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tania's avatar

yet again my brain is overwhelmed with delight - in particular the Smithsonian collection of images - i am at my daily pod job (law office) and it is all i can do not to run around yelling "would you look at this! and this! and this! (and how can i get as many of these printed at work without people noticing) this is comparable to my sheer exhilaration when visiting a polish grocery store and seeing all the products and packaging - my daughter had to remind me to breath - thank you austin, truly

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Joe Regan's avatar

Two comments and the theme is regrets—

1) Al Jaffee—grew up on MAD (more of a boomer/elder Gen X thing I suppose) and there were a bunch of old copies and paperbacks of MAD (don’t sleep on Al’s Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions!) in our parents’ attic a few years back. I left them for my younger brother since they were more his but he had no interest in picking them up. Oh well, I should dig out that CD-ROM omnibus from decades ago...and hope that I’ve got a CD drive somewhere :)

2) One of my big musical misses/mistakes, maybe the biggest, was passing on going to see Murmur era REM for FIVE DOLLARS in college. It was on a different campus, I’d have to bus it there, money was tight, I wasn’t the hugest fan...whatever. It all feels very silly now ::hangs head in shame::

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