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Nina Hartmann. Declassified UFO Proof (Floating Bag) (Out of Frame), 2023

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a 1988 Senegalese stamp from a series on fish

[ID: a postage stamp with an illustration of a brown catfish. end ID]

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There's an open pit in the middle of our office plan that drops down into a bunch of very sharp spikes that kill you instantly. This is bad. People keep falling in there and dying. Someone put a sign up, the other day, all bright yellow so you can't miss it, that says "Beware!!! Spikes!!!"

The office immediately split into two factions over it. One says that if anyone falls in the spike pit it's their own fault for being so stupid and not watching where they're walking, so we should remove the sign. The other says that the sign is an insult, there shouldn't be a spike pit in our office at all, and having the sign up like that is just normalising the existence of the spike pit, so we should remove the sign.

We ended up removing the sign. Probably for the better. Still... for a while there it looked like it might have worked...

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Aspencore

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Love the header grilled cheese sammich! how about some pretty diagonally sliced sandwiches that are not grilled cheese? 😗

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a 1985 Senegalese stamp depicting a common dolphin

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Hmm. Once again learning why people prefer fanfic to books and no one can write worth a damn 👍🏻

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Oh and now this is happening!!

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Auden's "evil is unspectacular and always human..." is one of the only stanzas of poetry I've ever liked; was no one going to tell me the poem it's from is Herman Melville, about the life and career of Herman Melville

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Auden's "evil is unspectacular and always human..." is one of the only stanzas of poetry I've ever liked; was no one going to tell me the poem it's from is Herman Melville, about the life and career of Herman Melville

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imagine if every chapter in a real book ended with an author's note

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remember when steve from blues clues was upset that people thought he died in a car crash, not because people thought he was dead but because they said he was driving a dodge charger and "that's a cop car"

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lobster cake by a_kelik

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I’ve been meaning to get more into old time radio. Do you have any suggestions for good websites I can use to listen? :)

I think the easiest entry point, both in terms of how simple it is to access and the content itself, is the This Day in Jack Benny podcast. It comes out weekly and covers the Benny radio catalogue from the ‘30s-‘50s and every episode is a broadcast from that day or one close to it with a brief introduction on the context of the time the show was recorded and the specific references and jokes in the episode. I believe at this point the person behind it, John Henderson, has covered the entire available Benny catalogue or something close to it.

There is a website called Radio Echoes that has recordings of dozens of different radio programs from the ‘30s-‘50s and there’s a huge variance in the archive for each one. Some have 2-3 episodes preserved, some have hundreds. The Fred Allen show archive there, for example, has 231 episodes. They’ve got the Al Jolson Show, Benny Goodman Swing School, the Bob Hope Show, and so many others, British and American. You can search by the program, the year, or special collections, and it’s possible to listen on the site or download to your phone or computer.

I’m not sure what its status is nowadays, but Archive.org also has quite a bit of early radio content in the audio sections, and some neat videos from early radio stars who went on to have TV shows or guest on them in the video section. Like Jack Benny’s 20th Anniversary Special from 1970.

Hope that helps!