Sam Scumaci
@samscumaci.bsky.social
Poet / Musician and sometimes Actor.
Rest in Peace Peter Greene. He was one of my favorite actors. www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...
Peter Greene, actor known for 'Pulp Fiction' and 'The Mask,' dead at 60
As a character actor, Greene also had roles in “The Usual Suspects” and “Training Day,” among others.
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December 13, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Rest in Peace Peter Greene. He was one of my favorite actors. www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...
There's a new, unique holiday trolley tour that takes riders around to the Chicago area's independent bookstore. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
New holiday trolleys give tours of Chicago's independent bookstores
There's a new, unique holiday trolley tour that takes riders around to the Chicago area's independent bookstore.
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December 12, 2025 at 3:24 AM
There's a new, unique holiday trolley tour that takes riders around to the Chicago area's independent bookstore. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Download 1300 Still Images from the Animated Films of Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli www.openculture.com/2025/12/down...
Download 1300 Still Images from the Animated Films of Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli
You may have seen every single one of Studio Ghibli's animated films, going well beyond the Hayao Miyazaki-directed My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away, and Kiki's Delivery Service to the less widely kn...
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December 11, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Download 1300 Still Images from the Animated Films of Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli www.openculture.com/2025/12/down...
Enjoy Markus Rutz's Third Coast Sounds Quartet! youtu.be/vGOmG6Xxpeo?...
Markus Rutz's Third Coast Sounds Quartet - Live at Skeleton Key Brewery 12/09/2025 Woodridge, IL
YouTube video by MusicCollectionHouse
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December 10, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Enjoy Markus Rutz's Third Coast Sounds Quartet! youtu.be/vGOmG6Xxpeo?...
That is so terrible www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/a...
Jubilant Sykes, Celebrated Opera Singer, Is Stabbed to Death
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December 10, 2025 at 5:28 AM
That is so terrible www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/a...
Happy birthday in Blues Heaven to Junior Wells youtu.be/Hsz61_nBBy0?...
Worried Life Blues
YouTube video by Junior Wells - Topic
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December 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Happy birthday in Blues Heaven to Junior Wells youtu.be/Hsz61_nBBy0?...
Give people their flowers when they are still alive.
December 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Give people their flowers when they are still alive.
Rest in Peace Steve Regal. Fans of Windy City Pro Wrestling will remember him as he a part of the early days of the indie promotion www.tmz.com/2025/12/08/s...
Wrestling Star 'Mr. Electricity' Steve Regal Dead at 73
Former wrestling star "Mr. Electricity" Steve Regal died at the age of 73.
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December 9, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Rest in Peace Steve Regal. Fans of Windy City Pro Wrestling will remember him as he a part of the early days of the indie promotion www.tmz.com/2025/12/08/s...
Streaming? Out. Borrowing physical media from your public library? In.
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Have libraries have become the new Blockbuster?
Streaming is over. The magazine is back. And everyone who’s too online is apparently getting off again. The time is ripe for an analog revolution. And where better to start than the stacks? A…
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December 9, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Streaming? Out. Borrowing physical media from your public library? In.
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lithub.com/have-librari...
I'm excited about this. www.ign.com/articles/sta...
Star Wars Returns to Theaters in February of 2027 in Its Original 1977 Theatrical Release Form - IGN
Earlier this year, Disney announced it would bring the original Star Wars film, later dubbed Episode IV: A New Hope, back to theaters for the film's 50th anniversary in 2027. But it looks like we'll b...
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December 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I'm excited about this. www.ign.com/articles/sta...
Rest in Peace Frank Gehry www.npr.org/2025/12/05/5...
Frank Gehry, whose designs defied gravity and convention, dies at 96
Gehry transformed modern architecture with exuberant buildings such as the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Guggenheim Museum. "I've always been for optimism and architecture not being sad," he said.
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December 6, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Rest in Peace Frank Gehry www.npr.org/2025/12/05/5...
The First Photographs of Snowflakes: Discover the Groundbreaking Microphotography of Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley (1885) www.openculture.com/2017/12/the-...
The First Photographs of Snowflakes: Discover the Groundbreaking Microphotography of Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley (1885)
What kind of a blighted society turns the word “snowflake” into an insult?, I sometimes catch myself thinking, but then again, I’ve never understood why “treehugger” should offend.
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December 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The First Photographs of Snowflakes: Discover the Groundbreaking Microphotography of Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley (1885) www.openculture.com/2017/12/the-...
The value of keeping a notebook www.themarginalian.org/2012/11/19/j...
Joan Didion on Keeping a Notebook
“We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.”
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December 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The value of keeping a notebook www.themarginalian.org/2012/11/19/j...
Rinaldo Walcott considers Sam Cooke and power, connection and promise in Black music.
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A Practice of Speculative Imaginings: On Sam Cooke and the Art of Utopia
Sometimes in a moment of overwhelming emotion you hear a song. You finally hear it. You don’t just get the meaning of the lyrics, or feel the beats and the rhythm, but you hear the unutterable in t…
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December 5, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Rinaldo Walcott considers Sam Cooke and power, connection and promise in Black music.
lithub.com/a-practice-o...
lithub.com/a-practice-o...
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Iconic ‘Mortal Kombat’ Villain Shang Tsung, Dead at 75 www.complex.com/pop-culture/...
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Iconic ‘Mortal Kombat’ Villain Shan...
The legendary actor reportedly died from complications fo...
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December 5, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Iconic ‘Mortal Kombat’ Villain Shang Tsung, Dead at 75 www.complex.com/pop-culture/...
TRANSIT ALERT: The elevated CTA station at State and Lake streets in the Loop will shut down for construction beginning Jan. 5, and is not expected to open for three years.
Details: tinyurl.com/4ke98w5s
Details: tinyurl.com/4ke98w5s
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December 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
TRANSIT ALERT: The elevated CTA station at State and Lake streets in the Loop will shut down for construction beginning Jan. 5, and is not expected to open for three years.
Details: tinyurl.com/4ke98w5s
Details: tinyurl.com/4ke98w5s
Reposted by Sam Scumaci
🚨 EXCLUSIVE FILM ALERT 🚨 Stranger from Venus (1954) takes place in the English countryside and revolves around a mysterious Stranger... watch in HD now: youtu.be/8QoKGNK85AE
Stranger from Venus (1954) | Full Exclusive Sci-Fi Film [HD] - Wade Williams Collection
YouTube video by Film Masters TV
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December 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
🚨 EXCLUSIVE FILM ALERT 🚨 Stranger from Venus (1954) takes place in the English countryside and revolves around a mysterious Stranger... watch in HD now: youtu.be/8QoKGNK85AE
Why a library’s “most abundant resource” isn’t books, but time.
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On the Infinite Lives of the Library
One might say that a library’s most abundant resource—what it lends most freely—is not books and information but time. Time to think, breathe, be, and become. Last spring, in exchange for my servic…
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December 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Why a library’s “most abundant resource” isn’t books, but time.
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lithub.com/on-the-infin...
It’s officially “Nutcracker” season. Here are three affordable and creative remixes on the classic mrf.lu/RkMh
It’s officially 'Nutcracker' season. Here are three affordable and creative remixes on the classic
In Chicago this season, you can find a jazzy Duke Ellington version, a global “Nutcracker” with hip-hop mice and the 50th anniversary of the holiday story on ice, as well as the Joffrey Ballet’s class...
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December 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Rest in Peace Steve Cropper. trib.al/QTrWCZ2
Steve Cropper, Legendary Guitarist for Booker T. & the MG’s, Otis Redding and the Blues Brothers, Dies at 84
Steve Cropper, guitarist for Booker T. & the MG's, Otis Redding, the Blues Brothers and many more, has died. He was 84.
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December 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Rest in Peace Steve Cropper. trib.al/QTrWCZ2
It's Bluesday Tuesday and the final show hosted by Tom Marker who will be retiring. To go out with a bang, he's got Billy Branch performing tonight! Enjoy! Next month Scott Hambone Hammer takes over as host. youtu.be/v6O0o0ZYt-Q?...
Billy Branch - Live at Fitzgerald's December 2nd, 2025 Berwyn, IL
YouTube video by MusicCollectionHouse
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December 3, 2025 at 2:31 AM
It's Bluesday Tuesday and the final show hosted by Tom Marker who will be retiring. To go out with a bang, he's got Billy Branch performing tonight! Enjoy! Next month Scott Hambone Hammer takes over as host. youtu.be/v6O0o0ZYt-Q?...
How bout that weather
December 2, 2025 at 8:24 PM
How bout that weather
The seeds are planted here, but they won’t grow. We won’t have to say goodbye if we all go. Maybe things will be better in Chicago www.chicagomag.com/arts-culture...
Maybe Things Will Be Better in Chicago
A spirited Mavis Staples cover of Tom Waits‘s “Chicago” gives us reason to muse on music, migration, and our city.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The seeds are planted here, but they won’t grow. We won’t have to say goodbye if we all go. Maybe things will be better in Chicago www.chicagomag.com/arts-culture...