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You would hear me screaming from across the Atlantic

WHAT. 🤮

Hindu?

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March for Billionaires — San Francisco, Feb 7 Stand up for the entrepreneurs, innovators, and risk-takers who build our economy. February 7, 2026.

If only. Apparently they think they’re having their own protest march next Saturday? marchforbillionaires.org#why

The World's Best Hot Fudge Sauce Baking my way through Maida Heatter's recipes, Baking, Cookies, Cakes, Pies, Desserts, Cooking, Maida Heatter, Candy, Bread, Ice Cream, Biscotti

Maida Heatter’s World’s Best Hot Fudge Sauce is unmatched. Turns to tar when it hits the ice cream. madaboutmaida.blogspot.com/2011/12/worl...

The most Jesus-like thing about him?

YouTube video by David Mitchell's Soapbox References | David Mitchell's SoapBox

Reminds me of this fifteen year old David Mitchell bit youtu.be/QjG9JcyLYbw?...

And being extremely stressed out

KJ Charles: Slippery Creatures trilogy and The Henchmen of Zenda

Obliterated on Netflix. Very dumb. Laughed out loud.

Black Sails yes yes yes

YouTube video by Хорошее настроение A bit of Fry & Laurie - SAS

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YouTube video by MonLaferteVEVO Mon Laferte - La Democracia (En Vivo)

“algunas rimas pa la venganza” youtu.be/bUHJdCt8XCI?...

YouTube video by Loudon Wainwright III - Topic Bad Man

I was seven, but I don’t think I actually learned about it until I heard Loudon Wainwright’s song Bad Man, which is mostly about the first gulf war. I’ve had that stuck in my head for a few days now…. youtu.be/BU3e8waCB8c?...

Grendel's Dog: A Fragment from Beocat by the Old English Epic's Unknown Author's Cat (Modern English verse translation by the Editor's Cat) from Henry Beard's Poetry for Cats Brave Beocat, brood kit of Ecgthmeow, Hearth-pet of Hrothgar, in whose high halls He mauled without mercy many fat mice, Night did not find napping nor snack-feasting. The wary war-cat, whiskered paw-wielder, Bearer of the burnished neck-belt, gold-braided collar-band, Feller of fleas, fatal, too, to ticks, The work of wonder-smiths, woven with witches' charms, Sat on the throne-seat, his ears like sword-points Upraised, sharp-tipped, listening for peril-sounds, When he heard from the moor-hill howls of the hell-hound, Gruesome hunger-grunts of Grendel's Great Dane, Deadly doom-mutt, dread demon-dog. Then boasted Beocat, noble battle-kitten, Bane of barrow-bunnies, bold seeker of nest-booty, "If hand of man unhasped the heavy hall-door And freed me to frolic forth to fight the fang-bearing fiend, I would lay the whelpling low with lethal claw-blows; Fur would fly and the foe would taste death-food. But resounding snooze-noise, stern slumber-thunder, Nose-music of men snoring mead-hammered in the wine-hall, Fills me with sorrow-feeling for Fate does not see fit To send some fingered folk to lift the firm-fastened latch That I might go grapple with the grim ghoul-pooch." Thus spake the mouse-shredder, hunter of hall-pests, Short-haired Hrodent-slayer, greatest of the pussy-Geats.

Oh, now I see that the photo of the doors is from the catalogue raisonne not a recent snapshot, so it could be any date

I’m very curious when this photo was taken, because I think the one in Austin has been there since 08. Is there a secret third?

*ahem*
May I suggest…

KJ Charles: Think of England; The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen; Slippery Creatures
Cat Sebastian: Hither, Page; You Should Be So Lucky, Peter Cabot Gets Lost
Courtney Milan: The duke who didn’t; The Devil Comes Courting

“Oh, but people make mistakes too!”—If I was that confidently wrong, this often, in the face of such obvious evidence, they would literally fire me from my job.
(Thanks for the rec, looks right up my alley!)

Screenshot of a Google search for “cast of vultures”. At the top is A Cast of Vultures, Book by Judith Flanders, multiple cover images, and a link to its goodreads page. The AI text reads, “There is no well-known book titled A Cast of Vultures by Judith Flanders; search results point to a TV series called Vultures, a 1984 film, and a 2025 film, but no book by that name by that author, suggesting a possible mix-up with another work or author. Judith Flanders is known for historical non-fiction like The Victorian Internet, so it's likely the user is thinking of a different book or a different author.” The top four results below the AI answer were for the 2025 film Vultures. As I didn’t include the author’s name in my search, it is especially hilarious that it could supply that in order to say the book doesn’t exist.

I read your comment, and googled the book, not having heard of it. Google AI’s helpful response:

YouTube video by Gloria Estefan Official FAN TV Gloria Estefan • Farolito (En Vivo desde Nuestra Navidad 2011)

Perpetually disappointed by retail America’s failure to add this Gloria Estefan banger to the canon youtu.be/y9AQXySGV18?...

Fuck all the way off with this shit. My 76 year old mom shouldn’t have to explain to you or anyone why she can manage to hobble the length of the plane but not the length of the airport.

Idk I got sweaty today wrapping Christmas presents

If you’re a Mosley and you don’t change your surname at 18, I feel pretty comfortable burdening you with the sins of your grandfather

I just reread The Devil Comes Courting. What a beautiful, moving book. You’ve got me bawling over telegraph cable.

They are saying your accounts must be set to public. And your dependents’ accounts. Were you trying to keep your kid from the full firehouse of the internet? Too bad!

The book of my enemy has been remaindered Clive James The book of my enemy has been remaindered And I am pleased. In vast quantities it has been remaindered Like a van-load of counterfeit that has been seized And sits in piles in a police warehouse, My enemy's much-prized effort sits in piles In the kind of bookshop where remaindering occurs. Great, square stacks of rejected books and, between them, aisles One passes down reflecting on life's vanities, Pausing to remember all those thoughtful reviews Lavished to no avail upon one's enemy's book -- For behold, here is that book Among these ranks and banks of duds, These ponderous and seeminly irreducible cairns Of complete stiffs. The book of my enemy has been remaindered And I rejoice. It has gone with bowed head like a defeated legion Beneath the yoke. What avail him now his awards and prizes, The praise expended upon his meticulous technique, His individual new voice? Knocked into the middle of next week His brainchild now consorts with the bad buys The sinker, clinkers, dogs and dregs, The Edsels of the world of moveable type, The bummers that no amount of hype could shift, The unbudgeable turkeys. Yea, his slim volume with its understated wrapper Bathes in the blare of the brightly jacketed Hitler's War Machine, His unmistakably individual new voice Shares the same scrapyart with a forlorn skyscraper Of The Kung-Fu Cookbook, His honesty, proclaimed by himself and believed by others, His renowned abhorrence of all posturing and pretense, Is there with Pertwee's Promenades and Pierrots-- One Hundred Years of Seaside Entertainment, And (oh, this above all) his sensibility, His sensibility and its hair-like filaments, His delicate, quivering sensibility is now as one With Barbara Windsor's Book of Boobs, A volume graced by the descriptive rubric "My boobs will give everyone hours of fun". Soon now a book of mine could be remaindered also, Though not to the monumental extent In which the chastisement of remainder…

An “unbudgeable turkey”

there’s a parallel mythology that it was to deter mosquitoes. I can definitely say that a blue porch ceiling painted with modern paint deters no mosquitoes at all, but it makes you wonder

The director of the fort museum in Jodphur told me Jodphur’s blue paint (originally lime wash with indigo) was supposed to deter insects. And “haint blue” in the southern US came from enslaved people following the mythology of west Africa that blue around house openings keeps out spirits, but