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Al Stewart is mind-blowingly good

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@mleccese.bsky.social Did you know about this?

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My boss from way, way, way back. Godspeed, Jim. Detroit Tigers legend

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People in newspaper and magazine profiles are always “picking at” their food. No one eats. They pick. This is of a piece with streets and suburbs being described as “leafy.”

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@mleccese.bsky.social @kurtblumenau.bsky.social You guys excited for the big tilt in Boston tonight? This tournament has captured the American imagination better than hockey ever has, methinks.

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Sunset from my mom, Maumee, Ohio

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Libertarian dreams tend not to end well, trust me

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youtu.be/UrfFHzqGBZI @jonccrow.bsky.social You were the one who turned me on to Peter Murphy. Goddamn.

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It is incredible that this rumor was so widespread in the ’80s, pre-internet. My wife grew up in south Texas, and I in northern Ohio. But we both knew about poor Mikey. Stay away from Pop Rocks and Coke, fellow kids! www.wsj.com/lifestyle/no...

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And I worked for several years in Major League Baseball. Not for the faint of heart. The late second baseman Tony Phillips was unreal—every third word out of his mouth was “motherfucker.” Like Sam Jackson in “Pulp Fiction,” Tony was.

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I’m almost 51 and have not once, so far as I can remember, sworn around my mom. I swear very little around my kids (except when they’re reading my social media posts, if they are. Hi, guys!). In my experience, magazine offices are pretty earthy places. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/s...

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@mleccese.bsky.social @kurtblumenau.bsky.social I just read Monica Getz’s NYT obit. I had no idea Stan Getz was such a disaster and knew nothing about their insane divorce trial. Wow.

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x.com/heybriandaws... My wife is a South Texas girl

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Us college football nerds can spend a LOT of time with this brilliant chart, and Lord knows I intend to

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I’m reading Boris Johnson’s immense new memoir. Whatever you think of Boris, he writes like a dream and the book is riotously funny. I imagine there’s nothing in Angela Merkel’s new book about her “spraying away” while she was in the bathroom taking a phone call from her foreign ministry.

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“Tester.” Unfortunately I forgot to bring my horse to the pharmacy this morning #LifeInVirginia

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Sunrise over Virginia Beach this morning, shot by my wife

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@mleccese.bsky.social @kurtblumenau.bsky.social Garth Hudson’s death has sent me back into the endless rewards of The Band’s music, starting with “The Last Waltz” and working backward. They are all gone now.

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Biscuit and Pancho

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@mleccese.bsky.social Neko Case has a new memoir out. Lordy, I love Neko Case, as I know you do as well. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/a...

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New Father John Misty album is fantastic

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Happy birthday to my amazing mom! She could have won a Natalie Wood look-alike contest back in the day. She remains awesome in every way. Love you!

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@kurtblumenau.bsky.social

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@kurtblumenau.bsky.social @mleccese.bsky.social I have the highest regard for Nada Surf and expressed dismay that they had to scrub a Cville date on their upcoming tour. He (or his social media team, if midlevel bands have such) reached out to apologize. I felt like a Beatles bobbysoxer.

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@kurtblumenau.bsky.social @mleccese.bsky.social Anyway, I’ve mostly been fulminating on Twitter the last couple months, and neither of you (rightly) wants that nonsense. Trying to shift focus back here. Although I was chuffed this week when the lead singer of Nada Surf followed me on that platform.

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@kurtblumenau.bsky.social @mleccese.bsky.social I did not know that she had a stroke in 2020. She can no longer play the guitar, and is visibly a little frail, but her voice is clear as ever. This tour has a valedictory feel: stories, photos, videos, then songs. She was magnificent.

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@kurtblumenau.bsky.social @mleccese.bsky.social Hi guys! I’ve been away for a bit. Wanted to say hello and also ask if either of you are into Lucinda Williams...I feel like she’s maybe a niche taste. Sarah and I saw her live here on Wednesday, and she was fantastic. Great band, too.

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@kurtblumenau.bsky.social Ed Kranepool died. #RIP

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@kurtblumenau.bsky.social ...and despite the fact that his accent is no different than mine, he’d go in there talking like Apu from “The Simpsons,” the better (we figured) to come across as a goofy foreigner buying beer. Usually worked, too. Ah, teenage hijinks.

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@kurtblumenau.bsky.social Perhaps the worst thing I did: My friend Nikhil had an international student ID that said he was 23 or something. He would put on a ratty plaid jacket that we called “Sporty James” (after the pimp in “Hunter”), and we’d send him in to the local convenience store...

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Home sweet home

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@mleccese.bsky.social @kurtblumenau.bsky.social Astros’ broadcasters: “Including the catcher, four of the five infielders have an error, and everyone on the infield has done something wrong tonight.”

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@mleccese.bsky.social @kurtblumenau.bsky.social Bosox defense is…yikes

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@mleccese.bsky.social @kurtblumenau.bsky.social This is such a fun read from Jayson Stark, the Athletic’s resident guru on all things Weird & Wild. Some serious reporting here too. Kurt, it reads like something you’d do for SABR. www.nytimes.com/athletic/570...

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@kurtblumenau.bsky.social @mleccese.bsky.social Looks like a lovely day in Boston, by the way. Better than yesterday for baseball, at any rate.

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