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Chris
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Iong time Plant ecologist, goat farmer, cheesemaker, fig grower, bookworm.
Driving down the fantasy fiction section at the bookstore
December 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Dec7, stil have one tree producing a few figs. Fighting the cold nights.
December 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Sly was not listening to Desiderata.

Probably the most sludgey hunk of stuttering noise to hit #1, a druggy treatise on the state of America, 1971
December 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Chi-lites with sonic wonderfulness
December 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Social justice dressed by Bob Mackie
December 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Lennon does McCartney and has insomnia.
December 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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"You're my first love, you're my last"

Well, shit.
December 6, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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A year after CSNY's "Everybody I love you"
Very DEI
December 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Cat. Welcome to 2025 where the world soccer organization gives a gold peace prize to a war criminal
December 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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1971, when we could still be innocent and write songs about roller skates....and keys.

nvm.
December 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Coming from MLK,which also spawned Aretha's natural woman, via Jerry wexler, Carole King and Gerry Griffin
December 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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I give you one Freddie Hart. The man of 71
December 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Summer of 42, the condom movie
December 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
#at40 the image of 5 Mormons dressed in black and trying to dance "like a yoyo'" is forever seared into my brain
December 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Does anyone "brush their shoes" anymore?
From Morrison's very very very brief time as a contented human being, married to Janet Planet and writing googly eyed (and excellent) love songs
December 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Feast of the goat
December 6, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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“I became both heroine and heroin to him. And sometimes, a heron, for when we did bird play.”
More Excerpts from Olivia Nuzzi’s American Canto
“Forget the sex; the real scandal here is the crime against language.” — Brian Phillips, The Ringer, on Olivia Nuzzi’s new memoir, American Canto, ...
buff.ly
December 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Democratic politicians need to stop accepting Trump’s white nationalist premise that immigration is bad and proudly and loudly make a positive case for why America’s identity and history as a nation of immigrants is so important.
December 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Steve Cropper has died at age 84. An obituary from longtime LA music journalist Chris Morris:
variety.com/2025/music/n...
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.
variety.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Our daughter will, sadly, be leaving New Orleans next year, but will be returning to North Carolina (UNC this time) as one of the very few combined adult/ped heme/onc fellows, something she has long wanted to do and worked tirelessly to achieve

It appears she may be at a place of drinking.
December 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Whatever your opinions are about using grazing as a tool, it does require good, proactive management to implement it in a non-destructive manner
NEW: With dwindling oversight, cattle are grazing where they’re not supposed to and in greater numbers or for longer periods than permitted.

This can spread invasive plants, pushing out native species and worsening wildfire risk.
A Loophole Allows Ranchers to Renew Grazing Permits With Little Scrutiny of the Environmental Impact
With dwindling oversight, cattle are grazing where they’re not supposed to and in greater numbers or for longer periods than permitted. This can spread invasive plants, pushing out native species and ...
www.propublica.org
December 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This may be the first time I've cooked black eyed peas.
November 30, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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At best, the third best tonight's the night.
Not necessarily a bad thing
November 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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If it's any comfort, muskrats, like many rodents, do commit infanticide.
November 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM