Andrew McDonald
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CHICAGO! I’m breezing into town for a 2-night stand (May 3/4) at the Old Town School of Music, with the majestic @EugeneMirman in tow to launch the show. A few tickets are still available. What songs would you like to hear?
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@IAmTheEggPod Tug of War with @i_am_mill_i_am at the beginning of Covid. Thank you for the pleasure you gave us at a very hard time.
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Thank you so much ❤️
You’re like a family that was scattered across the globe and we’ve all been connected via Beatles DNA.
Hope you can make the final show on 6 July as it’d be fab to get together one last time.
So! What was your favourite episode?
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In no order, here are my favorite 10 books read in 2021. (Plus The Dutch House by Ann Patchett, which had to go back to the library.) I started (and stopped) reading Portrait of a Lady in September 1995 so it was nice to restart, finish, and realize my 1995 self was wrong.
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@TheyMayBeParted Oddly, he was there to help commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Beatles playing at Comiskey Park. I won a “guess the Beatle” photo contest that day and was given a Best of the Beatles DVD. (Still unwatched, I’m afraid)
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Pete Best didn't play Shea Stadium, but he has pitched from a big league mound (2005, first pitch at a White Sox game)
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And Happy Opening Day! #OpeningDay
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Q: "Do you have any favorite sport here in America, such as baseball or American football?" JOHN & RINGO: "We don't like ANY sport." PAUL: "Very unsporting, really. Smoking is a sport." - Detroit, Sept. 6, 1964. beatlesinterviews.org/db1964.0906.be… #OpeningDay
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Here are the 10 books I liked best this year. My favorite—much to my surprise—was The Magic Mountain, whose depiction of isolation and the passage of time resonated in 2020. Many thanks to Book Twitter and the inestimable @BacklistedPod for recommendations and companionship.
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Very excited this package traveled 6,000 km to arrive in my mailbox today. Thanks @Teatlemania !
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Well this is a nice surprise—@PLinUSA has sent me pies for waking up early each weekend to watch @AVFCOfficial. Thanks @ChicagoVillans #MyPLThanksgiving
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Losing an entire year's income is enough to bankrupt most. Me included. 2020 is cancelled. Alternate strategies. I have a Patreon page, 1% of my Twitter people subscribe. How can I get that to 5% ? Talk to me. patreon.com/lloydcole
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@FarisAlikhan1 @scottjshapiro It is. It’s called a diaeresis and goes over the second vowel to indicate that it forms a separate syllable. The New Yorker seems to be only major publication that still does this.
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@scottjshapiro I've never seen reelection spelled with an umlaut. Is that a New Yorker thing?
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And here’s my favorite two paragraphs read this year: Renata Adler describing the late 2010s in 1976’s Speedboat:
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Fmr. President Obama and I apparently have three things in common: a birthday the first week of August, an often thankless devotion to the Chicago White Sox, and a desire to list our favorite books read in 2019. Here are mine:
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@MelMelvin5 @rpm66 @JamieSpencr @anthonyewaller @GavinCoughlan @GordonPlace @tjc216 @fableboyblue @PavyJP @yashville @youngguv Apollo C. Vermouth
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@rpm66 @JamieSpencr @anthonyewaller @GavinCoughlan @GordonPlace @amcd1917 @tjc216 @fableboyblue @PavyJP @yashville @youngguv Nominations for best rock star name? @Jamiespencr @anthonyewaller @gavincoughlan @gordonplace @amcd1917 @fableboyblue @PavyJP
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@mrhonorama @flyingmonkphoto I was too young for the Park West as well, but here’s my 1979-era cassette of the show thanks to WXRT.
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@flyingmonkphoto Not the most rock venue in Chicago, but you and The Cramps had to be awesome. I was too young for that show, but saw you just over 30 years ago when you played Metro in an awe-inspiring gig.
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OTD 1979 (40 years ago!): Buzzcocks played Park West in Chicago, supported by The Cramps. Photo taken during the soundcheck by our Salford born super-roadie, Fran 'the man' Taylor.
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Anyone can run a 5 minute mile on dry land, of course, but very few of us can keep up that pace in 70 feet of water. Thanks to my Nike running app, I am now able to offer visual proof of my unique gift.
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5% of my followers have asked about favorites. Here’s maybe the top 10 with David Seabrook, Eve Babitz, and (ahem) Marcel Proust being perhaps the first among equals.
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2018 seemed like a frightening year in many respects, but reading these books was an effective coping strategy. Thanks to @BacklistedPod, @Heaven_ali, and many others for suggestions and inspiration.
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@MelMelvin5 @JamieSpencr @anthonyewaller @GavinCoughlan @Gordon_Place @PavyJP @fableboyblue @tysegall This is great, Mel, though it’s going to take me half of 2019 to work my way through your list.
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