rogergathmann
Always in a sweat. Also, sorry, I never use that chat key. I'm not a good recipient for hot tips, or hotness of any type. Also, should say, if you support the Gaza genocide, don't reply to me. I'll block you. .
- Angela Carter, reviewing Christina Stead's opus in the LRB, began the right way: "To open a book, any book, by Christina Stead and read a few pages is to be at once aware that one is in the presence of greatness.
- "Believe the women" started out as a rather brave utopian effort that could be translated, for instance, into:
- In part, what we are seeing now with the partial publication of the Epstein files - and the gross reality that nobody will be prosecuted or even investigated for prosecution, in a case that spans the time between 2006 when he was indicted by a Florida Grand Jury and 2019 when he was strangled -
- I'm sad about John Forte dying - at 50! An abiding scandal in the U.S. is the unacceptably abridged life spans of African-American men. The enormous stress that is the environmental contributing cause is a reminder that systematic racism is not some phrase - it is a medical condition.
- I love the way centrist, the crytocoin bribed, the Ezra Klein-Yglesias network and the AI fraudsters have settled on the word abundance. Such a nice word! Equality, liberty, you know, those old words - we don't need them stinking up the joint when we can help billionaires by abunding-speak.
- Melania seems like a terrible waste, and, worse, fills in the documentary spot for Ghislaine's sweet pea. Sad. The person who should have made this documentary is Michael Moore.
- In the fifth grade, I began to learn about lines and geometry. Long afterwards, I began to wonder if there were questions I should have asked back then. Wondering if there were questions you should have asked in elementary school is a discipline with a name: philosophy.
- In the great decades, there are a host of strange transactions between the demi-monde and the Social Register, between art and fashion, fashion and youth culture, drugs and sex and clothes and clubs.