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I started reading the book “Gone Girl” and noped out after the first chapter because I couldn’t stand the yuppie narrator. Then I saw the film and loved it. Next I read some more books by the same writer and came to realize that she’s a great writer who can create really horrible characters.
Writer was so good she made me not read her book.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato's_Retreat [nsfw]
The 1970s were a much, much different time.
Go back to cave people days.
You’d want to know if anyone heard anything dangerous in the night when you woke up, and you’d like to hear if anything interesting happened during the day before you went to sleep.
[off topic] In the science fiction classic “The Forever War” Earth’s future army is all homosexual thanks to mental conditioning.
I like the idea that Shakespeare was looking for some uncommon word and remembered hearing ‘weird’ and running with it.
Thanks.
I have to go, but here’s some books you might like.
If you like Neil Gaiman, look up Tanith Lee. Gaiman admits that she was his inspiration, and he stole a lot of his best ideas from her. “Night’s Master” is about a demon prince who travels the world seducing and/or tormenting humans.
Alan Furst’s “Night Soldiers” is a WW2 era spy story that reads like a cross between Ian Fleming and Franz Kafka. A young Bulgarian fisherman becomes radicalized after fascists curb stomp his kid brother. He travels to Moscow and becomes a KGB agent in the Spanish Civil War.
Colson Whitehead has two books about a 1960s Harlem fence. “Harlem Shuffle” and “The Crook Manifesto.” Reading them is like hanging out in a smoky barroom listening to some OG’s talking about life in the 1960s and 1970s.
Enjoy!
You are filth! You are garbage!! You are the lowest kind of scum that has ever polluted the face of the Earth! I want you to die slowly, but not too slowly because I want to be able to enjoy defiling your sister on your grave!!
Are we still on for Thursday? My Mom is making taco salad.
You live in an open society where everyone’s views and opinions can be expressed without judgement.
Except for this one, you filthy animal!!
This is why we have the [nsfw] label.
Also, you don’t want to know what I thought you did with that bottle.
Those burn me up!
Ooops, time for my meds…
My poppy seed bagel has entered the chat…
Also, deviled eggs are usually put out at a festival. Gunning down six eggs at a 6 am breakfast is gluttony. Noshing on a dozen deviled eggs over the course of an evening is not grotesque.
The word ‘weird’ is pretty weird.
Cleave is my personal favorite
Back in the day, MLK put together a March on Washington with payphones and mimeograph machines.
When he started, 99% of the population thought Tarzan was a great hero.
Read the history. A lot of the African-American population thought that King was a dangerous radical. He had no access to national media and there were no cell phone camera if the police decided to get frisky.
No one said it would be easy.
I think it’s weird to eat a dozen deviled eggs in one sitting.
That’s why it’s called “organizing.”
Back in the day, MLK put together a March on Washington with payphones and mimeograph machines.
When he started, 99% of the population thought Tarzan was a great hero.
They did a President Lex Luthor arc in the Superman comic books.
Lex Luthor turned his businesses over to a blind trust, hired great people from all walks of life, including an actual teacher to head the Dept. of Education, and treated people with respect and courtesy.
Remember when Trump got rid of the White House pandemic office?
Because Trump was a great business man who knew how to save money.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/