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Ah, ground corn slowly simmered in watered cream.

A Sigh. A Why?

"No one has the moral authority to sell what they merely hold in trust for the next generation."

THE SOGGY BOTTOM BOYS HAVE A POSSE

Thinking of the point somebody made somewhere that the current o'erweening influencer aesthetic in interior design is STORE

Oh, I'd been putting off @vajra.me's take to savor later, which was a mistake; I could've been cackling all this time over "it explains to you that it is a sapiosexual, actually," which is so very true of every Nolan film ever, hee hee:

Odsbodikinsnever tell me the odsvajra.me

Look, I'll just say that reading "casting Lupita Nyong'o and then giving her nothing to do is nothing you should get credit for" as "you shouldn't cast actors of color unless you have a reason to" is terribly bad faith, and that's why I'm sauntering over toward this side and not that.

Maybe take a moment to recall the time we went and hunted a boar in the Lloyd Center, after hours.

City of Roses | No. 4: a-HuntingIn which a price is met, a portion is parceled, a question is asked, and property damage ensues.thecityofroses.com

Can't we just save time and impeach the entire Republican party, all at once? A precedential impeachment? Could we get the votes for that?

The trouble with putting hot lime pickle on your morning eggs is, you eventually run out of hot lime pickle.

It's been about an hour since the timeline updated with anything new, wonder if this will appear...

Can This Man Stop the Mamdani Agenda? Betteridge's law says...

It's real simple, folks: does it end with a wedding, or a funeral?

Now, a true nuclear block would also add the handle and account name to your muted word list automatically...

"There’s a reason I rarely interview famous men any more."

"Their models need to explain the world that is perpetually being created ex nihilo, that cannot care for the past because that past can show alternatives—possible worlds that have existed or that could exist in the future."

(An apropos thread, as I finish up the finicky design work on the first hardcover edition of what dam' well better become an enduring classic, Poppa needs a retirement account—)

"Once freed from the marketplace—from the expectations of industry journalists and box office prognosticators and audiences looking for something familiar and satisfying—these idiosyncratic works can be appreciated for what they actually are and not what we (and sometimes even their creators) want—"

Sure, posting a photo of Ross Douthat as a comment on his telegenicity may well seem amusing in the moment, but if everyone has the same idea—surely you can see the problem that ensues?

Much as the phrase "we take this very seriously" is now clearly shorthand for "We find it unspeakably annoying that you've noticed, and hope you will have forgotten by close of business," any mention of "dignity" has now clearly come to mean, "Anybody trans is about to get hosed."