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The Weekend Music Thread–Days and Nights

Humor KillgoreTrout - May 23, 2015 59

Night and day, day and night. The two ever lasting cosmological events of our lives here on the planet Earth. The complete, single revolution of the globe, as the globe itself revolves around that star of ours that gives us our days.

Vox Populi – 5-22-2015

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Vox Populi, our weekly live chat about the week's events begins tonight at 7:00pm PDT. Guest hosting tonight is the lovely and clever Kesmarn!...

Weekend Music Thread – R.I.P. BB King

Music Thread KillgoreTrout - May 16, 2015 46

If you are a Blues fan, or just a fan of B.B. King's, in tribute to the man and his art, pick your favorite B.B. King songs, and the songs of many of those Mr. King helped become stars in their own right.

Vox Populi – 5-15-2015

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It's Friday, time for Vox Populi! Our live weekly chat begins tonight at 7:00pm PDT. Guest hosting tonight is the always wonderful Choicelady! A...

Weekend Music Thread – Mother

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Tomorrow is Mother's Day so this weekend's theme is of course about Mothers, brothers and sisters, families and, well...love! So send out some Mother's...

Vox Populi – 5-8-2015

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More crazy GOP candidates joined their race to the bottom, Loon Star State Right Wingers think the U.S. is about to invade them, the...

Paranoia in Texas, More Wacky GOP Candidates, Chat Live about the Week’s Events tonight at 7pm PDT on Vox Populi!

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Another wild week and so much to talk about so please join us here at 7:00pm PDT for our weekly live chat on the week's events, Vox Populi!

Weekend Music Thread – The Name Game

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You can call me Jay or you can call me Ray or you can call the wind Maria, there's a million names in songs and this weekend we're calling out songs that have a person's name in it.

Vox Populi – 5-1-2015

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It is a looks to be the first step forward on a long journey for justice for Baltimore, Freddie Gray and African Americans across...

Weekend Music Thread – Eat, Drink and Be Merry

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This weekend our music thread is going to be tasty because the theme is eat, drink and be merry! Songs about and by bands that are literally or figuratively sweet, sour, food for the soul and/or all about partying.

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