TonySuburbs
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Reading, writing, sports, baseball cards, capital habeas litigation, Leonard Cohen. Fargo, Iowa City, Ithaca, Phoenix.
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Time to dim the lights on Boxing Day.
Sweet Dreams, America.
We’ll make it through.
#RadioFreeAmerica
youtu.be/vxx2i9hkHKE?...
Sweet Dreams, America.
We’ll make it through.
#RadioFreeAmerica
youtu.be/vxx2i9hkHKE?...
The Wainwrights – If We Make It Through December
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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December 27, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Time to dim the lights on Boxing Day.
Sweet Dreams, America.
We’ll make it through.
#RadioFreeAmerica
youtu.be/vxx2i9hkHKE?...
Sweet Dreams, America.
We’ll make it through.
#RadioFreeAmerica
youtu.be/vxx2i9hkHKE?...
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Long-awaited, and so worth it: Salamander #60 is now available in print and online at salamandermag.org. Happy reading and happy holidays to all!
December 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Long-awaited, and so worth it: Salamander #60 is now available in print and online at salamandermag.org. Happy reading and happy holidays to all!
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American novelist & poet Willa Cather was born #OTD in 1873.
Achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including 𝘖 𝘗𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘳𝘴! (1913) & 𝘔𝘺 𝘈́𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘢 (1918). Awarded the #Pulitzer Prize for 𝘖𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘖𝘶𝘳𝘴, a novel set during #WWI.
willacather.org #fiction #booksky
Achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including 𝘖 𝘗𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘳𝘴! (1913) & 𝘔𝘺 𝘈́𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘢 (1918). Awarded the #Pulitzer Prize for 𝘖𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘖𝘶𝘳𝘴, a novel set during #WWI.
willacather.org #fiction #booksky
December 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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I'm very sorry to report that the great alt-country singer-songwriter Todd Snider has died at 59 of undiagnosed walking pneumonia. I stick by what I wrote about him in 2012. www.robertchristgau.com/xg/bn/2012-0... Here's Rolling Stone's coverage. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Robert Christgau: Preaching Agnosticism (with Laugh Lines)
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November 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I'm very sorry to report that the great alt-country singer-songwriter Todd Snider has died at 59 of undiagnosed walking pneumonia. I stick by what I wrote about him in 2012. www.robertchristgau.com/xg/bn/2012-0... Here's Rolling Stone's coverage. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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November 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
October 27, 2025 at 2:55 AM
The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
There was a time in the not too distant past when expressing contempt for voters by literally shitting on them would have been considered a suboptimal message, electorally speaking.
October 20, 2025 at 2:27 PM
There was a time in the not too distant past when expressing contempt for voters by literally shitting on them would have been considered a suboptimal message, electorally speaking.
Just as Lake Baikal contains one-fifth of the world’s fresh water, so does Donald Trump contain one-fifth of its stores of idiocy.
September 23, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Just as Lake Baikal contains one-fifth of the world’s fresh water, so does Donald Trump contain one-fifth of its stores of idiocy.
What The Misfit said about the grandmother.
September 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
What The Misfit said about the grandmother.
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So the federal government has been reduced to the sole function of preventing further exposure of the president as a pedophile and rapist. They didn’t cover this in Schoolhouse Rock.
July 22, 2025 at 8:14 PM
So the federal government has been reduced to the sole function of preventing further exposure of the president as a pedophile and rapist. They didn’t cover this in Schoolhouse Rock.
We looked strong on paper. We had a solid if not spectacular regular season. I actually thought we’d put up a fight, that we’d keep it close. Did not expect to lose in a blow out.
July 4, 2025 at 12:10 AM
We looked strong on paper. We had a solid if not spectacular regular season. I actually thought we’d put up a fight, that we’d keep it close. Did not expect to lose in a blow out.
The genius of AI.
June 28, 2025 at 4:46 AM
The genius of AI.
You know what would be great. If someone asked Trump what NATO stands for. Not the institution; just the letters.
June 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
You know what would be great. If someone asked Trump what NATO stands for. Not the institution; just the letters.
American institutions survived the Great Depression, WWII, the Cold War and McCarthyism, assassinations and riots, only to crumble the second a barely sentient washed up tabloid buffoon in clown makeup and history’s worst comb-over threatened them with mean Tweets.
June 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
American institutions survived the Great Depression, WWII, the Cold War and McCarthyism, assassinations and riots, only to crumble the second a barely sentient washed up tabloid buffoon in clown makeup and history’s worst comb-over threatened them with mean Tweets.
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Jordan Peterson on lasagne
May 26, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Jordan Peterson on lasagne
May 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
It has been learned that Crazy’ “Donald” Trump has Lee Greenwood, Kid Rock and the Lesser beach Boys ON retainer! This is very strongly illegal (and “Gross’). I CALL FOR A MAJOR INVESTIGATION. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
May 19, 2025 at 10:22 PM
It has been learned that Crazy’ “Donald” Trump has Lee Greenwood, Kid Rock and the Lesser beach Boys ON retainer! This is very strongly illegal (and “Gross’). I CALL FOR A MAJOR INVESTIGATION. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Infuriating and horrifying.
May 9, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Infuriating and horrifying.
Shocker. Another Pope who can’t dunk.
May 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Shocker. Another Pope who can’t dunk.
“The Declaration of Independence:
A Call for Unity.” In this essay I shall…
A Call for Unity.” In this essay I shall…
May 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
“The Declaration of Independence:
A Call for Unity.” In this essay I shall…
A Call for Unity.” In this essay I shall…