December 22, 2024
4:32 p.m. CST
December 21, 2024
5:51 p.m. CST
It's fine, really
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December 20, 2024
4:56 p.m. CST
December 20, 2024
9:43 a.m. CST
It's Friday. And on Fridays, we dance.
December 17, 2024
3:41 p.m. CST
OfStephen
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December 16, 2024
5:00 p.m. CST
Santa Knows
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December 15, 2024
12:10 p.m. CST
A Christmas Carol
December 15, 2024
9:00 a.m. CST
Skipping church again, right? No worries. As usual, Sunday Morning Service for Slackers has your back.
Turn up the volume, touch your monitor for point of contact, and make a joyful sound.
December 13, 2024
4:45 p.m. CST
The Pale Blue Dot
Pale Blue Dot is a photo of Earth that was taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990
from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) as it was leaving our solar
system. This is what Carl Sagan said about the photo: "Look again at that dot. That's here.
That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever
heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy
and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every
hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization,
every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful
child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every
'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species
lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is the only world
known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our
species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth
is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-
uilding experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human
conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our
responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale
blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
December 13, 2024
3:45 p.m. CST
Best Intro Ever
Sound up. Hope you have stereo for this.
Second Place
December 13, 2024
9:25 a.m. CST
Poem of the Day
Domino Nights
Puma Perl
On Water Street,
scaffolds envelop the buildings,
wire screens surround the benches,
iron fences line the street.
You must walk a hot summer block
in either direction to cross.
To the east, construction continues.
To the west, trucks sit, waiting.
Approaching or leaving,
it feels like a detention center
without passports or means of escape.
Late nights on Water Street,
beneath the scaffolding,
behind the steaming sidewalks,
and the screens and the fences,
the men set up their dominoes table
and their friends watch them play,
awaiting their turns.
We wave on our way to walk our dogs
and when returning home in the humid air.
There are no passersby on Water Street,
but I will reply to the questions
they might have asked had they existed.
Why, they might wonder, do the men sit
at a bridge table in the stifling heat
beneath scaffolds, behind screens and fences?
Surely, there are air-conditioned apartments
where they might socialize and yell Capicu!
Because, I would answer, it is our street,
this is our Lower East Side that we breathe,
this is our space where neighbors smile
as they pass by and call out, Otra vez
you’re still at it, as time slowly propels
us closer to wherever we are headed,
but until we get there, the table is set
for another night of apocalyptic dominos.
December 12, 2024
5:58 p.m. CST
O Christmas tree ...
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December 12, 2024
4:13 p.m. CST
Twin Flames
December 11, 2024
11:22 a,m. CST
Dick Van Dyke and Cold Play
December 10, 2024
9:31 a.m. CST
December 9, 2024
3:52 p.m. CST
In my day . . .
December 9, 2024
3:09 p.m. CST
QOTD
December 8, 2040
5:31 p.m. CST
POV
December 8, 2024
8:50 a.m. CST
Sunday Morning Services for Slackers
December 7, 2024
9:04 a.m. CST
Saturday Morning Blues for pogge
December 6, 2024
5:25 p.m. CST
Cher
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December 4, 2024
12:19 p.m. CST
3-string shovel guitarJustin Johnson 3-String Shovel Guitar pic.twitter.com/E8Hh2Yz4zT
— bluesharp (@bluezharp) December 4, 2024
December 1, 2024
3:56 p.m
If Social Media were a horse race
If social media was a horse race... Sound up!
— Eric Champnella (@echamp.bsky.social) November 27, 2024 at 1:37 PM
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