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Roland 🦦 @rolandrood.bsky.social · Jun 5

These are my ferrets, Temu and Joty

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 1h

This is where I've thought our slop hell is going for a while and it's now Meta's stated objective. We are seeing the beginnings of it now. Do you want to go see [the big game] to support [your favorite team]?

Ticketmaster is running this on Facebook now:

four different ads with AI generated people for different football team tickets

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1h

Nation’s Older Brothers Recommend Not Being Such A Little Bitch
https://theonion.com/nation-s-older-brothers-recommend-not-being-such-a-litt-1823191955/

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Roland 🦦 @rolandrood.bsky.social · 2h

New @thebaffler.com cover is making me lol (issue on post-literacy)

The Baffler, with a golden retriever in a dunce cap and the words “After Words”

Roland 🦦 @rolandrood.bsky.social · 2h

That is somehow even more unhinged

Roland 🦦 @rolandrood.bsky.social · 13h

Youth sports are wild…you just get to sit there and learn about emotionally abusive adults in real time

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Roland 🦦 @rolandrood.bsky.social · 16h

Is this what the B4L folks call “inverted”? That whole fast:slow jam was already Don’t Leave Me This Way

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Roland 🦦 @rolandrood.bsky.social · 16h

Haribo mini packs w/ 5 bears are outrageous

Roland 🦦 @rolandrood.bsky.social · 16h

I was noticing that his early vocal delivery sounds much more Appalachian, like Ralph Stanley or even Nimrod Workman at times

Roland 🦦 @rolandrood.bsky.social · 17h

Nice

Roland 🦦 @rolandrood.bsky.social · 18h

Is this a new Goedde rig or a Suwanee special?

Roland 🦦 @rolandrood.bsky.social · 18h

Sirius tease from Peter

Roland 🦦 @rolandrood.bsky.social · 23h

Does Bella’s wedding count for stats?

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PhishatMSG @phishatmsg.bsky.social · 1d

Bella was married yesterday in VT, and of course dad jumped up to play 'Rock n Roll'

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Roland 🦦 @rolandrood.bsky.social · 23h

Alright last one…

“…the Auditorium Building was the first mixed-use building ever built and the tallest in Chicago when it opened.”

A young Frank Lloyd Wright was a draftsman on it.

One of the first public buildings to use electric bulbs and active cooling (via 15 tons of ice per day!)

Roland 🦦 @rolandrood.bsky.social · 1d

re: the “social layout”, upper balcony seats feels like steerage—cramped + 3 floors from a pisser.

…but at the time, this was actually a progressive, “democratic” inclusion. It was built in the wake of the Haymarket affair—the Chicago worker’s revolt that brought you the weekend!

Roland 🦦 @rolandrood.bsky.social · 1d

A mix of ballet/opera, political conventions, and pop music in their show history.

One that jumped out was a 2-night Dead run in May ‘77 just a week after Cornell!

Grateful Dead 1977.05.13 Auditorium Theater, Chicago, IL : Nixon Design Studio (Facebook) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Grateful Dead Concert Cover Art

archive.org

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Roland 🦦 @rolandrood.bsky.social · 1d

Built 1888–so basically 15-25 yrs before most of the other ornate theaters still in commission. The Ryman is 1892, and much more austere by comparison.

It’s not immediately obvious, but you see it most in the materials (a lot of wrought iron!) and the overall layout’s assumptions about society.

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Roland 🦦 @rolandrood.bsky.social · 1d

Favorite sequence of the night: David’s actual apartment

Roland 🦦 @rolandrood.bsky.social · 1d

So kind of them to extend the game til after the shows are over

Roland 🦦 @rolandrood.bsky.social · 1d

Beautifully spacious, early Adler & Sullivan design for the evening. Monumental for the Loop. Upper balcony is *high* altitude. The painted (fresco?) frieze over the main stage is the highlight. Have been wanting to check this room out for awhile.