Jerry Garcia's SAG Membership Card, 1977
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Jerry Garcia's 1977 Screen Actors Guild card presumably for his cameo banjo playing appearance in the film "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" with Donald Sutherland and Leonard Nemoy (sic) that was released in 1978. Estimate $10,000

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And sometimes I wonder why I have trouble getting work done...

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"Mutual Event"

Examples of sentence usage:  "My family is having a Mutual Event on Thursday."  "This can of pumpkin and this can of evaporated milk will soon undergo a Mutual Event."  "My cat wants a Mutual Event with this pastrami sandwich."http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

It has to be said:

The WFMT announcer's lot is not a happy one...
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Ira Obsidian wishes you all a happy Halloween and reminds you of basic survival etiquette.

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It's just a hunch, but I think those Fermilab cormorants might be a bit too cheeky for classic poetry.  Sure does liven up the poem, though.


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The great thing about birding Fermilab is that nothing makes sense. Double-crested cormorants in the middle of the Illinois prairie? Buffalo grazing above a particle accelerator?  Killdeer in the reflecting pool?  Sure, why not?  Didn't see any coyotes this trip, but that's exactly how they want it. I did see frogs, but they were hard to find and I ( Read more... )

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If you had a tavern and it needed a name, then The Duck and Turtle is not an unreasonable choice.  In which case, while circumnavigating Herrick Lake today, I captured the source image for the painting on your tavern sign:

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Burglars hit a friend's home over the weekend.  If you catch wind of anyone selling a sitar, a dilruba, or two acacia-wood Kala Travel Tenor ukuleles with cracks on the face under the bridge, call the Chicago Heights, IL, Police Department at (708) 756-6400.  The ukes are expendable, but they might lead to the Rikhi Ram electric studio sitar which ( Read more... )