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Book cover for small town sins by Ken jaworowski shows the sunset above a small town’s main drag in PA

Just finished this lovely gritty book.

Elon Musk gets roasted on his own platform by Joyce Carol Oates. Like an ancient cyborg culling through the ruins of a post-apocalyptic planet (twitter, derogatory), Joyce Carol Oates recently fired her full-power death ray at aspiring trillionaire Elon Musk, wh…

Winner by TKO, Joyce Carol Oates!

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Someone who reads books explained your relevance to him. He tried to dismiss it, then he found out how many books you’ve written and felt threatened by your work ethic and talent.

He’s internalized Dale Carnegie.

Are these for sale in Portland? Hoping to buy one without having it shipped. Thanks!

Nature break because politics are sometimes (often) overwhelming.

Take the microphone away from Dad his politics and his jokes are lame.

I like to use work out soreness as an opportunity to complain/ brag. The pain means you pushed yourself. Next time push a little less and then bit by bit a little more.

Faye Dunaway dressed to kill on the Thomas Crown Affair.

Dunaway’s wardrobe in this one was stunning.

👏🏼Well done! Someone takes “protect and serve” seriously.

It costs ~$70 to produce a year’s supply of insulin.

Yet, the average annual cost of insulin went from $2,864 in 2012 to $5,705 in 2016 to $18,000 in 2025. A 25,714% markup. That isn’t inflation or supply chain—It’s corporate greed.

Now—California will sell insulin for $11. Make this nationwide!

Three groups that cannot really vote in the US. Just sayin.

Because Hamas terrorists have all registered to vote as democrats in the US. Makes no sense but no matter.
Had to tell my father that, no, we did not burn the federal building down in Portland. Unsure is that was Fox “News” or dementia. I suspect there is a causal relationship there.

Grateful that the local rerun theaters who wish to honor Diane Keaton are not showing any Woody Allen films!
That said it becomes a toss up between Looking for Mr. Goodbar and Baby Boom and is there really even a question?

That’s terrible! Just when you think they’ve sunk to new levels, they get even lower.

Just overcame my fear of public speaking to give a presentation at a large annual conference of my peers. A moderator informed me privately of a typo in my slides that she believed was supposed to be ‘shift’ but instead was ‘shit.’I explained that was likely a Freudian shit.

So Far Gone by @jesswalter.bsky.social was one of my favorite reads of 156 books this year. Going through and reading all of his catalog now. The humor and action in this one are intertwined so perfectly!

Couch street in Portland Oregon. Seems simple but here it is pronounced cooch.

Johnny Cash in all black as he was known as the man in black

Perhaps this is too obvious.

This is a poignant shot. Channeling Eggleston here.

Instead of ending wars he has made America grate for many of us and not great as promised.

It’s nice to be able to see a Zamrock band from the 70s with the original frontman. A little bit of history and nostalgia.

This sounds like a horror story collection you could publish and possibly get someone to illustrate. Include the soufflé recipe maybe.

If you sew up the body and then pick up the stitches at the shoulders and knit the sleeves in the round down to the cuff things are pretty smooth.

I hung it on the wall. That might be a bit pretentious but if you want to make art you have to start somewhere, and yarn is what I know.

Listening to this book by
Marie-Helene Bertino and I’m filled will joy by the experience and sadness knowing it will end soon.

We are in sync on the film and book portion of your post. I’ll have to check out the rest. Will suggest these polarities in return.

#showmeyourknits so this is crochet but I do both and it’s good to experiment sometimes. This journey was circuitous to say the least. I had spring in mind and I finished it just in time for fall. Does that sound familiar to anyone else out there?

Also likening vaccines to slavery is so ridiculous!

Snubbing Kennedy, States Announce Plans to Coordinate on Vaccines

Snubbing Kennedy, States Announce Plans to Coordinate on Vaccines www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u... We don’t need to follow you down your path of stupidity. Enjoy the flu season RFK.