@jonahweiner I'm finally reading "Barbarian Days" and Finnegan says that "kook" comes from a Hawaiian work "kūkae" or excrement. I'm a cyclist but never got why poor "fred" gets picked on.
@StevilKinevil The big S has a gravel/pave chatter-buster in some of its head tubes Kind of like a Girvin & Headshok together. https://t.co/PX8DHEVoRi Future Shock was also what they called their Mag-21s that came on S-works in the early 90s.
Rest in soul-thumping dub, Lee Scratch Perry - Here he is at his Studio Black Ark making reggae magic. His influence and innovation are manifold across contemporary music. https://t.co/e83xcO9pRx
Congrats to Wally Funk! @KrysMarshall talked to Wally abt her dream of looking down on earth from space in this podcast ep. of @forallmankind_ which I co-produced w/ @atwill https://t.co/boJDxLP4nO
What happens when @Patreon challenges chef @lallimusic to swap skills with ukulele pro @cynthialin? SkillSwap: Carla Lalli Music x Cynthia Lin https://t.co/3GrVOqt59X
In 2007, I sat down with Lawrence Ferlinghetti, champion of the Beats and freedom of speech at San Francisco's City Lights Bookshop to discuss his life, work and the enduring power of poetry for this "Last Word" video obituary. https://t.co/ITDS3hDovZ
Jerry Jeff Walker was my introduction to outlaw country. May I recommend playing his 1973 live album "Viva Terlingua" very loudly to honor his passing. https://t.co/ByPN4z0ps6
@kaitlinfontana Quicksilver w/@kevinbacon & Olympian @NelsonVails. Breaking Away won best screenplay. Bicycle Thieves is a classic of Italian neorealism. Docs: A Sunday in Hell, the Impossible Hour and Stars and Watercarriers
@brooklyn11211@wdana@RESullivanJr Yes. That's what @NickKristof wrote about earlier this year: https://t.co/zBjDJloCZZ But I think historians trace the term to Horatio Alger & his "Ragged Dick" story abt a "bootblack" (shoe shine boy) who ascends the economic ladder by hard work (& luck)
@markyarm Don't be a cob-nobbler! These go super well with your whack slacks and resists lamestains, I've heard. Catch you swinging on the flippity-flop, fellow grungers!
@wdana@RESullivanJr the actual thing, as I understand it, is a loop of leather sewn to the top of a boot, handy for pulling them on by yourself. Need a cobbler to confirm.