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Picture mystery: this appears to be in the squad room of Barney Miller and Hal Linden and Abe Vigoda are there. Upper right is the Mod Squad but their program had been off the air for years. Several other actor look familiar but I can't place them. The hash brownies are on the desk. ??

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June 5, 1945: John Carlos, American sprinter who performed the black power salute while accepting his Olympic bronze medal in 1968, born in Harlem, New York.

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Trumpers must be a little nervous that there’s a fanatical Elon fanboy with administrator privileges and no moral compass squatting in each sensitive government computer system. Run NukeGov.exe…

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Prime Cut is a solid piece of evidence for my long-established view that the secret theme of every ‘70s movie is the material shittiness of the ‘70s.

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Happy John Cake Day to all who celebrate it

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It's a thoughtful review of what sounds like an interesting book!

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We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.

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Last night's movie with my daughter: THE FRENCH CONNECTION (Friedkin, 1971). Midway through movie, she asks, "So...I'm supposed to think he's an asshole, right?" Related, in case Jeff Wells is reading: that thermonuclear slur is in the version now on Criterion Channel.

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Remember when Republicans argued that changing the names of military bases and removing statues was tantamount to erasing history? They forgot to add that this only holds for straight white men, who made war on the United States during the Civil War.

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1956 Mighty Mouse shoes

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About as mischievous as can get #bookwormsat The Trouble With Tribbles, by David Gerrold c1974 #booksky

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It’s Wednesday so INVENTORY is out today too. This one was inspired by the late Clem Burke and - please note, friends I went to school with - Goodness Records in Caterham, Surrey, both RIP. Also ‘Dreaming’ is a fantastic record and always has been. 🙏 @backlisted.bsky.social

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Jeez, @iammilliam.bsky.social just properly catching up with some of the news from the other side of the world, here. Not sure if you’re still signed on for the week, but... Mind yourself

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In the winter of 1975 Mom scored Jackson 5 tickets at Radio City Music Hall for February 12, which was also Ash Wednesday. The day of the concert Mother Nature wasn’t really checkin’ for my plans since she dumped 6.3 inches of snow on us. oldster.substack.com/p/i-want-you...

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Late to the party, but made up for it by churning through @jordanharper.bsky.social’s The Last King of California in two sittings. Harper once again displays mastery of setting and characterization in this story of rival gangs, while also touching on homecomings, hope, loss, PTSD, and more.

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Can’t believe they’re so bored that they got to the “rename the boats” stage of white nationalist governance.

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Finally found a link between hardboiled writer & Pinkerton Op Dashiell Hammett & the Black Panther Party. DH knew & corresponded with Herbert Asbury who wrote ‘The Gangs of New York.’ Asbury’s one time spouse was NY Times metro reporter Edith Evans Asbury who covered the NYC Panther 21 trial! Snap!

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Old enough to remember when USMC/Army most revered experts in urban occupation, counter-insurgency, and so on taught that the most effective forces went in w the LEAST body-armor, visible weaponry, and other tells of insecurity By their measure, these ICE cosplayers are terrified of the public

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there's mean like "rude comments" mean and there's mean like "Palmer raids" mean

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observer.co.uk/culture/book...

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Though so much more material has become available to biographers since the early 80s, recent @backlisted.bsky.social author Diane Johnson’s ‘The Life of Dashiell Hammett’ (Picador, 1985) has the novelist’s perspective that I am enjoying on reread that’s not as evident in some more detailed accounts.

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I really need to get on this. www.reinhard-kleist.de/en/comics/lo...

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‘The Night Of Wenceslas’ by Lionel Davidson. Green Penguin Eastern European set fish-out-of-water espionage novel.

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Last nights movie ‘The Bridge at Remagen.’ Solid WW2 flick from 1969. Found out today filming was severely disrupted by the Soviet invasion following the Prague Spring of 1968 & the whole company was evacuated in 2 convoys, abandoning possessions, equipment & days worth of footage.

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So that was Tuesday June 3rd 2025. Crikey. Another day done, another (almost) here. (Out this month in 1989, just 36 years ago, the comic book adaptation of 1989’s Batman movie, with its terrific cover by Jerry Ordway & Steve Oliff. For me, the issue was even better than the film.) And so to bed …

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I'm doing pretty well at tracking down Evan Hunter (and pseudonyms) short stories, but I've got some big gaps in the collection, so if anyone has any leads on PDFs of early 1950s War Stories Magazine, Famous Detective Stories, Super Sports or Ten Story Sports (amongst others), I'd love to know!

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Forty-six years ago today in London cinemas, had she vanished in thin air, or was she never really there?... #TheLadyVanishes #1970s #film #films #AnthonyPage #ElliottGould #CybillShepherd #AngelaLansbury #HerbertLom #MYSTERY #thrillers #Thriller #EthelLinaWhite #ArthurLowe #IanCarmichael

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What do you think are the best American paperback crimes originals from the late 1940s/50s that are not well known? I’m not talking Dan Marlowe, Goodis, Thompson or Elliott Chaz, etc. l’m talking about the really good stuff that I might not have heard of, that has flown under the radar.

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Remembering Jean-Pierre Manchette, neo-noir master, on the 30th anniversary of his death. Among his extraordinary novels: The Prone Gunman; Fatale; No Room at the Morgue (for which I wrote an afterword); 3 to Kill (which I adapted for Amazon); Nada; The Mad and the Bad. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social

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