Brutkey

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RIP The Clobberer

Screen cap of post by The Pogues announcing the death of drummer Andrew Ranken
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This "Grokipedia" nonsense is showing up on the first page of search results and its articles are just blatant copies of Wikipedia's.

This is so distasteful and infuriating.

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WTF like

screenshot of google search results which says "People also ask: Is Jonathan Richman sober?"
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"The old plank road", Yuma, Arizona (1926)
Photo: Jacobs, photographer / Denver Public Library

From source: Summary View of plank road in sand dunes near Yuma (Yuma County), Arizona. Cars are in the distance. Notes Photographer's byline and "C-507" reproduced in photoprint. Title penciled on verso with "Presented to Jack McKincrurie (?) by John Rogers at Yuma Arizona Aug. 21st 1926 - thermometer 106. We crossed planked road Aug 19. This road discontinued and cement highway opened Aug 20th 1924. This range is 6 miles across and several miles long and shift first into one position and then another like the snow in our eastern blizzards. The road at times has disappeared under 20 or 30 ft of sand for a mile or more. Then a new section of road is built to fill in the missing link and its grade maintained among the sand dunes," and "Jack McKincrurie (?), Jan 20, 1985, Glenn & Hazel Shomaker gave me this picture, George A. McClellan."
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"Early Texas boomtown, possibly Orangefield. A wooden plank road runs through it. Automobiles share the road with pedestrians. On the right is the Carr Hotel. A dirt sidewalk runs between the road and the businesses." (date unknown)

Photo: U. of North Texas

"Early Texas boomtown, possibly Orangefield. A wooden plank road runs through it. Automobiles share the road with pedestrians. On the right is the Carr Hotel. A dirt sidewalk runs between the road and the businesses."
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Woman with baguettes, France (date unknown)
Photo: Donald H. Sultner-Welles / National Museum of American History

Elderly woman in overcoat and hat on a street corner holding fresh baguettes, a bouquet of flowers, and a hand bag.
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I typed "recommentions"®® by accident but on second thought, that could be a word

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Tabs saved indefinitely on browsers like unread books on the bedside table

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Kids With Rattlesnake, Wichita Falls, Texas (date unknown)

[i would guess 1970, give or take 4 years]

Seven boys posing for the camera smiling and holding a long dead snake
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Downside of audio books - when you want to make a note of something. Usually I'm out walking when listening & not in writing down mode. Now listening to Lenny Kaye's "Lightning Strikes" which seems ideal for an audio book (being read by the author helps) - but he slips in all these nuggets I want to investigate further...