Oh yeah, then there was that one time my ever-patient Fdot accompanied me¹ to see THE BLACK RIDER in San Francisco. Heee-yikes, so eye-crogglingly amazing, stark German expressionism right all up live in your face!
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1. It's only fair, he dragged me to see Rush twice, fun fact.

Plus don't forget Tom Waits’ ever-iconic acting!! Whether he's doing sit-ups out a truck window, eating bugs, inventing non-lethal weapons, celebrating the scream-worthiness of ice cream, or just helping a coupla wristcutters get a second chance, he always shines, fun fact.
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Fun Fact: One time I was hanging out in a food room savoring a lovely vegetarian lasagna, thus all should have been chill, and yet!, a vague sense of dread lingered lurkingly in the air. Eventually, I realized one of the caterers had BLOOD MONEY quietly playing from under a table.
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Fun Fact: Perhaps you've encountered some of these insects in your communities, displaying both their predatory and defense characteristics while embedded within the walls of flesh, and passing for what is most commonly recognized as human.
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Fun Fact: Now, your Uncle Emmett... well, he drives a Thunderbird. It used to belong to your Aunt Evelyn. Now, she... she ruined it. Drove it to Indiana with no gear oil. That was the end of that!
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Fun Fact: “Cemetery Polka” is the audio equivalent of a delightfully gruesome chapbook by Charles Addams or Edward Gorey. Hey, who's that guy I started following recently, that Grickle guy, he could nail the vibe, he could! @grickle.bsky.social, that's the one!
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Fun Fact: Nobody but Tom Waits can whirl-a-gig together a farrago of apparently random nouns and adjectives into what sounds like it's just gotta be the lost vocabulary of a way cool demimonde that, fictional though it may be, you regret never encountering.
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