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Brian Boucheron
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Technical writer living in the apple orchards outside of Rochester, NY. In my free time I noodle with cooking, JavaScript, and robots that draw.

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it's the scene from _the last of us where bill finds frank in one of his traps, asks if he's armed, and frank takes a long time to say "no". two frames are shown, on the left is bill "why did you take so long to answer", on the right is frank "i don't know. i thought about lying for some reason".
October 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Lots of folks showed up for #NoKings in Newark, NY. Maybe 650 according to the organizers. Mostly chill. A few truck chuds making vroom vrooms in traffic.
Gaggles of people on a street corner, w/ signs and flags and a car driving past.
October 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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bill nye putting "SMELL GIBSON" on the tee vee in 1997. ahead of his time. wizard. my kids understand zero references on this show.
a still frame from bill nye's production of RANCID, a RANSOM spoof whereupon SMELL GIBSON smells some spoiled milk AND PUTS IT BACK IN THE FRIDGE FOR SOMEBODY ELSE TO DEAL WITH. the frame shows our main character on the phone in the kitchen, his back turned to the camera. SMELL GIBSON is in red ALL CAPS across the bottom of the screen. SMELL GIBSON in RANCID. just a dude on the phone checking the "sell by" date on a 1/2 gallon carton of milk.
September 24, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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not sure what took me so long. please stop making jeff bezos happy.
a screenshot of the bluesky "add muted words and tags" interface, with the words "prime day" being added "forever".
July 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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#NoKings in Marion, NY way outside of #RochesterNY … guessing about 200 people along Main Street in this unincorporated hamlet of 1500.
June 14, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Ok I'll wrap up with this for now. At 3:05:18 CNN Health Week covers "A Decade of AIDS”, interviewing Dr. Anthony Fauci of the NIH.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Natl. Institutes of Health on CNN
June 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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At 3:02:39 "A British health agency says it will stop offering an artificial insemination service known as 'virgin birth'"... "[the service] was criticized because it was offered to single women".
Newscaster w/ over-the-shoulder graphic that says "Virgin Births"
June 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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At 3:02:05 we cover "anti-government protests" in Seoul, South Korea. "An estimated 10,000 students threw bricks and firebombs and battled with riot police near the city's great south gate".
Chyron says "Seoul" and there is a student throwing a malatov cocktail at shielded riot police.
June 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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At 2:21:10–2:26:54 we seem to recap the entire parade. Nice job cutting together a 5 minute package so quick. Next up is Newsmaker Saturday, where Senator Mitch Fucking McConnell repeatedly states that Saddam Hussein is "no longer a threat to his neighbors".
Sen. Mitch Fucking McConnell (R) Foreign Relations Cmte.
June 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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This thing wraps up around 2:14:20 with some explosions and flag waving and music. We cut to commercial and Joy and Regis Philbin sell us crackers.
Joy & Regis Philbin are sitting on their couch talking about Harvest Crisp 5-grain crackers. Close-up shot of a finger pointing at the Harvest Crisps 5-grain cracker box.
June 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Everybody sings "God Bless America" at 2:11:32. There is a float from the troops thanking folks for sending letters while they were deployed. I don't remember sending my Dad letters (I'm sure I did) but I definitely remember Mom sending Dad booze in Listerine bottles.
It's a float that says "Thank You America" and it has a giant envelope in what looks like a desert scene w/ fake palm trees. Another view of the float that shows a giant envelope from "The Service Men and Women of Operation Desert Storm" to "any American, Main Street, U.S.A"
June 13, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Bunch of flybys and paraded planes starting around 1:51:30. Wolf says 82 aircraft doing flybys.
P-3 Orion? 4 prop Naval plane for surveillance. F-15 Eagle, I think. It's a plane, being towed along on the ground. 1/4 scale F-117A Stealth Fighter on a trailer. I dunno. Planes... guessing this is a "missing man" formation.
June 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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At 1:45:40 Wolf talks about the Pioneer UAV "What they used to call a drone [...] and it has a uhh... camera". Wolf then talks about its capabilities, and John wishes CNN could afford such a thing for I guess journalism.
A Pioneer UAV mounted to a trailer. For some reason whatever it is mounted on is covered with an off-the-shelf blue tarp-looking thing. Another look at the Pioneer UAV on the Blue Tarp Express.
June 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Wolf clearly has a lookbook of funnily-shaped military vehicles. He names and describes each species as it rolls by. At 1:34:47 Wolf comments on how well Constitution Ave is holding up to the 68 ton M1A1 tanks.
A "light armored vehicle" (LAV) according to Wolf. Another LAV on parade. Look at this funny guy. No clue what this is. It's a humvee.
June 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Genny commercial @ 1:28:57 ... had to yoink this one for #RochesterNY #ROC
It's a bottle of Genesee beer next to a mug of Genesee beer that is perfectly foaming over and golden. A golden woman. A golden woman selling beer.
June 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Whatever happened to this guy? @ 1:24:37
It's a finger with a smiley face drawn on it. Buy more Ziploc (TM) bags.
June 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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2.5 mile long parade route to the Pentagon. John Holliman claims 100k people in attendance. 8800 troops. $12 million cost.

Patriot missile launchers around 1:18:11.
Soldier waving from a tank hatch. A view of the review stand with some troops marching past. Color guard (?) marching by with flags. A patriot missile launcher, which is a big truck thingy with missile thingies on top.
June 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Schwarzkopf comin @ 56:30. Later on in the broadcast there's an airline ad that parodies his famous press conference. As you do.
General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. getting his steps in. CNN bumper graphic with "NATIONAL VICTORY CELBRATION" in blue all-caps in front of an American flag graphic.
June 13, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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At 55:17 Molly McCoy tells us things have finally begun... and the first shot is this tank literally SQUEAKIN' ON BY the grandstands... it sounds like a Jetsons Cinematic Universe vehicle.
Molly McCoy CNN Center. She's wearing a black top with white dots, and has short blond hair. A tank in a parade.
June 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Christ, now (31:50) Hannah Storm puts on her shoulder pads to bring us BASEBALL '91! Can you answer the Lipton Iced Tea BAFFLER question?
VERY 90s bumper graphics for Baseball '91. Hannah Storm in a very angular shoulder-paddy red suitcoat. Friday's baseball scores, a scrolling list that was captured on Chicago 2, Kansas City 0. The Lipton Baffler question, "What player did the Montreal Expos take with their first expansion choice?"
June 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Still waiting for things to pop off at 29:23...

And an excerpt from Bush Senior's speech at Arlington starts at 30:36...
Barbara Bush standing in the grandstands in a white dress with blue polkadots. George Bush Senior delivering a real snoozer in a cemetary.
June 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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SPOILER ALERT: the otter story (22:12) is that a Corpus Christi aquarium bought an old washed-up female otter and it turns out it was pregnant with triplets ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Also they were pretty jazzed about using camcorders to record scientific observations.
90s woman squats down with a camcorder recording a single otter. Many otters at the edge of an otter pool.
June 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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At 5:00 we start "Science and Technology Week" w/ stories about a satellite-launching rail gun, "brown-tides" in Texas (gross), otters, and Tom Hanks promoting new animal-friendly breakaway six-pack rings in Santa Monica.
the Science & Technology Week bumper graphic consisting of mostly a printed circuit board aesthetic. A newscaster guy (not sure who hosted this) at a news desk w/ an over-the-shoulder graphic that states "Electric Launcher" Ronald Kaye, Sandia Technical Staff, standing with a proud moustache next to his electronic rail gun satellite launcher prototype. Tom Hanks (right) holding a brewski that he just released from a plastic six-pack holder. It's a press conference with a podium down by the ocean.
June 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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One might ask "why on earth do you have a VHS recording of CNN's coverage of the 1991 National Victory Celebration parade" and the answer is that my Dad was in it. At about 2:03:45 in the video, as the entire crowd is looking up at some dumb planes flying over, my Dad's Coast Guard unit marches by.
The Coast Guard's Port Security Unit 301 marching in a parade. They wear blue slacks and white tops. Close up of some Coastguardsmen marching. It's possible my dad is the leftmost mustachioed man but i'm not confident in that assessment.
June 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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I've just uploaded a VHS of CNN covering the June 8, 1991 "National Victory Celebration" parade (and surrounding programming). I'll try to thread some highlights this afternoon but be sure to check out this brown-haired military affairs correspondent "Wolf Blitzer"?

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Wolf Blitzer and some guy holding mics, facing the camera, with a crowd behind them. They're both wearing a shirt and tie. There is a "CNN LIVE" graphic on the screen. A tank in a parade on CNN. The chyron says "Voice of Wolf Blitzer Washington" and there is a "CNN LIVE" graphic.
June 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM