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11 November 02025: An Interesting Convergence

File this under "Good Ideas That Don't Go Far Enough"*: Steve from Allen Park, MI alerted me to this little nugget on the Facebook

Man Outraged 100.3 Started Christmas Music Before Edmund Fitzgerald Anniversary

This is a nice tie-in of holly biting to the commemoration of 50 years since the loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald that's swept the news this past week or so. While I appreciate the sentiment, 10 November is still too early for ACATT.

Nonetheless, well-played, Hugh (even if you're fictional).

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*--The related file, "Good Ideas That Went Too Far", is way much full.

5 November 02025: Regular Programming Resumes

Okay, I'm back. Just in time, too, as SiriusXM launched its too-early lineup of Christmas music channels yesterday. (Tip o' the visor to Steve from Allen Park for notifying me.)

There was a long-running issue over here at the headquarters of The Markives that centered around a new server and configuring things so the world, instead of just the campus, had access to things. (Trust me, this matters on a much wider scale than this little enterprise.)

In the interim, I was posting very occasionally at Blogspot, which may or may not wind up mirroring this site, and whose content will probably migrate over here before the end of 02025.

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20 January 02025: Lost In Time

I hate to see a really good trivia question rendered obsolete by the passage of time.

The first time I remember this happening was in 01980, when the question "Who was the only filly to win the Kentucky Derby?" (Regret) had to be retired when Genuine Risk won the Run for the Roses.

Winning Colors came along a few years later and further diminished the value of this line of questioning.

We lost another one today, when "Who was the only US President to serve two nonconsecutive terms?" was superseded by events.

You know the ones.

I'm still clinging to "Which is the only current NFL city that has neither appeared in nor hosted the Super Bowl?", though. I don't think that one is at risk of disappearing any time soon. (Fun fact: The answers to both this question and the one that expired today are the same.)

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19 January 02025: Deathwatch Revisited

Bob Uecker 9, David Lynch 12.

Fair enough, but...Lynch (who never appeared on the show) got a memorial title card on Saturday Night Live on the 18th/19th, whereas Uecker--who actually hosted the show--did not.

It seems like SNL is going out of their way to paper over the Dick Ebersole/Jean Doumanian years. That has some implications for the big 50th anniversary celebration looming in our near future.

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11 January 02025 : It's A Beautiful Day...For A Celebrity Deathwatch Update

Catching up on some late December news, we have: Jimmy Carter 22, Linda Lavin 1.

I don't think that this quite puts Lavin into the "I'm Also Dead!" club, since she and President Carter weren't exactly on comparable levels of fame, but I kind of think her passing would've gotten more attention if it hadn't occurred when it did.

Timing matters, in death as well as in life.

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