Or is that 'alternate'?

Speaking of Card, the alternative 19th Century, in which the Alvin Maker series is set, would be pretty fuckin' cool- if it weren't, ya know, the 19th Century.

Dashiell Hammet's San Francisco of the 1920's
I'm re-reading The Continental Op again.

lexi- Roy Head

Shenanigoats

Performance
Tommy
Whore

Yeah, I should have just left it to you, mbs.

"Listen, you lippy caricature of those who you are so quick to praise: man cannot understand the identical direction of his will otherwise than as a limitation of it. In persons like you, man's will always appear unlimited because it has not yet been subject to reason. "

"…even if we fail…"

Because we're mutts, ya schmoe. We're a nation born of notions that we think are worth fighting for, if if we fail to live up to 'em. We aren't a people who have been forced by a thousand years of autocratic rule, by threat of the knout, internal exile or the gulag that humility is a virtue.

When We Were Kings. Raging Bull.

Sometimes you get thrown into the cancerAIDS fire, and sometimes you just fall in accidentally, I guess.

@EvelKareebel

Here, mbs:

Ruffles used to make a sour cream, chive bacon AND cheddar flavored chip. I haven't seen it on the grocers' shelves recently.

I hope you get to Buck Owens before you hang it up, Nabin
I'm really looking forward to your Jimmy Rodgers, but I'm surprised you didn't use it as the follow up to Hank Williams- there's a lot of Rodgers in Williams' music.

Tarkovsky's Former AD. I think your statement was, "I hate you," or something close to that. I didn't expect that from _you_, though I completely share the sentiment.

I'm with Riff.

I don't think you need to apologize for anything. I'm just amazed that your hands aren't swelled to the size of catcher's mitts. Or are you having your helper monkey do the work for you right now?

My God! You're still able to type after last night? Whatever you do, don't start typing out every last flavor you can think of.