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    Rome - West Knows Best

    We used to love America.

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    Billy Idol - On Christmas Day

    Billy is bringing music back. 

     

     

     

     

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    PHILIP OF MACEDON & DIVIDED, DECLINING SOCIETIES

    I was reading about Ancient Greece and wondered aloud if a figure like Philip of Macedon would appear at some point and unite an America that is divided in about every conceivable way there is to be divided. That or a figure like Napoleon Bonaparte: 

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    Tony Stark's Workshop | Iron Man Music (One Hour)

    I really enjoyed this. Apologies in advance - you have to watch it on YouTube yourself.

    Brilliant parody is back on SNL

    One of my personal favorites is the look on Mellen's face when Kyrie is vaccinated

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    Tears For Fears - The Tipping Point (Official Music Video)

    First Billy Idol, then Limp Bizkit, now Tears for Fears! Finally, music is back. Living without it this past decade wasn't fun ....

     

     

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    Jordan Peterson: The collapse of our values is a greater threat than climate change

    "Jordan Peterson: The collapse of our values is a greater threat than climate change"

    I enjoyed this interview.

     

    Other peoples' history, good & bad, Part II (besides "Afro-American History")

    Good exchange of letters in the NYRB in which Sean Wilentz briefly summarizes the most compelling reasons not to regard the United States as founded on white supremacy https://t.co/zz7PRGMgvX pic.twitter.com/HxRwRp1GJV

    — Wesley Yang (@wesyang) October 2, 2021
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    Flora Midwood - The Bandits

    When I blogged here frequently years ago, I posted about how mental health blogger Jennifer Lauren Reimer passed away. Well, anyways, one of her friends wrote and performed a folk song about her that got some circulation.

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    Billy Idol - Bitter Taste

    Well, this sure took me by surprise. I can imagine Marty McFly traveling 30 plus years in the future and everyone is wearing masks, riding electric bikes and listening to this song ...

     

     

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    Simone Biles

    Ed Asner & the Secular Rabbi

    How the character full of good stern advice came to TV

    https://www.salon.com/2021/08/31/ed-asner-secular-rabbi/

    Third World Magic - Captivation & Exorcism

    Whether we use the term "shithole countries" or not, it's often there in how we discuss these people seen or not seen - their options, their plight, the shrunken terms in which we think of their possibilities. Not that most of us have expansive lives - pretty mundane, limited existences however we try.

    Me too, I want some of Bob Dylan's estate

    Southern Civil War hero (kind of)

    longer thread

    Bob Odenkirk *not* dead

    Catherine of Aragon, Riot Grrrl

    More badass than suspected the daughter of the Reconquista held her own against the Scots - plus 24 years with Henry the VIII made her by far the most significant of the sextet.

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-catherine-aragon-led-england...

    Fuck art, let's smut

    Culture shootout at les grandes archives -

    or #BeBreast as the former first lady escort would say.

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/louvre-calls-in-lawyers-over-pornhubs-hard...

    When your wife say she wants a hobby...

    aka "how we survived the pandemic halfway intact"

    Yes, they have a ton of these. Visit Toyah's channel - she's a nutter.

    And thanks to YouTube and European regs i can't see "controversial" content from a 63-year-old woman without registering a credit card to "prove my age"- rave on, punkers!

    https://youtu.be/4lOqYxUN1Cg (2 videos in 1!)

    Channel https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1qNbAuf8-7pxyzAp50IKl3SCtQtEYJKq

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    "One Hour of Vintage Summer Music"

    From Jake Westbrook on YouTube:

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