Alex Burns
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Alex Burns
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50 years ago today, Cleveland hosted 'Ten-Cent Beer Night' against the Texas Rangers.
About 60,000 beers were consumed by 25,134 fans, seven people were sent to the hospital, and the game was stopped due to drunken rioting.
The Rangers were declared winners via forfeit. https://t.co/2nMnhYB7N9
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Kathryn Jezer-Morton • Welcome Back, Social-Media Fall
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Sorry, Wall Street: Fangirls Run The Economy
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I suppose this is the ur-message - to be more aware of what’s influencing you and how. Acknowledge just how much of what you think, feel and do is picked up from others, consciously and unconsciously, and try to become more conscious of more of them. Artists pay attention to this because they love their influences, while a
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Mike - Down The Rabbit Hole • 🌀🐇 #209 Numbing Out, Ordinary Wonder, Firstness & Lastness
When All Else Fails, Go to the Movies
“It’s what I call the Don Draper Principle,” says Abbott, “because he always did that on Mad Men . I tend to see something, usually horror, something that completely demands my attention and is very big and spectacle-oriented, because it can knock me out of what I’m thinking about in a good way. Or sometimes it... See more
“It’s what I call the Don Draper Principle,” says Abbott, “because he always did that on Mad Men . I tend to see something, usually horror, something that completely demands my attention and is very big and spectacle-oriented, because it can knock me out of what I’m thinking about in a good way. Or sometimes it... See more