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Stan Emmerson
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sonoffarmerinthecity.wordpress.com

farmerinthecity@gmail.com

also wrote a book

“What is the ‘it’: a handbook for proofing court judgments”

published by The Federation Press

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“Those interminable latter days of the dying year create an interval, as it were, of moral suspension: one form of life already passed away before another has had time to assert some new, endemic characteristic.”
December 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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As Underworld's discography from 1994 to 2016 saw reissue, Darran Anderson surveyed how their frantic, beautiful music both embodied the overwhelm of city life and offered a rapturous escape from it

Quietus Best Of 2025: How Underworld Embodied the Agony and Ecstasy of Urban Life

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December 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Fripp & Eno :: Evening Star

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The solstice has arrived and we have entered “Evening Star weather,” the second collaborative album from pioneering English musicians Brian Eno and Robert Fripp, released in December of 1975.
December 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Tatiana Schlossberg, daughter of Caroline Kennedy, has died at 35. In November, she wrote about receiving a terminal diagnosis following the birth of her daughter.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me/hsZC7S
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
December 30, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Bubble & Squeak. Undated postcard from my collection.
December 30, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Poison Ivy and Lux Interior of The Cramps photographed by David Jensen for Details magazine, July 1992
#TheCramps #PoisonIvy
#Photography

I love the Polaroid vibe of this.
December 29, 2023 at 12:48 AM
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December 28, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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That image was used for a caption competition to win a copy of the Judge Dredd board game in an old issue of White Dwarf magazine.
This was the winning entry.
December 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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The implacable Ron Mael talked Jeremy Allen through his 13 favourite albums, from fiery free jazz to cutting edge J-pop, via militant hip hop and Bach

Quietus Best Of 2025: Ron Mael of Sparks’ Favourite Albums

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December 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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"A [28-minute] mashup of the free improv sections from 'Up On the Sun,' as performed live on tour, May 2022"

meatpuppets.bandcamp.com/track/up-on-...
Up On The Sun 2022 MegaMix, by Meat Puppets
track by Meat Puppets
meatpuppets.bandcamp.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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90s perfection dept.
December 27, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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And now for some motivation from the Owensboro Burger King.
December 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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December 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.
December 26, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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#classicalmusic @opera
Happy birthday, Beethoven!
December 16, 2023 at 6:41 PM
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December 25, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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You will be visited by three spirits, and it will feel good.
December 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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December 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Sonny Rollins getting ready to go onstage at the Apollo Theatre in New York City, 1961.

Photograph by Steve Schapiro.
December 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Got some kind of virus which might mean postponing Christmas dinner to Boxing Day but no so called bug can prevent the annual ritual of wrapping the presents to the 42 minute version of Little Drummer Boy

youtu.be/x0US4KqCMKM?...
Little Drummer Boy
YouTube video by Lindstrøm - Topic
youtu.be
December 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Remember: It ys okaye to be lonelye. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye yf nobody ys arounde. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.
December 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Edward Hopper, Christmas card, 1928 whitney.org/collection/w...
December 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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The king of them all. 🎄🎹✨

#tinyeasel
December 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
December 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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This was a beast to put together but now it's up and done (I think) so you all can enjoy www.tcj.com/the-best-com...
The best comics of 2025, as chosen by our contributors - The Comics Journal
We asked our contributors what they thought were the best comics of 2025 were. Here's what they said.
www.tcj.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM