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Christopher
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Books, music , coffee, things that are over my head
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When I bought this 9’ tree it was wrapped up and seemingly scrawny, but now after it’s had a chance to spread out again it is so beautiful and magnificent that I’m considering not decorating it at all.
Photo of a tall and fat Balsam Fir tree set up indoors between 2 bookshelves, not yet decorated.
December 11, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Image from the movie Local Hero showing two men in business suits, carrying briefcases, walking side by side on a beach with a rocky shoreline.
December 8, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Discovered today, almost too late, that Boston is hosting a Bhangra competition tonight!

bostonbhangra.com/bbc2025/
November 16, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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My parents just casually left the book ‘How Babies Are Made’ - the one with the paper cutout illustrations- out on the living room coffee table. It really wasn’t the worst approach. No conversations were had. It was fine.
Image of the cover of the book How Babies are Made. The artwork is a man and a woman staring lovingly at an infant in a crib.
October 28, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Femi and his band were A LOT. Just astonishing energy and locked in rhythm and horns for two hours.
Photo of Femi Kuti performing live on stage with his band and dancers.
July 31, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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The strolling bari sax is everything.
July 31, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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At the Sinclair in Cambridge MA tonight for Femi Kuti. The opener, Madame Gandhi, is owning the crowd.
July 31, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?
June 12, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only
May 25, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Oh, the irony.
Photo of a headline on the New York Post website stating: 2025 Kentcky Derby odds: Journalism the favorite to win
May 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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The NY Times profile of Parker Posey doesn’t even mention—perhaps justifiably—Lost In Space, but I’m here to say that her Dr. Smith has been *perfect.*
Photo is a still from the TV Show Lost In Space, showing the actress Parker Posey as her character Dr. Smith dressed in a space suit with the helmet removed.
March 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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This stuff is an amazing innovation. Surprisingly intense. I’ve been experimentally sprinkling it on all sorts of things.
A photo of a small glass jar labeled ‘Molasses Cookie Sugar’. The manufacturer is also printed on the label as Curio x Sofra.
February 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Watching the much-derided Persuasion (2022) and frankly, if the editors hadn’t significantly cut Mia McKenna-Bruce’s scenes from the 2nd third of the movie, she would have stolen the whole show.
February 9, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Painting of the composer Mozart as a child, wearing a fancy blue outfit with gold trim. He is standing in front of a keyboard.
January 13, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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December 21, 2024 at 11:56 PM
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This is insane.
Photo of a signed first edition copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone on display at a bookseller with a price of $325,000.00.
November 9, 2024 at 8:19 PM
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Photo of a book entitled The Haunted Mountain, by Mollie Hunter. The dust jacket is a detailed ink drawing depicting a man on the back of a pony in the middle of a blizzard surrounded by snow-covered jagged rocks and crags. In the distance is a mysterious looking building with one lighted window
August 24, 2024 at 1:06 AM
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Also scored today at Merrill’s Bookshop in Hallowell, Maine: this beautiful 2-volume first edition of Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon.
Image of 2 hardcover volumes of the book Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West, side-by-side on a tabletop. Both volumes have a colorful dust jacket with a painted illustration of an arched stone bridge over a river leading into what appears to be an Eastern European village with mountains in the background.
August 13, 2024 at 11:42 PM
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Seen today in a vintage shop in Hallowell, Maine:
Newsweek, February 1982
Image of the cover of Newsweek magazine, which is a satirical reproduction of Whistler’s painting of his own mother, in which we see her from the side, an elderly woman dressed in a widow’s black dress with a white lace-trimmed coif on her head, sitting at a table typing on the keyboard of a 1980s-era home computer. The headline on the cover reads: Home Is Where The Computer Is .
August 13, 2024 at 11:05 PM
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Silence
Photo taken from the point of a view of someone laying in a hammock looking at a lake surrounded by coniferous trees, with a short dock and kayak in the middle distance. Only the legs and feet of the person in the hammock are visible. The sky is blue, sunny, and interspersed with fluffy clouds.
August 11, 2024 at 5:53 PM
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Photo of a novel by Iris Murdoch, entitled ‘The Nice and the Good’
July 27, 2024 at 7:29 PM
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I can’t imagine a greater enhancement to our neighborhood than this new DOG BAR.
Photo of an outdoor enclosed area with dogs running around and an adjoining bar.
June 29, 2024 at 12:33 AM
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Not sure what I expected from ChatGPT, but it wasn’t this.
June 8, 2024 at 8:53 PM
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Found on eBay: Included in a vintage PanAm First Aid kit. Is this something flight attendants are trained for still?
Image showing the contents of a First Aid kit, which includes a printed pamphlet titled: Instructions for Attending a Normal Delivery.
February 28, 2024 at 3:15 PM
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Cursed interface.
February 18, 2024 at 2:33 PM