Any update?
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Any update?
I’m simultaneously pro-legalization and anti-stink.
Your long ramble was mostly about the Black Water situation in WV, so it was catnip for my wife (disaster maven) and me (native West Virginian).
Btw last year, we got married at Fort Boreman in Parkersburg, which overlooks Belpre. The location’s disaster proximity was coincidental, but a plus.
Me to my wife just now: “WHY DIDN’T WE DO THIS?”
Seems like a case of McCarveritis.
Of course, I believe that progressive ideas would help make a much brighter future for “the Free State of McDowell” than the GOP’s nihilistic culture war distractions, and it’s been a nightmare to see mentors and classmates succumb to these poisons. But they are still humans who deserve clean water.
I mostly agree, but as a McDowell County native, I feel compelled to add that no one in power has truly cared about Appalachian poverty since LBJ. At the state level, neither the Dems who ruled for decades nor the current GOP supermajority give a crap about McDowell. Something truly bipartisan!
Are you rereading the Locked Tomb books?
I’ve been a @brucespringsteen.net fan since 1980, when his records began transforming my life.
I’ve never been prouder to be Bruce fan than I was when he posted this yesterday.
Having to have to do things just to stay alive is a bitch.
I am not saying this sarcastically at all. I remember when remaining above ground required neither work nor infrastructure.
I feel like you need to see this:
Jason and the Scorchers
Wire
Bruce Springsteen
The Jazz Butcher
The V-Roys
Overheard conversation in 2017 while waiting to disembark from the ORD-SFO 747:
“I’m visiting my friend, who’s the world’s leading dental sociologist. But it doesn’t take much to be the world’s leading dental sociologist.”
I have no wish to enter the “tavern-style vs deep-dish” discourse - can’t a person enjoy many varieties of pizza and be left in peace?
I usually get deep-dish in Chicago, mostly because good deep-dish (or any deep-dish) can be hard to find elsewhere, whereas thin-crust can be had most everywhere.
For centrists, their answer to everything is “MOAR CENTRISM.”
Today’s has at least one treat for you!
I hadn’t gotten it yet but this was the reminder I needed!
This is a major WTF. I grew up in WV but we must have been too far north for such strangeness.
Marcello Mastroianni in, well, anything, would like to have a word.
The Locked Tomb books create a universe I am not sure I have ever quite seen before. Gideon had some tone juxtapositions I found initially jarring, but I’m very glad I kept going. Gene Wolfe seems to be an influence, at least in the way that Muir gives you as little guidance as possible.
“Dreadnought Holiday” is one of the greatest user names I have ever seen. I’ve been on the Internet since 1993, so it takes a lot at this point for me to dish out this compliment.
I will venture that “Jimmy Olsen’s Blues” was pretty entertaining, but that was before being further subjected to “Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong” and “Two Princes.”
Everything is fine. 👀
Tough request, especially during Rocktober.
I was at a Reds game in 2022 where I was handed a blank one by an usher.
Not going to ask why you are trying to get chocolate n yourself. It is your business.
Result! ❤️
Blu-rays. I think at least Malcolm X and Inland Empire, maybe more. I’ll have to check as Kelly and I settle in together at my actual house and sort through everything.
My life has been such a mess for the last two years, especially with splitting time between my house and my late mom’s house, that I bought a few things twice since I couldn’t check the shelves/boxes at my house to see if I already had ‘em. At least I got two copies for the price of one! 😁
