When I studied the transformation of European conservatism into Fascism in university, that was something I didn’t really understand. How all these monsters just seemed to show up. This has been most instructive, but all in all, I’d just as soon have stayed a little puzzled.
Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in drag in a still from Some Like It Hot
Oh to be a reporter there. “Now that you been fired in disgrace by President Trump, do you regret any of your answers to Congress?”
Yes, Unseen Academicals. After that I found them too saddening to enjoy.
What do you think an endorsement is going for these days? Gotta be a million for a state like Texas.
That’s about what W bottomed out at.
I’m definitely anti backseat. See, the back seat is the seat in the back. It makes sense. The backseat? That sounds like something you rest your back on, like a chaise longue.
And of course, purists will insist that Spicy Tomato Meat should never include beans.
“Some TikTokers also include vegetables like kale and spinach, while others treat themselves to seasoning or hot sauce.”
They will start adding beans and tinned tomatoes, and announce they’ve invented Spicy Meat Beans.
Guinness nailed Smiley. Absolutely definitive.
It was right up there with “Found a Peanut”
Definitely big on Canadian school buses in the sixties, but it’s American: youtu.be/HgOdKV5j0cM?...
Is it somewhere in C.S. Lewis that he says almost all hope for universal salvation comes from Paul, and all talk of hell comes from Jesus?
Hilary Mantel
Lois McMaster Bujold
Ursula LeGuin
Connie Willis
Margery Allingham
The supermarket freezer bean and cheese burrito.
My pedant reflex insists I correct patois to cant. A really interesting instance of cant development.
A really interesting patois development, if you’re interested in such things.
youtu.be/Y8yEH8TZUsk?...
What do you think he thinks that means? Sometimes you can tell, like I’m pretty sure he thinks the stealth bombers are literally invisible, but this one stumps me.
As Someone once said, better for them if a millstone were tied around their neck and they were thrown into the sea.
I was watching this discussion. She was the lefty position. It’s not good.
Anywhere with cold weather, Celsius makes more sense. After a lifetime of Celsius, I still know what 80 F feels like, not a clue what 15 feels like.
A Little Help From Your Friends, Joe Cocker.
Time After Time, Miles Davis
Twist and Shout, The Beatles
Covers are bad is not true.
The Church of the Last Temptation
Not to denigrate the excursion to the Margaritaville or whatever for a burger a beer. That‘s fun too. But not every day for heaven’s sake. Also, if you’re diving you do have to be careful, and the breakfast tamales and carnitas might be an error. I recognize that.
Oh this is so true. I have seen so many beautiful buffets of food ignored for the omelette and bacon stations. Mexican food like you will maybe never taste again. Nope. Calaloo and festivals and salt fish and ackee -where ever else you going to get that?
Really, why travel?
"To go to a foreign country and to ask for assistance in breaking up Canada, there's an old-fashioned word for that, and that word is treason"
🟢 Agree: 71%
⚫️ Disagree: 29%
Read it for free here: open.substack.com/pub/canadian...
“Well, we had to answer that one by sending 150,000 people to run up onto beaches in front of machine gun fire. You sure you want to ask it again?”
“New victories pour in daily” doesn’t sound anything like North Korean propaganda, so that’s good.
Honestly, I can’t believe anyone ever took libertarians seriously as any kind of political philosophers. In the eighties, pudgy little twerps in suspenders and bow ties would go on Firing Line and blather on about the law of the jungle when anyone could see they’d be charcuterie in any real jungle.
