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Five Oh Five（他妈/他妈的）
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Hi, I'm KMK—an avid micro-autobiographer, but overdue for a nap. Will update!
📍Santa Barbara. Formerly of SFO, PEK, BKK, LAX, et alibi. Eternal student. Dad to a trilingual (ES/EN/ZH) kid.
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Five Oh Five（他妈/他妈的） @tenletters.bsky.social · Aug 29
AN AMERICAN FAMILY (1973) has been very hard to find for the 5 decades since the original reality show aired on PBS. Even the Library of Congress AV room said they didn't have it when I asked there last summer. Music rights supposedly the main issue. Hooray that all episodes are suddenly on YouTube:
An American Family - YouTube
An American Family is an American television documentary series that followed the life of a California family in the early 1970s. Widely referred to as the f...
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Let’s talk about sedition and treason, because the most powerful yet inadequate man in the world is having a tantrum about it, and his soulless, spineless sycophants are boosting his message.

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November 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Swedish Deputy PM: Sweden needs to pick its friends wisely, and we are choosing Canada… So when we come to America, we come to Canada now.
November 19, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Terrific
November 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Incurred like $250 in fees & shipping btwn a large box of books shipped this AM, a folding bike, & 2 big bags. But I'm on the plane & about to take off; until next time, Toronto, I'll miss you! 🍁❤️‍🔥🍁
Lots of shit, on a luggage cart Lady Liberty & little old me
November 17, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Leaving Toronto & flying to LAX today if everything goes as planned. In the event that I am subjected to a social-media review at the border & this profile is somehow involved, maybe we can view this old short together since I won't be watching it just now; as a memo, it's ANTHEM by Bill Viola. #🇺🇸
Bill Viola - Anthem (1983).avi
YouTube video by José María Miranda Pérez
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November 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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A day full of firsts! I don't recall ever locking keys inside a vehicle or domicile. I have—mostly 2+ decades ago—run out of gas (multiple times), crashed cars, etc. Currently waiting on a CAA truck with an estimated arrival time of 5:15pm, ie 19 minutes from now. Hypothesis: CAA better than AAA…
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I seem to have just locked my rental car's keys in its trunk, next to some "Busch Bullet" tiny beers I ran back in light rain from The Beer Store. This is a first, and I guess I'll now find out if the AAA card in my wallet is of any use in Canada. Would prefer not to call the indy rental car company
《KEEP GUELPH BEAUTIFUL Enjoy a Picnic at Riverside Park... We've got you covered! Free Drink Cups & Paper Plates with every Pizza Pickup Order! Whether you're heading to Riverside Park or just love eating outdoors, we'll make it easy and clean. Just ask at pickup No extra charge But Please Don't Leave a Mess!》 Busch Bullets 222ml in each, when a cup = 240ml =8oz. So basically the same amount as a tiny Sapporo of yesteryear (or today in Japan) Ontario proud since 1927 Champions of Beer Featured prominently in photo is some kinda retro Old Milwaukee
November 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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👋🏻 from Guelph; my 1st visit. Here for a 2nd-hand Nintendo Alarmo—a gift for my kid; gifts this year tailored to help her deal w/ an inherited aversion to school & waking for it in the AM. I'm now free to do whatever until tonight; a Beijing friend living in Winnipeg is playing a gig in Toronto.
A boxed Nintendo Alarmo being sold by a kid through his dad to support a summer camp fund. Or so goes the plausible story; only met the dad, in a Tim Horton's parking lot in Guelph. A sign indicating an exit from the 401 to take the 6 to Guelph A trucking company called CAT, not to be confused with the American company or the international ferry btwn Bar Harbor, Maine & Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. This one has a website I suppose I'll be visiting, at www.cat.ca An electric & bilingual freeway sign indicating that speeding laws are enforced. Better was the non-electric sign indicating that the max fine for speeding is $10,000 —I'm so glad I got driving across Canada out of my system before this was a thing, or at least without getting caught (dunno.)
November 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Scored an unexpected walk-up ticket to see Die Spitz at The Horseshoe Tavern on Queen Street West; they're on at 10pm & I'm now out maybe picking up some discount earplugs from a nearby drug store… and also a snack & a weird milk tea 🤷🏻‍♀️
Die Spitz - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
YouTube video by KEXP
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November 15, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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It's my kid's 8th bday next week. I'll be returning to California on Monday as planned. I'm concerned about my airline baggage allowance, as I've acquired winter wear, gifts for the kid, Canadian catering for her birthday party & future school snacks… and my 3rd Toronto-sourced vintage folding bike:
My newest folding bike is not especially lightweight or even as comfortable a ride as those I've gotten previously procured in Toronto—both more than a decade ago, and both long since disappeared first in Beijing & then in L.A—but its looks are up there w/ the much-missed previous bikes… shown is a gold & chrome folding bike w/ whitewall tires, reflectors in the spokes, & a black seat & handlebars Me astride the first folding bike I brought back from Toronto, supposedly of Hungarian origin. I got this from Igor Kenk, after a BMX I acquired in Queens, NY and brought to Toronto was stolen in broad daylight while locked on Dundas for less than an hour one morning in summer, 2007? I'm pretty sure this pic is from 2007, and I'm happy to report I haven't had so much as a toke off a cigarette since 2009. Here I'm in Beijing outside a Jiaodaokou bike shop where I actually bought a very lightweight Dahon bike for the birthday of my girlfriend there, who had the sense to have as her criteria that we get the lightest possible bike (which was also the quickest to fold and the smallest to stow in a trunk or even bring in the cab of a taxi with us.) Hanging from my trusty Chrome bag—which I have with me in Toronto as I write this, incidentally—is a megaphone, such as I tended to keep at the ready in those days if only to be able to talk to people in cars. Me on a bike I got off Toronto Craigslist from a tall apartment building in Etobicoke, I believe. Here pictured in the woods near a friend's cottage north of the Canadian shield. Apparently the bike's brand is GRAND PRIX, & it has this cute little Canadian flag symbol suggesting it was made here (which might help explain why I only seem to find these at reasonable prices here)
November 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Peak fancy breakfast achieved for this trip. I'm one of the few men at a very high-tea feeling brunch bistro—that also serves dinner, actually—called Tiarré's, at 1980 Queen Street East in The (chic/evolving) Beaches 'hood of Toronto. I got the pseudo-poutine farmhouse fry, w/ an egg over-medium. 👩🏽‍🍳💋
The farmhouse fry skillet, after a bite or two has been taken. I sat at the bar, since solo dining. Salt & pepper shaker have the word PARIS emblazoned on them. Utensils extremely satisfying in their grip & weight distribution, among the best I've ever encountered! The menu describes this dish as 《A twist on poutine! House made mixed potato hash with sautéed onions, Quebec cheese curds, bell peppers, chorizo sausage, crisp bacon, jalapenos, and house made peppercorn gravy (individual or family style). Sub hollandaise for gravy $2 Add an egg on top $4》 An aspect of a Christmas tree installation in front of an indoor mural in a corner of the restaurant. The tree is pink, while its ornaments—including one that represents "farm fresh eggs"—are gold. There's a pink streetlamp off to one side, and the Eiffel Tower is visible in the black-and-white (pen and ink looking) mural. A menu aspect, before I noticed that they do actually have a new high tea service from 3-8pm. This is an image of the BRUNCH TOWER FOR TWO, which the menu describes as Our fan favourite 2-stack pancake with white chocolate and pistachio tartufo. Choice of 3 protein, grilled tomato, home hash, 3 eggs cooked to your liking, choice of 2 toasts》 Price listed is $60 Canadian, which for the time-being is a mere $43 or so US. A photo I turned around and snapped when some sunlight came through the window, but I'm not really seeing the pretty autumnal sunlight effect that had been there a moment before; im a pretty quick draw w/ my camera, so go figure.
November 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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"A 58-acre ostrich farm in rural Canada becomes an unexpected battleground when bird flu triggers a clash between government agents, "Big Pharma", local farmers, and public health "skeptics." [RFK Jr]

www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
The Great Canadian Ostrich Standoff
How the plight of a few hundred birds in Canada became an all-out fight for freedom
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November 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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It's my kid's 8th bday next week. I'll be returning to California on Monday as planned. I'm concerned about my airline baggage allowance, as I've acquired winter wear, gifts for the kid, Canadian catering for her birthday party & future school snacks… and my 3rd Toronto-sourced vintage folding bike:
My newest folding bike is not especially lightweight or even as comfortable a ride as those I've gotten previously procured in Toronto—both more than a decade ago, and both long since disappeared first in Beijing & then in L.A—but its looks are up there w/ the much-missed previous bikes… shown is a gold & chrome folding bike w/ whitewall tires, reflectors in the spokes, & a black seat & handlebars Me astride the first folding bike I brought back from Toronto, supposedly of Hungarian origin. I got this from Igor Kenk, after a BMX I acquired in Queens, NY and brought to Toronto was stolen in broad daylight while locked on Dundas for less than an hour one morning in summer, 2007? I'm pretty sure this pic is from 2007, and I'm happy to report I haven't had so much as a toke off a cigarette since 2009. Here I'm in Beijing outside a Jiaodaokou bike shop where I actually bought a very lightweight Dahon bike for the birthday of my girlfriend there, who had the sense to have as her criteria that we get the lightest possible bike (which was also the quickest to fold and the smallest to stow in a trunk or even bring in the cab of a taxi with us.) Hanging from my trusty Chrome bag—which I have with me in Toronto as I write this, incidentally—is a megaphone, such as I tended to keep at the ready in those days if only to be able to talk to people in cars. Me on a bike I got off Toronto Craigslist from a tall apartment building in Etobicoke, I believe. Here pictured in the woods near a friend's cottage north of the Canadian shield. Apparently the bike's brand is GRAND PRIX, & it has this cute little Canadian flag symbol suggesting it was made here (which might help explain why I only seem to find these at reasonable prices here)
November 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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I'm c. 70% thru the most recent episode of @500songspodcast.bsky.social on PROUD MARY by Creedence Clearwater Revival, past where Andrew Hickey directs listeners to a definitive history of Bobbie Gentry's ODE TO BILLIE JOE—from COCAINE & RHINESTONES by @tylermahancoe.bsky.social—so got that queued:
November 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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A key reason to see a film on its opening night is to be able to arrive at opinions not influenced by word heard elsewhere about a film. So I typed out a reaction to THE RUNNING MAN (2025) on Letterboxd, & rightly labeled it as containing spoilers. If you see the film or def won't see it, alley oop:
November 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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I had, last Tues. night, serendipitously caught a test run of the #EatonCentre tree lighting ceremony—which was scheduled for unveiling at 6pm today. Better than the Rockefeller Center tree, IMHO, but the Fox News tree on fire in 2021 may have had it beat. shops.cadillacfairview.com/property/cf-...
Christmas at Eaton Center Toronto (Preview; embargoed until Thursday 11/13)
YouTube video by diacritic
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November 13, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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《"I want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is trump," Epstein wrote in a typo-riddled message to Maxwell in April 2011. "[Victim] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned."

"I have been thinking about that ... " Maxwell replied.》

#GangOfPedophiles #Epstein
House Democrats release new Epstein emails referencing Trump
Jeffrey Epstein told Ghislaine Maxwell that an alleged victim had "spent hours at my house" with Donald Trump, according to emails released by Democrats on Wednesday.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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"Nobody knows what magnets are."
-DJT, 11/11/25

"Water, fire, air, and dirt… fuckin' magnets, how do they work?"
-Violent J of ICP, 2010

(This Colbert #ColdOpen was aired on January 8th, 2024, because the Insane Clown President has long been passionate about this topic.)
Trump’s Theory Of Magnetivity
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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November 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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British-Hungarian author David Szalay's Flesh wins 2025 Booker Prize - live updates - BBC News share.google/h9nAJ95i0Q4u...
British-Hungarian author David Szalay wins the prestigious Booker Prize 2025 - live updates
Five judges, including Sarah Jessica Parker, chose the winner of the prestigious literary prize.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Makes the most sense if you read Musk’s response to a Daleks voice.
November 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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The Canadian tour of Mongolian maestros #Hanggai now officially underway. Their performance last night in Toronto validated the decision of many to go out into the Sunday evening snow to catch it. If you're in Montreal or Ottawa, they're coming your way soon. Go see 'em; wouldn't steer you wrong!
November 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Neat cover I've never before heard of the Bobby Gimby Centennial Expo 67 CA-NA-DA song, w/ a video full of #Canadiana as well. Recording quality better than any upload I've ever heard of the original, it also merits mentioning. #CanCon
Canada - The Sugar Shoppe
YouTube video by Parkwaymania
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November 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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On 11/18/2016, Edgar Wright quote-posted this image in a thread about what film he'd want to remake. It's since been deleted, but his caption read 《Quiz: Future CNN headline or opening crawl from "The Running Man'? (via @micmehmet)》

I just booked Thurs. 11/13 tix for a Cineplex 4D theater <1km away
Someone whose X account was called The Colonel when I screenshot this off Nitter recently enough, replying to @edgarwright [for some reason saying] gotta be The Running Man, right? #StephenKing [the image is an old conception of a future-font in white, against a cranberry background. The words read］ 《BY 2017 THE WORLD ECONOMY HAS COLLAPSED. FOOD, NATURAL RESOURCES AND OIL ARE IN SHIRT SUPPLY. A POLICE STATE, DIVIDED INTO PARAMILITARY ZONES, RULES WITH AN IRON HAND.》
November 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Viola Desmond's story was forgotten for years until her sister Wanda Robson brought it back to light with Graham Reynolds.
Today, Desmond's civil rights fight is known nationwide, and she is on our $10 bill.
This is her story.

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The photo depicts a person wearing a light blue garment with intricate embroidery on the shoulders. A prominent feature is a brooch shaped like a hand making a peace sign, positioned centrally on the chest. The background is a faded, neutral color, giving the image a vintage appearance. The person's hair is styled in soft curls, adding to the classic look.
October 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM