With a strong supporting performance by Nicolas Cage?
[Smell that? It's sarcasm.]

"Developing" means shithole. "Underdeveloped" means
child soldiers, slavery, pirates, female circumcision, diseases that don't even have NAMES yet? We've got that here.

One of my obsessions!

Don't be fatuous, Sister. Elvis shot JFK.

BEEP: "Hey, Ritchie. This is Big Ray Figlar. Come and get your stuff out of my attic, already.
BEEP: "Rich. This is Big Ray. I'm takin' your shit down to St. Vinnie de Paul, since you don't seem to want it and it's makin' my God Damn ceiling start to creak. You had your chance, asshole."
BEEP: "No, fuck you, Belzer! It…

You mean, when there's a trial for a criminal offence, the court officials have to choose twelve adult citizens from the same general area to listen to the evidence and arguments, and then make a decision about it? That's some fucked-up shit, Man!

Same here.

The one less than five minutes from me is inside the grounds of an amusement park that was set up at the original end of the local electric trolley company's line (a la Coney Island) at the end of the 19th century. The park is still in operation (the only one in WV) and has one of the oldest continuously operating…

You miserable, vicious hemisphereist! ;-)

Northern Hemisphere, small town version of same.

From what little I understand, it's a school thing.

I don't have no truck with them people…

Goddamn fall allergies have kicked into overdrive. Didn't sleep for shit. Had to take the day off and double down on the Allegra.

[THUMP]

How do you feel about Spinoza?

One of the things that has always stuck with me about England is the sheer density of historical incident in what to me is a relatively compact geographical space. It's utterly the opposite of the States, even on the East Coast and the old Spanish and French territories.
On the other hand, I'm less than 5 minutes…

I love Gaspode so much, and of course the U. U. faculty and Throat as well. Moving Pictures and Soul Music pair well together as meditations on pop culture phenomena, I think.

He should have stuck with the math.

I started Michael Swanwick's new Darger and Surplus novel, Chasing the Phoenix, which is delightful. I'm steeling myself to read The Shepherd's Crown next week. Still gnawing on F. F. - A.'s Civilization and finding out why it's a bad idea to try to live in large groups in a tropical rain forest.

Couldn't even be assed with a cookie sheet, this guy…