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Cat DeSpira
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Writer/historical researcher living in the beautiful Pacific Northwest in a house full of classic arcade games. Outdoor adventurer. Strong Resister ✊️ Gen X antifascist, hater of bigots. *Loves punk, metal, and video games*

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Today's reading...rather, rereading of Ace Frehley's 2011 memoir. It's fantastic, endlessly entertaining, and exquisitely written.

No Regrets: Frehley, Ace: 9781451613957: Amazon.com: Books share.google/TrTOvQXYlQcD...
October 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
October 22, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Portland, Stark and MLK
October 19, 2025 at 4:26 AM
October 19, 2025 at 4:25 AM
I saw KISS for the first time in 1977 w/my Dad. Millions of kids in the KISS Army did. KISS had the same bombastic effect on Gen X as Star Wars and Atari Space Invaders did. It's funny how so many pop culture experts miss this over and over again.

We wanted the best and got the best...Ace Frehley
October 17, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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September 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
ICE are America's real undocumented workers:

*Pull their masks off
*Photograph/film them
*Record license plates
*Post it online

The future will hold them accountable.
August 18, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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August 13, 2025 at 11:24 PM
August 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Two days ago, we upped our hiking/camping game and bought a Topoak roof tent (pictured) w/riser for our Nissan Frontier so we can explore further and more safely the high country of our beautiful state. I enjoy trad tent camping, but the adventure of overlanding really stole my soul.
August 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The time Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested for drunk driving and lost her license:

Source Evening Standard, August 8, 1996
August 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
August 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
If Donald Trump is "innocent" of sexual abuse involving trafficked minors, then why does he need a character reference from a pimp, sex traffiker, and rapist doing 20 years in a federal prison?

We live in odd times when a sitting president can be openly engaged in this, yet doubt remains.
August 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
August 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Overland camping in Gifford Pinchot Forest in Washington State. I've been here a week already. With the state of the US right now, I honestly wish I could just stay here forever.
August 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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July 19, 2025 at 2:30 AM
And just like that - a new slang is born:
July 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Good Morning!!! 💙
July 14, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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June 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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June 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM