Oh no

It will be a many-layered approach to governance.

I welcome our Onion overlords

Framed by a covered chair back and wooden shutters, a scene of trees and lawn beyond a window.

Faint April Morning. (Unseeable detail: Snow had just begun to fall.)

I was a college freshman when Boy came out. I didn’t have a venue for seeing music videos. I think War might’ve been the first U2 album I bought, though friends might’ve played October for me before that, and then I immediately bought the two proceeding albums. But still, no videos.

I’d never seen that!

Trumpworld, around which all other worlds orbit.

A Work of Human Hands A Work of Human Hands [Preston, William] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. A Work of Human Hands

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Book cover: A Work of Human Hands. The Old Man Stories of William Preston. Cover shows a figure from behind looking down on a small town from a hilltop. That’s not an explosion but glare on the book cover. Book is on a kitchen counter accompanied by a Doc Savage mug and a small dish.

Received a note from a book promoter telling me that my book of literary pulp fiction deserves more Amazon reviews (more purchases, I’d say), but the most compelling part of her note was what her AI scraping quoted back from my own description. No thanks! Please check out my book! Link in comments.

wtf

When the shoe phone is out of order.

I used to tell my writing students, I think paraphrasing Flannery O'Connor, "If you're mediocre enough at something, you can do really well." (Then we'd look at Brown's actual sentences and grasp of word meanings and conclude "mediocre" might be generous.)

Oh.

Shitty fake.

The South never surrendered, right?

Wow. Thanks for sharing.

I'm technically a Boomer (born in '62), though this slicing labels me Gen X. Either way: My cohort in high school was apathetic. I remember thinking at the time that we had nothing immediate to which to respond, so it made people think in safe and lazy ways. You could see it even then.

Pope: "I declare this man . . . excommunicated!"
Trump: "I declare . . . bankruptcy!"

Dry-drunk posting

Answer: Creepy

Henry II complaining about Thomas Becket

I usually like this guy, but Nixon specifically said “We are not blowing up other people“ when they were bombing the hell out of Cambodia. I don’t think he gets points for that.

A pantheon of champions

Ew. I can feel that horrific, needy menace of the hand on the shoulder.

Hard to make something that’s even more of an aesthetic mess than the World War II memorial that got slapped together.

Anyone else think the stabilization collar isn’t doing a lot of stabilizing? #Artemis

I thought Wordle had used that word before. Pretty sure I learned it from reading comic books.

Must be doing some inadequate penetrexing

The perfect reason!

It’s terrific!