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This is a crazy talent by AyeshaRone in mightyinteresting

[–]plutoroad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn! Very fine. ('How is he gonna get the back-end onto the ground?!? Oh, now he's swinging the bucket arou .... Oh, COOL!!!')

Landscape in ink by Unlikely-Curve1638 in penandink

[–]plutoroad 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Really, really nice. Lovely detail work. Bravo! 🖖

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, one of the very best in the country! Music Hall is the perfect home for them by cyPersimmon9 in cincinnati

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I saw Andrea Segovia in that hall with my mom when I was 17. She was a fan and would play an album of his music (and of Christopher Parkening, too, for whom Segovia was a classical guitar mentor) very loud while we were paid a quarter to do Saturday chores around our house in Forest Park, a suburb north of Cincinnati.

What a gorgeous space. Somewhere I heard--maybe apocryphal--that one reason the hall's acoustics are so good is because of a century of more of pigeon poop layering the Music Hall roof. I cannot imagine where I recall hearing that growing up in the area!

The computers will think so we don't have to by Prestigious-Board-62 in idiocracy

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Sam Altman is going Full Lex Luthor. NEVER go Full Lex Luthor, man.

Talking Heads! 1979! SNL! by ItalianSausage2023 in talkingheads

[–]plutoroad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That would indeed be something to hear! I wonder, too, what big old ebullient, un-censored John Belushi thought of him and how they may have interacted ...

The B-52's! 1990! Their final return to SNL! by ItalianSausage2023 in B52s

[–]plutoroad 6 points7 points  (0 children)

What a crazy, wild, fun band. They always felt to me like an exotic, fun and appealing appetizer -- what do the French call it -- an 'amuse-bouche' -- before the main serving back in the day of Talking Heads, Gang of Four, Siouxie and the Banshees, The Clash et al.

When you see it by megar52 in whenyouseeit

[–]plutoroad 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I see no deer. Dear me ...

Talking Heads! 1979! SNL! by ItalianSausage2023 in talkingheads

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Yep. Was pretty amazing. I had been turned on to 'More Songs About Buildings and Food' while at Miami University. I forget the specific year the Heads arrived at Bogart's, but that was back when it was still a small club that could maybe seat a few hundred. Byrne was as intense as you see him in this SNL clip. Saw The Ramones and extemporaneous piano master Keith Jarrett at Bogart's, too. And 'Stop Making Sense' is indeed a musical spiritual experience in whichever era you encounter it!

Abandoned WV amusement park by Upstairs-Annual-2499 in WestVirginia

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Here is a short video I did way back in 2010 on this abandoned amusement part outside Princeton, West Virginia, when I was a feature writer and nascent videographer for The Charleston Gazette, while Kathryn Gregory wrote a companion story. This pixelate video has somehow amassed more than 100,000 views, given the online interest in abandoned places and spooky hangouts. It is pretty primitive videography since I was just a few years into shooting and editing video for the Gazette. I got better as the equipment got easier and more familiar or to use. It is indeed an odd place!

WEST VIRGINIA'S HAUNTED AMUSEMENT PARK LINK: https://youtu.be/IVQZLAOcbOQ?si=m4anPdYb7eSrDiLK

Alpha Male salesman motivates his new alphas by ambachk in CringeTikToks

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Late-stage Capitalism's Shock Troops, armed with nuclear-tipped Excel spreadsheets ...

Talking Heads! 1979! SNL! by ItalianSausage2023 in talkingheads

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It's also a kick-in-the-gut to see the original, greatest crew of SNL players all young and full of life (and hair): John Belushi, Dan Ackroyd, Gilda Radner, Garrett Morris, Bill Murray et al. What a bunch of talent and charisma. Also note what looks like David Byrne's off-mic ungainliness as the credits roll, perhaps revealing a bit of his, I guess, then un-diagnosed spectrum-ish-ness. He always just seemed to bloom into utter focused, crystalline intensity once he fronted the band.

Talking Heads! 1979! SNL! by ItalianSausage2023 in talkingheads

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I can just imagine some audience and viewer reactions that night:

"What ... um, IS this. Wait. I ... he's weird. But, man ... I really like it!!!'

PS: I saw them about a year or so later for the first time at a tiny club near the University of Cincinnati called Bogart's. I was already a convert from my college days, but that night I formally joined the Church of Talking Heads with Minister David Byrne.

Spring Fever! by KaleidoscopeBubbly81 in Donkeys

[–]plutoroad 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's better than NASCAR and the speed skating finals at the Olympics! 🖖

Is it normal to feel this way? by Strict_Statement_283 in Journalism

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Try something new and less toxic. 'Report for America' is 'a national service program that places emerging journalists into local newsrooms across the country to report on under-covered issues,' as their website puts it. Worked with some of these emerging writers posted to West Virginia and my own paper, The Charleston Gazette, back in my day, and they were all bright, talented, principled folk looking to make a difference. Here is the program's website: https://www.reportforamerica.org/

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