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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 17h

I’m doing the 40th anniversary Orange County AIDS walk, and although you don’t know it yet, you’re supporting me! Just click below!

40th Anniversary AIDS Walk Orange County - Sunset on AIDS Walk - Conrad Heiney

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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 1d

💀 it’s all good!!!!

The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no

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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 2d

My boss at the medical journal called a particular kind of bad paper a Columbus: “when he left he didn’t know where he was going, when he got there he didn’t know where he was, and when he returned he had no idea where he’d been.”

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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 2d

Ow!!

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Mooch @cachiporra.bsky.social · 3d

This is actually the real vibe from 1995, and I would like to inform you that the local football team sent two cheerleaders to host the CompUSA launch party for Windows 95.

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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 2d

This is the work of Big Cyan

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 3d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Dan Pasternack @danpasternack.bsky.social · 4d

October 11, 2025 is a milestone in comedy history. Not only is it the 50th anniversary of the 1st SNL, today is also the final new Dr. Demento show. After 55 years, Barret Hansen is hanging up his top hat. Please go to drdemento.com to hear his all time demented top 40 countdown special.

Dr. Demento

drdemento.com

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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 4d

Booked travel for next year to avoid Losing my Gourd

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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 6d

Sitting in a waiting room while they wait for the “site monitor” to get back to them about generating a “token.”

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Sara Hinkley @boneysoups.bsky.social · 7d

one thing i think about all the time is that Phantom of the Opera opened on Broadway on October 9, 1986 and ran until April 16, 2023 and many of the members of its orchestra stayed for the entire run, playing the same music 8 shows a week for 37 YEARS

Original cast of phantom on Broadway in the 80s

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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 7d

Aww memories

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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 8d

I remember in the Blog Years thinking I had to have a public opinion about each new thing. It was a bad idea then and now? Physically impossible.

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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 8d

Yeah. I’m going to see Marc Ribot play in Eagle Rock and staying overnight in Glendale. Hope your drive is smooth!

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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 8d

Where you headed? I’m going up to the Glendale/Eagle Rock area tomorrow from OC myself!

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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 9d

What a goddam drag. Sorry to hear.

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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 12d

Terror couple eat Whopper

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Burger King Dark Whopper (2007, 2008): A classic Whopper, but made with black-pepper cheese, black pepper ketchup, and a peppery steak/bbq sauce. Released exclusively in the UK to promote the films "Spider-Man 3" and "The Dark Knight" in back-to-back summers.