Dr. M.A. Davis

let's make him an even better one soon!

"It's working," sez the Margao Chamber of Commerce

still like Paul Reiser's story that he knew he'd made it as an actor when his parents cheered his demise

oh sorry for writing that how I did - I was imagining that one!

you almost got me there but nobody "grew up" to be Nancy Mace.

a character in the AD-verse reads about Ungern-Sternberg and thinks "how horrible, so much slaughter! if only he hadn't become a vampire, how much better things might have been under his rule!"

I liked how Newman did it in A STUDY IN EMERALD

I liked that Newman agreed w/Moore - you can't have Sherlock Holmes in your Victorian pastiche without it being a Sherlock Holmes pastiche.

"Victorian-Edwardian period but the vampires are out of the closet and into the ruling class" is a solid high concept that gets harder to nail down as you get further into the future.

It really is a great book! I liked BRB too. I felt as though he struggled a bit as he got further and further away from the public domain period but that may be a sign of my own weird literary tastes.

as Frank Castle wants to violently murder criminals, supports the rights of LGBT people, thinks there are too many guns but won't give you his, and is not consciously racist but has many issues w/racism, I like to say he is closer to the American median voter than any other Marvel character.

worse centuries I guess

it feels related that when his son took him flying (at the age of 82) in 1910, Milton was heard to call "Higher, Orville, higher!" as they reached a peak of 350 ft.

When you look at the US in 1914, Wright feels painfully optimistic - but on the other hand, when you consider the world when he'd been a young man, maybe taking some joy out of a world where Black freedom and success was a reality wasn't so naive.

#wrightposting

Milton would write, as a very old man in 1914,

"What a fruitful half a century it has been! Slavery
ended! and the colored people owning vast wealth, and
making the most rapid advances in civilization! It seems
slow, but it is so very fast!"

#wrightposting

Great Slave Auction - Wikipedia

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Elsewhere, as Milton preaches -

Pierce Butler, a South Carolina planter and failson, is engaged in what was thought for a long time to be the largest single act of human trafficking in American history - the sale of 436 men, women, and children.

#wrightposting

Milton Wright
March 2, 1857

I stay at Stubb's till afternoon, and then went to Morgan's & to James Newman's, where I preached from Ps. 16.8. I lodged at Newman's, James was a fond friend.

#wrightposting

A post-10/7 exactly as horrible but that ends by January of 24 sees a Harris win, I think. (Maybe even Biden.)

Antebellum South is a society where the rich live off the blood of others more directly than most so it makes sense

A bit on the nose

Benjamin Harrison Nominated for president on the eighth ballot at the 1888 Republican convention, Benjamin Harrison conducted one of the first "front-porch" campaigns, delivering short speeches to delegates that visite...

www.whitehousehistory.org/bios/benjami... that's right

continuing a theme in #wrightposting, I want to know more about the Chinese suffragette who his daughter saw speak (through a translator) in Progressive-era Dayton!

"will he be like Fetterman?"
"well the good news is I don't think he'll be overly committed to supporting Israel, the bad news is - lengthy."

A golden parachute that is also a golden cage.

Sure, I’m not making a hero of him - I just believe in reinforcing the idea that it’s good when somebody does the right thing,

Oh I don’t know, he does die leading a peasant mob storming a nobleman’s castle!

To his credit he was a hard no when approached re: “hey you hate the party of Black people and queer people as much as us on the far right, want to change teams” - but there are better reasons to follow someone than “not actively pro-Nazi”

I love how much of it is also a Looney Tunes violence game if you play it right. People standing on the edge of a cliff commenting about it sure is a long way down, directly under a chandelier wondering out loud about the rope, etc.

this was I think the first Ringworld novel I read. It was interesting to juvenile me but not so much that I would try to seek out the rest of the series, for the reasons you suggest.

yes but I'd read all sorts of stuff.