Something very fitting in Bobby mixing up the PITB verses the very first time he sings it with the “standing on a tower” verse.
Something very fitting in Bobby mixing up the PITB verses the very first time he sings it with the “standing on a tower” verse.
Road Trips vol. 1 no. 3 if you insist on an official release.
This show absolutely smokes. The energy on the BRB is unbelievable.
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Living my whole life for the 5 minutes I can lay in bed at night and read before I fall asleep.
The best book about the experience of Covid times?
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Really not looking forward to watching mayor Pete rebrand quadrennially for the next 30 years.
Maybe the best illustration of the south winning the war of history is a damn Adams bowing to the lost cause.
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Might do the Europe ‘72 day by day thing this year.
I’m being pretty strict about social media limits, so less book posting lately. Follow the storygraphs. One think I love about Bosch books is the contending with bureaucracy as part of an investigation. Joe Pickett books do this really well too.
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I’m sure it will pay off, but so far the Wizards part of this is so much stronger than the Rincewind stuff. The latter is basically Pratchett taking the R stories to the limit, which is fine but not amazing. I could read about wizards on a magical beach all day though.
The travel books (witches abroad, interesting times especially) are the main Pratchett books I have trouble with and that haven’t aged the best. That said, this one is worth it for the Mad Max parody.
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Man, this Psalm 10 page in my Bible is getting pretty worn.
Shout out the the 7/13/89 show with Hornsby. Absolutely smoking Stuck Inside of Mobile.
Extremely normy list here, but off the top of my head:
Franklin’s Tower
MH-SUT
Ripple
Touch of Grey
UJB
Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo’s lyrics belong in Hunter’s top 5
Overjoyed and saddened to see a dude working at Walmart reading Nickeled and Dimed. Honestly an act of bravery bringing that into work.
Not really posting about every book anymore (follow the SG). This is great, I’m here for any modern One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. It’s not trying to disguise a critique of the present, but the present is kind of beyond parody anyway.
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I know JS about the NBA but hearing the complete incredulity about abolishing the draft on Group Chat is making me nuts. It is just absolutely nuts to think that a couple big teams will stockpile players. It’s underrating how much guys want to actually play and have a role in winning.
I’d like to read a popular history book arguing that the US actually never stopped fighting the Civil War.
Happy Ash Wednesday. Ignore the lib Christians trying to just make it fluffy feelings. Fasting and abstinence are good actually.
Living my whole life for the 5 minutes I can lay in bed at night and read before I fall asleep.
Assuming we can’t defund the police, how about we just pay the librarians and teachers on the same pay scale.
It should have been a more obvious connection but I think there’s a clear corollary between appeasement and the modern Democratic Party. Always negotiating to get more negotiations instead of achieving actual aims. Hopefully possibly with less outcomes.
“One pictures Neville Chamberlain in hell, sitting at one end of a table with Satan at the other, each checking off items on his agenda, and a slow, awful expression of comprehension crossing the late PM’s face as he realizes that he has just traded his souls for a promise of future negotiations.”
Pretty sure I knew we’d be one and done with kids the moment I had to deal with my kid pulling pages out of books. Just a deeply upsetting experience
Obviously the Nazis are the first villains but a strong British leadership against them could have prevented the actual execution of Nazi plans.
In short, Horace Wilson should have been tried at Nuremberg.
I’ll have to read more by genuine scholars to fully for an opinion, yet it’s hard to read this account in any other way than that a great deal of the blood of WWII (at least in Europe) can be laid at the feet of the Chamberlain government.
Not to mention they should have been busting through the Siegfried line the minute the Germans went into Poland!!
To name the clearest: if the British don’t allow Hitler to rearm, if they don’t allow him to seize territory without even fighting, if they form the triple alliance in 38 or 39.
I was always taught that wwii was a forgone conclusion after Versailles. The truth is much more important, which is that there were steps all along the way where it seemingly could have been avoided.