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echosounder.bsky.social @echosounder.bsky.social · 9h

Are there decent regional American cheeses?
What ones are
- the best
- the easiest to buy outside their home state

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echosounder.bsky.social @echosounder.bsky.social · 10h

The lack of inclusion of a rhyme for “needed” has upset me greatly

echosounder.bsky.social @echosounder.bsky.social · 19h

Looks like Martin Freeman playing him in a British equivalent of All The President’s Men

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echosounder.bsky.social @echosounder.bsky.social · 19h

Edison Lighthouse were still on the road at the same time as The Damned!!

Wow 😳

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echosounder.bsky.social @echosounder.bsky.social · 1d

It’s funny how little punk there actually was out on the road in 77

For me, I’d go
Stranglers
Dire Straits
Bob Seger
Dr Feelgood

But The Motors supporting Wishbone Ash would have been an odd one to see

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echosounder.bsky.social @echosounder.bsky.social · 1d

My mate found a bundle of old FOOMs and Captain Britains (British version) in his mum’s attic when she died
He still won’t actually admit how much he sold them for - and it was me that stopped him throwing them out! 😑

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echosounder.bsky.social @echosounder.bsky.social · 1d

All the best covers have g replaced by ‘

echosounder.bsky.social @echosounder.bsky.social · 1d

Luckily there’s no such thing as manmade climate change…

“Crimes against humanity” seems such a quaint phrase these days 😑

echosounder.bsky.social @echosounder.bsky.social · 1d

If AI ever writes a Gravity’s Rainbow copy then we’ll end up fighting robots in the street

echosounder.bsky.social @echosounder.bsky.social · 2d

Cannot beat the middle distance stare
“The things I’ve seen lad…the things I’ve seen!”

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echosounder.bsky.social @echosounder.bsky.social · 2d

Would’ve been wild times in the days of mushroom roulette - not hungry anymore OR watching psychedelic skies for 3 days OR dead

I also wonder who the first person to drink milk was and how they first
managed to actually get it 😳

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echosounder.bsky.social @echosounder.bsky.social · 3d

So…that’d be a reason not to eat Cheez Whiz then?

echosounder.bsky.social @echosounder.bsky.social · 3d

I read it when I was about 18, then I read V
Got on to Crying of Lot 49 and Slow Learner and THOSE were the ones I struggled with 🤷‍♂️

echosounder.bsky.social @echosounder.bsky.social · 3d

Our local in Mosspark got razed to the ground
Didn’t even get the halfway house stage of Bingo Hall
They built an unemployment office on the site but not one you could actually sign on in 😑

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echosounder.bsky.social @echosounder.bsky.social · 4d

That’s nearly blancmange which was last sighted in the wild as part of a picnic on Hampstead Heath in 1964

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echosounder.bsky.social @echosounder.bsky.social · 4d

War comics were always my joint last resort with cowboy comics 😑
Only ever bought if everything else had gone (our local shops might have about a dozen random comics in a rack - you had no chance of following a multipart story)

echosounder.bsky.social @echosounder.bsky.social · 5d

Sandy Robertson was wrong about the Ramones 😊

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echosounder.bsky.social @echosounder.bsky.social · 5d

Hurray for Norway
(I’m part Norwegian y’know…)

echosounder.bsky.social @echosounder.bsky.social · 5d

The board behind Farage 😳

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echosounder.bsky.social @echosounder.bsky.social · 5d

👍
U12 free is still amazing though 😂

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echosounder.bsky.social @echosounder.bsky.social · 5d

Was there no age restriction? I just read that poster as “these movies are terrifying and will terrify you” then noticed “u12 free” 😳
We had X which was 18, but also AA which I think was over 14 though it was a recommendation where X was enforced

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echosounder.bsky.social @echosounder.bsky.social · 6d

Fair comment
People are multi dimensional and today’s heroes can be tomorrow’s villains
But some people are permanent arseholes who beg for prizes…

echosounder.bsky.social @echosounder.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks for posting this mate - just a tiny diamond of beauty in the current cesspit of life 👍

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echosounder.bsky.social @echosounder.bsky.social · 6d

Every time I think social media is a cesspit, I end up finding a brilliant post that keeps me coming back

Paul Gundlach @paulsgundlach.bsky.social · 7d

I’m thinking of John Lennon today on his 85th (!) birthday. I was randomly assigned his phone number in NYC in 1992 after Yoko Ono disconnected it when it appeared in Albert Goldman's biography (see photo). I got calls from George Martin, Elton John, Rod Stewart, and many others.

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echosounder.bsky.social @echosounder.bsky.social · 6d

Didn’t get this album at the time
It was ok but following Born In The USA etc it seemed a backwards step
Years later it all made sense 😑
I actually broke into his hotel to meet him on the 85 tour & there’s photos somewhere of me, him & Julianne coming out the foyer
Maybe I should’ve got it earlier…