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Awesome | Bearded | Coffee Drinker. MDiv, Interfaith minister, & former theater techie. Pagan. Heathen. Comics, pop-culture, & 80s tunes. 1/2 of BookendedByCats.com. (he/him). I'm also @brainwise on the bird app.
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Awesome | Bearded | Coffee Drinker. MDiv, Interfaith minister, & former theater techie. Pagan. Heathen. Comics, pop-culture, & 80s tunes. 1/2 of BookendedByCats.com. (he/him). I'm also @brainwise on the bird app.
Awesome | Bearded | Coffee Drinker. MDiv, Interfaith minister, & former theater techie. Pagan. Heathen. Comics, pop-culture, & 80s tunes. 1/2 of BookendedByCats.com. (he/him). I'm also @brainwise on the bird app.
Several characters debuted within that issue's 68 pages. Most notably, Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster's strange visitor from another world, Superman, made his first appearance. It was the lead-off story, taking up the first 12 pages.
So, happy publication day Superman. You're looking swell, you big blue boy scout!
*cover date of June 1938
Awesome | Bearded | Coffee Drinker. MDiv, Interfaith minister, & former theater techie. Pagan. Heathen. Comics, pop-culture, & 80s tunes. 1/2 of BookendedByCats.com. (he/him). I'm also @brainwise on the bird app.
https://bookendedbycats.blogspot.com/2026/04/friday-80s-flashback-for-april-17-2026.html
Awesome | Bearded | Coffee Drinker. MDiv, Interfaith minister, & former theater techie. Pagan. Heathen. Comics, pop-culture, & 80s tunes. 1/2 of BookendedByCats.com. (he/him). I'm also @brainwise on the bird app.
Bats 101:
https://www.batcon.org/about-bats/bats-101/
Bat Appreciation Day on National Day Calendar:
https://nationaldaycalendar.com/international-bat-appreciation-day-april-17/
Help bats!
https://www.batcon.org/
Nat Geo Kids: Things You Wanna Know – Bats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBCODnTUOrY&ab_channel=NatGeoKids
Image description: Frans de Waal's photo of a bat mom.
Awesome | Bearded | Coffee Drinker. MDiv, Interfaith minister, & former theater techie. Pagan. Heathen. Comics, pop-culture, & 80s tunes. 1/2 of BookendedByCats.com. (he/him). I'm also @brainwise on the bird app.
Awesome | Bearded | Coffee Drinker. MDiv, Interfaith minister, & former theater techie. Pagan. Heathen. Comics, pop-culture, & 80s tunes. 1/2 of BookendedByCats.com. (he/him). I'm also @brainwise on the bird app.
// How Can You Tell If Soil Is Healthy? Just Listen to It. //
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/healthy-soil-sounds
Image: Researchers at Flinders University in Australia use sound to study soil health. (Credit: Traci Klarenbeek Via Grist)
Awesome | Bearded | Coffee Drinker. MDiv, Interfaith minister, & former theater techie. Pagan. Heathen. Comics, pop-culture, & 80s tunes. 1/2 of BookendedByCats.com. (he/him). I'm also @brainwise on the bird app.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaKrmYwaOkk
1 hour of Iranian Jazz -- "Contemplative but not paralyzed. Persian melodies navigate through jazz chord changes like picking through debris to find what's still intact, still valuable, still worth saving. For moments of processing change, creative reconstruction, or when you need music that understands: yes, things fell apart. No, that's not the end of the story. 🎵🕊️"
Awesome | Bearded | Coffee Drinker. MDiv, Interfaith minister, & former theater techie. Pagan. Heathen. Comics, pop-culture, & 80s tunes. 1/2 of BookendedByCats.com. (he/him). I'm also @brainwise on the bird app.
https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/subscribe?ref=LwfK0kGqWm
Awesome | Bearded | Coffee Drinker. MDiv, Interfaith minister, & former theater techie. Pagan. Heathen. Comics, pop-culture, & 80s tunes. 1/2 of BookendedByCats.com. (he/him). I'm also @brainwise on the bird app.
[Lightbulb head man advertisement for the Environments series of albums by Irv Teibel; circa 1970s.]
Awesome | Bearded | Coffee Drinker. MDiv, Interfaith minister, & former theater techie. Pagan. Heathen. Comics, pop-culture, & 80s tunes. 1/2 of BookendedByCats.com. (he/him). I'm also @brainwise on the bird app.
https://www.classicfm.com/composers/rimsky-korsakov/guides/flight-of-the-bumblebee-videos/
Awesome | Bearded | Coffee Drinker. MDiv, Interfaith minister, & former theater techie. Pagan. Heathen. Comics, pop-culture, & 80s tunes. 1/2 of BookendedByCats.com. (he/him). I'm also @brainwise on the bird app.
Awesome | Bearded | Coffee Drinker. MDiv, Interfaith minister, & former theater techie. Pagan. Heathen. Comics, pop-culture, & 80s tunes. 1/2 of BookendedByCats.com. (he/him). I'm also @brainwise on the bird app.
Story via Block Club Chicago: https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/10/from-early-nirvana-to-phish-a-chicago-fans-secret-recordings-of-10000-shows-are-now-online/
Link to the collection: https://archive.org/details/@aadam_jacobs_collection
Image: AP photo of Aadam Jacobs in front of his record storage bookcase.
Awesome | Bearded | Coffee Drinker. MDiv, Interfaith minister, & former theater techie. Pagan. Heathen. Comics, pop-culture, & 80s tunes. 1/2 of BookendedByCats.com. (he/him). I'm also @brainwise on the bird app.
Awesome | Bearded | Coffee Drinker. MDiv, Interfaith minister, & former theater techie. Pagan. Heathen. Comics, pop-culture, & 80s tunes. 1/2 of BookendedByCats.com. (he/him). I'm also @brainwise on the bird app.
I first heard of him when he teamed with John Lydon for "World Destruction" by Time Zone, which I previously featured in an #80s Flashback: https://bookendedbycats.blogspot.com/2020/06/friday-80s-flashback-for-june-5-2020.html
Stereogum post: https://stereogum.com/2495346/afrika-bambaataa-dead-at-67/news
Awesome | Bearded | Coffee Drinker. MDiv, Interfaith minister, & former theater techie. Pagan. Heathen. Comics, pop-culture, & 80s tunes. 1/2 of BookendedByCats.com. (he/him). I'm also @brainwise on the bird app.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/realestate/ireland-cell-phones-children.html#:~:text=In%202023%2C%20the%20Irish%20seaside,with%20workshops%20and%20social%20events