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Saturday Morning Open Thread: Country Pride (Friends in *Those* Places, Too)
Garth Brooks' Bud Light controversy: Country singer refuses to bow down to critics https://t.co/QEbFiqDJzl — Fox News (@FoxNews) June 16, 2023 “If you’re an asshole, there are plenty of other places.” https://t.co/INdtwUPMTJ — New York Magazine (@NYMag) June 11, 2023 … Brooks, who’s set to open Friends in Low Places Bar & Honky-Tonk in Nashville’s …
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Thursday Morning Open Thread: Juneteenth Is Coming
J. Harrison Ghee visited the White House after making history at the Tony Awards as the first openly nonbinary actor to win for Best Leading Actor in a Musical for “Some Like It Hot.” pic.twitter.com/8DbjJG2qdE — The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 14, 2023 Following their historic Tony Award wins, the cast of “Some Like It …
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Medium Cool – Do You Stop Reading, Watching, Listening?
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Diversions Open Thread: Weird Al, A Role Model for the Rest of Us
weird al in 1992, correctly predicting 2023 https://t.co/PaxSOEE1T5 — Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) June 7, 2023 From Variety, ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic on Outlasting the Stars He Parodies, Why He’s Not Making New Music and the Truth About His Torrid Affair With Madonna : … This is a guy who has now spent five decades in the …
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Sunday Morning Open Thread: Eye-Catching
We selected @BlueOrigin to develop the human landing system for the #Artemis V mission. This component for deep space transportation will help us in our goal of sending astronauts to the surface of the Moon and returning them home safely: https://t.co/KMq5fUn0ll pic.twitter.com/mpfUjWr6OX — NASA (@NASA) May 19, 2023 Belt *and* suspenders, that’s the talking point: …
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Sunday Morning Open Thread: Sweden Wins Eurovision 2023
Okay, I don’t claim to understand it, but Eurovision makes a lot of people happy (and it’s not as though I understood the World Cup, either). A gift (unpaywalled) link: The Washington Post, “Why is Eurovision a big deal? A guide for perplexed Americans.” Per the Guardian: Sweden has won the 67th Eurovision song …
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