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I like disco, death metal, and wildflowers, for starters. He/they. MKE.
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Stuffed Christmas gnome dog toy with red hat and boots, white beard, big pink nose. One arm has been torn completely off, the other hangs in shreds. The hat is torn open at brain level and again at the top. The nose is torn open with a tuft of polyfill snot hanging from it. There is another toy stuffed into the brain hole. Stuffed Christmas gnome dog toy with red hat and boots, white beard, rear/side view. The hat is torn open at brain level and with a spiny plastic ball stuffed into the brain hole. I am the Charles Dexter Ward of dog toys, reanimating them in horrible ways.
December 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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The face of a killer
Boston terrier sitting on floral patterned rug, which is littered with fluff from s stuffed toy. He is staring with alert, impatient attention, eyes bright, ears up.
December 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. No Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
December 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Played Today (Monday, Thursday, Friday): "Matter delights in music, and became Bach."

Checking in with #cdfriday on Saturday morning.
Stacked CD playlist on gray tweedy ottoman in front of Christmas tree with white lights and multi-colored ornaments. In order played, bottom to top: J.S. Bach (Paul Galbraith, guitar) THE SONATAS & PARTITAS FOR UNACCOMPANIED VIOLIN (Disc 1) Giovanna Pessi - Eduardo Egüez LIQUIDE PERLE Marc Hantai - Georges Barthel - Eduardo Egüez - Philippe Pierlot UN CONCERT POUR MADAME DE SÉVIGNE J.S. Bach (Philippe Herreweghe, Chorus & Orchestra of Collegium Vocale) CANTATAS & MASSESS (Disc 1, Disc 4, in sleeves) J.S. Bach (Stefan Hussong, accordion) ENGLISH SUITES NOS. II, III & IV Nils Økland - Elisabeth Seitz - Philippe Pierlot ABEL EN NORVÈGE Leoš Janáček (András Schiff, piano) A RECOLLECTION Stacked CD playlist on gray tweedy ottoman in front of Christmas tree with white lights and multi-colored ornaments. In order played, bottom to top: De Orto / Josquin (Jesse Rodin, Cut Circle) MUSIQUE À LA CHAPPELLE SIXTINE AUTOUR DE 1490 J.S. Bach (Philippe Herreweghe, Chorus & Orchestra of Collegium Vocale) CANTATAS & MASSESS (Disc 2, in sleeve) Cocteau Twins TREASURE Johannes Ockeghem (Blue Heron) COMPLETE SONGS VOLUME 1 Johannes Ockeghem (Kevin Moll, Schola Discantus) THE TWO THREE-VOICE MASSES Cocteau Twins MILK & KISSES J.S. Bach (John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir, The English Baroque Soloists) CANTATAS BWV 106 - 118/231 - 198 Cocteau Twins VICTORIALAND J.S. Bach (András Schiff, piano) GOLDBERG VARIATIONS Stacked CD playlist balanced on brown glass candle jar in front of nighttime window reflecting white Christmas lights. In order played, bottom to top: J.S. Bach (András Schiff, piano) GOLDBERG VARIATIONS J.S. Bach (Glenn Gould, piano) GOLDBERG VARIATIONS (1955) J.S. Bach (Arthur Grumiaux, violin) COMPLETE SONATAS AND PARTITAS FOR SOLO VIOLIN (Disc 1) J.S. Bach (Wolfgang Dimetrik, accordion) PARTITAS 2 & 4 Jack Walrath "Wake Up and Wash it Off" and "Come Sunday" from OUT OF THE TRADITION J.S. Bach (Café Zimmermann) CONCERTS AVEC PLUSIERS INSTRUMENTS I Jesu SILVER J.S. Bach (Philip Pickett, New London Consort) CHRISTMAS ORATORIO Philip Pickett THE BONES OF ALL MEN J.S. Bach (Shawn Leopard/John Paul, lautenwerke (gut-strung harpsichord)) THE COMPLETE KEYBOARD TRIO SONATAS
December 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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The Age of Men is over. The time of the Orb has come.
Selfie taken in a golden Christmas tree ball. Smiling guy in green sweatshirt holding hand under the ornament as if levitating a Wizard Orb. The tree lights, and the reflection of tree lights are reflected in the orb.
December 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Also: ace band logo
"Necrovore" band logo The lettering is red with a white outline, a stylized cursive with a long, blade-like descending "N", a "c" that evokes a pincer claw, and devil tails on the starting stroke of the "N" and trailing stroke of the last "e". Behind and sometimes intertwined with the lettering is an illustration of a fanged skull with skeletal bat wings and a blood dripping axe. It looks cool as hell to whatever part of you still gets a little charge out of the number 666.
December 6, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Through glass (Xmas 2026)
Gold, blue, white and yellow flecks and florets of light, a red orb, conifer branches, in milky silver. Close up photo of Christmas tree through glass ornament. Spattered red light, glass globes, white silver stars and snowflakes like spiked wheels in a deep red field. Close up photo of Christmas tree through glass ornament. Bony, grasping smears of green-gold, blue-black and white, a xenomorph angel of curving spines. Close up photo of Christmas tree through glass ornament. A purple fractal of caltrops and spangles. Close up photo of Christmas tree through glass ornament.
November 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Day of the Tripods
Glooming grey snow clouds beginning to clear, showing a pale blue sky and higher white clouds. Four square lamps shine with white light on a tall pole. In the low distance, three more lamp poles, bare tree branches, the peaked top of a tenant sign.
November 30, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Japanese man with wild wavy hair and beard, a thoughtful smile on his face. It's Makoto Kawabata of Acid Mothers Temple.
November 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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You have summoned a demon to your eggplant feast
container of baba ganouj with a few scoops out that have formed a horrid face: staring eyes, one of them huge and misshapen, a sunken nose, an open frowning mouth. The background is a book cover in orange and blue that looks like hellish flames.
November 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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'ey check dis out
Cartoon drawing of a red imp, with big eyes, big pointy ears, two big buck teeth, a huge globular nose, and two li'l' horns. He's carrying something in a sack over his shoulder and has his mouth open with the speech balloon cropped so it looks he's saying the post above. David Trampier, Irving the Imp from "Wormy"
November 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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"you'll be visited by three spirits"

the three spirits:
It's heavy rockers Boris, a Japanese woman and two Japanese men, all dressed in black, all carrying double-necked guitars.
November 28, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Fun replies and quotes here in this thread. I'll add a lesser known fave: cartoonist Guindon, who had a single panel strip in the Detroit Free Press and was briefly syndicated in the 80s. Great style, real knack for the everyday absurd.
Newspaper cartoon: A slightly lumpy looking balding man in a wide collar, plaid sports coat, diamond pattern slacks, and loafers sits cross-legged, hands folded over his knee, staring at the telephone on the side table next to him. There's a three-dimensional wall art thing of sailboats on a lattice frame behind and above him. Caption: Harvey Ferguson prefers to buy only from telephone solicitors. Right now he's in need of a vacuum cleaner.
November 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Played Today (Yesterday and Today): Nobody's Jig/Welcome to All the Pleasures/The Beat Goes On and On - A Brief History of Dance Music from the 14th-20th Centuries

#cdfriday
Stacked CD playlist on wooden stairway. In the background, out of focus on the next step, is another playlist. In order played, bottom to top: The Roches NURDS Henry Purcell (Rose Consort of Viols) FANTAZIAS Various SAM RECORDS EXTENDED PLAY DISCO CLASSICS New York's Ensemble for Early Music ISTANPITTA! Various DEEP GROOVES: PRELUDE Various PRELUDE'S GREATEST "HITS" VOL. II Les Witches NOBODY'S JIG Various LOFTS & GARAGES: SPRING RECORDS AND THE BIRTH OF DANCE MUSIC Lluís del Milà (Luis Milan) (Jordi Savall, Andrew Lawrence-King) FANTASIES, PAVANES & GALLARDES Stacked CD playlist on wooden stairway. In order played, bottom to top: Clemencic Consort, The Newberry Consort LES TRÈS RICHES HEURES DU MOYEN AGE 3: THE AGE OF COURTLY LOVE Sylvester THE ORIGINAL HITS Henry Purcell (Deller Consort) WELCOME TO ALL THE PLEASURES Various SALSOUL PRESENTS THE DEFINITIVE 12" MASTERS VOL. 1 Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, Francois Lazarevitch A L'OMBRE D'UN ORMEAU P.M. Dawn JESUS WEPT
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Have you seen my dog.
It's the Hound of the Baskervilles. (BW illustration by Sidney Paget of "A large, crazed-looking dog with a glowing head comes racing forth as two men watch in the background, hidden behind a rock." Via oldbookillustrations.com)
November 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Happy damn Birthday to me, incredible used disco score today
Stack of CDs resting on the wooden arm rest of armchair, top to bottom: Sam Records Extended Play Disco Classics Deep Grooves: Prelude Prelude's "Greatest Hits" Vol. 2 Big 12 Inches: So Excited Lofts & Garages: Spring Records and the Birth of Dance Music Sylvester - The Original Hits Sylvester - Sylvester/Step II
November 18, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Christopher Lee as Lord Summerisle in The Wicker Man A man with long, wild hair wearing a tweed, patch-elbow suit, orange turtleneck, and expensive watch, dancing with widely swinging arms and a look of mad conviction on his face.
November 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Ceramic drinking vessel with sides indented like a flower with four shallow petals. Each 'petal' has a different color; visible are orange-brown and green-grey-brown. Interior of the cup is deep brown, half filled with cider.
November 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Played Today: Dog Comforts

#cdfriday
Stacked CD playlist on grey blanket in a lamplit room with sea blue walls. The face of a Boston Terrier resting on the bed is visible to one side of the stack. In order played, bottom to top: The Roches S/T The Roches KEEP ON DOING Pale Saints THE COMFORTS OF MADNESS Joni Mitchell DOG EAT DOG Thomas Dolby THE GOLDEN AGE OF WIRELESS Smokey Robinson A QUIET STORM Scritti Politti CUPID & PSYCHE 85 Raica THE ABSENCE OF BEING Adrian Belew DESIRE CAUGHT BY THE TAIL Stereolab INSTANT HOLOGRAMS ON METAL FILM
November 15, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Played Today (Yesterday): Roches Raga Disco Rewind

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Stacked CD playlist in morning sunshine, surrounded by leaves of green and purple houseplants. In order played, bottom to top: Jack Rose RAAG MANIFESTOS Debashis Bhattacharya RAGA AHIR BHAIRAV Benoit Pioulard EIDETIC The Roches KEEP ON DOING Lisa LeBlanc CHIAC DISCO The Roches S/T Nancy Lesh RAGA MULTANI / RAGA BHUPALI Say She She CUT & REWIND Various SHUT UP AND DANCE! THE BEST OF FREESTYLE VOLUME TWO
November 15, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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In Milwaukee sidewalk paving contractors have to stamp and date their work. A couple blocks from home is a 70 year old square.
Close view of two sidewalk squares, a newer and smoother one at the bottom of the image, and an older, more pebble textured one above. The older square has a contractor's stamp: 1954 RUSSTOM CONST. CO.
November 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Zohran for NYC meme, orange all caps text with darker orange drop shadow, reads BOLT THROWER
November 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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One day's clouds this week.
Altocumulus (?) clouds lit by rising sun spread across the sky, showing patches of blue between them. Treetops, housetops, streetlamp silhouetted at bottom of image. Altocumulus undulatus (?) clouds above a single lamp pole. The clouds spread in waves across the sky with patches of blue between them, lit by the rising sun. An electrical wire crosses the photo from middle left to upper right. Altocumulus undulatus (?) clouds above church, trees and housetops shaded gold by morning light. The clouds spread in blurring waves across the sky with patches of blue between them. Altocumulus and cirrus (?) clouds in a pale sky, lit from lower left by late afternoon sun glow.
November 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Zohran for Mayor sign meme but the text is THAT'S WHEN I REACH FOR MY REVOLVER
November 9, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Zohran Mamdani sign meme with opening text from Master And Commander APRIL 1805 - NAPOLEON IS NOW MASTER OF EUROPE ONLY THE BRITISH FLEET STANDS BE FOR e HIM OCEANS ARE NOW BATTLEFIELDS
November 9, 2025 at 3:10 AM