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Steve Cropper (1941–2025)
From the gaming table
New directions in spam
Cut ear, long pipe
Caveat emptor (Penguin)
Apple Dictation fails
Italics and capitals
Four-dimensional chess
NBC, true to form
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Wehner and Capehart
I do not fear Malört
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Kleptocracy on the march
No turkey
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“Early blogger energy”
“Unnoticed by the average eye”
Thanksgiving 1925
Twelve movies
Towne Branch subdivision
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A song for today
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Jimmy Cliff (1944-2025)
Burt Meyer (1926–2025)
Woodstock’s into
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In the typewriter district
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Backblaze, anyone?
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Some subtle Schitt
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A house is not a home
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ICE in one Chicago neighborhood
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How to improve writing (no.130)
G.P.A.-holes
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Veterans Day
Ronnie Wood on Desert Island Discs
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Il neige
About last night
How to pronounce lapis lazuli
A mystery cafeteria
“Johnny Hodges!”
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Lost and found
Archive.today endangered
Why the first Tuesday
Decline
Live Laugh LOSE
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“Twenty dollars of unleaded, please?”
One more result
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Hard times
Stop sanewashing, dammit
Wallace Shawn’s roles
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Halloween at Mar-a-Lago
“A long winter”
Eeek and sheesh
Two guys in Brooklyn
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Halloween recap
Bob Dylan’s Nobel essay (again)
Orange pumpkin art
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Sludge
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A would-be crash blossom
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An AI restaurant response
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Nancy milk
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IWTYO, Erie Canal edition
Honeycrisp apples, then and now
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Bonwit Teller
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The age of noir
A puzzle in signage
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MSNBC, sheesh
From the side of a carton
COLD BREWSKI’S
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Never no bottom
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David Frum on Stefan Zweig
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No Kings, NYT
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In the Golf Ball District
Nancy, NO ICE
No Kings Day in east-central Illinois
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Sock it to ’em, JB
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Single malt what?
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“My hair!”
Great Lives : Derek Bailey
King Records documentary
Orwell: 2+2=5
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Chock full o’Signs
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Alcove, niche, nook
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The Nobel Peace Prize
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A telephone alcove or nook
No thanks, I’m good
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Mystery actor
Let there be at least some light
Thank you, Governor Pritzker
Billie Holiday at Storyville
MAGA no more
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VDP on Brian Wilson
Orange
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Kimmy goes back in time!
My daughter’s humormeter
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To all electric-scooter operators
Literalists and kleptomaniacs
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Fowler and The New Yorker
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In the can
New directions in supplies
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Not well (stairs)
A line from Connie Converse
Forty-one
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Med beds and the Middle Ages
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Two pages
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