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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 19m

tired: marbits

wired: cereal sprinkles

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 31m

I am also doing this, but from the glamorous basement office.

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 46m

#OTD in 1914, some absolute A-level trolling from Filene's.
With all eyes in Boston on the Braves -- who are one win away from a World Series victory for the ages -- the well-known Hub retailer runs a sale on ... sox!

cheeky ad from the Boston Herald of October 13, 1914. With the Boston Braves one game from a World Series title (they won Game Four that day), retailer Filene's runs a sale on men's silk socks, with a headline, "May We Focus Attention on Sox A Moment?"

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 1h

ah. glad to hear they're still slinging them. They weren't really Cali-level burritos, probably, but by PA Dutch standards they were superb

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 1h

#OTD in 1914, the "Miracle" Boston Braves complete their upset of the favored Philly A's. The Braves won't get back to the Series until 1948 and won't win it again until 1957, by which time the team has deserted Commonwealth Avenue for Milwaukee.
SABR Games: sabr.org/gamesproj/ga...

massive banner headline in the Boston Evening Globe of October 13, 1914, reads BRAVES WIN 3-1. Stylized box below -- white text on black box, ringed by American flags - says "They Are Champions of the World." In other news the Germans are occupying Lille

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 1h

one thing I *don't* associate with Dorneyville is Chinese chicken and broccoli, but presumably you can get it someplace. I think there used to be a decent burrito place across from the King George Inn, though

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 1h

home of Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom.

weird stand-up statue of a possessed, angry and vampiric Charlie Brown wearing a vampire's cape and flashing two sharp pointed teeth. this used to be visible, at least around Halloween time, at Dorney Park and Wildwater Kingdom in Dorneyville, PA (it's been more than 15 years since I took this so maybe he's slinked back to his darkened lair)

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 2h

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14h

they also have a string group of HS students playing carols in the cafeteria (which is the check-in area) … which is exactly the sort of errand I used to get roped into in HS … and every year I take a small bit of pleasure in seeing them and knowing I’m not a high-school performing flea any more.

"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14h

this race benefits people who live in the town next door, and it is very much run as a townie event … which makes me wonder sometimes, as an outsider, why I decided to make it an annual tradition.
But it’s well organized, and pleasant enough.

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14h

Signed up for my other traditional end-of-year 5K, on December 7. This is me doing it in 2023.

Fat Caucasian dude in a blaze yellow windbreaker and dark tights runs along a rain slicked New England road lined with dead leaves and low stone walls. He radiates brute manliness and raw, animal athleticism

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14h

The earliest TOR powder blues with the solid dark blue lettering are underrated

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 16h

hate the principle, but miss the days when city payrolls had room for multiple censors.
it was the proud mother indeed who had a son at the Port Authority, a son with the Fire Department, and a son with the censor’s office.

100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 16h

Oct. 12, 1925: The Chicago police chief threatens to arrest the owners of a theater for showing “Her Sister From Paris,” a film starring Constance Talmadge as a dancer named Lola. City censors “think Connie is ‘indecent and immoral’ in the way she does her hot mama stuff.” 1/2

Talmadge and John Gilbert in a scene from “Her Sister From Paris;” she also played Lola’s twin, a frumpy housewife

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 16h

a special nod to those, including Poncho Sampedro, who are content to play rhythm

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 17h

(That sounds like the resolution to a really bent game of Clue: hippie Boz, in Central Park, with a jazzy flute solo)

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 17h

I could not pick a single favorite, although hippie Boz in Central Park with a jazzy flute solo has grown on me over the years:

Boz Scaggs 1971 Central Park We Were Always Sweethearts Good Vibrations Concert

YouTube video by Tina Boling

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 17h

#TIL that he started at DH three times in ‘77. interesting choice by Darrell Johnson

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 17h

that’s an (ahem) nice debut, Boz

Casey Skeets-Em @every80spopsong.bsky.social · 17h

Boz Scaggs - Look What You've Done To Me

Billboard debut at #69 on August 23, 1980
Peaked at #14 / AC #3
Cash Box #13 / Record World #13
7/10🎧

Urban Cowboy soundtrack tune is peak ballad-mode Boz

US 7" of Boz Scaggs - Look What You've Done To Me on the red/orange Columbia label

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 17h

And they have all their precious wins, too.

I was living in PA when that scandal played out and a whole bunch of people showed their asses, as far as putting football ahead of everything else.

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 17h

1978 Topps baseball card of Seattle Mariners second baseman Jose Baez, a young Latino male with a mustache wearing a blue cap with a yellow trident

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 18h

taking the fall/winter clothing out and putting the spring/summer clothing away and once again blithely ignoring that I have way too goddamn many t-shirts.

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 19h

3-2 at the half is nuts.

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 19h

The ump stealing one of the players’ caps and running off will always be great. i think it was Augie Donatelli but I could be wrong.

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 20h

NWS is low-balling the wind forecast for the incoming nor’easter. I guess I should be glad anyone’s reporting out from there at all.

"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 22h

I remember the issue of Guitar Player in which Steve Stevens dissected the guitar parts on each track of the Atomic Playboys album in loving detail. I never heard the record and have no idea if anyone else did either.

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