Dude, rich people love to throw away their money on expensive useless design crap. They are the target market for this.
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Being a kid from Illinois, and a good sci-fi nerd, I grew up loving Ray Bradbury. “Something Wicked” was that one book that I read around age 12-13 that started making me think about growing up, especially in the character of Charles Halloway. I knew a little bit more about growing old and trying to stay young after…
Although I first read it when I was ten years old, Dune was probably the most influential book I read in this regard. The Litany Against Fear was something I took to heart, and has stood me in good stead throughout my adult life.
God I’m old. And strange.
This was the first book I ever picked up out of the Science Fiction section in my school’s library. I’d only ever checked out non-fiction books or Boxcar Children nonsense. But the title on this one jumped out at me from across the room. Over the next three years I read almost every single sci-fi book in the library.…
The ultimate dystopia novel. I read it during the Bush years and it helped inform my opinion about politics, especially how word usage is the ultimate form of control. Nearly jumped out of my seat when the TV screen was revealed at Winston and Julia’s getaway and the scene involving Winston’s biggest fears (rats) made…
This is the edition of A Wrinkle in Time that I grew up with. I first read it in middle school, which I realize is well before the transition to adulthood, but it was one of the first books I encountered in the school library that had a hint of real danger and loss to it. The stakes in the book seemed more genuine to…
I fund the Fellowship of the Ring during the hardest year of my childhood. The escapism kept me sane. The characters informed me about the type of person I wanted to be.
I have to thank Stephen King for The Stand and then the Gunslinger which I read back to back.
Couple years, at roughly 400 a month. Which is eating pretty good.
Why would anyone do this? This is too stupid.
Stuff like this makes me sick. $10000 could make a big impact on a lot of people, and they’re wasting it to make a stupid Youtube clip with no point other than to make you cringe. Why not just go to a poor person’s house and burn $20 bills in front of their starving kids next?
Hmm... $10k would feed a family of four for how long? Our society sucks.
...or: how to spend your entire trust fund to live your life pretending you’re still in your fraternity.
I don’t get how people don’t hate themselves for being part of that kind of community.
I tried to care but I couldn’t do it. People can go be terrible people on their own.
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The late, great Michael Hedges playing the Symphony Harp Guitar (circa 1986 - about 20 years before everyone and their brother jumped on this style of playing) skip to 2:25.
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Ah. An opportunity to shill for Les Luthiers! - These are a comical group that’s been going since the 70s and makes some awesome some down right smutty “cultural” (like the ode to Oedipus) songs and they also tend to make their own instruments.