"smokey stevenson"
@kurtblumenau.bsky.social
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It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black.
It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black.
Pinned
could be a coating of snow in the Berkshires this Sunday, a full two weeks before the James Taylor Watch.
November 14, 2025 at 1:33 AM
could be a coating of snow in the Berkshires this Sunday, a full two weeks before the James Taylor Watch.
Used this mysterious traveller in today’s Grid.
Career highlight: getting arrested during a game in Pittsfield, Mass., in 1971, after mouthing off to police who were trying to restore peace after a knock-down, drag-out brawl.
(Not only was he arrested, but he took the loss, too.)
Career highlight: getting arrested during a game in Pittsfield, Mass., in 1971, after mouthing off to police who were trying to restore peace after a knock-down, drag-out brawl.
(Not only was he arrested, but he took the loss, too.)
November 14, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Used this mysterious traveller in today’s Grid.
Career highlight: getting arrested during a game in Pittsfield, Mass., in 1971, after mouthing off to police who were trying to restore peace after a knock-down, drag-out brawl.
(Not only was he arrested, but he took the loss, too.)
Career highlight: getting arrested during a game in Pittsfield, Mass., in 1971, after mouthing off to police who were trying to restore peace after a knock-down, drag-out brawl.
(Not only was he arrested, but he took the loss, too.)
Grateful Dead Ticket Sales staffer, surrounded by roomful of envelopes, 1993
ain’t there too many heads in the world?
November 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Grateful Dead Ticket Sales staffer, surrounded by roomful of envelopes, 1993
Gropius' house is dopius and I would love to see somebody on my Bluesky feed design the winning toilet. Sharpen up your crayons, everybody!
November 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Gropius' house is dopius and I would love to see somebody on my Bluesky feed design the winning toilet. Sharpen up your crayons, everybody!
as a side note, this is my old college paper (the BU Daily Free Press) doing the reporting. Good to see the independent student daily going hard.
According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
BU College Republicans president says he called ICE to ‘detain these criminals’ at Allston Car Wash
The president of Boston University College Republicans wrote on X he called the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requesting it detain employees at Allston Car Wash, the site of a Nov. 4 raid w...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
as a side note, this is my old college paper (the BU Daily Free Press) doing the reporting. Good to see the independent student daily going hard.
it is an article of faith among my dad and his cronies that their college R&B band was banned at SUNY Albany in the mid-1960s, though I suspect the truth is that whoever hired them simply didn't want to have them back.
Yall ever been kicked out of a bar or club? Like are you banned from anywhere. 😂
November 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
it is an article of faith among my dad and his cronies that their college R&B band was banned at SUNY Albany in the mid-1960s, though I suspect the truth is that whoever hired them simply didn't want to have them back.
On the AT40 OTD in 1976: the five-song run of "Nadia's Theme," "Don't Fear the Reaper," "Beth," "Do You Feel Like We Do," and "Rubberband Man" may define that slippery beast known as "the '70s."
Also some gloomy 'Nuck balladeer at Number Three.
Also some gloomy 'Nuck balladeer at Number Three.
www.charismusicgroup.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
On the AT40 OTD in 1976: the five-song run of "Nadia's Theme," "Don't Fear the Reaper," "Beth," "Do You Feel Like We Do," and "Rubberband Man" may define that slippery beast known as "the '70s."
Also some gloomy 'Nuck balladeer at Number Three.
Also some gloomy 'Nuck balladeer at Number Three.
"By contrast, Bud Light's flavor was a little rounder and felt more hefty."
You could probably make beer bread with this, anyway, or the beer-crust pizza I made a lot senior year of college (funny how I don't make it any more...)
You could probably make beer bread with this, anyway, or the beer-crust pizza I made a lot senior year of college (funny how I don't make it any more...)
We taste-tested Market Basket Lager, the store’s first beer - The Boston Globe
We compared it with a few other affordable light beers we had on hand. Here's the verdict.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:57 PM
"By contrast, Bud Light's flavor was a little rounder and felt more hefty."
You could probably make beer bread with this, anyway, or the beer-crust pizza I made a lot senior year of college (funny how I don't make it any more...)
You could probably make beer bread with this, anyway, or the beer-crust pizza I made a lot senior year of college (funny how I don't make it any more...)
Well, do ya?
November 13, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Well, do ya?
A Federal Leaguer!
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November 13, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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i’ve been watching this account as it worked through the ‘80s, waiting for my favorite Garcia venue to come up, and it has.
Jerry Garcia live at Port Haven Music Hall (Good Skates Roller Rink), East Setauket, NY on 1984-08-16 https://archive.org/details/jg84-08-16.091442.jgb.nak300.damico.t-flac16
Jerry Garcia live at Port Haven Music Hall (Good Skates Roller Rink), East Setauket, NY on 1984-08-16 : Jerry Garcia : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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November 13, 2025 at 2:49 AM
i’ve been watching this account as it worked through the ‘80s, waiting for my favorite Garcia venue to come up, and it has.
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Zero weather coming! PUT ON A LUNG PROTECTOR
Take a look at the Jaynes Store at the corner of Hanover and Washington Streets, #onthisday in 1905!
November 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Zero weather coming! PUT ON A LUNG PROTECTOR
Long day at work.
Long day outside work.
Gimme some of that sweet, sexy escapism when I get home.
Long day outside work.
Gimme some of that sweet, sexy escapism when I get home.
November 13, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Long day at work.
Long day outside work.
Gimme some of that sweet, sexy escapism when I get home.
Long day outside work.
Gimme some of that sweet, sexy escapism when I get home.
New SABR Games Project jawn🚨:
Tracking a well-traveled Hall of Famer back to his roots in rural wartime North Carolina.
There’s “BASE BALL TONITE” … but who’s that teenager on the mound?
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Tracking a well-traveled Hall of Famer back to his roots in rural wartime North Carolina.
There’s “BASE BALL TONITE” … but who’s that teenager on the mound?
sabr.org/gamesproj/ga...
November 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
New SABR Games Project jawn🚨:
Tracking a well-traveled Hall of Famer back to his roots in rural wartime North Carolina.
There’s “BASE BALL TONITE” … but who’s that teenager on the mound?
sabr.org/gamesproj/ga...
Tracking a well-traveled Hall of Famer back to his roots in rural wartime North Carolina.
There’s “BASE BALL TONITE” … but who’s that teenager on the mound?
sabr.org/gamesproj/ga...
... the visit he received from a snappily dressed 15-year-old who called himself the Louvre Detective
November 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
... the visit he received from a snappily dressed 15-year-old who called himself the Louvre Detective
"the heiress Bunny Mellon" scans like "The Outlaw Josey Wales" if you're looking for a distraction to think about for a few
A 9.51-carat blue diamond that once belonged to the heiress Bunny Mellon sold for $25.6 million at an auction in Switzerland on Tuesday, for $7 million less than at its last auction, a sign of profound shifts in the diamond industry.
Blue Diamond Sells for $25.6 Million at Auction in Switzerland
A 9.51-carat blue stone that once belonged to the heiress Bunny Mellon sold for $7 million less than at its last auction, a sign of profound shifts in the diamond industry.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:11 PM
"the heiress Bunny Mellon" scans like "The Outlaw Josey Wales" if you're looking for a distraction to think about for a few
Zero weather coming! PUT ON A LUNG PROTECTOR
Take a look at the Jaynes Store at the corner of Hanover and Washington Streets, #onthisday in 1905!
November 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Zero weather coming! PUT ON A LUNG PROTECTOR
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if only there was a neil young song title that succinctly conveyed the idea that the below event is happening THIS VERY EVENING to celebrate his 80th! gonna be awesome.
next wednesday, 11/12, at @mamatriedbk.bsky.social, i will be DJing all neil young (probably mostly bootlegs) to celebrate his 80th, while my pals wolf on drugs play 2 all-neil sets. and if you bring a thumb drive, i'll pick out & copy some dope neil tapes for you.
November 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
if only there was a neil young song title that succinctly conveyed the idea that the below event is happening THIS VERY EVENING to celebrate his 80th! gonna be awesome.
After being a Church Mouse, Armand Schaubroeck became the real Easter Bunny.
November 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
After being a Church Mouse, Armand Schaubroeck became the real Easter Bunny.
Happy 80th, Neil.
Lost In Space - Neil Young
YouTube video by marwablues68
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November 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Happy 80th, Neil.
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November 12, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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the neighbors’ houses don’t help, but I think there is just a bit of what the locals would call “aurorer” going on.
November 12, 2025 at 1:42 AM
the neighbors’ houses don’t help, but I think there is just a bit of what the locals would call “aurorer” going on.
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I'll Be Here in the Morning
Lee Munn
2023
Lee Munn
2023
November 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I'll Be Here in the Morning
Lee Munn
2023
Lee Munn
2023
Holiday after-dark cooking music is a mix CD still kicking after 25 years.
Mostly made up of:
- George Winston playing Vince Guaraldi tunes (hence the cover art); and
- a pile of radio and TV air checks and snippets sourced from a long-ago Internet
Mostly made up of:
- George Winston playing Vince Guaraldi tunes (hence the cover art); and
- a pile of radio and TV air checks and snippets sourced from a long-ago Internet
November 11, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Holiday after-dark cooking music is a mix CD still kicking after 25 years.
Mostly made up of:
- George Winston playing Vince Guaraldi tunes (hence the cover art); and
- a pile of radio and TV air checks and snippets sourced from a long-ago Internet
Mostly made up of:
- George Winston playing Vince Guaraldi tunes (hence the cover art); and
- a pile of radio and TV air checks and snippets sourced from a long-ago Internet
Just got one of those spam voicemails with a machine-generated female voice; all this one had to say was “goodbye.”
I’m interpreting this as a harbinger of impending death, like having a left hand held over your head on a Beatles album cover, so: it’s been nice shitposting at y’all
I’m interpreting this as a harbinger of impending death, like having a left hand held over your head on a Beatles album cover, so: it’s been nice shitposting at y’all
November 11, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Just got one of those spam voicemails with a machine-generated female voice; all this one had to say was “goodbye.”
I’m interpreting this as a harbinger of impending death, like having a left hand held over your head on a Beatles album cover, so: it’s been nice shitposting at y’all
I’m interpreting this as a harbinger of impending death, like having a left hand held over your head on a Beatles album cover, so: it’s been nice shitposting at y’all