liprap
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Sky's the limit over here. Rockin' the greater Houston area 'burbs…exiled from New Orleans, but not in the Napoleonic sense. Trans-Sabine Texmudgeon. Also found on 🧵 as liprap3. https://liprapslament-theline.blogspot.com
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Night train, City Park, New Orleans
November 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Night train, City Park, New Orleans
Shaggy hair house.
November 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Shaggy hair house.
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"Jimmy Cliff reached 81, but the character he played in The Harder They Come never got that far. Ivan’s story burned fast. Cliff, who died Monday, carried the music further."
How Jimmy Cliff and ‘The Harder They Come’ Turned a Film Into a Movement:
How Jimmy Cliff and ‘The Harder They Come’ Turned a Film Into a Movement:
How Jimmy Cliff and ‘The Harder They Come’ Turned a Film Into a Movement | In Sheeps Clothing
Cliff’s breakout performance helped ignite global attention, yet it was the full soundtrack — Toots and the Maytals, The Melodians, The Slickers, Dekker — that turned one movie into a cultural shift.
Jimmy Cliff reached 81, but the character he played in The Harder They Come never got that far. Ivan’s story burned fast. Cliff, who died Monday, carried the music further.
And one of the strongest vehicles for that le...
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November 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
"Jimmy Cliff reached 81, but the character he played in The Harder They Come never got that far. Ivan’s story burned fast. Cliff, who died Monday, carried the music further."
How Jimmy Cliff and ‘The Harder They Come’ Turned a Film Into a Movement:
How Jimmy Cliff and ‘The Harder They Come’ Turned a Film Into a Movement:
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Not coincidentally this is a pretty good list of Most Important Companies to Unionize.
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Not coincidentally this is a pretty good list of Most Important Companies to Unionize.
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Their relationship with the president is not personal; their job is to report on who he really is, and provoking him to reveal himself lets them do their job even better. An insult is a confession in this context, and they might as well be field biologists documenting baboons doing baboon things.
An Insult Is a Confession: Notes on Journalism in the Time of Trump
There's been a lot of fuss about Trump recently calling female journalists "stupid" and "piggy" though there's nothing really new about his misogyny toward that sub-population (I am so old I remember ...
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November 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Their relationship with the president is not personal; their job is to report on who he really is, and provoking him to reveal himself lets them do their job even better. An insult is a confession in this context, and they might as well be field biologists documenting baboons doing baboon things.
This gives rise to other potential philosophically bent answers to "where are you from?":
My mother's womb
*name your street where you grew up*
Terra firma
My mother's womb
*name your street where you grew up*
Terra firma
Because ICE can stop people based on looks.. #nolasky This is what I’m thinking.
For the question, where are you from?
Planet Earth
Western hemisphere
The America’s
-This Creole is going to waste their time
Fingers, knees and toes crossed I can change the timeline for a fellow human being
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For the question, where are you from?
Planet Earth
Western hemisphere
The America’s
-This Creole is going to waste their time
Fingers, knees and toes crossed I can change the timeline for a fellow human being
✊🏽🫶🏽
November 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
This gives rise to other potential philosophically bent answers to "where are you from?":
My mother's womb
*name your street where you grew up*
Terra firma
My mother's womb
*name your street where you grew up*
Terra firma
Starting my day with a slice of that cranberry orange tart I made. May get ingredients for turkey gumbo later if I feel up to it.
November 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Starting my day with a slice of that cranberry orange tart I made. May get ingredients for turkey gumbo later if I feel up to it.
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Really nice observations here. Worth a read at this crazy time of the semester. 🎓
I wrote this last year, and I think it still holds true. As someone who educates in volume (1100 students this semester over 4 classes) I have to keep reminding myself of this
www.drcolin.net/your-student...
www.drcolin.net/your-student...
drcolin.net - Your Students Do Not Deserve Your Cynicism
It's that time of the semester. In mid-November we all get a bit frazzled - the semester's been running forever and yet the end still feels far away. For students reality is setting in - the stakes ar...
www.drcolin.net
November 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Really nice observations here. Worth a read at this crazy time of the semester. 🎓
🎶I just want your extra time and your
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library card🎶
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library card🎶
November 28, 2025 at 8:25 PM
🎶I just want your extra time and your
😙😙😙😙😙
library card🎶
😙😙😙😙😙
library card🎶
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My Beatle Bible. My Primer. The one that told the story perfectly, and probably did it best of all. 2 hours from Soup to Nuts, and everything you need to know's there. To this day I can't hear "I'm So Tired" without getting that "Beatles fade-out-one-by-one" animation playing in my head.
Good morning! I took the opportunity of the BEATLES ANTHOLOGY's streaming debut to write about THE COMPLEAT BEATLES, the (imho) far superior Fab Four doc, and why, because of the ANTHOLOGY, it's so hard to see.
Gift link, no paywall: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/m...
Gift link, no paywall: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/m...
The Great Beatles Documentary That’s Nearly Impossible to See (Legally)
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:18 PM
My Beatle Bible. My Primer. The one that told the story perfectly, and probably did it best of all. 2 hours from Soup to Nuts, and everything you need to know's there. To this day I can't hear "I'm So Tired" without getting that "Beatles fade-out-one-by-one" animation playing in my head.
Rax is killing it for me today. I haven't been near an Xmas tree in my own residence since I was four (Mom's from a WASP family, she converted to Judaism when she married my dad). I had no idea about stuff like fake tree height & branch thickness mattered for ornaments 'til yesterday...
just trying to get out in front of this shit: i’m jewish. i am a jew. i do not celebrate christmas nor even really approve of it that much tbh. a surprising number of people every year fail to correlate ‘jew’ with ‘no christmas.’ regardless that is simply the way of the world
November 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Rax is killing it for me today. I haven't been near an Xmas tree in my own residence since I was four (Mom's from a WASP family, she converted to Judaism when she married my dad). I had no idea about stuff like fake tree height & branch thickness mattered for ornaments 'til yesterday...
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It's Thanksgiving and I'm feeling generous so here's Busta Rhymes and the TMNT
November 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
It's Thanksgiving and I'm feeling generous so here's Busta Rhymes and the TMNT
Probably hasn't helped my subconscious that I started watching Pluribus last night.
November 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Probably hasn't helped my subconscious that I started watching Pluribus last night.
I dreamt my car got stolen last night and nobody gave a damn 'cause too many other awful things were happening. Oh, joy.
had a great thanksgiving followed by the worst, most harrowing night of sleep i’ve had in a long time. one of those things where i woke up gasping and drenched in sweat in full fight-or-flight mode
November 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I dreamt my car got stolen last night and nobody gave a damn 'cause too many other awful things were happening. Oh, joy.
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've attended.
Squeeze + Katrina & the Waves
Tori Amos
Sonic Youth
The New Pornographers
Calexico
Squeeze + Katrina & the Waves
Tori Amos
Sonic Youth
The New Pornographers
Calexico
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've attended.
Primus
Jane's Addiction
Beasty Boys
Social Distribution
Joan Jett
Primus
Jane's Addiction
Beasty Boys
Social Distribution
Joan Jett
Lila Downs
Pink Floyd
Flogging Molly
Social Distortion
Nortec Collective
Pink Floyd
Flogging Molly
Social Distortion
Nortec Collective
November 28, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've attended.
Squeeze + Katrina & the Waves
Tori Amos
Sonic Youth
The New Pornographers
Calexico
Squeeze + Katrina & the Waves
Tori Amos
Sonic Youth
The New Pornographers
Calexico
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This is a wonderful story.
When I lived in the UK I was a thanksgiving consultant for Australian friends and I had a blast.
When I lived in the UK I was a thanksgiving consultant for Australian friends and I had a blast.
OK - pie discourse - best pie story:
In 2016, we were living in Andover, in the UK. My wife was assigned as an exchange officer at the Army Air Corps base at Middle Wallop (yes, really).*
The US Army has a tradition: senior leaders, in dress uniform, serve junior troops Thanksgiving dinner.
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In 2016, we were living in Andover, in the UK. My wife was assigned as an exchange officer at the Army Air Corps base at Middle Wallop (yes, really).*
The US Army has a tradition: senior leaders, in dress uniform, serve junior troops Thanksgiving dinner.
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November 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
This is a wonderful story.
When I lived in the UK I was a thanksgiving consultant for Australian friends and I had a blast.
When I lived in the UK I was a thanksgiving consultant for Australian friends and I had a blast.
There's an oven issue at my friend's house, so we're watching A Christmas Story while it gets handled. Haven't seen this movie in ages.
a man standing in front of a window looking at a lamp
Alt: The leg lamp in the front of the house gets turned off by Ralphie's mom, much to his dad's disappointment. Got to conserve electricity. Also, his mom hates the lamp.
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November 27, 2025 at 10:18 PM
There's an oven issue at my friend's house, so we're watching A Christmas Story while it gets handled. Haven't seen this movie in ages.
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That's not a dog. That's a Star Wars character, surely.
I'm losing my mind at the shih tzu that won his division at the westminster dog show this year
November 27, 2025 at 10:02 PM
That's not a dog. That's a Star Wars character, surely.
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Spoke to my family in OKC and my dad is totally dissing my husband's admittedly not great knife skills so that's going well.
November 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Spoke to my family in OKC and my dad is totally dissing my husband's admittedly not great knife skills so that's going well.
Someone mentioned no songs about turkey, but an elementary school teacher of mine wrote one I still recall:
🎶Happy Thanksgiving, hooray hooray hooray!
Aren't you glad you're not a turkey on this Thanksgiving day?🎶
And repeat.
🎶Happy Thanksgiving, hooray hooray hooray!
Aren't you glad you're not a turkey on this Thanksgiving day?🎶
And repeat.
November 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Someone mentioned no songs about turkey, but an elementary school teacher of mine wrote one I still recall:
🎶Happy Thanksgiving, hooray hooray hooray!
Aren't you glad you're not a turkey on this Thanksgiving day?🎶
And repeat.
🎶Happy Thanksgiving, hooray hooray hooray!
Aren't you glad you're not a turkey on this Thanksgiving day?🎶
And repeat.
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They did it again! NYC subway Thanksgiving 2025, via @scootercaster.com!
November 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Toe hurts less. Tart is made. Thank goodness I got some croissants last night to have for breakfast this a.m. Thanks, slightly younger me.
November 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Toe hurts less. Tart is made. Thank goodness I got some croissants last night to have for breakfast this a.m. Thanks, slightly younger me.