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  Using ChatGPT to figure out what drink I want is a pretty hard no for me.

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  "Don't Fear the Reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult, but slowed 800%. Almost 40 minutes long and darkly amazing. https://youtu.be/dNRGu2-t3PA Social media memories reminded me that I discovered this #music six years ago today.

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  This week on the Friday #80s Flashback, a post-punk band at their absolute peak: Siouxsie and the Banshees gifted us mere mortals with TINDERBOX, featuring "Cities in Dust" and "Candyman", 40 years ago this week! #music https://bookendedbycats.blogspot.com/2026/04/friday-80s-flashback-for-april-24-2026.html

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  Happy International Jazz Day! For the last 15 years, April 30 has been observed as International Jazz Day — an initiative of UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) designed “to highlight jazz and its diplomatic role of uniting people in all corners of the globe.”

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  New profile photo. Who dis 58-year-old??

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  This week on the Friday #80s Flashback, Keel's 3rd studio album, THE FINAL FRONTIER, turns 40 years old. Release on April 30, 1986, this hair metal album features a cover of "Because the Night" and the power ballad "Tears of Fire".🤘 #music https://bookendedbycats.blogspot.com/2026/05/friday-80s-flashback-for-may-1-2026.html

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  Did you know: Stormtroopers always miss #MayThe4th because it's a Jedi holiday.

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  Blue splatter. Photo of a splatter experiment one of the kids did during a Mad Science camp I led back in the first week of April.

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  Comic book panel from Daredevil Vol. 3 #32. Matt Murdock is musing: "Great. Here it is, Racism Savings Time, and I forgot to set my clock back fifty years. This isn't a Supreme Court, it's a time machine."* I'm using this panel as commentary on the Supreme Court's VRA ruling made on April 29, 2026. [*Original panel has Matt thinking "This isn't a cab, it's a time machine." Interesting that, even in that story...

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  “It Takes a Village” is one Irish town's experiment with a voluntary ban on smart devices for preteen children. The program's purpose is to let kids just be kids for a while longer, and to help them ease into the digital future instead of being swallowed up by it. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/realestate/ireland-cell-phones-children.html#:~:text=In%202023%2C%20the%20Irish%20seaside,with%20workshops%20and%20social%20events

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  Sweetgum in the backyard is budding.

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  The Moody Blues are featured on this week's Friday #80s Flashback. 40 years ago this week, they released their 12th studio album, THE OTHER SIDE OF LIFE, which included the top 10 hit, "Your Wildest Dreams". #music https://bookendedbycats.blogspot.com/2026/04/friday-80s-flashback-for-april-10-2026.html

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  "Why does this man have a light bulb instead of a head?" [Lightbulb head man advertisement for the Environments series of albums by Irv Teibel; circa 1970s.]

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  Have you subscribed to the Bad Astronomy newsletter? The latest one has Phil talking about a JWST image of NGC 5134, using real AI to find galaxies, and whether we should mine asteroids (he was interviewed about space rocks for the Science Stuff podcast). https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/subscribe?ref=LwfK0kGqWm

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  Make music, not war. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaKrmYwaOkk 1 hour of Iranian Jazz -- "Contemplative but not paralyzed. Persian melodies navigate through jazz chord changes like picking through debris to find what's still intact, still valuable, still worth saving. For moments of processing change, creative reconstruction, or when you need music that understands: yes, things fell apart. No, that's not the end of the story. 🎵🕊️"

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  “You can actually use sound to listen to the soil, and get an indication of soil health, based on the little critters moving around...” // How Can You Tell If Soil Is Healthy? Just Listen to It. // https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/healthy-soil-sounds Image: Researchers at Flinders University in Australia use sound to study soil health. (Credit: Traci Klarenbeek Via Grist)

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  Mossification of Buddha is coming along nicely.

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  The Friday #80s Flashback has a two-fer of 40-year-old records featuring two bands that could not be more different. It's Judas Priest with TURBO and Cocteau Twins with VICTORIALAND. #music https://bookendedbycats.blogspot.com/2026/04/friday-80s-flashback-for-april-17-2026.html

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  Action Comics #1 was published on April 18th, 1938*... 88 years ago today! Several characters debuted within that issue's 68 pages. Most notably, Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster's strange visitor from another world, Superman, made his first appearance. It was the lead-off story, taking up the first 12 pages. So, happy publication day Superman. You're looking swell, you big blue boy scout! *cover date of June 1938