looong time ago I was in the Jane Austen Society of Northern Idaho (lol) and none of them liked this one because of how it diverged from the book. But I think it's a lot better than the miniseries they preferred just like as a movie, which is the main thing I care about. Not our only disagreement.

dog thought ngl

when the hard pretzel has peanut butter inside

I have good relations with this cat: I pet her all the time, and I have seen her rebuff other neighborhood people who try to pet her. And I am NOT a weirdo

explaining to my neighbor that I am NOT a weirdo: I am not talking to myself out here: I am talking to one of the cats that I always see hanging out in the alleyway: I am NOT a weirdo.

increasingly suspect that this guy actually was saint anthony

sometimes someone cool follows you on a website and you're like, Dang, I wish I hadn't spent hours just free associating about tubes on here yesterday

another thing I learned recently is that apparently gene wolfe was on the engineering team that invented the pringles tube. (I've never read anything by him but I have enjoyed his other work in the field of potato chip-related matters).

woah what I didn't know that the "The Internet is a series of tubes" senator died in a plane crash! should've stuck to tube-based transport...

2026 and the Internet really does seem like a big truck these days, like something you would just dump something on.

I just the other day got... an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially. You wanna talk about the consumer? Let's talk about you and me!

the Internet, which is a series of tubes,

I was going to post some dumb ass shit like "pneumatic is my favorite kind of tube" but that simply is not true: there are many excellent kinds of tube: I do not know that I could pick a favorite, or that I'd want to.

get into the canister !!

I'm very interested in transporting things via pneumatic tube. I would be interested in transporting people this way as well.

Sweat was married to a congressman named "Lorenzo de Medici Sweat," which, as far as names go, is both improbable and I think unfortunate.

There was a lot of very 19th century stuff about "magnetism," like this was the language used to express desire, eroticism, relationality. Interesting for sure though I find it hard to imagine thinking about the world in these terms. Felt like a juggalo reading it: fuckin' magnets! how do they work?

I actually just read what is sometimes considered to the the first American lesbian novel, Ethel's Love-Life (1859) by Margaret Sweat. It's a little complicated because it predates hetero-homo binary, and also she's kinda bisexual with it.

lesbian visibility day... I'm not really a lesbian but as an expatriate of bisexuality within lesbianism I am happy to observe your manners and customs

Must immigrate to Mexico... Ms Continental North America

I'm like a "fake Canadian girlfriend" now, except "fake" modifies Canadian, not girlfriend. And also I'm a real Canadian. They changed the law. Or, WE changed the law. That's what I should say.

"retroactively canadian since birth" is crazy. Nations are so fake

As for me, to the extent that I feel compelled to rate movies, I do so on a binary scale ("I liked it" and "I didn't like it")

I will say that I admire Roger Ebert's deeply idiosyncratic commitment to rating movies on a scale of four

"Generalissimo Edie" has a nice ring to it. "Edithalissimo"

Incredible!: today's calendar date is the marihuana number... very rare occurrence

good, complicating questions for sure. Let me do some reading and get back to you

I don't care that much though, and could be wrong. Just where I'm at intuitionally and experientially--not always reliable when it comes to questions like this

I don't know that I believe in "critical thought" as such: most, maybe all, of the time, "noncritical thinking" seems to me better described as lack of thought.