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Minnesota #AuthorsGuild LEWIS SINCLAIR AND THE GENTLEMEN COWBOYS from CamCat Books Emmy-nominated/grant-awarded Educated in 12-student school Rode bus thru France w/retired showgirl Extra in movie Fargo Slept through London hurricane www.dmsfick.com

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D. M. S. Fick...scary kids, very scary @dmsfick.bsky.social · Nov 2

I wrote and animated a mashup of 70s film, Greek & Roman mythology and 60s TV hillbillies. It's not for everybody. It could use some more work.
It succeeds at what I was trying to do.

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D. M. S. Fick...scary kids, very scary @dmsfick.bsky.social · 16m

I'll have to try that.

D. M. S. Fick...scary kids, very scary @dmsfick.bsky.social · 21m

Ethan Hawke in non-scruff mode!?!?!?

NPR @npr.org · 41m

Director Richard Linklater and actor Ethan Hawke discuss their new film Blue Moon, which focuses on one fateful night toward the end of lyricist Lorenz Hart's life. n.pr/4ofjfE8

Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater find the heartbreak in 'Blue Moon'

Director Richard Linklater and actor Ethan Hawke discuss their new film Blue Moon, which focuses on one fateful night toward the end of lyricist Lorenz Hart's life.

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D. M. S. Fick...scary kids, very scary @dmsfick.bsky.social · 15h

yikes

D. M. S. Fick...scary kids, very scary @dmsfick.bsky.social · 15h

*joy*

Amy Ludwig VanDerwater @amylvpoemfarm.bsky.social · 16h

Fall raspberries are here...happy sigh!

#Harvest #Fall #Raspberries #Home #CountryLiving #Autumn #BerryPicking #Thankful

A hand holds a glass bowl partway filled with fall raspberries over a raspberry bush.

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baroness von pricklipants @pricklipear.bsky.social · 15h

Those who've moved a loved one into memory care or assisted living - what's one thing you wish you would've included on your packing list?

Moving my MIL this weekend with less than a week of prep and feeling like something is missing from my list.

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D. M. S. Fick...scary kids, very scary @dmsfick.bsky.social · 15h

Sea Pup! I may never recover.

Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 16h

Happy birthday Lincoln! The 👑 of Sea Pups is turning 8

D. M. S. Fick...scary kids, very scary @dmsfick.bsky.social · 17h

$4.99 is a pretty sweet price for an Ebook, but if that's still not within your budget, Lewis Sinclair and the Gentlemen Cowboys is available in many fine libraries throughout the land.
Go to www.overdrive.com and copy and paste:
Lewis Sinclair and the Gentlemen Cowboys
into the search window. FUN!

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D. M. S. Fick...scary kids, very scary @dmsfick.bsky.social · 17h

Wow!

D. M. S. Fick...scary kids, very scary @dmsfick.bsky.social · 20h

😁
(maybe Li'l Bosch)

D. M. S. Fick...scary kids, very scary @dmsfick.bsky.social · 21h

I am continually rewarded by the Big Wonderful Wyoming cams.

D. M. S. Fick...scary kids, very scary @dmsfick.bsky.social · 21h

"He layered insult and spite over and over onto itself like a malicious baklava."

Do you like wordplay? I know I do.
More fun phrases in my CW music mystery, just $4.99 for the next 2 months.
kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lewis-sinc...
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Lewis Sinclair and the Gentlemen Cowboys ebook by D. M. S. Fick - Rakuten Kobo

Read "Lewis Sinclair and the Gentlemen Cowboys" by D. M. S. Fick available from Rakuten Kobo. A missing brooch. A face set in cement. This is not your average music festival. Lewis Sinclair, a stalwar...

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D. M. S. Fick...scary kids, very scary @dmsfick.bsky.social · 22h

I went right to Cinderella.

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D. M. S. Fick...scary kids, very scary @dmsfick.bsky.social · 22h

It's foggy in Wyoming right now.

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Marcy McCreary @marcymccreary.bsky.social · 1d

My husband and I have been very vocal about his struggles living with Alzheimer's & my struggles as caregiver. Although this interview is mainly about my latest novel, I also discuss Lew's writing career before ALZ stole his talent & offer some advice for caregivers facing this daunting journey 💜

Waiting for Woodstock | BookTrib.

As her husband battles Alzheimer’s, author Marcy McCreary faces down questions of mystery and memory in her fiction — and in real life. In her latest novel, The Summer of Love and Death, Marcy McCrear...

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D. M. S. Fick...scary kids, very scary @dmsfick.bsky.social · 23h

Not sure if my country music mystery will be available in a few months, so take this opportunity to get a digital copy (Ebook or audio.)

Ebook just $4.99 for several hours of intrigue and fun.

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lewis-sinc...

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Lewis Sinclair and the Gentlemen Cowboys (Large Print Edition)|eBook

A missing brooch. A face set in cement. This is not your average music festival. Lewis Sinclair, a stalwart and tender country musician, is about to take the stage with his band, the Gentlemen Cowbo...

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D. M. S. Fick...scary kids, very scary @dmsfick.bsky.social · 1d

Well this was a lovely way to start my day.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

Silvana Estrada's powerful, yet elegant voice finds a way to bend wounds to her will and become whole. n.pr/4oat8DP

Silvana Estrada: Tiny Desk Concert

Silvana Estrada's powerful, yet elegant voice finds a way to bend wounds to her will and become whole.

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D. M. S. Fick...scary kids, very scary @dmsfick.bsky.social · 1d

I'd rather Nic Cage instead of Leo.

D. M. S. Fick...scary kids, very scary @dmsfick.bsky.social · 1d

I have his autograph.

David @archaeomather.bsky.social · 1d

Harold P. LeVander, 32nd Governor of Minnesota (1967-1971), portrait by Barbara Brewer Peet in the Minnesota State Capitol.

“HAROLD P. LEVANDER
32nd GOVERNOR 1967-1971
IN 1966, a little-known Republican Party activist named Harold LeVander organized his first campaign for elected office, aiming immediately for the governor's chair. His victory over Karl Rolvaag, a DFLer whose campaign had suffered from party infighting in the primary season, made him the thirty-second governor of Minnesota.
Karl Harold Phillip LeVander was born in Nebraska, went to high school in Watertown, Minnesota, and graduated with honors from Gustavus Adolphus College in 1932. He went on to get his law degree from the University of Minnesota and began a thirty-year career at the South St. Paul law firm, Stassen & Ryan. LeVander served as an assistant county attorney for Dakota County (1935-1939) and also taught speech and coached debate at Macalester College until 1940. He was president of South St. Paul's Chamber of Commerce from 1952 to 1954 and president of the South St. Paul United Federal Savings and Loan Association from 1953 until his inauguration.
LeVander rode into office with the highest vote total ever received by a Republican up to that point. Early in his term, the state legislature levied Minnesota's first sales tax, overriding two gubernatorial vetoes.
This led many Minnesotans to refer unfairly to the tax assessed on many purchases as "LeVander pennies." As governor, he created the Metropolitan Council, the Pollution Control Agency, and the country's first Human Rights Department. Also under his leadership, Minnesota became the first state to ratify the twenty-sixth amendment, which extended the right to vote to U.S. citizens eighteen and older.
Less than a month before the primary election of 1970, LeVander surprised everyone by announcing that he would not seek re-election.
Instead, he chose to return to his law firm, now called LeVander, Gillen & Miller. He later became director of The St. Paul Companies (1973-1981), the Billy Graham Evangelical Association (1974-1981), and the St. Paul Chamber o…

D. M. S. Fick...scary kids, very scary @dmsfick.bsky.social · 1d

Personally, I'm keeping my conkers boxed.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

MacKenzie Scott cuts Amazon stake by 42%, Bloomberg News reports reut.rs/4ojT0g0

MacKenzie Scott cuts Amazon stake by 42%, Bloomberg News reports

Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has reduced the size of her stake in Amazon.com by 42% since last year, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing a regulatory filing.

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D. M. S. Fick...scary kids, very scary @dmsfick.bsky.social · 1d

Tip of the Hat for getting the capitalization right on the band name. I wouldn't have guessed it.

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D. M. S. Fick...scary kids, very scary @dmsfick.bsky.social · 1d

Hmm. He talks about the film he thinks is his best in an Eric Lax book. Been quite a while since I read it so I may have it confused with another movie.

D. M. S. Fick...scary kids, very scary @dmsfick.bsky.social · 1d

Katrina And The Waves won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2020.
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Home - Katrina And The Waves

Katrina And The Waves were a 1980/90s rock band built. Kimberley Rew guitarist/writer. Katrina Leskanich vocals. Best known for the 1985 hit Walking On Sunshine

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D. M. S. Fick...scary kids, very scary @dmsfick.bsky.social · 1d

TENS is good to have on hand. A worthy unit for a ridiculously low price. Alpha-Stim is better tech for pain relief that goes beyond needing massage.

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