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He may not even remember his stint as a major league pitcher a couple of years ago... (in all fairness, it didn't go so well) Jason Alexander Position: Pitcher Bats: Right • Throws: Right Season Age Team Lg WAR W L W-L% ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP BK WP BF ERA+ FIP WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 SO/BB Awards 2022 29 MIL NL -0.8 2 3 .400 5.40 18 11 3 0 0 0 71.2 88 47 43 12 28 0 46 4 0 1 321 75 5.34 1.619 11.1 1.5 3.5 5.8 1.64
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would you expect any less of me? I beg to differ... oh, please, please let me differ... most people know him as the voice of DUCKMAN or as one of the (unpictured) co-stars of that legendary CBS show ER you know... ER... the show George Clooney appeared in... okay... HERE he is in the role he's most associated with...
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tale as old as time... Vanessa Estelle Williams, sometimes professionally credited as Vanessa E. Williams, is an American actress and producer. Williams later went to acting in films and television, In the area of acting, she ran into name conflict with singer/actress and former Miss America Vanessa Williams (also born 1963). Screen Actors Guild rules prohibited duplicate stage naming. Vanessa Estelle had registered the name "Vanessa Williams" first, so as a compromise, the former Miss America was occasionally credited as "Vanessa L. Williams" in acting credits. To compound the confusion, both actresses starred in versions of the drama Soul Food (Vanessa L. Williams in the film version, and Vanessa E. Williams in its TV series adaptation). The Screen Actors Guild eventually took the issue to arbitration and decided both actresses could use the professional name "Vanessa Williams". but only one is ever thought of when people hear the name. actor Michael Fox (somebody had to add a J because of him) It's hard to imagine saying Mary Tyler Moore's name any other way. It has been so ingrained into our culture that you can't help but almost sing her name when discussing her career, or her books, or her many awards and recognitions. Her name is one that will live on in history. What goes into making such a name for oneself? In 2012, Moore was honored with a Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement award. During the acceptance speech, Moore shared a touching story about her start in the industry. As we all know, Moore made her first appearance on television as Happy Hotpoint, the tiny dancing elf that sold Hotpoint appliances in TV commercials. Prior to landing this job, Moore had to figure out how to introduce herself in the industry. This meant filing her name with SAG in the hopes of being accepted into their ranks, not an easy feat for someone new to the biz. "In 1955, I was 18 years old, determined to make my father proud, and prove to the sisters at Immaculate Heart High School that I would indeed amount to something," Moore shared with an enraptured audience. "So, I sought out the Screen Actors Guild in hopes of becoming a member, but there was a small problem; it seems there were six other Mary Moores on the SAG pages." This is when she received her first critique. "Word came back: 'Wanna work in the business? Change your name, sweetheart.' Change my name? Come on, no. I’m Mary. Mary Moore. Everybody is going to know my name. I can’t change my name," she continued. Besides, what would my father say? I mean, it’s his name, too." Moore reflected on her father's name – George Tyler Moore. "[T]hen it hit me," she mused. "'Tyler' was my name too. I was Mary Tyler Moore. I spoke it out loud. 'Mary Tyler Moore' sounded right, so I wrote it down on the form, and it looked right. It was right." At the time, Moore simply wanted to get her SAG application accepted. Little did she know that it would become one of the most well-recognized names in television.
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SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE on HBO (series w/ LGBTQ characters)
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Just watched an interview Bridget Everett did recently. Her dad and brother were both the mayor of Manhattan, Kansas at one point. Her brother Brad watches the show; her character is NOT his favorite, but she didn't say who is. Added later... I am watching another interview and she said her brother's favorite character is Joel, so when Joel was given a love interest in season 2, they named him Brad. Another piece of trivia... she and the actress who plays her sister were roommates in real life for a couple of years. -
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Sports personality/blogger Keith Law's take: Writer/director Sean Baker has carved out a niche for himself with stories about sex workers that rely on a small number of well-developed characters and a strong element of time and place. Anora is his biggest film to date, showing that his eye for character and mood translate well even when the stakes of the story are much higher. Anora is the given name of Ani (Mikey Madison), an exotic dancer at the club HQ in New York whose life is turned upside down when Vanya, the son of a Russian oligarch, shows up in the club, asking for a girl who speaks Russian and throwing around $100 bills. Vanya is 21, seldom sober, and living the high life, often literally, on his father’s ruble. He buys a week of Ani’s time, flies to Las Vegas with her and several friends, and then marries her at a Vegas chapel, complete with a 3-carat ring. The fun and games end when one of Vanya’s handlers tells him that Vanya’s parents are flying to the U.S. for force an annulment and bring the prodigal son back to Russia to join his father’s business, taking the film in a darkly comic direction that only further underscores how little agency Ani has in her own life. Ani is a flawed heroine, looking out for herself at every turn because it’s clear no one else would; she’s 23 and effectively on her own, living with her older sister, with a mother in Florida who appears to be absent from her life and no mention of any other family. Ani squabbles with her boss and some of the other dancers over mostly petty matters, but when she’s cornered, she’s vicious – often appropriately so – because she has so little to call her own. She lives a precarious existence, both in finances and in safety, as most sex workers do, a fact that is only underscored when Vanya’s handlers, including the amoral Orthodox priest Toros, show up and force her to help them find the fugitive Vanya in a mad and often funny chase across the city. When the resolution comes, Ani takes control in the only way left available to her, although in the end it becomes clear to her (and the audience) just how little she has. Each of Baker’s prior two films revolved around a strongly written character played extremely well, with a plot good enough to move the pieces along and get the character to the right conclusion. Ani is just as well-written as The Florida Project’s Mooney or Red Rocket’s Mikey, and Madison gives the best performance of the trio, but the story does suffer a little under the strain of the second half. The plot strains credulity at a few points to either increase Ani’s helplessness or to amp up the comedic aspects, although the courtroom scene – one of those less believable moments – did deliver some big laughs. Baker’s The Florida Project was my favorite film of 2017, and his follow-up Red Rocket made my top ten in 2021, but neither received the plaudits that Anora has so far. The film won the Palme d’Or at Cannes this year and is atop most of the Oscar prediction lists right now (although it’s still early days), while Madison appears to be a strong favorite to win Best Actress. I’ve seen just four of the Best Picture contenders, and this is easily the best, but I wouldn’t be surprised at all if I see something better. It isn’t up to the level of The Florida Project, and is more ambitious than Red Rocket without the latter’s taut story. Madison, though, is a revelation – I’ve never seen her before, but other than her overdone Noo Yawk accent, she’s delivers the kind of performance that deserves all of the awards. The contrast between Madison’s tiny stature and Ani’s big, smart-assed, and foul-mouthed personality perfectly encapsulates the struggle the character faces as a woman in a misogynistic world, working in an even more misogynistic industry, trying to make a living in what may be the only way available to her. Anora lacks some of the stronger secondary characters who popped up in Baker’s previous two films as well, making this even more of a character study than either of them was. Mark Eydelshteyn plays Vanya as a Russian cosplaying as a louche Timothée Chalamet, and the character turns out to be disappointingly one-note and is usurped in the second half by the film’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern of Garnick and Igor. Vanya’s parents, especially his mother, are caricatures. Even Toros, who contributes some humorous moments because of his desperation to get the marriage annulled before Vanya’s parents walk off the plane, literally leaving in the middle of a baptism to go find him, turns out to be just craven, nothing more. Which ultimately adds up to Anora being merely very, very good, when Baker has been transcendent before. Mikey Madison takes a great character and plays it to the hilt, keeping you on her side even when you don’t like or understand what she’s doing, in a performance that will probably see me actively rooting for her to win everything this winter. I wish the characters around her were more interesting and less idiotic.
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Paging Detectives Benson & Stabler...
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NYC School Construction Authority announces 700-seat annex to ease overcrowding at Forest Hills High School Do me a favor and let Simon and Garfunkel know about this... they would want to know. (I meant that to anyone, not just @BenjaminNicholas.)
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I couldn't say it any better, @Charlie, so I won't try. I wish you comfort and peace of mind.
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In a stunning move, the Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the convictions for former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett, finding that a special prosecutor’s decision to retry him violated his rights after the Cook County state’s attorney’s office previously dropped all charges against him. The high court’s decision turns another page in perhaps the most controversial and closely-watched low-level felony case in Illinois in recent years. “We are aware that this case has generated significant public interest and that many people were dissatisfied with the resolution of the original case and believed it to be unjust,” the opinion said. “Nevertheless, what would be more unjust than the resolution of any one criminal case would be a holding from this court that the State was not bound to honor agreements upon which people have detrimentally relied.” The court remanded the case to the trial court to enter a dismissal.
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Jack in the Box — The restaurant chain tumbled 5.6% after revenue for the fiscal fourth quarter came in below expectations. I don't know the last time I even saw one.
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FREE Voice Activated Butt Plug!
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DEAR ABBY: I’ve been living with someone for four years. When we started living together, his son “Byron” was incarcerated. Byron is 33 and has been in trouble since he was 15. His dad keeps bailing him out. I used two of my credit cards to help raise the $11,000 bail to get him out of jail. In exchange, Byron agreed to put on a new roof for us and help around the house. Byron has completed none of the tasks that were asked of him, and his dad keeps helping him anyway. We had to pay Byron’s rent at the rehab so he wouldn’t be kicked out. This has created a rift between me and my boyfriend, who thinks I’m being selfish and greedy. Am I wrong for no longer wanting to help financially? We got along great until this happened. — DOING TIME, TOO, IN ALABAMA DEAR DOING TIME IDIOT: Byron is the person he is because his father has enabled him since he was a child. You are neither selfish nor greedy for refusing to give more money. Forgive me if this seems harsh, but unless you want to continue to be emotionally blackmailed by your boyfriend, get out now before you are drained financially. WAS IT YOUR CHILDHOOD DREAM TO BECOME A DOORMAT? IF SO, CONGRATULATIONS! YOU HAVE SUCCEEDED! DEAR ABBY: I have no problem driving at night, but I prefer to stay home rather than go out. Truth be told, I don’t like to be out after 4 or 5 p.m. Yes, I miss a lot of social activities, but I don’t mind. The problem is friends and acquaintances who, when they find out I’m not going out at night, instantly offer to pick me up because they are kind and gracious. No matter how many times I explain that it’s not the driving, it’s that I prefer not to be out at night, it falls on deaf ears. I know I’m lucky to have sweet friends who volunteer to drive me, but I’m tired of explaining myself. Because I don’t want to insult anyone, can you suggest a polite way to turn these folks down? Nothing I’ve said so far has worked, including saying, “It’s not the driving. I don’t go out at night.” — HOMEBODY IN FLORIDA DEAR HOMEBODY: Perhaps you should state your message a little more emphatically by saying, “I don’t think you understand. It’s not the driving, it’s that I am uncomfortable going out after dark. Please don’t ask me again because my answer isn’t going to change AND I WILL SHOOT YOU IN THE FACE IF YOU DO". DEAR ABBY: My wife’s family has a history of breast cancer. She has had several MRIs and biopsies, which have caused a great deal of discomfort and stress. She is now going in for a lumpectomy. I’m beginning to think it may be better to have her breasts removed. I didn’t marry her boobs; I married the woman behind them. What do you think? — PROACTIVE IN CONNECTICUT DEAR PROACTIVE: I’m sure you love her, but I think you should support your wife emotionally and let this decision be something that’s decided between her and her doctors. KEEP YOUR #&@*ING MOUTH SHUT.
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One person agreed with you; one person disagreed.
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Ozempic seems to be kicking in, albeit slowly. I seem to have lost most of the weight I had gained back and my appetite has shrunk. No constipation problems yet.
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Several Corona residents and local activists gathered outside an alleged brothel on 111th Street Tuesday afternoon to demand that authorities permanently shutter the establishment. Activists led by Let’s Improve Roosevelt Ave. President Ramon Ramirez-Baez and former Council Member Hiram Monserrate gathered at the site of the alleged brothel at 50-14 111th St., almost directly opposite the New York Hall of Science and the Terrace on the Park. Protesters placed placards bearing the slogan “Shut it Down” in the property’s front yard and said the brothel has been operational for over a year despite multiple complaints from members of the local community. Corona resident Carlos Zapata, who lives on the same block as the alleged brothel, said he recently looked out of his window to find an apparent John urinating on his car in the middle of the night. Zapata said numerous johns urinate or even defecate in the neighborhood when they visit the alleged establishment, stating that some johns even threaten local residents. “A lot of residents here didn’t come today because they fear reprisals,” Zapata said. “We are here to show you that the community is standing up.” Maria, a Corona resident who lives around the corner from the property but asked for her second name to be omitted, demanded that the alleged brothel be closed down. She pointed to the fact that two schools are located within a few blocks of the property—PS 28 at 109-10 47th Ave. and PS 14 at 107-01 Otis Ave. (where Paul Simon hung out in the schoolyard with some kid named Julio before it was built over) “Let’s do it for the kids,” Maria said on Tuesday. Several school-aged children passed by the premises during Tuesday’s protest, while a number of men approached the door beforehand, though it remained closed. Ramirez-Baez said local activists have sent a letter with more than 100 signatures to the NYPD calling for the alleged brothel to be closed down. Ramirez-Baez said it was “unacceptable” that the alleged brothel has remained open for more than a year and called for more enforcement from the NYPD.
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A local nonprofit is hosting an economic initiative for a Black-owned grocery store in Jamaica this Sunday. BlaQue Community Cares is hosting its BlaQue Cash Mob at Earnest Foods, an organic grocery store located at 123-01 Merrick Blvd, on Nov. 24, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. A cash mob is a community-driven event designed to support local businesses by encouraging a group of shoppers to visit a specific store and spend a set amount of money, typically around $20. These events aim to boost sales, raise awareness for independently owned businesses, and strengthen community ties by promoting local shopping. Aleeia Abraham, founder of BlaQue Community Cares, said she has hosted over 6 cash mobs since 2021, including Earnest Foods. Abraham explained that cash mobs are held throughout Queens to boost community support for local businesses. “I think it’s important to really encourage local shopping habits and strengthen the connection between residents and businesses and black businesses, particularly in Queens,” she said. “And we’ve been doing this for a while now, and we found that it really helps the community discover new businesses that they might not know exist.” Abraham believes that the grocery store, which has been open since 2021, is an invaluable part of the southeast Queens community. “Earnest Foods really supplies the healthy food options that are hard to find in Jamaica,” she said. “Organizing this cash mob not only encourages people to shop, but it also shows our collective dollars, how it helps sustain business and directly serves and uplifts our community.” Furthermore, Abraham said that fresh produce can be hard for many Queens residents to come by. “There’s really nowhere to go in Queens, especially Black-owned businesses in Queens to find something healthier to eat. We have to keep those businesses open,” she said. “So someone has to just make everyone aware that these businesses exist and how to keep dollars in our community.” BlaQue Community Cares is a division of the BlaQue Resource Network, a community group founded by Abraham in 2019, which provides a space for Black Queens residents to network and share resources. BlaQue Community Cares supports local businesses through events, resources, and educational opportunities.
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Yet another fine dining establishment is struggling
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I have listened to this a few times because he's pretty attractive and it has grown on me. I think it's fun and catchy. -
Fine dining in Queens can be dangerous... https://qns.com/2024/11/three-men-sought-for-jumping-two-teens-at-the-bayside-white-castle-before-stealing-their-airpods-nypd/
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It's the #7 show of the season so far, ahead of GHOSTS & the three Chicago shows.
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What if you could make your house smell like KFC without actually consuming any or even going to KFC? These are the questions KFC is daring to ask right now, with the release of "Finger-Lickin' Good" holiday candles. For a single candle, Homesick and KFC have hooked us up with the no-joke price tag of $35 per candle, and a more reasonable $12 for the air freshener.
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Scott Foley is returning to ABC. The Scandal vet is set to recur in Will Trent season 3, TVLine has learned. He’ll play Dr. Seth McDale, “the confident and down-to-earth head of emergency medicine at a local hospital and Angie’s new romantic interest,” according to the official character breakdown.
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Grocery Surprises, What's Got Your Goat With High Price?
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And the little guy got screwed again; what else is new? At least I have the time and desperation to scour the circulars every week and can often keep my costs down by making cost-effective purchases. And if there is a limit of how many of an item you can buy I just use my sister's father in law's account. He died three days after Biden was elected but he still regularly buys Coke Zero, rye bread, and lower-sodium ham. He really should try to diversify his diet. -
Luis Gil screwed both the Yankees and orioles by winning rookie of the year. If Austin wells or Colin cowser had won, their team would have gotten an extra draft pick but Gil was not eligible because he had not been on preseason top 100 lists.
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The Black Hole on Columbia Heights By Bridget Read, features writer at Curbed Columbia Heights is likely one of the most famous streets in Brooklyn Heights — once home to Walt Whitman and Norman Mailer, now Matt Damon, Jennifer Connelly, and Michelle Williams. The Civil War–era rowhouses on the avenue look out over the promenade, with views extending from the East River all the way to the Statue of Liberty. Each is nicer than the next, with period-specific details, immaculate built-in bookcases, and perfectly lit art visible from the street. Then you get to 194. The massive four-story brownstone is the sickly shade of green mold, except in the places the façade has chipped off completely. Tattered blinds are drawn in the windows, some of which are broken or boarded up. The front door is padlocked, its Italianate finishes scuffed and rotting. Gas-lamp sconces dangle from their wires. On one recent morning, trash littered the steps leading down to the garden-level entrance, and a red Nike shoebox sat abandoned in a stone planter. Peering inside, I could see piles of what looked like old furniture and debris. This kind of thing would stand out in many parts of the city, but here? The house next door sold for $12 million in 2018. The incongruity of an abandoned eyesore in one of Brooklyn’s most desirable Zip Codes has become a point of obsession in the neighborhood — for more than 40 years. “It’s been like that since I came here,” says Andrew Porter, a writer who has lived in the same rent-controlled apartment nearby since 1968 and has been speculating over the condition of 194 Columbia Heights for nearly two decades as a frequent poster on the Brooklyn Heights Blog, which is itself fixated on the house (the site’s Open Thread Wednesdays are basically a clearinghouse for recent gossip). The neighborhood association has long been frustrated with the situation. The mailman has theories. No. 194 is the ultimate street-level mystery: In the most real-estate-obsessed city in the world, in one of its prime locations, with some of the fussiest residents, it seems incomprehensible that anyone would let a house like this rot. And for this long. Let’s start with the owner of 194 Columbia Heights: a man named Austin Moore, a psychiatrist who for years practiced out of an office on Henry Street and bought the historic house, built in 1860, from the previous owner in 1969 for $140,000. (Moore, now in his 90s, may still live at the address where he once kept an office, at least according to tax records.) His trouble with the house started early: By 1986, Moore was already facing the threat of foreclosure by the city due to unpaid property taxes but was able to cover enough of the balance to stave it off. Documents about the foreclosure proceeding note that the building had been vacant since 1983, though neighborhood watchers like Porter say it was closed up long before that. In the decades that followed, records from the Department of Housing Preservation and the Department of Buildings show 32 complaints and 17 violations, from open and broken windows to a failure to comply with changes to its certificate of occupancy. The house started to decay. None of which escaped the notice of the ever-fastidious Brooklyn Heights Association (its current president is an architectural historian). At a meeting in 2009, 194 Columbia Heights came up along with a handful of other troublesome properties. Moore, along with other owners, needed to be pushed to “take the appropriate actions toward their preservation, whether that is engaging in restoration themselves or selling to someone who will.” That was also the year a windstorm brought pieces of the roof down and Moore — long silent in the face of local attention — gave his first and only public comment to the press about his house. He would “probably surprise everybody by doing some improvements this spring,” he told the Brooklyn Eagle. Little about the house changed, but workers did apparently fix the roof, per spies on the Brooklyn Heights Blog. All the while, Moore’s unpaid property taxes continued to pile up. He owed another $40,000 in 2009 and now owes nearly $250,000. Which is part of the intrigue: Why keep up such a money pit when selling would be so lucrative? When I asked around the neighborhood (and the mailman, a doorman, and a landscaper), they all had heard the same rumor: Moore was keeping the house in order to spite an ex-wife. Intriguing, but never confirmed. I reached out to Moore’s son, who had no comment. A woman whose name was also listed on property records never responded to my inquiries. As for what will happen next? In a neighborhood like Brooklyn Heights, there are two main engines of redress for a house that’s fallen into disrepair: intervention from the various city agencies that have jurisdiction over housing and vocal, sustained outrage from neighbors. (Often, it’s both.) Both have so far failed in the case of 194. “I think the whole thing’s about to come down,” another property manager of a nearby apartment building told me, who claims that a rat infestation from the house has impacted his buildings and tenants. But the Department of Buildings seems to disagree: Though the agency can make an emergency declaration to demolish a building if it’s deemed a hazard, a spokesperson told me that the department sent inspectors to 194 in February and found the house properly sealed to the public, which at the very least means that doors and windows on the first level were properly locked. The house also wasn’t at any risk of collapse or fire. Ultimately, it came down to cold, hard property rights. “On private property, its very difficult for a city agency to step in physically,” Andrew Rudansky, the spokesman for the Department of Buildings, said. As for the Department of Finance, it could typically force a house like 194 into a tax lien sale, which usually results in foreclosure. But that hasn’t happened. Instead, a spokesperson confirmed that Moore was on a payment plan, though, they said, the house “may be subject to a lien sale in 2025.” Finally, because 194 is in a landmarked district, the Landmarks Preservation Commission could deem the property at risk of “demolition by neglect” — but it too has so far not chosen to act. A Landmarks spokesperson said that Moore has been issued summonses for failing to comply with landmark rules as recently as June, but has apparently made adequate fixes to the home’s roof and cornices that placated the department, which “continues to work closely with the owner to make additional necessary repairs, including an upcoming on-site visit,” per a statement. Younger, the property manager who said Moore once had a tenant, is the only person I spoke to who actually knows the man. “He calls me from time to time,” Younger told me, “to ask about vendors to do the things the city makes him do, to keep the city off his back.” Occasionally, Moore says he is ready to sell the place. But it never happens. As for why he thinks Moore has kept the house despite everything — the windfall that surely awaits if he does, an end to all that paperwork, and letting someone put some use to the space — Younger says he’s not sure. “He has only ever been cordial with me,” he said. “In our lives, we all have blank spots, and I guess this is his.” 194 Columbia Heights from the street. The back of 194.
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