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sadele2
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"I dreamed I was a perfect smile"

Can someone please remind me where this phrase came from, who said it or wrote it, decades ago?

Old & a bit out of the way. Background in writing world, art world, book world, tv news & entertainment world.
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"You've been thinking – behind my back!"
November 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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"Homeless Sign for Trump Tower" 1989 by General Idea (collective of 3 artists: AA Bronson, Jorge Zontal, Felix Partz). Cast bronze plaque, mounted on pink marble, 68.6X75.6cm reconstructs a cardboard handwritten sign found on the street in Greenwich Village.
#Art #GeneralIdea
Text of bronze-cast of rendering handwritten sign described in post: I'M Down on My Luck Lost My JoB Now I'M TRying To SuRViVe spare soMething if you caN Thank you God BLess
November 12, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Maybe not only tariff policy that’s hurting US sales to China.
From Wikipedia on Terry Branstad, ex IA gov & DT’s 1st term amb to China. (Xi considered him an old friend):
In 2018 TB argued that Stephen Miller idea to cutting off student visas to Chinese nationals would harm US trade to China
“In October 2018, the Financial Times reported that Branstad opposed a proposal by White House Senior Advisor Stephen Miller about stopping providing student visas to Chinese nationals, making it impossible for Chinese citizens to study in the United States. Branstad argued that such a ban would harm US trade to China and hurt small American universities more than the elite ones.” – from Wikipedia entry on Terry Branstad
September 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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re question marks over out heads: clip from 'Memorias de Subdesarollos'/'Memories of Underdevelopment' 1968 Cuban film dir. by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
August 31, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Reminded of NYC ~1979, was in Chin-Ya restaurant on 55th St. when it was raided by INS (Immigration & Naturalization Service). Agents, gruff & sneering, wore Western-style clothes, sheepskin coats, cowboy boots, like actor Dennis Weaver in tv show McCloud, which made scary scene falsely absurd.
Photo of actor Dennis Weaver as title character in tv series McCloud (1970-77). Standing in front of panorama of the Manhattan skyline taken from across the river in NJ, he's wearing outfit similar to what's described below: "...McCloud galloped the length and breadth of Manhattan (he was joined by a mounted unit in “The 42nd Street Cavalry”), and the sight of McCloud on horseback riding down the middle of a busy street (taken from an early episode) became one of the series’ most famous images. "McCloud’s attire, typically consisting of a sheepskin coat or Western jacket, bolo tie and cowboy hat, allowed for implied comic relief in many encounters with New Yorkers. He would often allay suspicion of his motives by insisting he was in New York “to observe and learn”. McCloud was a Deputy Marshal operating out of the US Marshal’s office in Taos. Under his jacket or coat, he usually wore a khaki uniform shirt with a brown star-shaped uniform patch with gold trim on left sleeve. There was a yellow circle in the center with the number 33. He wore two collar pins one was “NM” and the other was “33”. McCloud carried a blued .45 Colt SAA with a 4¾” barrel." https://cultfaction.com/2016/05/12/cult-tv-essentials-mccloud/
April 15, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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"Never retweet a man who doesn't link to documents."
– Zoe Tillman on Twitter 2022
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Screenshot taken in 2022 of journalist Zoe Tillman's pinned tweet. Photo is of pretty woman smiling with eyebrows raised, long hair is pulled behind her neck, locks framing her face are blowing the in the wind. Out-of-focus background shows landscape of flat land, trees, water of a bay or wide river. Text in white letters on photo says: "Never marry a man who lies" but "marry" & "lies" have black line drawn thru them and are replaced so it reads: "Never retweet a man who doesn't link to documents."
February 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Roz Chart cartoon on New Yorker cover January 29, 2018

Simpler times

(I fear February will seem longer than January this year)
Roz Chast cartoon on cover of The New Yorker magazine January 29, 2018. Shows girl in winter gear standing by bus stop in front of large calendar of January that looks like a 5 story building behind her, starts off w/ Jan. 1, hangover, 2, Lost Keys in snow, 3, Still January... continues day by day Cold, Sun sets at 11am, slip on ice, flu flu flu, etc. until finaly Last Day of January!
January 31, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Important footnote (on Joni Mitchell's site) re Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos): The NYTimes that Woody read, that inspired the poem later set to music, did not name any of the people killed in the crash. The Fresno Bee did name all known names.

jonimitchell.com/music/song.c...
Footnotes The genesis of "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)" reportedly occurred when Guthrie was struck by the fact that radio and newspaper coverage of the Los Gatos plane crash did not give the victims' names, but instead referred to them merely as "deportees." Guthrie lived in New York City at the time, and none of the deportees' names were printed in the January 29, 1948, New York Times report, only those of the flight crew and the security guard. However, the local newspaper, The Fresno Bee, covered the tragedy extensively and listed all of the known names of the deportees. Unaware of the extensive local coverage of the disaster, Guthrie responded with a poem, which, when it was first written, featured only rudimentary musical accompaniment, with Guthrie chanting the song rather than singing it. In the poem, Guthrie assigned symbolic names to the dead: "Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita; adiós, mis amigos, Jesús y María..." A decade later, Guthrie's poem was set to music and given a haunting melody by a schoolteacher named Martin Hoffman. Shortly after, folk singer Pete Seeger, a friend of Woody Guthrie, began performing the song at concerts, and it was Seeger's rendition that popularized the song during this time.
January 20, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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So happy to see you here. I've missed you by not going to the birdsite.

I see yr not on Mastodon (yet?). You can crosspost from Bsky to Mastodon, tho I'm not sure how it's done & if you can see replies.

Others on Masto miss you too

mastodon.social/@jeremy_data...
November 30, 2024 at 1:19 PM
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Better than Woerm’s Wiggle Inn that used to be in McGregor Iowa. Tho the food was tasty as I recall from when I was 8 years old
Vintage snapshot of drive-in restaurant at the end of a row of buildings, and car of 1960s/1970s vintage
August 13, 2024 at 1:05 PM