Bill Coolidge
@billcoolidge.bsky.social
Retired Children’s Librarian.
AFOL.
Adoptive Dad. He/him.
AFOL.
Adoptive Dad. He/him.
@npr.org Please do not normalize this renaming. It is a travesty and our president is not normal. He’s a mentally ill criminal. And he’s in charge. There’s yor story.
December 19, 2025 at 9:42 PM
@npr.org Please do not normalize this renaming. It is a travesty and our president is not normal. He’s a mentally ill criminal. And he’s in charge. There’s yor story.
Why not be brave and do what the Democrats should have done in the first place and just come out and say Trump is insane?
December 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Why not be brave and do what the Democrats should have done in the first place and just come out and say Trump is insane?
So they are abandoning the customer.
December 16, 2025 at 1:24 AM
So they are abandoning the customer.
At least it’s the right month. Every day in Santa Rosa I have been reminded of Dickens and “A Christmas Carol”: “It was cold, bleak, biting weather: foggy withal”.
December 15, 2025 at 1:23 AM
At least it’s the right month. Every day in Santa Rosa I have been reminded of Dickens and “A Christmas Carol”: “It was cold, bleak, biting weather: foggy withal”.
Reposted by Bill Coolidge
(2/2) First among them: Dick Van Dyke, who when he joined us 15 years ago was not only as delightful, kind and funny in person as he was on screen, he also — for the first time ever in public! — performed the lyrics to the “Dick Van Dyke Show” theme. Happy 100th, DVD!
www.npr.org/2010/10/23/1...
www.npr.org/2010/10/23/1...
Dick Van Dyke Plays Not My Job
The veteran entertainer plays a game called "Dick van Dyke, meet Dick, van and dyke." Dick. Van. Dyke. Together, it's an iconic name in entertainment, but separated into its component words, it's a t...
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December 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM
(2/2) First among them: Dick Van Dyke, who when he joined us 15 years ago was not only as delightful, kind and funny in person as he was on screen, he also — for the first time ever in public! — performed the lyrics to the “Dick Van Dyke Show” theme. Happy 100th, DVD!
www.npr.org/2010/10/23/1...
www.npr.org/2010/10/23/1...
Last night we were browsing the channel guide and saw that one of the channels was in the middle of showing “The Princess Bride”. My wife checked when the movie had started and how much time it had left. “They’re about to start storming the castle.” And darned if she wasn’t correct when we tuned in.
December 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Last night we were browsing the channel guide and saw that one of the channels was in the middle of showing “The Princess Bride”. My wife checked when the movie had started and how much time it had left. “They’re about to start storming the castle.” And darned if she wasn’t correct when we tuned in.
“charge” not “charve” (sigh!)
December 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
“charge” not “charve” (sigh!)
I think I remember seeing it and thinking that it was not better than “John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together” which is the all-time best Muppet Christmas Special in my mind. But I might have “Family Christmas” mixed up with some of the Disney ones.
December 3, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I think I remember seeing it and thinking that it was not better than “John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together” which is the all-time best Muppet Christmas Special in my mind. But I might have “Family Christmas” mixed up with some of the Disney ones.