Roddy McDowall chilling on the set of PLANET OF THE APES (1968)
Clay Risen
@risenc.bsky.social
Reporter, The New York Times; author of “Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America”
TV, or whatever we call it today. We remember the hits but 95 percent of what aired in the late 80s was pure trash.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 18h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
When I posted this 30K oral history of the McCarren Pool Parties to launch a site nobody had ever heard of, it got a nice write-up I. Brooklyn Vegan and exploded. This is a real loss yet again, at the whims of idiots. Pour one out… RIP www.brooklynvegan.com/read-an-oral...
read an oral history on Williamsburg's McCarren Pool Parties
The bands, the dodgeball and slip-n-slides, free beer, the dead guy, and more -- it's all discussed in this new oral history about the mid-'00s McCarren Pool Parties.
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Leor Galil@imleor.bsky.social · 5h ago“Music publications BrooklynVegan, Alternative Press, Revolver, and Goldmine have been gutted by parent company Veeps... Nearly all the staff at each publication appear to have been laid off yesterday. Veeps, which is now owned by Live Nation, acquired the publications in 2024 or 2025”
This was one of the most fun podcasts I’ve done in years. I could have talked with Dave for hours …
Dave Infante@dinfontay.com · 5h agoToday on The Fingers Podcast, I'm joined by @risenc.bsky.social to discuss the humble beginnings, inglorious grotesques, and latter-day deflations of the country's bourbon boom.
Today on The Fingers Podcast, I'm joined by @risenc.bsky.social to discuss the humble beginnings, inglorious grotesques, and latter-day deflations of the country's bourbon boom.
The life and times of the American tater
The Fingers Podcast with journalist and author Clay Risen on whiskey mania and what comes after
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INBOX: The Charleston company behind Chicken Cock and a bunch of other also-ran liquor brands sold "certain brand assets" to another firm. No word on whether Liberal Tears, the right-wing pander-brand whiskey backed by Rob Schneider and Kevin Sorbo, made the cut.
NEXT CENTURY SPIRITS ACQUIRES GRAIN & BARREL SPIRITS BRAND PORTFOLIO, INCLUDING ICONIC CHICKEN COCK WHISKEY
/PRNewswire/ -- Next Century Spirits (NCS) today announced the acquisition of certain brand assets from Grain & Barrel Spirits, including Chicken Cock Whiskey,...
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Look how happy she is knowing she has food for her puppies. Original post
I wish Tom Petty was still alive. Never got to see him and I’ll always be bummed about that.
Tom Petty - Smiling and Performing
ALT: Tom Petty - Smiling and Performing
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These signs should be on every hiking trail in Oregon and across the US .
This obit, by Glenn Rifkin, is a joy to read. What a man, this humane horseman, who so impressed Queen Elizabeth. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...
Monty Roberts, Horse Trainer Who Preached Kindness, Dies at 91 (Gift Article)
His approach was in contrast to centuries of conventional wisdom and won the enthusiastic approval of Queen Elizabeth II, with whom he became friends.
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On this day in 1901, a Czech Jewish woman was born. On the 21 Oct 1941 she was deported to the Łódź Ghetto with her husband and daughter 11. According to her surviving daughter, her mother and sister were murdered in Auschwitz. Her name was Irma Glaserová
From me, a column with many subjects, including the pardon power. I quote another column — one by Charles Krauthammer, from 1987. “The more lawless, capricious, and imperious a regime,” he says, “the greater its propensity to make use of the pardon power.” www.jaynordlinger.com/p/a-screamin...
A Screaming Yet Quiet Problem, &c.
On our national finances, Charles Krauthammer, a hero’s daughter, names in baseball, and more
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2 August 1928 | French Jewish girl, Marcelle Borruel, was born in Bordeaux. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Drancy on 20 January 1944. She did not survive.
My man @risenc.bsky.social gets this killer obit gig but somehow never mentions where his eyeballs ended up.
Vincent Pastore, Actor on ‘The Sopranos,’ Dies at 80 (Gift Article)
He played Salvatore Bonpensiero, a mobster’s foot soldier turned F.B.I. informant known to his friends as Big Pussy, on the celebrated HBO series.
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It’s such a rare and unique sense of satisfaction i get from checking my daughter’s car to make sure everything is okay for her road trip and discovering that indeed she did need her oil topped off My delight is way out of proportion with the actual accomplishment
the phrase “shut up tens, a five is talking” suddenly popped into my head and it’s honestly the funniest self-roast I can think of
Man, I'm not gonna buy this unless they throw in some water-based lubricant to simulate sweat palms-- wait, what's that you say?
ᴀʟ ᴅᴏʀᴀᴅᴏ@aldorado.bsky.social · 6d ago🤨
“Idiocracy is the state of the Union. If Bill Buckley were working today, he’d be denounced as an elitist and snob — which he was, by the kind of people who came to dominate the Right after he left.”
Jay Nordlinger@jaynordlinger.bsky.social · 6d agoRFK Jr. was a man of the Left, and was particularly hot on climate. "As far as I can tell, he does not bang on about global warming anymore. It was his No. 1 concern. Today, he is a hero and fixture of the GOP. This is one of the strangest twists in a twisted political era."
You guys go on ahead, I’m going to hang out here for awhile ☺️ Armchair Books, Edinburgh's Old Town
Absolutely the Sauer family gameplan. Best City on Earth when you know the rent is reliably stable.
Cooper Lund@cooperlund.online · 6d agoMy apartment is rent-stabilized, maybe the most financially responsible thing I can do is live here until I die
Oh hell yeah. It was on Nickelodeon every day at 4:30. “Opposite Day!”
Simon Holmes 🇨🇦@mtlsimon11.bsky.social · 7d agoAnyone else remember this show? 🇨🇦
Look I don’t know how big this Seattle place is or how many raccoons it might domicile, but I’m starting to think there might be more than one Jimothy out there.
Jimothy the Raccoon@jimothythe-raccoon.bsky.social · last wk.Jimothy sighted in our yard! #jimothy #seattle #jimothyraccoon
30 July 1911 | A Czech Jew, Otto Langfelder, was born in Vsetín. A bricklayer. In #Auschwitz from 4 September 1941. No. 20434 He perished in the camp on 13 February 1942.
Same! Was allergic as a kid. Only dogs. Now, not allergic, + cat
One of many....@shari-in-the-sky.bsky.social · 7d agoI’ve had 8 dogs in my life, no cats, did not really like them. Then one day the cat distribution system chose me.
“We speak pork” is just *chef’s kiss* of double entendres tho
Dave Infante@dinfontay.com · 7d agonot the reference i would necessarily go for here
Tried to prevent a half-billion people from dying by an airborn virus that killed millions anyway and as a reward getting yelled at by 50 guys with the burner FreedomMectinEnemaWarrior1776 under the threat of perjury.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Ron Johnson claims the the "injection injured" are committing mass suicide