When my first child was born, the building super at work gave me a very good bottle of whiskey. I thanked him and asked what on earth I did to deserve it, and he said “you are one of the few people here who talks to me even when you don’t need something.” We are not doing our best.
"You will be blocked in the order in which your bullshit was received."
The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.
Isn’t that a lovely poem? I love imagining the mouse as a Homeric hero. 😁
A resolute and intrepid little guy, to be sure!
“And then went down to the ship, Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea” ….
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college.
Sartre
Attic Greek
Archery
Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
17th Century English Poetry
We finally have our marching song.
Please broadcast it as far as your voice can.
youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...
“Cognition bender” enters the lexicon …
“… the US President announces a major military attack on a foreign country and even the straightest arrows think, 50% chance it’s an attack, 50% chance president is on another cognition bender.”
- John Marshall, Talking Points Memo
About a half century ago when I applied for my job at an independent book and record shop in DC I was asked to identify Boris Gudonov.
That was such a cool place to work.
I wonder if Trump’s new National Security Strategy reads better in the original Russian?
All across the country today some pretty great college students are raising money for Camp Kesem, a program for kids who have a parent with cancer. I would sure be grateful if you could help, either through this link or elsewhere. Thanks!
donate.kesem.org/fundraiser/6...
So do most of the Democratic power brokers, who still carry the Clintons’ water — and for this reason they will inevitably soft pedal their already lukewarm-at-best fervor to release the Epstein files.
Just after they install half a dozen eight foot tall chocolate fountains festooned with golden cherubs.
So now 135 pages of manuscript and I finally believe this will be a book.
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O-o-h Child, by the Five Stairsteps
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Yes. I recall a thought experiment from grad school: if the universe will end momentarily, and the last thing you can do is press or not press a button that will allow one last flower to bloom for five extra minutes, would you press the button?
A thousand times yes.
Yes indeed. I am researching/writing about the parallels, which as you suggest are eerily close in a number of ways. I think that perhaps the English universities recovered in less time than ours may.
This is quite small, but I just picked fresh Greek basil and green aji rico peppers for tonight’s stir fry and am listening to classical music with an ever-hopeful Malamute while watching the sun set.
Thanks, JSTOR, but I find that my Non-Artificial Intelligence Research Tool works just fine. Been using it for decades.
I am delighted to report that my daughter is editing a new literary magazine that is already getting great reviews! Do please check out the debut issue - and consider making a submission.
www.househousemagazine.com
I see what you did there. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Let us learn the Way of Toad.
It’s still my birthday month, so why not do a giveaway of one of my books? 📚 🏴☠️
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Winner will be randomly selected and announced at 9:00 am (ET) on Friday, May 23rd!
Because this heartfelt story is so important, so vital in the course of our history and the pattern of this moment, @annelouiseavery.bsky.social has very kindly shared it here in its entirety, as a thread. #IslandOfFlowers #IslandOfFriends #OldFox
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Thank you, Anne Louise Avery, for this gift.
I stand in gratitude with the Stoat.
Exactly.
So this country is in the hands of a malign, sadistic, narcissistic version of Chauncey Gardiner. Oh, good.
Peed
Seconded. Penzey’s spices are excellent and the owners are good people. I just placed an order yesterday for as much of their Trinidad spice as I could rationalize.
Which is kind of a lot, not gonna lie.