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Terrence Marks
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Writes comics sometimes. NicoleAndDerek.com, YouSayItFirst.com
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Did AEW just follow up a Mark vs Mark match with a Tay vs Taya match?
November 16, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.
November 16, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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if we take it to be true that the tariffs are aimed at getting americans to buy US-made products, then what's the point of rolling them back when they become painful? the entire point is to cause financial pain to change consumer behavior. what's the strategy here?
Washington Post headline reads: "Trump repeals tariffs on some foods as Americans face high grocery prices The president is rolling back import levies on a host of agricultural goods after administration officials signaled coming changes aimed at addressing consumer complaints about high food costs."
November 15, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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50 years ago today, #OTD in Weather History, on November 10, 1975, the Great Lake ore freighter SS EDMUND FITZGERALD was lost with all hands in a severe storm on Lake Superior.

So it is time for the annual reupping of my thread on her loss.
weatherfox64.bsky.social Elsie the Fall WeatherFox @weatherfox64.bsky.social · Nov 11
#OTD in Weather History, 48 years ago, on November 10, 1975, the ore freighter SS EDMUND FITZGERALD was lost with all hands in a severe storm on Lake Superior.

She is perhaps the best known shipwreck on the Great Lakes, and today we remember her loss. 1/
A bow on view of the SS EDMUND FITZGERALD afloat on the Great Lakes in calm seas under a partly cloudy sky. Image source is Wikipedia
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Multi-instrumentalist, record producer, arranger & sound designer, soundtrack composer & college professor Joseph Byrd -- leader of The United States of America, and who, in 1968, recorded 'The American Metaphysical Circus,' credited to Joe Byrd & the Field Hippies -- has died at 87. More: alt text
Richie Unterberger writes: Rock groups are supposed to be hatched in garages and inner-city lofts, not the upper reaches of academia. That wasn't going to stop Joseph Byrd, experimental composer and ethnomusicologist from the UCLA New Music Workshop, from devising a plan in 1967 to approach rock'n'roll from the opposite direction. Byrd, who had frequented avant-garde circles since hanging around with Terry Riley, LaMonte Young, and Virgil Thomson in the early '60s, used the United States of America to bring cutting-edge electronics, Indian music, and "serious" composition into psychedelic rock and roll. The group's sole, self-titled album in 1968 was a tour de force (though not without its flaws) of experimental rock that blended surprisingly melodic sensibilities with unnerving blasts of primitive synthesizers and lyrics that could range from misty romanticism to hard-edged irony. For the relatively few who heard it, the record was a signpost to the future with its collision of rock and classical elements, although the material crackled with a tension that reflected the United States of America itself in the late '60s. More: By mid-1968, the grand experiment was over. Conflicting egos, a drug bust, and commercial pressures all contributed to a rapid split. The United States of America may have had their roots in the halls of higher learning, but ultimately they were prey to the same kind of mundane tensions that broke the spirit of many a band that lived and died on the streets. From the time Byrd founded the band in Los Angeles with colleague Michael Agnello, says singer Dorothy Moskowitz, "group dynamics were never a strong point in the USA." Moskowitz, Byrd's ex-girlfriend, had a background in writing and performing for musical theater. She moved from New York to California to join the group and, as she puts it, provide "the requisite schmaltz." Bassist Stu Brotman, once of the stunningly eclectic L.A. psychedelic group Kaleidoscope, was also an early member. But he and Agnello were gone by the time the group began recording for Columbia. Agnello, a radical sort, was arguing with Byrd over leadership of the band, and not sure the act should even be signing to a record label in the first place. "When you ask why the group broke up, well, why did the group even record after it broke it up?" points out Moskowitz. More: Yet the lineup that cohered for the album brought impressive credentials to the table. Electric violinist Gordon Marron expanded the instrument's parameters with a divider that could raiser or lower it an octave, as well as tape echo units and ring modulators. Rand Forbes played an unfretted electric bass, and drummer Craig Woodson would tinker with his sound in unusual ways, attaching contact microphones to his set and suspending slinkies from cymbals to get a musique-concrete effect. Ed Bogas added organ, piano, and calliope. Most of the material was penned by Byrd and Moskowitz, the latter of whose alto delivered the lyrics -- which are alternately evocative and foreboding -- with a cool precision reminiscent of an icier Grace Slick. Byrd was chiefly responsible for the electronic textures that would provide the album with its most distinguishing characteristics. This was 1968, remember, when synthesizers had rarely been employed on rock records. What Byrd crafted were not simulations of strings and horns, but exhilarating, frightening swoops and bleeps that lent a fierce crunch to the faster numbers, and a beguiling serenity to the ballads. Byrd had crucial help in his endeavors from Richard Durrett, who designed the Durrett electronic music synthesizer used by the band, and from Tom Oberheim, who pioneered the use of the ring modulator employed by the USA. Nico, Moskowitz has recalled, tried unsuccessfully to join the band, after leaving the Velvet Underground. More: Add to this mix a fascination with modal playing and Indian music. Byrd and Moskowitz were serious students of North and South Indian music, and had already made little-known contributions to a Folkways LP of Indian music by Gayathri Rajapur and Harihar Rao, recorded in 1965. Country Joe & the Fish, the Doors, and others were opening the gates for modal playing in rock and roll, and the USA were one of the first ones through; Frank Zappa had also opened the possibilities for incorporating ideas from contemporary composition into a rock format. And then there was Byrd's application of concepts from Charles Ives, which simulated marching bands moving from opposite sides of the stereo spectrum... Was it all too much to fit into one album? "As a whole, the album does not have a coherent, unified vision," declares Moskowitz, who now lives near Oakland, California, where she composes music for both adult and children's theatrical events in the San Francisco Bay area. "Joe had vision, but by hiring all these interesting people, it had to be diluted. Everybody had to have their say. I'm told that someone took the album to Apple Records. The Beatles listened to it and asked, 'Which is the band?' If you listen to each song, it's almost like a variety show. "Today you would say, it's a cultural blending of avant-garde music, of elements of Indian music. If you asked me back then, I'm not sure what we were doing. That might have been the basic charm of the group. We were charting territory for which their were no names."
November 4, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Milo has something to say, and he feels strongly about it.
Milo the fox kid: PROTECT TRANS KIDS
October 30, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"
three sheets of paper are taped to the outside of a building. they have the words "The Oval Office" in gold script
November 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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There’s a lot to be said about the font choice, the color, the fact that it’s on printer paper. Or how it looks to have been made in Word instead of by then White House’s on-staff professional calligrapher.

It’s so he doesn’t get lost again, isn’t it?
onestpress.onestnetwork.com Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 16d
New sign outside the Oval Office..
November 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Oh! From Nov 1st 2018:
November 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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a man in a top hat and bow tie says the suspense is terrible and i hope it 'll last
ALT: a man in a top hat and bow tie says the suspense is terrible and i hope it 'll last
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November 2, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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The Knights Bridge Quartet - Sorrow in C Major
A nice piece of American pop-psych (apart from one of the worst guitar solos I've heard)

youtu.be/USkLco5Wzek
November 2, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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I just woke up. Is the Dodger game still going?
October 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Well, now I understand why they don't call it basebSOME
October 28, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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I think the idea is to keep this game going until the concession stands sell out.
October 28, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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The photo:

The comments you will laugh at:
October 23, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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A lot of pre-Beatles rock songs namedrop Peggy Sue and/or Miss Molly. Like rock'n'roll had stock characters you were supposed to know.
Usually in the context of "This party was so crazy that those fictional girls from that hit record showed up in person"
October 20, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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1) If you're pushing me to install an app instead of using your website, the app should not have less features than the website.

2) I refuse to watch "The Ghost and Molly McGee"; if she's not voiced by Marian Jordan, then she ain't Molly McGee.
zachweinersmith.bsky.social Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · Oct 16
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 20, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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LIVE & FREE TODAY is #MysteryWrestling19 on:

🟣 www.twitch.tv/EvilUno

🔴 www.youtube.com/live/7R0XtJJ...

Abadon will be wrestling!

Evil Uno vs Stu Grayson FOR ALL THE MARBLES!

#MysteryWrestling 🤼‍♂️
October 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
Image of The Muppets gathered at the museum, looking down from the skylight above the Baseball Diamond, at the end of THE GREAT MUPPET CAPER
October 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Not that I mind a short break from the I Quit match, but I’d rather it be my own choice…
insomniainc.bsky.social Brent Lockman @insomniainc.bsky.social · Oct 19
Is anyone else getting a pink screen of death?

#AEW #AEWWrestledream #Wrestlesky
October 19, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Define your music taste in 8 artists

Loud Family
Syd Barrett
Olivia Tremor Control
Beach Boys
Los Shakers
Os Mutantes
Robyn Hitchcock
United States of America
leecasebolt.bsky.social Lee Casebolt @leecasebolt.bsky.social · Oct 18
Define your music taste in 8 artists

Whitesnake
Van Halen
George Strait
Bob Seger
Melissa Etheridge
Aerosmith
Halestorm
Chris Stapleton
itstimothydavis.bsky.social timothy davis @itstimothydavis.bsky.social · Oct 18
define your music taste in 8 artists

guns n fuckin roses
soundgarden
alice in chains
van halen
tupac
goo goo dolls
miles davis
janet jackson
October 18, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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You Say it First is a business adventure webcomic about a company that sells industrial fragrance compounds. This is EXACTLY the gimmick for our books.

Have them smell like Mint, Pine, Clean Smell #3, Cactus, and Lemon.
ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🍂 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · Oct 15
What would *your* book smell like if you engaged in a mega weirdo scented pages promotional campaign?
October 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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"Projection Edge" is about four souls who discover a wondrous cosmic plane beyond the world they know -- as well as dangers to the world they DO know!

Read it at: www.projectionedge.com or projectionedge.thecomicseries.com!

Or binge-read it all at comicfury.com/read/project...!
October 5, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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As a wise woman once said, “Life is short, but also terribly and insufferably long at the same time”
leecasebolt.bsky.social Lee Casebolt @leecasebolt.bsky.social · Oct 5
Life is too *long* for uncomfortable shoes.
ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🍂 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · Oct 5
Life is too short for uncomfortable shoes
October 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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That smash cut from the Young Bucks describing their dream entrance to them already waiting in the ring was a thing of beauty. #AEW
October 2, 2025 at 3:09 AM