That's correct. The south couldn't even turn their slave grown cotton in fabric, they had to ship it to New England or overseas for that. They had almost no industrial capacity at all, just an entire economy built on a single crop that required 4 million of the 9 million people living in the south to be slaves.

More like Confederacy of Dunces.

I just bought it, see you in 880 pages!

I met Neal Stephenson in Seattle last month at the town hall. He read the first 30 pages of his new co-authored book DODO and then hung around for a bit and chatted then signed all my books. He was really cool with a quick dry wit. It was pretty great.

That made me really laugh. Cheers.

I love SAGA. Apparently Ron Howard's next project is to turn a Neal Stephenson book into a movie. I forgot which one but it it's Anathem or Diamond Age it could be very cool.

Are you secretly Matt LeBlanc?

You just watched Jupiter Ascending for the creepy implied bestiality and you know it.

Dehaan was good in A Cure For Wellness, I just saw it a few days ago.

I quite like Dane DeHaan, he was fine in A Cure for Wellness.

A.A. Dowd would only give shitting on Crash a B+ at best.

Hi, it's me. I'm just the regular police, and you're under arrest. We told you to stay away from schools and playgrounds.

I wear my crocs because I got too fat to tie normal shoes, so fuck off. Also, I can always find a pair of crocs to match my sweatpants aka "butterpants".

Probably not as successful since predators are their core demographic.

*monocle fall in champagne flute

I had no idea her ex was Lucas Neff from Raising Hope until I looked up the cast to verify that the dog guru from the park was Timothy Omundson from Psych. Both were nearly unrecognizable with long hair and beards. I mostly enjoyed the show.

Ignorance is no excuse for anything.

It's actually not too expensive. $20 for the blanco and $75 for the reposado.

Take that Sammy Hagar! (He sold his stake in Cabo Wabo Tequila for a puny $11 mil in 2010.)

No, he was kinda scary because he was clearly insane.