Solomon Foster

For 40 Years, Crashing Trains Was One of America’s Favorite Pastimes From 1896 until the 1930s, showmen would travel the country staging wrecks at state fairs.

Was going to say “Didn’t spectators die when they did that?” but it turns out that was just the first time it was done?!?! www.atlasobscura.com/articles/sta...

We watched the first few back in October, and they were pretty terrible.

There was something roboticsy (set up for tournament?) going on this evening while we had our dress rehearsal for this weekend’s band concert.

You studied with Mick Moloney?!!!? That's awesome!

Fear of heights.

I'm reading the series as part of the @alzabosoup.bsky.social 2026 Read Along and I'm absolutely loving it. Feeling kind of stupid for not reading it years ago, but in my defense, if someone had actually told me that Sassafrass's composer had won the Astounding Award I'd have taken notice.

I’ve just started book three. :)

I was going to suggest that all kaiju have effective diplomatic immunity, as who is going to imprison them? But then I remembered Kaijumax...
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Kaijum...

Not sure how “great” became “gear”…

Oh, I don’t have anything that works as a favorite film from the year I was born, but there are multiple contenders for song. Here’s a gear one following Patrick’s direction: youtu.be/eG5zRt-sNWE?...

Progress on the Dungeons and Dragons party portrait. #dungeonsanddragons #partyportrait #myart #humanmade

‎Hemlock & Silver ‎Fiction & Literature · 2025

Oh hey, on sale for 2.99. •yoink•

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Not that different than I remember my CP/M experience of the 1980s being, though of course I needed actual additional hardware to get it working on my Commodores…

BECAUSE YOU CAN!!

“All the great books of the past and all the ones yet to come are made with these words. With them there is no obstacle you cannot overcome. All you must learn to do is use them well and in the right places."

Oh, thank heavens there’s a couple people in here older than me. Didn’t start programming till ‘82, only ever used punch tape years later for work.

Though since it was the early 90s in Michigan, if I hadn't been living in a college town it's unlikely I could have easily found a Fairport Convention album. (Don't think my local K-Mart had an English folk rock section.)

Amused by the comment about US students learning about Matty Groves in college. That's indeed when I learned about the song, but it wasn't from class, it was from discovering Fairport Convention! (And that, in turn, was from trying to learn more about Jethro Tull's Dave Pegg.)

Sorry Tyrrells … I’m afraid I want at least 99% potatoes … this isn’t the selling point you seem to think it is!

100% with you (thankfully safely from Michigan), was just complaining to my family that March 8th was way too soon to switch to DST, because it *just* got reliably light when I take the dogs out in the morning, and switching back to dark is going to suck.

Same. As the moon is due west pretty low on the horizon (according to Stellarium) I actually got in the car to verify it wasn't just hiding behind trees or a house from the perspective of our backyard. But nope, western sky is solid gray here.

The Tick - That Moustache Feeling Part 2 YouTube video by Aeryque Lemurius

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It was spelled that way throughout the press release (appears to have been corrected since), so either someone doesn’t know the difference between furry and fury or it was sabotage.

I've always seen half of Australia as a dog's head but only today did I realise WHICH dog and what the other half resembled. You might say it was a "Woah" moment

#australiaisanelaboratehoax #tintin

Hicks
Skids
Hockey players
Degens from up north

I should add that there are at least partial source recordings of most of the songs in the Peacock Collection. There was a digital Peacock Collection CD-ROM that had them, but it targeted Windows XP and to the best of my knowledge won't run on any current computers.

Lady Margarette YouTube video by Émile Benoît - Topic

And there's this version, which is actually the one I knew ahead of time. I don't know quite what to make of this: While Emile was born in 1913, the recording was made circa 1990, and he'd spent over a decade hanging around with revival musicians at that point.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-hO...

Sweet William's Ghost (Child 77) - Nora Hunt YouTube video by Reynard the Fox

And immediately after posting that I found this one from the same collector, conveniently stuck in its own YouTube video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hja8...

I've been trying to figure out available Newfoundland traditional recordings of this one. Here's one: egrove.olemiss.edu/kgreels_can/... at 38:48

I don't know anything about Gordie Willis, though!

I recorded these tunes back in very early January... and I put the set together like a decade ago.