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I had to share something with you today that I encountered. Something that disrupted my usual morning doom scroll. Something that, to be perfectly honest, I find beautiful. It’s an ultramarathon. It runs through Northern Virginia and Washington DC. It’s free, it’s non-competitive, and it has no set route, but there are nine check-in points…
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Last week was a light week when it comes to successful identifications — Fred got off to an early lead by identifying Peter, Paul & Mary’s “I Dig Rock and Roll Music” and… that was it. The one lyric identified. Answers are posted now, and you can even check them out at this handy YouTube…
It’s time for another Friday 10! Last week’s set got a few answers. John picked up one by identifying Digital Underground’s “The Humpty Dance,” while Fred picked up Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb,” but it was Frodis Caper who clinched the win with three lyrics correctly identified. You can see all the answers at the original…
One of the most exciting things to me about watching the public domain roar back to life as older works have finally been allowed to start falling out of copyright has been seeing more and more movies that were believed lost turn up in complete or near-complete copies. My wallet cries tears of frustration every…
I had an interesting experience earlier today of watching God’s Angry Man1 subtitled in English. For those not familiar with it, the movie is a 1981 short documentary from director Werner Herzog about Pastor Gene Scott — a legend in American religious media who, in 1975, started a Pentecostal Christian television station in California and…
It’s a new Friday, and that means it’s time for a new Friday 10! The answers have been posted for last week’s, and you can even check out a handy YouTube playlist with all 11 songs. Featured in last week’s list was “Why Won’t You Come Back to Me,” by Karen & The Sorrows. Fronted…
The answers for last week have been posted on the original post, and on this handy YouTube playlist! Fred walked away with the victory as the only person who identified a lyric — the guy knows his Dobie Gray. On the list last week was “Cleo and Tony” by Virginia local artist stalwarts Eddie From…
Hey, look at that! The New York Times just ran a breathless interview with an AI slopmeister who confesses to using generative AI to flood the Kindle store and drum up sales. She earned six figures last year from doing so, which is kind of a paltry take when you consider she had to publish…
The answers for last week’s Friday 10 have been posted, and of course you can also listen to all 11 of the songs (including the super-secret bonus point) on a handy YouTube playlist! Among the tracks was Roy Orbison’s “Blue Bayou,” which was a slow-burn hit in the USA. Orbison got to #29 in the…