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Helen Broom

@helenbroom.bsky.social

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Podcaster at Common Language Network, book curator at Kellie's Estate Sales & Auctions, writer.

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Helen Broom @helenbroom.bsky.social · Nov 26

Hello to new followers! I post on here about the two podcasts I do with @gavinbroom.bsky.social (List of Lists and @corriepodcast.com), I also post about our cats and dog, random stuff like politics, but mostly about my job in an auction house as the books, music and art cataloguer.

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Helen Broom @helenbroom.bsky.social · 3h

One of my favorite movies!! Love Astaire & Rogers.

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Helen Broom @helenbroom.bsky.social · 5h

Today's list. A lot of things I have to force myself out of the house to do which isn't a bad thing.

Handwritten list including:
Book edit
Watch Weds Corrie
Ship items
Watch 1 movie
List 5 things for sale
Read Cradle book
Pick up big head
Clean I thing in each room
Corrie news
Spoiler alert

Helen Broom @helenbroom.bsky.social · 23h

@jamesgunn.bsky.social tried to warn us!!

Helen Broom @helenbroom.bsky.social · 23h

Ancestry: Good news, we have new regional results for you!

Me: Cool. Still incredibly white. Thanks.

List of all the very white European countries my DNA is from, starting with 47% Netherlands which is all my mom.

Helen Broom @helenbroom.bsky.social · 2d

Today's list, includes a lot of yesterday's list because sweeping the porch took a lot out of me and I pulled a muscle and am just so mad that my body thinks it's 89 and not 49.

Hand written list includes:
Book edit
Drop off rummage sale donations
List 5 things for sale
Ship sold items
Write 1 poem
Laundry
Watch 1 movie
Read Time & Space book
Clean 1 thing each room
Good bank volunteer

Helen Broom @helenbroom.bsky.social · 2d

WTF

Sara Dee @trisaratops.bsky.social · 3d

Helen Broom @helenbroom.bsky.social · 3d

You are much cooler than this particular local character.

Helen Broom @helenbroom.bsky.social · 3d

Monday's list. Finally got blog taken off by going somewhere other than home to write, which is really helpful to me, and using the tips of friends.

To do list including:
Book edit
Read Beatles book
Watch 1 movie
Clean 1 thing in each room
Watch Monday Corrie
Rummage Sale donation
Sweep porch
List 5 things for sale
Ship sold items
Write 1 poem

Helen Broom @helenbroom.bsky.social · 3d

Time for everyone planning on attending a No Kings event this coming weekend to jump on the absurdism defeats fascism bandwagon! The ghosts of Dali & Kafka are laughing in glee. ❤️

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 4d

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

Helen Broom @helenbroom.bsky.social · 3d

One of the most terrifying stories I've ever read.

Uncanny Japan Podcast--Thersa Matsuura👹👋 @uncannyjapan.bsky.social · 3d

Me reading "The Yellow Wallpaper" one of the best horror stories ever written. Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman💕

Listen here🎧: tinyurl.com/5c3xt338

#horror #halloween #scary #shortstory #scarystory

screenshot of the youtube video, yellow wallpaper torn, Soothing Stories Podcast and The Yellow Wallpaper written on it.

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NotQuietMode_M.D. @notquietmodemd.bsky.social · 3d

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Hey MAGA here is actual persecution of Christians you hypocrites!
#GFY

ICE Agents Block Detention Entry to Catholic Priests Wanting to Bless Detainees

A group of Catholic priests and congregants marched about a mile to an ICE facility in Cook County, IL, to pray for the detainees but were blocked from entering by federal agents

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Helen Broom @helenbroom.bsky.social · 3d

Where's John Wick when you need him? Seriously, if this was a movie the studio would cut this scene as "too brutal to be believable".

Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 4d

CBP agents knocked on an El Paso home at 7:15 a.m.

The owner asked to secure his Rottweiler, Chop, in the bathroom.

While he got his ID, agents opened the door and shot Chop.

The family tried to save him as he bled out on the kitchen floor.

Helen Broom @helenbroom.bsky.social · 3d

We did not find Smashing Machine very smashing but did love Good Boy!!

The List of Lists Podcast @thelistoflists.bsky.social · 3d

This week we had Monster: the Ed Gein Story, Good Boy, Smashing Machine, and How Are You, It's Alan (Partridge) on our list before counting the Grammy Record of the Year nominees for 1979.

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#filmsky #moviesky #musicsky

Movie posters for Monster the Ed Gein Story, Good Boy, How Are You, It's Alan (Partridge), and The Smashing Machine.

Record covers for Just the Way You Are by Billy Joel, You Needed Me by Anne Murray, BeeGees Stayin Alive, Feels So Good by Chuck Mangione, and Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty.

Helen Broom @helenbroom.bsky.social · 3d

Lol, yes.

Helen Broom @helenbroom.bsky.social · 3d

Ok, I finally got my Star Trek TNG blog started. There is still some housekeeping I need to do once I become a little more adept at using Ghost, so please be kind.

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Jean Luc My Father and Me

Thoughts, stories and ideas.

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Helen Broom @helenbroom.bsky.social · 3d

Today's LFL shelfies, still some great spooky stories left, plus a copy of Whitman's Leaves of Grass. Because someone in this town needs to class it up.

Little free library shelf including books by Clive Cussler and James Patterson

Little Free Library shelf which includes Leaves of Grass, The Girls He Adored, and Wicked As You Wish.

Helen Broom @helenbroom.bsky.social · 3d

I've got vintage Hummels.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 7d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

Helen Broom @helenbroom.bsky.social · 3d

Because cats and undone chores, I went down to a local coffee shop to get some focused writing done. Of course, five minutes a local character came in, sat down next to me, and proceeded to talk my ear off. Frankly I would rather have one of the cats sitting on my keyboard, easier to shush away.

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Helen Broom @helenbroom.bsky.social · 4d

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Helen Broom @helenbroom.bsky.social · 4d

A Scanner Darkly

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Helen Broom @helenbroom.bsky.social · 4d

That typo is doing some heavy lifting...

Helen Broom @helenbroom.bsky.social · 4d

The thing that stuns me about this particular death is Diane Keaton, like Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton, Kathy Bates, and others, always seemed like one of those women who age but seem indestructible, you expected her to get to Betty White age.

Apologies to Dolly Jane & Kathy if this post curses them.

maya cade @mayascade.bsky.social · 5d

people reported. i don’t even know what to say! people.com/diane-keaton...

Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79, PEOPLE can confirm exclusively. The Oscar award-winning actress was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' ...

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Helen Broom @helenbroom.bsky.social · 4d

This is exactly why Chuck E Cheese sells beer.

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Helen Broom @helenbroom.bsky.social · 4d

I wish there was a way to watch it here in the States, it looks fantastic.

Helen Broom @helenbroom.bsky.social · 4d

Sounds like we made the right choice to double feature Roofman and Kiss of the Spider Woman instead.