josh

Really struggling to come up with another American sect that didn’t tilt decidedly in the other direction re: chastity

Is the arms dealer’s house in Tenet?

Shakers were the vestal virgins of America, but something had to take their place. Why not Jedis?

Don Draper watching a movie and smoking

I’ve done the research and can now say with confidence that my first edition hardcover copy of The Last Samurai is worth somewhere between $9.50 and $700.00

Geese: If you want me to pay my taaaaxes… if you want me to pay my taaaaaaaxeees… You better come over with a cruuucifix… You're gonna have to nail me doooow—

IRS agent: Okay, let’s all take a breath

Initial reaction to this was “Ron Perlman is in his 70s, gross.” Wrong generational galoot.

Kind of Damien Rice for baby millenials. Ireland must just always have one of these guys in the chamber

I like a lot of the first half but side 2 is all bangers

There’s a particular type of intellectual whose parents were professors who are absolutely convinced that they’d be great at working on an oil rig and that all the other oil rig guys would would really like them if they just got to know them. These guys are all Nazis now.

Kafka: As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect
Lewis (nodding sagely): Hell yes, brother

Weeping Mary Primitive Baptist Church of the Dao That Cannot Be Named

Feel like this might have been a Prompt once now

With shoutouts to the Ashley and the Cooper, the Edisto, and the Tennessee

Saluda/Broad/Congaree -> Han -> Black Warrior -> ?

My favorite one is the ocean

Tracing my life through a succession of rivers

My dad became something like a Baptist Daoist in his dotage. Maybe I’ll kick the tires on that one

Adding Marilynne Robinson-core to the aesthetics wiki

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The coffeehouse Dad in me is levitating

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YouTube video by Demi Adejuyigbe Rejected Theme Song from READY PLAYER ONE

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I love taking hormones to improve my mental health in an extremely non-transgender way

Maybe the solution is to just make Maine Massachusetts again. Just do something. I’ve had enough of this dude

The drift away from the station wagon to the SUV is a symptom of fascism

Yeah actually I’d swap him in for John Brown. South Carolina’s greatest son, if we have any right to him

Bessie Coleman, Eddie Aikau, John Brown, Jim Thorpe, Nellie Bly

Maybe, uh

Melville, Sequoyah, Duke Ellington, Harriet Tubman, Lincoln probably stays

Bonus $2 bill with 1970s detective Ashbery

Who would you put on the banknotes? is a fun game I’ve somehow never done before.

Now this is a cover

Makes me think of a high school Spanish textbook somehow