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A statement from the family of Alex Pretti
The House of Sandwiches
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Dol
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MLK
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Take, take, take
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Hunger
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Master and tyrant
Storage unit
On first hearing the Beatles’ “She Loves You”
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Hutch
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Putting out a record
Not from The Onion
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“The weight of non-zero”
Goodbye, Plato
Orwell again
A message to ICE
Wittgenstein’s Zippy?
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What the actual
Uncle Felix’s potage Mongole
Christmas in Connecticut sardines
“To AI or Not to AI”
Vision Pro waning
McMar-a-Lago
Otroversion and me
Top ten 2025 OCA posts
A new Nancy
New Year’s Eve 1925
Stranger thing
HCR on 2025
From The Cookers
Farewell to Olivia Jaimes’s Nancy
Sluggo, zippy
Play money, real robbery
Why time limits for apps don’t work
Ending up with a .txt file
Apple EarPods discoveries
Hand cream
God and comics
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Twelve movies
Yamandu Costa coming to the States
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William Shawn, Mongol user
Coffee and immortality
A strange thing
Christmas 1925
A Christmas song
Hi Mom
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Stan Newman’s Christmas Eve crossword
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Everything old is new again
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Something rotten in Denmark
Why hope?
“GAS COSTS LESS”
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Got oil?
“Every dog in the city”
“Zooks!”
Pine Valley Family Farm lines
“Badly cast”
A lost cause
Joyce and Yeats?
Musgrave 2025 Holiday Gift Set (pencils)
Twelve movies
Antivenom
There is no bottom
A visit to Chester Ludlow
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Another unattended carriage
Helpers
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Parts and wholes
Adam Kinzinger on decline
Tempo De Zoot Suit Melancholia
“Cheese after”
Connie Converse, Mongol user
Dasani on Toast
Keystone Kash, or, Is our AI learning?
Undermining credibility
Times New Roman again
Split screen
Word of the day: keister
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On Willa Cather’s birthday
HCR on the NSS
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“Imbibing madness”
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
An album against AI
Jimmy Cliff (1944-2025)
Burt Meyer (1926–2025)
Woodstock’s into
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In the typewriter district
Class discussion, my 2¢
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Some subtle Schitt
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ICE in one Chicago neighborhood
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G.P.A.-holes
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Veterans Day
Ronnie Wood on Desert Island Discs
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Il neige
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How to pronounce lapis lazuli
A mystery cafeteria
“Johnny Hodges!”
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Lost and found
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Why the first Tuesday
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Live Laugh LOSE
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“Twenty dollars of unleaded, please?”
One more result
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Stop sanewashing, dammit
Wallace Shawn’s roles
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“A long winter”
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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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Nancy milk
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A billboard in Alton
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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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The hand
Never no bottom
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Look out, Mary!
David Frum on Stefan Zweig
Mel Brooks on John Candy
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No Kings, NYT
I like this advice
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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From a Liquid to a solid
Necking
Single malt what?
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“My hair!”
Great Lives : Derek Bailey
King Records documentary
Orwell: 2+2=5
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Alcove, niche, nook
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The Nobel Peace Prize
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“Antifa” then and now
A telephone alcove or nook
No thanks, I’m good
Pam Bondi’s notes
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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
Unhinged, unwell
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Not well (stairs)
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Forty-one
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Med beds and the Middle Ages
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