a green felt pennant with upward and downward curving layers of yellow text, reading:
"ope 'scuse me
*i'm just*
"gonna sneak right past ya"

a yellow vehicle with bicycle seat, handlebars, a little 2-stroke engine, and 4 train wheels sitting on railroad tracks inside a building behind velvet rope.

Tim Curry in Muppet Treasure Island

<image of a letter; at the top is a large signature reading “Dolly” in pink>
Marshall (Eminem),
Congratulations on your induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Your performance was amazing and everybody said so. Even though I don't know a lot about rap music, I've come to know that you are the very best at it. Aside from that Thope what I have to say will not seem weird or strange to you but I have always felt some unexplained connection to you like I know you somehow. I had hoped to meet you at the show but you know how nuts those things are, personally I hate
'em and I missed my chance but maybe someday we'll meet. In the meantime, keep doing what you're doing because you do it so well and no matter how complex your world may be just know you are very special and touch people in ways you don't even know.
With love & respect,
Dolly Parton

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Eminem:
I'm sorry we never got a chance to meet, but getting this note from Dolly really had a an impact on me. She definitely didn't have to take the time to do it. Even for a kid who mostly listened to rap music, she was an icon. A superstar in every sense. Rest easy Dolly. And thank you for the kind words.

Dolly with a guitar

image

A comic book splash page showing a person in a Grim Reaper mask and crimson robes swinging an enormous scythe at Robin, who is on the ground holding himself up with one hand while the other reaches out in protest or defense.

Dear Imagination Library Graduate,

My, how time flies. It seems it was only yesterday when your family and friends read you your first story. You were just a baby. Now you're five years old and about to go to school. How exciting!
This may be your last book from my Imagination Library but you have to promise me you will keep on reading. If you go to your local public library you will find a great number of books just for kids your age. Every book is a treasure and every time you open one up you will meet new friends and take wonderful journeys to magical places.
I hope you have a great time in school. I bet your school will even have a library where you can check out books. You and all of your friends are very special. There is no limit to what you can do or how far you can go.
Just remember the lessons my family taught me - dream big dreams; learn everything you can learn; and care for all those who care for you. You do all of these things and you can be anyone you want to be.
You are terrific, and remember...

I Will Always Love You,

(signed)
Dolly

"In Dallas for the premier of '9 to 5,' I had an uncanny experience, and on the plane home to Chicago I confessed it to Siskel: I had been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton, and as we spoke I was filled with a strange ethereal grace. This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. It was healing and comforting. Gene listened and said, "Roger, I felt the exact same thing during my interview with her." We looked at each other. What did this mean? Neither of us ever felt that feeling again. From time to time we would refer to it in wonder."
— Roger Ebert, Life Itself

Picture of a Dolly Parton's biscuit batter peach cobbler frozen dessert.

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Michael Harriot
@michaelharriot

Here's a quietly wonderful thing I noticed:

If you talk to someone who was in choir or band at a majority Black HS, you'll eventually discuss those annoying fundraisers for uniforms, instruments, etc. & a SURPRISING number will casually say:

"Oh, Dolly Parton paid for ours"

10:00 AM • Oct 6, 2022

<image of two flashlights on a carpet pointed at a wall; the left flashlight is giant and has less intense light while the right flashlight is tiny and has a very intense light>
Left flashlight is labelled “Das Kapital by Karl Marx”
Right flashlight is labelled “9 to 5 by Dolly Parton”

A man dressed as Spider-Man attacking Jake Lang, who's cowering behind a large white cross

Color photo of a chaotic scene. In the center, a person in an elaborate Spider-Man costume is reaching towards a heavyset white man in plate carrier and sunglasses, cowering behind a white cross made of I think foam-core. Other people are watching and reaching for them. There's an American flag and two classic protest placards partially visible.

a radar detector like device flashing "THIRSTY"

a swimmer grins broadly at the camera

slide view of a low-slung, big-nosed red sportscar resting in stark contrast to the mountain sunset behind it.

The postage stamp with nominal of 380 Armenian dram depicts the vehicle “ErAZ 762” - a blue van driving along a road - produced from 1966 to 1996 by Yerevan Automobile Factory.