Jacob
Books and stuff.
- Reposted by JacobThis pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10
- Story idea: Jarndyce and Jarndyce vs The Vampire In a mash-up of Bleak House by Dickens and the novel by Bram Stoker, Dracula must navigate a complicated legal case concerning multiple wills and the ownership of a large estate while trying to seduce his virgin bride. Bloodsucking lawyers abound.
- The average American starts working while in high school, even if it’s only part-time and summers, and doesn’t retire until 65 at the earliest, but no, FIFTY YEARS isn’t enough for these jackals, we need to give them more, more, more.
- Some of my great-grandparents left Germany in the '30s (can't imagine why), some others left Alsace in the 1870s and '80s (ditto), and if what I found recently on this LDS-run genealogy website is correct, a bunch of my German ancestors 10-11 generations back arrived in Pennsylvania before 1760...
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- Why did I decide to start a 1,000 piece puzzle with mostly white pieces? This is gonna take ages.
- Reposted by JacobNeil Gaiman should never be readmitted to polite society. A man with that much money and power, actively putting up a smokescreen of progressivism to conceal his predation, can never be trusted.
- Reposted by JacobThe Nut.
- This is who runs this account.
- Reposted by JacobSo fare thee well, poor devil of a Sub-Sub, whose commentator I am.
- Book checkpoint Last: Bleak House, Dickens Current: Throne of Jade (Temeraire #2), Naomi Novik (reread) Next: Moby-Dick, maybe? Or another Stephen King? Or Mary Renault? Last added tbr: Hammajang Luck, Makana Yamamoto; Iron City, Lloyd L Brown; The Song of Stork and Dromedary, Anjet Daanje
- Everything old is new again.
- Reposted by Jacobdoubting those traditions did not make those traditions one whit the less facts
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- Reposted by JacobMy hot take about the “students cannot read whole novels / watch whole films / etc.” is that they can learn to do it. None of us are born with attention spans suited for long media. It is a learned skill and can be developed with practice.
- If I was a billionaire I would not take trips to Crime Island. I would start my own vanity press to help save the mass market paperback from extinction, and also to just print/reprint any unusual and neglected works that catch my fancy. Anyone interested in The Complete Works of Henry Darger?
- Reposted by Jacob“Doctors won’t tell you this, but you don’t need medication for a tapeworm—all you need is the natural power of friction,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said as he dropped to the floor, lifted his legs high, and dragged his ass along the White House carpet during a press conference.
