Pace varmints, I never understood that comparison. Twinkish, perhaps, but he never struck me as looking like a stereotypical lesbian.

Nah.

I think if more people understood that the bear isn't actually TALKING, but it's what the hunter IMAGINES the bear is THINKING, they'd recognize the frosty minimalism and startling psychological insight of Peter Campbell's prose.

Did you celebrate Mardi Gras in your Nazi household?

Witches get nothing.

:(

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You didn't even have to think about it, did you?

Wow, I'd never heard of the Voynich manuscript before. Fascinating and a little eerie.

The way Pam…peters out…at the end of that is superb.

What We Talk About When We Talk About What We Talk About: Conrad, Spivak, and the Explicit Implied in Discourse.

Showing what happens without a well-ordered government guided by Socialism with Chinese Characteristics?

Some of my best güeys are güeros!

I was struck by the laziness with which "frat" and "bro" are being tossed around here.

A kindred spirit, interested in the disinterested/uninterested distinction! I salute you.

Hello. I'm David Bowie.

Apparently it's a tradition that the Canadian and Mexican teams observe every couple of decades or so:
http://articles.latimes.com…

I almost felt sad for her reading that, because she's now so clearly out of her depth dealing with…the world, I guess.

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. It fires on every single cylinder—the script, the cinematography, the acting, the narrator and his literary, 19th-century phraseology, the score, goodness me the score. A personal epic of a common man, of the unheroic. The longing to be not just better, but a…

Raging Bull.

If you indeed made that, I want to add my voice to the chorus of praise. Excellent job.