Randy Murray

I fully expect the Trump family to run the concession.

Pissing or dancing?

I'll stand in line and pay the toll.

I have multiple myeloma and take Revlimid. Daily with no breaks.

April was my first month on Medicare. I paid $2,000 - the price of one pill.

If things hold true, I shouldn't have to pay anymore for meds this year.

Next year, who knows?

Fuckers.

The part about having sex with his mother didn't register with me at the time . . .

Time Enough For Love - probably a book well beyond my maturity level (I was probably 12 or 13). I remember throwing the book across the room at what I thought was the end. I picked up and discovered that there was a coda.

But I still remember, now 65, how disgusted at Heinlein.

No need for context with this one. Applies to virtually everything we hear from the current administration.

What's the most patriotic thing you can do today?

Subscribe to The Atlantic. I did so yesterday - both print and digital.

They've performed a great service to the country and should be supported.

Plus it's a great magazine - online news source.

No link - you can figure that out yourselves.

Please do!

(My shelves are overflowing with books on the age of fighting sail and voyages of discovery. I blame Patrick O'Brian)

It is said those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. But what of those who suppress the past, distort it, sanitize it? They cannot not be held blameless. A true warrior knows that hiding from the past is cowardice, and deliberately hiding the past is malice, dishonor.

My current favorite author name is Hampton Sides.

The secretary of agriculture canceled a meeting on biodiversity The secretary of agriculture bragged about canceling a biodiversity conference because she thinks biodiversity is DEl-related. I wish this was a joke. It's just the level of stupidity and "confidently incorrect" we're at right now.

And here it is, my Joker moment.
I am insane now.

I enjoy it too, but also realize that it's all fake - the homebuyers have already purchased a home and the pretend to let David show them more.

science fiction was, all along, the proper fiction of socialism, not capitalism. cosmic horror is the proper fiction of capitalism

It’s like swearing-some people smoke. I may not personally like it, but scrubbing it out of existence isn’t necessary.

Many people can become millionaires through hard work, investing, and luck.

One becomes a billionaire simply through luck.

But staying a billionaire is a moral failing. Period.

3/3

Some books are bad and don't deserve your attention. Some books just aren't right for you right now.

I wish I could follow my own advice.

2/3 Oh the other hand, I picked up Barbara Tuchman's "A Distant Mirror" in 1995 while I was recovering from back surgery. Didn't connect (it may have been the oxy). But a couple of years later I inhaled it, then went on to read pretty much everything she published.

I really have a problem giving up on books that don't connect with me. 1/2

You can start anywhere. I'd recommend "The Island of Doctor Death Island and Other Stories and Other Stories."

But probably startling right at "The Shadow of the Torturer" is the correct answer for most.

You'll read it all again. That's the beauty of Wolfe's writing - there's always more to discover and reinterpret.

And looking at my shelves: Gene Wolfe.

A warning. You have to let this author tell the story and not imagine where things are going. You’ll be hopelessly lost. But let Wolfe lead and he’ll show you wonders.

I’ll also add in here James Lee Burke.

Such beautiful writing.

Patrick O'Brian. It wasn't recent, but I remember hearing a Fresh Air interview with him on the release of The Wine Dark Sea.

Such wonders.

And here we are again . . .