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Michael Hartford
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Ní chuirfidh mé m’asal amuigh nuair a bhíonn brón orm. https://www.michael-hartford.com/

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What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

There were a lot of good records in 1985; I think "Hounds of Love" and "Rain Dogs," about as opposite as they come, stand out as complete documents of ... something.
"Rain Dogs" by Tom Waits "Hounds of Love" by Kate Bush
November 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Northern lights over Longfellow (more visible to the camera than to the eye)
Faint glow of northern lights, red and green, over Longfellow Park in south Minneapolis
November 12, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Poster for “Nobody Loves an Albatross” which ran at the Lyceum in 1963
October 31, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Let's be careful out there on Devil's Night, folks! Lots of ghoulies and ghosties are up to no good ... stuffaboutminneapolis.tumblr.com/post/7987654...
Dewey Thurman, caretaker and watchman at Sunset Memorial Park cemetery, is pictured examining an injury on his head. While on watch the previous evening, he thought he heard sounds of an automobile motor , opened his door to peer out and was bopped on the head. He believes he was attacked by a ghost due to the fact that the $16 in his pockets had not been touched and nothing was missing from his office. (1942) via Hennepin County Library
October 30, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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A vampire that's not Dracula
The elegant and terrifying Delphine Seyrig as Countess Báthory in "Daughters of Darkness"
October 30, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Vegan Demon at Reverie - this was surprisingly spicy!
Vegan Demon burger with little horns made of hot peppers served with potato wedges
October 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Also the flying Winnebago (which looked just like one we used to own, but which alas did not fly)
September 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Age yourself with a film you saw in a cinema as a kid
Promo picture for "Escape to Witch Mountain" (1975)
September 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Lake Superior gradient, Duluth
Photograph of Lake Superior with gray blue water blurring into gray skies, taken near Leif Erickson Park, Duluth, MN
September 13, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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My kids are on a week long trek in the Dolomites and sent me a picture of their Verona meal of Aperol spritz and prosciutto; I made myself a little jambon beurre to eat on the patio with a San Pellegrino - tasty, but surely not as delicious as theirs
Sandwich of butter, prosciutto, mozzarella, and basil on a baguette, side of chips, glass of San Pellegrino blood orange with a splash of lemonade, on the back yard patio table
August 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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My Foinn Seisiún books have arrived, no doubt just under some tariff wire or other; watch out monthly seisiún, I’m going to master my share of tunes by September’s meeting
Four Foinn Seisiún books showing traditional Irish instruments on the covers (the seisiún I go to is working through book 1, of which I’ve memorized about a dozen tunes) Post mark from Dublin - maybe my little package passed through the General PO on the Liffey and was blessed by the ghost of Pádraic Pearse on its way to Minneapolis?
August 27, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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I too have a price (please adjust for the currency exchange)
August 21, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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I suspect this fellow.
Image of a man with a lovely blond mullet holding a concrete drain plug and large metal chain after emptying the Chesterfield Canal in 1978.
August 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Yikes! Found this image from Reddit, 13 hours old:
Image of the lake bed of Lake Alice, William O'Brien State Park, after mysterious draining
August 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Beach read - Problematic Summer Romance by Ali Hazelwood (solid sequel to Not in Love with a brief cameo from the main characters from Deep End - I love the Hazelwood-verse)
August 8, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Walkway to Pine Point Beach, Scarborough, Maine
August 8, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Sunset over Pine Point, Scarborough, Maine
August 8, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Moon over Pine Point Beach, Scarborough, Maine
Full moon above beach and surf
August 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Goose Eye Brook near Newry, Maine (alt in reply)
August 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Wright Trail, near Newry, Maine
Painted blue hiking trail blaze on a birch tree in the Maine woods
August 5, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Buck’s Ledge, Greenwood/Woodstock, Maine
View of the granite face of Buck’s Ledge (1120 ft) from the eponymous trail
August 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Ponds of Greenwood/Woodstock, Maine
View of ponds, trees, and mountains from the Buck’s Ledge trail
August 4, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Buck’s Ledge, Woodstock, Maine
View from Buck’s Ledge (1120 feet) toward Mount Abram - hazy sky, lots of trees, South Pond below
August 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Not here yet, but soon? #derecho #mnwx
Weather radar showing storms approaching Minneapolis
July 29, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Amazing Spider-Man 129 with the first appearance of The Punisher (I bought this at a thrift store in 1979 and read it to death which is why I don’t feel bad about my Punisher Nalgene bottle despite his appropriation by the Nazis, though I’ve decorated it with ACAB stickers because I’m a traditionalist)
July 19, 2025 at 10:48 PM