Remembering GEORGE WENDT — born 78yrs ago today. CHEERS (1989)
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Music, family, books, foodie & Blackburn Rover.. not necessarily all those notes in that order 😍
Jewish actor Billy Crystal remembers making the classic movie When Harry Met Sally with his friend and director Rob Reiner, z”l. Sounds like a beautiful friendship 💜
RINGO STARR is visibly moved when talking about the last words his fellow Beatle GEORGE HARRISON said to him on his deathbed. “Do you want me to come with you?”
I hope you share and this makes people seriously think about our society!
Imagine being a child in the hospital and looking out your window to see an entire football stadium waving at you. 🥹❤️ This is the Hawkeye Wave at the University of Iowa, a beautiful tradition since 2017 for the children at UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital. #SheShed
JOHN LENNON — born 86yrs ago today — his ex-wife Cynthia, their son Julian, May Pang (and security guard) at Paramount Studios in 1974 having just visited the set of ‘Happy Days’ (taken by Mal Evans – John’s longtime friend and The Beatles’ road manager)
As "Rubber Soul" receives the Super Deluxe treatment today, I've placed an old article I wrote for @soundsfamiliar.bsky.social onto A Goldfish Called Regret - basically twelve reasons why I love "Rubber Soul". Read it here. agoldfishcalledregret.wordpress.com/2026/10/01/s...
So, why not “Rubber Soul”?
Another post I wrote for someone else’s website many years ago. This was originally written for the Sounds Familiar website ten years ago (doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun?…
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BOB DYLAN at the Mariposa Folk Festival — Toronto in 1972.
If Scotland & Wales achieve independence and the island of Ireland is united then what nationality would Suella Braverman, who insists she is British but somehow could never be English, be?
Carlsberg Brewery offered Niels Bohr a house next to the brewery in honor of his 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics. One of the benefits of the house was a direct pipeline from the brewery, effectively providing Bohr with free and unlimited beer for life.
Bluesky will survive if people invest in the network. Repost good things. Find new people to follow. Today I found two new ones. How many did you find? Over follow a bit so that your followers can find those people. Recirculate your starter packs and update them. Recommend people.
He's going to build a lavish ballroom at the Hill Dickinson...
Probably one of the greatest speeches on kindness and intelligence ever given! 👏👏👏 [SOUND ON 🔊]
Check out some more great writing in The Observer by @lauracummingart.bsky.social this week on the beaches of Le Harve and Monet, especially about his Impressionist mentor, Eugène Boudin.
Astonishing! He begins to name the books, to reassure himself that they are all still there, exactly, as he remembers. He’s an Alim, the highest level of Islamic scholar, he has, very likely, memorized *every* word in each text, and knows the order they’re placed. I’m not crying, you’re crying. 😭
elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · last mo.Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
Just received my check that was promised by the Trump administration!
Ms. Olena and her family rescued and raised a little stork. He has already set off for his wintering grounds and will surely return to Ukraine next year. A beautiful video and a wonderful family. 📹: Olena Matviienko / Facebook
A Ukrainian lady wrote to a Ukrainian brand, giving them feedback on the jeans she bought from them. Please give it a read. "Good afternoon! I wasn’t sure whether I should write to you about this or not, but I decided to do it anyway.
One of the greatest Playwrights of all time. ANTON CHEKHOV (1860-1904) Dead by 44 — but what a legacy.
Sad news. The wonderful poet and farmer Wendell Berry has died. I love his work. He's best known for this wonderful poem 'The Peace of Wild Things' - I turn to it often.
