock thought this one through

Several days ago there was a thread about naming a wifi network--where I KNEW I'd remembered to save a screenshot taken years ago in a restaurant--that I wanted to share, as it has my 2nd-all-time-favorite-ever-seen-name (1st place belongs to "JulieAndrewsMastrubatorium" from my apt-bldg)...

A far-less-crowded Millennium Park about 3 yrs ago; taken on CineStill400D with the Rolleiflex Old Standard

No Kings except Cole

Since today's #ThingThursday would've been the 100th birthday of Angela Lansbury, I'm wearing this fantastic Alejandro Mogollo design of Dame Angela in the role of Mrs. Salome Otterbourne from 1978's Death on the Nile (I gave my twin sister 2 different versions of this shirt for her to also enjoy)

Even if it means leaving stuff you can't carry (great-grandpa's tophat, the 1910s desk w/1890s chair Mom was gifted by her favorite hair client, or your trunk of fotos from the 1st 30 yrs of your life), GTF outta there...& I agree with @runningrebel.bsky.social: get a restraining order after

Foto-folx: who has successful [or otherwise] experiences in using the red tab on a Jobo reel to add a second roll of 620/120 film to a session? Do I try it? Or do I just dry out my tank & respool the second 620/120 roll?

Hey, @latenightseth.bsky.social , y'all going to doing a Closer Look on this shit, or is this not in the show's purview? Maybe you've already moved to re-hire any of the impacted employees (in which case I apologize in advance), but this story needs to be told.

6 years ago, this was the first weekend I was "alone" (tho still with a pupper who indulged me as much as she could), but I'd felt by myself so much longer...so I figured it'd be great for me to sing along with the Duke & his orchestra (this is #FairUseMotherfuckers at S*nyMusic)

Dream Hallowe'en blunt rotation

It's pitch-fucking-dark before 19:50 & I'm already starting to not be okay with it (suddenly wondering how I logged all those years a timezone over with this change happening an hour earlier)

I've been GayDead for 6 years & a month (which is just a month shorter than when last I cut my hair)

Don't forget to have a bowl of chili today in honor of that famous Italian-American, Lt. Columbo

"A lifetime is so short A new one can't be bought But what you've got Means such a lot To me..."

YewChube 15 yrs ago had this intro available--but now, all those vids have been blocked. I've ripped this audio (& the '89-90 with the longer "nohht...a newss broadcasst") version so I can appropriately introduce all those FilmRise uploads where they weren't to ready to pay Danny's estate for this

For the 1st #ThingThursday I've submitted in ages, today I'm showing one of Dad's favorite childhood relics: a solid-rubber Lucky Horseshoe from Roy Rogers's steed Trigger (which I've de-greased thrice already, but this rubber needs a 4th cleaning)

You mean they apprehended FDR's girlfriend Lucy Mercer [Rutherfurd]? Mother to Fred Rutherford, & grandmother to Clarence "Lumpy" Rutherford??!

Getting ready to do something I haven't regularly undertaken in many months (like, 18 of 'em)

(Re-do here, 'cause I didn't crop the first time right): the Murder, She Wrote that @pushinguproses.bsky.social 's review of remains one of my favorites was on regular antenna TV:

Going thru videos & rediscovering clips from when I still had the energy to sing--here's a 1929 Con Conrad/Archie Gottler/Sidney Mitchell tune I sang [w/verse] when it was below zero outside, while I was still traveling 6 hours a day to get to my underpaying job in Chicago (the singing kept me sane)

"Woke movie promotes antifa, witchcraft, brass beds, & bobbing along (on the bottom of the beautiful briny sea)"

Big wants to borrow Carrie's angora sweater

Oh no. They found me out. How EVER will I survive?

This is probably the final year for my old sandals--they've been slowly demoted to garden-work-only (to keep me from tracking-in dirt & grass), but I kept them around because of little damage-artifacts from pets...

Dame Patricia is in for another marvelous party now: youtu.be/UKTviQNM6KA?...

Picture it: 2018 on the sidelines of a Notre Dame fbgame. My Dad sees this blonde lady wearing red lipstick on the sidelines before halftime (he's there to help with the NDBand) & he approaches her, saying "you look so familiar--where have I seen you?" & she just laaaaughss...[it was Taylor Swift]

We're ten-twelfths into the year, & my C-41 chemicals were last mixed in July...of 2024. I'm not quite at the backlog I think I need to mix fresh ones (& my volume of finished color-rolls isn't nearly where it needs to be; three of these are also from last year or before)

Madeline Kahn--#BOTD in Boston, 1942--brings back to life one of Irving Berlin's 1910s songs (first made popular by Billy Murray in 1919), in this excerpt from Berlin's 100th birthday special [1988, airing, I think, on NBC]... youtu.be/hrVRQDFXIjk?...

Taken to differentiating between Dad's manual & motorized chairs as "acoustic" & "electric," respectfully, when asking him which one he'd prefer to take when leaving the house

Despite knowing both these tunes from having owned a well-worn-copy of this single, I've never seen the sleeve--& I initially thought the picture (in small resolution on my phone) was an advert for a cover group ("Does Your Mother Know Kisses of Fire" would be a great name for an ABBA tribute band)

Thank you again, @mattbaume.bsky.social, for making me cry & laugh while delivering another beautiful deep-dive into a work that somehow missed intersecting with me all these years (but is surprisingly prescient & right up my interest-alley) youtu.be/ZtGKiiNfai8?...

Age yourself with a film you saw ins Kino als Kind

I saw the headline in the screengrab ["Liquidity Crisis Brewing?"] & first thought this was continuing coverage of Jim Cramer's Catheter...

My first full cigar in 4 months (albeit a "dog-walker" size, & the first of those I've enjoyed since voting last year)

My siblings all used to get me odd & interesting bottles of booze--but, in the last couple years, 2/3 of 'em have switched...to giving me edibles in varying quantities. I'm kinda liking this delightfully unexpected change

I found the only silent reel of Super8 depicting my twin & I at the point we were 6 months old--this excerpt captures the point where I begin to devour the paper Dad's written that we're "6 months old" upon...& my twin joins me...

My grandmother's credit union just sent a form-letter [to my parents' address] urging her to make use of her bank-card, 'cause--since they haven't seen her using it in the last year--it won't be automatically renewed. Grandma's been dead almost two years--& never lived at my parents' address.

Every so often, I find it helpful to try & re-sort my loose singles (the last time I had space to do this was 2009-ish)

Can any plant-parent identify this? Back in March, I trimmed-back the long offshoots from a couple funeral-arrangement-plants, re-potted promising babes, but then discarded longer vines. 5 months later, I think those vines gave [re-]birth

This week I learned my great-great-great-grandfather died on a Friday morning, running to catch a trolley to work, at an intersection less than a quarter-mile from where my siblings & I lived for most of our childhoods...also, check out that classy headline! We used to be a proper country...

Currently scanning a roll of KodakGold100 that went thru the family-camera 35 years ago come this December. We have my youngest sister's 1st birthday, & a school choral concert I both distinctly & only faintly recall...#WaybackWednesday

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you don’t need ai. grab a crayon Bitch

Then why does my brain keep giving me that dream where I have to switch-out my books for the last half of the schoolday, but I can't remember thelocker combination I haven't had to use in almost 30 yrs?

Sk@t an old person you're going to turn into in the future [Folx, I'm already turning into him--I've had both the coat AND his dim view of government for nearly 2 decades]

I'm scanning & color-correcting old negatives as college football plays on the TV for my Dad--but 23 years ago, here's where I still would have been (looking just as bewildered, I'm sure)

HOOSIER-LAND-FOLX: If you know this person [Caleb Franklin, phone 574-626-4114], he owes me personally for the cost of re-painting a garage & garage-door, as his technicians decided BLACK DUCT TAPE was the appropriate method of adhering his company's unsolicited advert to my parents' property...

I'm nowhere near rehearsed-enough anymore to be part of an instrumental or vocal ensemble, so--younger-musician-folx--if you're looking for an appropriately-inappropriate-name, here's one I wrote down in one of my pocket-notebooks (just be sure to credit Doug--fmr-mgr at Dick's Last Resort, Chicago)