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Sunday Morning Book Thread 02-07-2021

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Mansion Library, Westchester County, NY

Good morning to all you 'rons, 'ettes, lurkers, and lurkettes, wine moms, frat bros, crétins sans pantalon (who are technically breaking the rules). Welcome once again to the stately, prestigious, internationally acclaimed and high-class Sunday Morning Book Thread, a weekly compendium of reviews, observations, snark, witty repartee, hilarious bon mots, and a continuing conversation on books, reading, spending way too much money on books, writing books, and publishing books by escaped oafs and oafettes who follow words with their fingers and whose lips move as they read. Unlike other AoSHQ comment threads, the Sunday Morning Book Thread is so hoity-toity, pants are required. Even if it's this sorry lot of decadent, bed-wetting soy boys. I weep for our future.



Pic Note:

Unfortunately, the information about this library is behind the WSJ pay wall and not even running it through archive.is helps much.

This Westchester County mansion was built about a decade ago to look like a historical home, but has modern amenities and cozy spaces throughout.

The two-story mahogany library. The Daumans created a secret staircase in the library that connects the lower library to the upper library and the master bedroom. It can be discovered by pressing on one of bookcases, which then pops open.

This is from a pinned item on Pinterest. That secret passageway sounds pretty cool.


It Pays To Increase Your Word Power®

When Moron Meetups get out of hand...

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A Shock To The System

A discussion about "shock treatment" broke out in the comments last week, which I found quite interesting. To show you how ignorant I was, I had thought it was a thing of the past, a procedure discarded as medically worthless, like bloodletting, or lobotomies. But no, electro-convulsive therapy (ECT) is still being used and the procedure has been refined and improved quite a bit.

So I went looking on Amazon to see what I could find. Many of the books appear to be technical manuals for medical professionals, and are quite extensive. But I did find a couple of books that might be of interest, for example, Shocked: Insider stories about electroconvulsive therapy by George Kirov, who discusses some of his case histories:

ECT, Electroconvulsive or Electroshock therapy, is easily the most controversial treatment in psychiatry. It is given to the most severely ill patients and often achieves startling cures where other treatments have failed. More than half of the patients reach remission within 12 ECT sessions. Behind this dry, anonymous statistic are personal and dramatic stories. Psychiatrist Professor George Kirov shares some of the more unusual and complex cases featuring patients who received this treatment in his clinic. Some were tormented by delusions, some nearly died through suicide attempts or food refusal; a few were written off as hopeless before being given ECT. The reader is not spared the complications that this treatment can involve, such as memory problems and arrhythmias. The stories described here are real, stories of suffering, mental anguish, and triumph.

The Kindle edition is only $2.99.

There is also the 2007 book Shock: The Healing Power of Electroconvulsive Therapy by, of all people, Kitty Dukakis, the wife of Massachusetts governor and failed presidential candidate Michael Dukakis:

Kitty Dukakis has battled debilitating depression for more than twenty years. Coupled with drug and alcohol addictions that both hid and fueled her suffering, Kitty's despair was overwhelming. She tried every medication and treatment available; none worked for long. It wasn't until she tried electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT, that she could reclaim her life...This book presents a full picture of ECT, analyzing the treatment's risks along with its benefits. ECT, it turns out, is neither a panacea nor a scourge but a serious option for treating life threatening and disabling mental diseases, like depression, bipolar disorder, and others.

I can't imagine being depressed for 20 years. That must've been horrible. How she must've suffered! No wonder ECT became a viable option for her.




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Books By Morons

If national events are getting you down, try reading something really silly:

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Taking short-cuts with nature is always asking for trouble:

When Katy steals her father's experimental dinosaur growth serum to help her runt chicken it works much better than she could have anticipated. Can she keep her chicken from ruining the dome that the colony lives under?

Mars Needs Chickens is only 98 cents, so how can you go wrong?

Also, here's a free short story from moron author Paul Hair. He says:

It’s about communists engaging in a terrorist attack on America, after which the American government deems . . . white, Christian men as the number one terrorism threat.

You can read it here.

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From The Chronicles of 'Woke' Publishing




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We know that book publishing is 'woker' than the average 'woke', but this is pretty egregious, even for that industry. To recap, just using a non-approved social media platform is enough to get you booted from your publishing job.

I wanted to see if I could get some more information from DeChiara's Twitter timeline, but guess what, I couldn't.

So stunning, so brave.



Who Dis:

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(Last week's 'who dis' was actress Celeste Holm.



Moron Recommendations

I got an e-mail from 'ette commenter March Hare who got an error when she tried to post a recommendation in the comments last week, so here it is:

I believe it was Eris who recommended Astounding, a biography of John W. Campbell and three of the writers whose careers he influenced: Robert Heinlen, L. Ron Hubbard, and Dr. Isaac Asimov. I would like to thank her for the recommendation and encourage anyone who loves science fiction to read it. Astounding (which Campbell renamed Analog in the 1960's, I believe) became THE magazine for science fiction under Campbell's editorship. Campbell moved the genre from "space western" to literature where serious ideas were examined and explored, both scientific and social.

Many of the names and stories mentioned are considered classics--if you read science fiction, you'll enjoy this biography and history.

No need to add anything to this. The Amazon blurb for Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction is quite detailed.

Which reminds me...

A friend sent me a pdf scan of a vintage radio magazine (1927) and I noticed that the publisher was Hugo Gernsback. I thought, wait, the science-fiction guy? As a matter of fact, yes. He was into electronics in a big way. Reading his wiki entry, he was an amazing guy. Although there were aspects that were unsavory:

Gernsback was noted for sharp (and sometimes shady) business practices, and for paying his writers extremely low fees or not paying them at all. H. P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith referred to him as "Hugo the Rat".

As Barry Malzberg has said:

Gernsback's venality and corruption, his sleaziness and his utter disregard for the financial rights of authors, have been well documented and discussed in critical and fan literature. That the founder of genre science fiction who gave his name to the field's most prestigious award and who was the Guest of Honor at the 1952 Worldcon was pretty much a crook (and a contemptuous crook who stiffed his writers but paid himself $100K a year as President of Gernsback Publications) has been clearly established.

The author Jack Williamson once had to hire an attorney to force Gernsback to pay him what he was owed.

So I looked to see if there were any biographies of Gernsback on Amazon, and there are several, but from the titles, they sound like they may be a bit hagiographic, like this one, Hugo Gernsback - A Man Well Ahead of His Time:

Known most commonly as "The Father of Science Fiction," Hugo Gernsback was an amazing person. After coming to the United States in February 1904, from Luxenbourg, he founded an electronics publishing business that went from Modern Electrics in 1908 through Poptronics in 2002. In between there were ventures into Sexology, Flying, Science Fiction, and many other titles. A prolific inventor with some 50 patents to his name, his life story is fascinating to say the least.

Boy, I'll say.

The provenance of this biography is kind of interesting:

This biography was found in a musty old box when we closed down the business in 2002. It was written for Hugo at his request and the original manuscript pages bear his hand-written comments and corrections. I had the great pleasure as the final owner of Gernsback Publiscations to re-edit and publish this work, which documents his life, his dreams, his thoughts and tells an accurate story of his life as he saw it.

There probably won't be anything in there about him stiffing authors who wrote for him, I'll bet. Which is unfortunate. I like the name "Hugo the Rat", though. So much contempt in such a short epithet.

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95 I'm currently reading Book 2 of 4 of Ian Irvine's The View from the Mirror. I bought the first one over twenty years ago (liked the cover) and never bothered to read it until recently. Turns out to be a pretty decent series so far. It's a somewhat unconventional, yet also quite conventional in many ways, fantasy series. The author deliberately set out to make a series with characters who have more complex motivations for doing things than you might suspect. Every character has their ups and downs. Worth a read if you are looking for something different in fantasy.

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at January 31, 2021 09:33 AM (hQrcu)

As Lord Squirrel said, this is a four book series, but you can get the Kindle edition of the first installment, A Shadow on the Glass, for 99 cents:

Karan, a sensitive whose family is cursed by madness, is compelled by honour to steal an ancient magical device and take it to the Magister. But it’s the treacherous Mirror of Aachan, and hidden within it is a deadly secret.

Llian, a brilliant but naïve Tale-spinner, uncovers a 3,000-year-old mystery too dangerous to be revealed and is expelled from his college.

Thrown together by fate as they struggle to get to safety, Karan and Llian are ensnared in the machinations of immortals, the vengeance of feuding warlords and the magic of all-powerful wizards. Magic that could break Karan’s fragile mind, and corrupt Llian as he pries into the riddles of the mirror.

And if they fail the two-faced mirror will spark a millennial war, terrible as a tsunami, that will deluge the land in forbidden magic, tear nations apart, and threaten the very survival of humanity.


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239 Speaking of once-popular authors, does anyone remember Mary Roberts Rinehart? She was called "the American Agatha Christie". When I was young, her books were on bookstands everywhere; now she seems quite forgotten. I bought a huge collection of her novels for $2 for my Kindle, and have just started reading one of her mysteries. Like Eeyore, though, I have trouble settling in a reading long term; somehow I start dozing off. Maybe reading on a Kindle is a bit more soporific than reading a hard copy.

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at January 17, 2021 10:35 AM (+sPbZ)

I had never heard her name before, but her bio has some interesting tidbits:

Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876 - September 22, 195 was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie, although her first mystery novel was published 14 years before Christie's first novel in 1922.

Rinehart is considered the source of the phrase "The butler did it" from her novel The Door (1930), although the novel does not use the exact phrase. Rinehart is also considered to have invented the "Had-I-But-Known" school of mystery writing, with the publication of The Circular Staircase (190.

She also created a costumed super-criminal called "the Bat", cited by Bob Kane as one of the inspirations for his "Batman".

Her first book was a mystery called The Man in Lower Ten. The Amazon blurb didn't tell me diddly-poo about the plot, but I did find this on goodreads:

A nicely atmospheric mystery of a bygone era. Attorney Lawrence Blakely becomes implicated when a murder is discovered on the overnight train he is travelling in. All the evidence points to Lawrence. To clear his name he pursues a convoluted trail to find out what really occurred on the Ontario that fateful night.

Sounds like at might be from a Hitchcock movie, doesn't it? Rinehart wrote many books, and many of the Kindle editions are in the $2.99-$7.99 range. Or, you can get The Greatest Murder Mysteries of Mary Roberts Rinehart - 25 Titles in One Edition, that's 2800 (!) pages, for only 99 cents.

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So that's all for this week. As always, book thread tips, suggestions, bribes, insults, threats, ugly pants pics and moron library submissions may be sent to OregonMuse, Proprietor, AoSHQ Book Thread, at the book thread e-mail address: aoshqbookthread, followed by the 'at' sign, and then 'G' mail, and then dot cee oh emm.

What have you all been reading this week? Hopefully something good, because, as you all know, life is too short to be reading lousy books.


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Comments

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1 Tolke Lege

Posted by: Skip at February 07, 2021 09:01 AM (Cxk7w)

2 Jane MAnsfield

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest at February 07, 2021 09:02 AM (ONvIw)

3 Jayne Mansfield. Give me a moment and I'll tell you the movie. I think it's Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, but don't quote me.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 07, 2021 09:03 AM (2JVJo)

4 Trip to different used book store and picked up 2 of Bernard Conwell's Sharpe series. Wanted something heavy to read but didn't get anything like that.

Posted by: Skip at February 07, 2021 09:03 AM (Cxk7w)

5 Who Dis? is the lovely and talented Dr. Rachael Levine, the newly appointed Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Services in the Biden Administration, relaxing in the bath after a long, tiring, but ultimately rewarding day of denying biological reality.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 07, 2021 09:04 AM (PiwSw)

6 Good book morning. -19F with -38F windchill here this morning. The old timers have a saying: "The cold keeps the idiots out."


This is sadly not true.

Posted by: Muad'dib at February 07, 2021 09:04 AM (Q9w+/)

7 O noes! Even my beloved book thread is against me!

Posted by: grammie winger at February 07, 2021 09:04 AM (45fpk)

8 Good book morning. -19F with -38F windchill here this morning.

Minus 11 here. I don't even want to know what the wind chill is.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 07, 2021 09:05 AM (45fpk)

9 I can't imagine being depressed for 20 years.

I can.

I'm not as bad as Kitty, but it's been a lot longer than 20 years, I can tell you that.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 07, 2021 09:05 AM (2JVJo)

10 Pic of mother and child is the epitome of white privilege! Because we all know black moms don't read to their kids, or so we're told. So whitey reading to their child = white supremacy and unfair advantage...or something.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 07, 2021 09:06 AM (O+I8R)

11 Izzat Joan Blondell in the pic as well?

Posted by: BignJames at February 07, 2021 09:06 AM (AwYPR)

12 I know I'm reading so much less because of my smartphone - iandeal, 60% might be on the low side for me. It's been a terrible week - due to work commitments I didn't have time to finish even one book. Sigh.

Posted by: CarolinaGirl at February 07, 2021 09:06 AM (Kh9rg)

13 Anyway, I should be finishing Eumeswil this week, maybe today. I am enjoying it but it is more about the philosophy behind surviving a dictatorship than any major physical means of doing it. Dialogue is sparse, and it largely touts keeping a low profile. It's interesting that Junger has a version of the internet (luminar) and government issued cell phones to signify rank (phonophore) in the book. So far it seems to be recommending sharing your plans with no one.

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest at February 07, 2021 09:06 AM (ONvIw)

14 Morning grammie. Good to see you.

Posted by: Muad'dib at February 07, 2021 09:07 AM (Q9w+/)

15 Electroshock therapy, huh? Might work on the Never Trumpers. "Straighten up and fly right or bzzzzzt!"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 07, 2021 09:07 AM (VVEnO)

16
g'mornin', book-ish "rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 07, 2021 09:08 AM (p5Xru)

17 Cool! My recommendation made the list! I just finished Book 2 of The View from the Mirror and enjoyed it quite a bit. Also read Ian Irvine's bio. He was a marine biologist and environmental scientist before he switched to writing. It definitely shows in his work, though not in a preachy, woke sort of way. Mostly in the way he accurately describes his world building. The Dry Sea region of his world is almost certainly based on plausible ways in which a hostile environment like that could actually exist on Earth (and does in some places, such as the Great Salt Lake region in Utah). Good stuff, pretty good climax. Now I start Book 3 - Dark is the Moon. The bad guy has just been freed from his prison and now will start taking over the world (as bad guys tend to do). Cheers!

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at February 07, 2021 09:08 AM (hQrcu)

18 I'm struggling now to get through a history I picked up - The Last Pagan Generation. Doing much better blitzing through Kurt Schlicter's "The 21 Greatest Lies About Donald Trump - and You." The man can bring the jokes, but then he can construct careful arguments as well.

Posted by: CarolinaGirl at February 07, 2021 09:09 AM (Kh9rg)

19 Nice Lieberry!

Those soi bois broke my gaydar.

The who dis is a pair of lesbeans just back from a ball-less buff ball.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 07, 2021 09:09 AM (R/m4+)

20 Morning grammie. Good to see you.

Posted by: Muad'dib at February 07, 2021 09:07 AM (Q9w+/)


You as well. I'm wearing long johns, sweat pants, two pairs of socks and a robe. And that's for INdoors.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 07, 2021 09:09 AM (45fpk)

21 So much Kindle. Sad. I have had to become reacquainted with my local library since quitting Amazon.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 07, 2021 09:10 AM (nsnF6)

22 Jayne Mansfield and MP4's heartthrob, whose name is escaping me! I hate when I can't remember something.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 07, 2021 09:10 AM (O+I8R)

23 Izzat Joan Blondell in the pic as well?
Posted by: BignJames at February 07, 2021 09:06 AM (AwYPR)


I think so!

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 07, 2021 09:10 AM (y7DUB)

24 Joan Blondell! That's it. Thanks, Big'n.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 07, 2021 09:10 AM (O+I8R)

25 Anyway, I'm sure medical sites have more current info on ECT, probably even videos detailing the process.

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest at February 07, 2021 09:11 AM (ONvIw)

26 Izzat Joan Blondell in the pic as well?
Posted by: BignJames at February 07, 2021 09:06 AM (AwYPR)


I'm pretty sure it is.

Tina Louise had a small part in the movie, too, credited as "A Swimmer."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 07, 2021 09:11 AM (2JVJo)

27 The "library" in that pic looks like another one stocked by interior decorators who buy books by the lineal foot, and not one used by readers.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 07, 2021 09:12 AM (mzC78)

28 Even if it's this sorry lot of decadent, bed-wetting soy boys. I weep for our future.



I weep for anyone with stock in a weedwhacker company.

Posted by: JT at February 07, 2021 09:12 AM (arJlL)

29 I like that library ... but likely could never afford such a palatial, old-style repository for my books.
Nothing much this week - save for getting the print version of "My Dear Cousin" ready for launch. Yesterday we had new windows put in at Casa Hayes, so what with all the clanging and pounding, not much scope for getting any reading or writing done.

Posted by: Sgt. Mom at February 07, 2021 09:12 AM (xnmPy)

30 That is a big bubble bath dear Jayne is reading in.

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at February 07, 2021 09:13 AM (6Pqz7)

31 Hey who is gonna review hunter's cocaine fueled book? Sniff Sniff

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 07, 2021 09:13 AM (85Gof)

32 Hot coffee... White Snow this morning

Posted by: qmark at February 07, 2021 09:13 AM (hg6m+)

33 27. Last week's library looked like a law library and this one also gives off a heavy bound journal vibe as well.

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest at February 07, 2021 09:14 AM (ONvIw)

34 Snowing here in NJ

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 07, 2021 09:14 AM (85Gof)

35 And here's one of my favorite pics of Blondell, from Gold Diggers of 1933.

I love the look she's giving sugar daddy Guy Kibbee, as though she's told him, "yes, we'll only ever have sex once a year, but you won't be able to walk when I'm done with you!"

tinyurl.com/1v55qjyz

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 07, 2021 09:14 AM (2JVJo)

36 Even if it's this sorry lot of decadent, bed-wetting soy boys. I weep for our future.


Posted by: JT at February 07, 2021 09:12 AM (arJlL)

Caused me to double take...at first I thought they were holding hands.

Posted by: BignJames at February 07, 2021 09:14 AM (AwYPR)

37 Hey there librosexuals!

Got a good haul from our library's book sale. You had to go at your allotted time and wear a mask (of course) but it was nice not to have to push through other folks.

I snagged *13* Tom Swift books, all in good condition, for a buck apiece.

Also "Images of War: the Artist's Vision of WWII". an amazing collection of art by guys that were there. Some were commissioned to record the battles. but many were just those compelled to draw what they saw.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at February 07, 2021 09:14 AM (Dc2NZ)

38
We're now taking bets on whether the so stunning, so brave Jennifer De Chiara & Company peruse their clients' social media presence for Bad Think, too.
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20 years of making dreams come true
The Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency is a New York City-based full-service literary agency founded in 2001 and named one of the top 25 literary agencies in the country by Writer's Digest. The agency represents children's literature for all ages -- picture books and middle-grade and young adult novels -- but also represents high-quality adult fiction and non-fiction in a wide range of genres. JDLA is proud to represent illustrators, as well as screenwriters for both television and film, including Emmy and Peabody Award-winning writers and illustrators. What sets JDLA apart from other agencies is our holistic approach to managing every aspect of an author's career to make the most of their project's potential.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 07, 2021 09:15 AM (pNxlR)

39 That is a big bubble bath dear Jayne is reading in.
Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at February 07, 2021 09:13 AM (6Pqz7)

Eating at Chipotle can do that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 07, 2021 09:15 AM (mzC78)

40 Looks like a Gertrude Kasbaier photo -- mother and daughter reading together. Beautiful.

Compare that to Jayne in her sunken pool bubble bath.

So goes mankind.

Posted by: Ziba at February 07, 2021 09:15 AM (S1hrL)

41 Snow is set to begin around 11 here in NE MA, unless (please, god) the storm moves out to sea. 3-6 inches predicted before it's over.

I hate snow.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 07, 2021 09:15 AM (2JVJo)

42 Hunter's Beautiful Things comes out April 6th.
Guess anyone can bang put a who book in 3 months from start to publish.

Posted by: Skip at February 07, 2021 09:16 AM (Cxk7w)

43 Finished reading The Shipping News and ended up enjoying it quite a bit. The only thing I'd downgrade it for is that the male characters tended to blend together to the point that I'd think "which one is that?" when one would reappear in the narrative. Looking at the portrait of the author, like Maude's even bigger bitch of a sister, may have had something to do with it. But she effectively portrayed the harshness of life in Newfoundland and how people cope with it on that large rock inundated regularly by severe weather and seas.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 07, 2021 09:17 AM (y7DUB)

44 They will need that secret staircase when Antifa drops by for a looting.

Posted by: Ziba at February 07, 2021 09:17 AM (S1hrL)

45 Izzat Joan Blondell in the pic as well?
Posted by: BignJames

No, that's Paul Lynde.

Posted by: JT at February 07, 2021 09:18 AM (arJlL)

46 I hate the word "holistic". It screams "intellectual fraud".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 07, 2021 09:18 AM (mzC78)

47 My treadmill read is Schlichter's newest Jesse Turnbull novel. This one is a prequel that shows how the country was rent in twain. Not as good as the one where Turnbull was incognito behind enemy lines in California. That one was a hoot.

These are basically Pork Rinds and Schlitz for the Moron's Soul.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at February 07, 2021 09:19 AM (Dc2NZ)

48 Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at February 07, 2021 09:14 AM (Dc2NZ)

Eris, you might already have this resource, but if not:

https://booksalefinder.com/index.html

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 07, 2021 09:19 AM (PiwSw)

49 Hunter's Beautiful Things comes out April 6th.
Guess anyone can bang put a who book in 3 months from start to publish.

Posted by: Skip at February 07, 2021 09:16 AM (Cxk7w)

He didn't write no f**in' book...I'd bet next month's ss check on it.

Posted by: BignJames at February 07, 2021 09:19 AM (AwYPR)

50 Snowing here in NJ
Posted by: Nevergiveup

YUUUUGE heaVY WET FLAKEs HERE IN pA.

(One landed on my Caps lock key)

Posted by: JT at February 07, 2021 09:20 AM (arJlL)

51 I'm reading "The Monster Hunter Files" which is book 7 in the MHI universe. Good light read. It is an analogy which is more better since my attention span is pretty low right now. The rest of the series have been actual novels. Aside from the gratuitous language I really like Larry Correia's work.

Posted by: lin-duh 27-4 at February 07, 2021 09:20 AM (UUBmN)

52 I like that library ... but likely could never afford such a palatial, old-style repository for my books.

If I could, I'd have it constructed to look like Professor Higgins' library in My Fair Lady

tinyurl.com/4p4pxfl9

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 07, 2021 09:20 AM (2JVJo)

53 Jennifer DeChiara is just out to SWEEP AWAY ALL MONSTERS AND DEMONS!!! (h/t, Chen Boda)

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 07, 2021 09:21 AM (49Dnm)

54 Those are boys? I think not. . . .

Posted by: FIIGMO at February 07, 2021 09:21 AM (2S93K)

55 Hunter's Beautiful Things comes out April 6th.

Posted by: Skip at February 07, 2021 09:16 AM (Cxk7w)
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Such a lame title. What "beautiful things"? His artwork? His crack pipes? His playthings?

Posted by: Ziba at February 07, 2021 09:21 AM (S1hrL)

56 Working through My Brother Ron by Clayton Cramer this week. I think it was recommended somewhere on the HQ. It is fascinating, and also acknowledges that ECT works where other therapies don't, and that it isn't something tried early or first in therapy.

Posted by: Catherine at February 07, 2021 09:21 AM (89Sgd)

57 49: It's just another payoff to the pols. I'd love to see a trace on who funnels the money to the publisher, because you know the publisher is not paying for this garbage.

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest at February 07, 2021 09:21 AM (ONvIw)

58 Random comments today:
If a buff ball is dance in which the participants are naked, what does that say about the uniform regs aboard a B-52, aka The Buff?

Kid reading with her mom is cute. Mom reading to her kid is hawt.

"The ....Agency has in the past and will continue to ensure a voice of unity. "
Say, you know who else insisted on speaking with a voice of unity?

Posted by: pep at February 07, 2021 09:22 AM (v16oJ)

59 https://booksalefinder.com/index.html
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 07, 2021 09:19 AM (PiwSw)
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Thanks!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at February 07, 2021 09:22 AM (Dc2NZ)

60 That library looks like no one ever uses it.

Posted by: Ziba at February 07, 2021 09:22 AM (S1hrL)

61 Is Kitty Dukakis the one who drank Listerine?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at February 07, 2021 09:23 AM (9d4A3)

62 61 Is Kitty Dukakis the one who drank Listerine?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at February 07, 2021 09:23 AM (9d4A3)

I thought it was hairspray

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest at February 07, 2021 09:23 AM (ONvIw)

63 Is Kitty Dukakis the one who drank Listerine?

Aqua Velva.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 07, 2021 09:24 AM (2JVJo)

64 I thought it was hairspray

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest at February 07, 2021 09:23 AM (ONvIw)


I thought it was rubbing alcohol.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 07, 2021 09:25 AM (45fpk)

65 Last random comment: Jayne Mansfield brought the mams, but I find her quite unattractive.

Posted by: pep at February 07, 2021 09:25 AM (v16oJ)

66 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 07, 2021 09:25 AM (u82oZ)

67 The best thing about the mansion libraries of the past two weeks is that they are still libraries and not converted into in home theaters or gyms.

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest at February 07, 2021 09:25 AM (ONvIw)

68 Spread Eagle's stepdaughter would fit fight into that pants picture....

Posted by: lin-duh 27-4 at February 07, 2021 09:25 AM (UUBmN)

69 Thanks to the Book Morons feature, I was lucky enough to be asked to be a beta reader for Dr. Robert Yoho's new book on hormone therapy. What. An. Eye. Opener!

Seems Big Pharma has seen to it that the four major hormones that affect our lives -- insulin being one of them -- have been "remade" with unnecessary revisions and big price tags, thereby enabling their money grubbing to continue with the help of a thoroughly corrupt VA.

I'm only 25 percent done with it, and can't imagine what life would be like for the nation (and the world) if we would've stuck with practices that were used in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

One of the worst offenders was the "much-revered" WHI study, or Womens Health Initiative, which promoted irrational fear about prescribing hormones and made life miserable for lots of folks, wimmins especially.

Posted by: SandyCheeks at February 07, 2021 09:25 AM (u1+n/)

70 Good Sunday morning, horde!

I finished News of the World this week. Despite the constant struggle to un-see Tom Hanks, I enjoyed the story and liked the characters. And was pleased with the conclusion.

Yesterday, I started "14", by Peter Clines, recommended by Eris. I read eight chapters before bed, and it's holding my interest so far.

Posted by: April at February 07, 2021 09:26 AM (OX9vb)

71
I thought it was rubbing alcohol.
Posted by: grammie winger at February 07, 2021 09:25 AM (45fpk)

Probably that too if the goal was any alcohol. They didn't have a lot of hand sanitizer in 1988.

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest at February 07, 2021 09:27 AM (ONvIw)

72 Local book sale end of April. If they allow it to go forward. Dropped off a box of books so that I can buy more. Book vendors usually grab all the good stuff opening night though. They also ransack shelves at Goodwill.

Posted by: Ziba at February 07, 2021 09:28 AM (S1hrL)

73 Just bought the Rinehart compilation but brought a question to mind. Who gets the money and will it be one of those "we published a compilation of out of copyright books with crappy formatting and minimal accuracy to make a few bucks"? I am now hoping I didn't throw my .99 to someone who doesn't actually care about books.

Posted by: Heresolong at February 07, 2021 09:28 AM (swqrw)

74
Is Kitty Dukakis the one who drank Listerine?


Sterno. Neet.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 07, 2021 09:28 AM (pNxlR)

75 0℉, with only -9℉ wind chill. It's a heat wave compared to Tuesday's forecast.

And a half-inch of snow forecast for today, but the actual snowfall usually underperforms.

A good day to be indoors reading books.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 07, 2021 09:28 AM (u82oZ)

76 Ugh. My tea is about as cold as my soul. I'll be back.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 07, 2021 09:29 AM (2JVJo)

77 finished reading -

The Road by Vasily Grossman edited by Robert Chandler. Biographical sketches and select short stories. Good stuff.

Across the Atlantic. A book describing how the Solutrean culture made it's way across the north Atlantic ice edge which led to the North American Clovis culture. Very fun read - I found the technical stuff about flint knapping tedious.

Posted by: 13times at February 07, 2021 09:29 AM (rRvAP)

78 61 Is Kitty Dukakis the one who drank Listerine?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at February 07, 2021 09:23 AM (9d4A3)

Isopropyl alcohol, not long after hubby's defeat at the polls, IIRC.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 07, 2021 09:31 AM (49Dnm)

79
Now reading Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana, Jr., his account of his sea voyage from Boston to California and back as an ordinary sailor while on leave from college. Very well written and insightful as to the joys and miseries of sailors and their treatment by their officers. Interesting as well is the description of the hide trade in California while it was still under Mexican rule.

I'm going to purchase the whole Harvard Classics series in order to make good on my lamentable education as well as preserving the remnants of a better time in this country when excellence was not only treasured but made available to everyone.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 07, 2021 09:31 AM (mht8P)

80 The agency represents children's literature for all ages -- picture books and middle-grade and young adult novels -- but also represents high-quality adult fiction and non-fiction in a wide range of genres. JDLA is proud to represent illustrators, as well as screenwriters for both television and film, including Emmy and Peabody Award-winning writers and illustrators. What sets JDLA apart from other agencies is our holistic approach to managing every aspect of an author's career to make the most of their project's potential.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 07, 2021 09:15 AM (pNxlR)

Here's what makes it all bearable, even comical: in the internet age, they're selling buggy whips. There's no money left in print publishing, not of anything. Everything everyone under 20 is doing is digital now. I hate it, but I can't help seeing it. Even illustrators who put work online are now in competition with illustrators in Mumbai or Shanghai who will slap stuff out for 10 cents a drawing.

no money to writers and artists, then no money to agencies. Their industry is drowning, this is just them thrashing about in the water.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 07, 2021 09:31 AM (V2Yro)

81 WHI study was egregious fear mongering for women.
My physician prescribed low dose hormones for years but always with a cover her ass caveat.

Less publicized studies have shown that women do much better with HRT than without, depending on the product.

Posted by: Ziba at February 07, 2021 09:32 AM (S1hrL)

82 Overheard at the Buff Ball:

Agnes Botheringham: "Why I declare! That horrid Mortimer Wilkerson dances like he has two left testicles!"

Mildred Pembroke: "Indeed he does, Agnes. Indeed he does!"

Posted by: Muldoon at February 07, 2021 09:33 AM (m45I2)

83
no money to writers and artists, then no money to agencies. Their industry is drowning, this is just them thrashing about in the water.
Posted by: Tom Servo


Fights to the death on shrinking ice floes are TIGHT!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 07, 2021 09:33 AM (pNxlR)

84 >>> 79
.....
I'm going to purchase the whole Harvard Classics series in order to make good on my lamentable education as well as preserving the remnants of a better time in this country when excellence was not only treasured but made available to everyone.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 07, 2021 09:31 AM (mht8P)

I am tempted to buy multiple copies of Western Civ-ish books - one copy of each for myself, and a few more for preservation.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 07, 2021 09:34 AM (TK8Ry)

85 I'm starting to read How Dante Saved My Life by Rod Dreher. He's a good enough writer but I'm having a hard time caring about his life.
There must be something wrong with me.

Posted by: Northernlurker, surgite at February 07, 2021 09:34 AM (lgiXo)

86 Next year's Buff Ball will be held in the Henderson County Ballroom. IYKWIM

Posted by: Muldoon at February 07, 2021 09:36 AM (m45I2)

87 Speaking of mystery writers, Sophie Hannah has written four Hercule Poirot novels that are pretty good. The marketing verges on fraud, however, in that it, well, implies is not a strong enough word, that Agatha Christie wrote them. See, for example, the cover to her latest Poirot novel, The Killings At Kingfisher Hill.

https://amzn.to/2YRPLTt

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 07, 2021 09:36 AM (VVEnO)

88 Started reading Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman as a result of someone here recommending At Swim Two Birds a few years ago, which still remains the most innovative stories within stories I've ever encountered. This is a much more straightforward narrative about an unidentified character clueless about everything going on around him, including his parents deserting him separately at two different times and leaving some shady character in charge of running the small farm and pub for him while stealing everything around him until setting up him to help murder a rich neighbor on his way to make a large bank deposit. This is much more a page turner than the previous book but still unusual enough that most of the lit crits gave it a wide berth and don't even talk about it. Anyone here read it including whoever recommended him initially?

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 07, 2021 09:37 AM (y7DUB)

89 >>> 85 I'm starting to read How Dante Saved My Life by Rod Dreher. He's a good enough writer but I'm having a hard time caring about his life.
There must be something wrong with me.
Posted by: Northernlurker, surgite at February 07, 2021 09:34 AM (lgiXo)

Not caring about Rod Dreher's life means you're normal.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 07, 2021 09:37 AM (TK8Ry)

90 Who is Rod Dreher?

Posted by: Ziba at February 07, 2021 09:37 AM (S1hrL)

91 Now reading Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana, Jr., his account of his sea voyage from Boston to California and back as an ordinary sailor while on leave from college. Very well written and insightful as to the joys and miseries of sailors and their treatment by their officers. Interesting as well is the description of the hide trade in California while it was still under Mexican rule.
---

That is a good one. I remember him watching the rats moving around the ship as he lay in his hammock. Also the weevils in the biscuits.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at February 07, 2021 09:38 AM (Dc2NZ)

92 Well, now y'all know the reason that if you're gonna play in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle in the band.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 07, 2021 09:38 AM (DMUuz)

93 Fights to the death on shrinking ice floes are TIGHT!
Especially when they're shared with starving polar bears.

Posted by: pep at February 07, 2021 09:38 AM (v16oJ)

94
Isopropyl alcohol, not long after hubby's defeat at the polls, IIRC.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33


How'd she do it? That stuff tastes like absolute crap -- and I know it, having inadvertently taken in (and immediately spitting out) a mouthful when I mistook a pale orange-colored version of it for mouth wash. I rinsed and spit for several minutes afterward.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 07, 2021 09:38 AM (pNxlR)

95 ... and I do have *some* Western Civ-ish books, however my own lamentable publik skool edumacation could have included more, even if only on a *list* of suggested further reading.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 07, 2021 09:39 AM (TK8Ry)

96 Who is Rod Dreher?
Posted by: Ziba at February 07, 2021 09:37 AM (S1hrL)

He used to write for National Review. He also wrote a book called Crunchy Cons.

Posted by: Northernlurker, surgite at February 07, 2021 09:40 AM (lgiXo)

97 Many thanks to the moron who recommended "The Ravenmaster" by Christopher Skaife. I had requested it from the library a long time ago and it just popped up in my account. Delightful read by the yeoman warder charged with caring for the ravens at the Tower of London. Bird observations, English history, and memoir don't sound like a winning combination, but it is. Both husband and I liked the book, which is almost unique given our different tastes.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at February 07, 2021 09:40 AM (fTtFy)

98 Jayne Mansfield.

I just can't think of the name of the other woman, though I've seen her a million times in moves. Grrr.

Posted by: RobertM at February 07, 2021 09:40 AM (IZxia)

99 Finished the last Christopher Anvil story. I got the Power of Illusions from Abe Books.

Inside were some mildly interesting short stories and his novella The Day the Machines Stopped. The novella is what happens to smart people, a society, and bad people when electricity does not work. Not his best, but better than some dystopian stories.

Where Christoper Anvil shines is having thoughtful adults make decisions, and showing how the adults outmaneuver fate. Quite refreshing.

One short story is "A Taste of Poison", how a leading technologist, head of a research company, bluffs his way out of an unstoppable alien invasion after his abduction. This character is featured in many other entertaining short stories.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 07, 2021 09:40 AM (u82oZ)

100 Well, now y'all know the reason that if you're gonna play in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle in the band.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 07, 2021 09:38 AM (DMUuz)

Somethin' Bob Wills said?

Posted by: BignJames at February 07, 2021 09:40 AM (AwYPR)

101 Rod Dreher is kind of a crusty crank, but he does make the point that you don't have to participate in the culture surrounding you. It's so pervasive in this technological age that you have to "opt out" of the culture at large and focus on the good, lasting things.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at February 07, 2021 09:40 AM (Dc2NZ)

102
I'm starting to read "How Dante Saved My Life" by Rod Dreher.


That right there is master class blame casting.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 07, 2021 09:41 AM (pNxlR)

103 Overheard at the Buff Ball:

"Oh Lordy! Not ANOTHER conga!"

Posted by: Muldoon at February 07, 2021 09:41 AM (m45I2)

104 Those pants are fine. I would barbeque them in your back yard.

Posted by: SMOD at February 07, 2021 09:42 AM (yCVvA)

105 Don't judge me.

I rarely read for edification; merely for amusement and escape.

I've noticed in the past few years that every new release, even by formerly politically neutral authors, includes insulting jabs to conservatives and gratuitous references to, and inclusion of, "woke"characters and themes.

I've drawn the conclusion that even popular authors are required to include these if they want to be published.

It's infuriating.

Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at February 07, 2021 09:42 AM (TdMsT)

106 80: Schools still push physical books, and I like that.

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest at February 07, 2021 09:42 AM (ONvIw)

107 Speaking of ice floes:

The Captain's Best Mate -- an account, diary format, by the Captain's wife on board a whaling ship in the 1800's. Fascinating and amazing that women accompanied their men on their expeditions that lasted for years.

Posted by: Ziba at February 07, 2021 09:42 AM (S1hrL)

108 Who is Rod Dreher?
Posted by: Ziba at February 07, 2021 09:37 AM (S1hrL)

Now he's mainly an annoying NeverTrumper, but he has some good books. Crunchy Cons is stupid, but The Benedict Option is on my list if I can get it through Thriftbooks. Live Not by Lies is excellent and timely. When he stays away from the topic of Trump, I like what he writes. It comes from his idea of the superiority of neoconservatism. You can almost see him looking down his nose at you. His writing about abuse and culture within the Catholic Church prior to his conversion to Orthodoxy is top notch.

Posted by: Catherine at February 07, 2021 09:42 AM (89Sgd)

109 Rod Dreher is kind of a crusty crank, but he does make the point that you don't have to participate in the culture surrounding you. It's so pervasive in this technological age that you have to "opt out" of the culture at large and focus on the good, lasting things.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at February 07, 2021 09:40 AM (Dc2NZ)

That's a much better description of the man than I could manage.

Posted by: Northernlurker, surgite at February 07, 2021 09:42 AM (lgiXo)

110 Overheard at the Buff Ball:

"Oh Lordy! Not ANOTHER conga!"
Posted by: Muldoon
-- -
I thought it was called a train...

Posted by: lin-duh 27-4 at February 07, 2021 09:42 AM (UUBmN)

111 Hunter's Beautiful Things comes out April 6th.
Guess anyone can bang put a who book in 3 months from start to publish.

Posted by: Skip

Anyone stupid enough to want to read Coke Hunter's book deserves to read it.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 07, 2021 09:43 AM (VVEnO)

112 Any gun nuts hanging around? I am afraid I steered a friend wrong yesterday. He has a new S&W( I think) 9 mil. He bought a couple of cases, like 1k of rounds. They are "Browning Luger 9 mil". Will these port through typical 9 semi-autos? Will repost in gun thread if no one here knows.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at February 07, 2021 09:43 AM (7Fj9P)

113 Not reading much or writing much at all lately - fucking depression - but am re-reading Why Hitler? The Genesis of the Nazi Reich by Samuel Mitcham Jr. The packaging of the book is deceptive - it leads you to think it's a hastily-slapped together quickie "history" drawn from third or fourth-party sources, but it is actually a very detailed (for its length) look at the collapse of the Second Reich, the disaster of the Weimar Republic and the "days of struggle" of the Nazis.

tinyurl.com/1157i7v9

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 07, 2021 09:43 AM (2JVJo)

114
Now he's mainly an annoying NeverTrumpe

I thought he's a Trump is icky person but not necessarily neverTrump.

Posted by: Northernlurker, surgite at February 07, 2021 09:44 AM (lgiXo)

115 Isopropyl alcohol won't hurt you. Not in the way methanol or ethylene glycol will.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 07, 2021 09:44 AM (QYoFn)

116 87: I hate this nonsense. Probably I hate reviving Hercule less than the constant Jane Austen bullshit, but I still do. Can't anyone develop a new character that can capture the imagination?

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest at February 07, 2021 09:45 AM (ONvIw)

117 I've drawn the conclusion that even popular authors are required to include these if they want to be published.

It's infuriating.
Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at February 07, 2021 09:42 AM (TdMsT)

Right you are. My friend shopped her first novel (excellent according to all I know who have read it) to agents and publishers. They wouldn't touch it because it was about a big Catholic homeschooling family and their traditional neighborhood. She ended up self-publishing and keeping all the money herself.

Posted by: Catherine at February 07, 2021 09:45 AM (89Sgd)

118 Who is Rod Dreher?
Posted by: Ziba at February 07, 2021 09:37 AM (S1hrL)


A clown who thinks the best way to fight the left is to surrender.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 07, 2021 09:45 AM (2JVJo)

119 but it is actually a very detailed (for its length) look at the
collapse of the Second Reich, the disaster of the Weimar Republic and
the "days of struggle" of the Nazis.

In all fairness to Weimar, it did have to contend with Liza Minelli.

Posted by: pep at February 07, 2021 09:45 AM (v16oJ)

120 I read about an interesting spiritual and intellectual "fast" for Catholic men called Exodus 90, in which one weans oneself from screen time, sweets and alcohol, time wasters, etc. and spend time with the Bible and family.

tinyurl.com/u0197wj0

https://exodus90.com/

It sounds like PX90 so yeah, I snicker. But it's an idea worth pursuing in some form for anybody.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at February 07, 2021 09:45 AM (Dc2NZ)

121 I drink no rubbing alcohol before its time.

Posted by: Kitty Dukakis at February 07, 2021 09:46 AM (VVEnO)

122 I don't think I'll read Rod Dreher, but I will read the "Ravenmaster." Thanks for the recommendation upthread.

Posted by: Ziba at February 07, 2021 09:46 AM (S1hrL)

123 Razorfist, The Long Moonlight on amazon

tinyurl.com/ywundptf

I really don't think that boycotting giants like amazon works. But buying from conservative authors protects them from censorship and has an effect on the business.

Similar, I never gave Razor money behind his paywall, because I want everything he says to be stuff I can link to youtube and send to friends that are left-of-center. His "build the wall" rant a few years ago should be seen by as many people as possible.

Posted by: Grail Knight at February 07, 2021 09:46 AM (LxTcq)

124 At least MP4 isn't reading Why NOT Hitler?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at February 07, 2021 09:46 AM (Dc2NZ)

125 Picked up a copy of Tower of Skulls - recommended by Rhomboid?

For those interested in China-Burma-India theater? I recommend Wrath in Burma written by Stilwell's public relations officer.

Posted by: 13times at February 07, 2021 09:47 AM (rRvAP)

126 >>> 57 49: It's just another payoff to the pols. I'd love to see a trace on who funnels the money to the publisher, because you know the publisher is not paying for this garbage.
Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest at February 07, 2021 09:21 AM (ONvIw)

Money laundering of bribes, cash from illegal business, "lost" portions of the feralgov budget, etc...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 07, 2021 09:48 AM (TK8Ry)

127 Eric Flint, who is not my favorite SF author, is to be commended for republishing all the Christopher Anvil stories.

Those stories are a door into a better time, and Anvil's wry humor, plots, character development, and world building is a pleasure to read. His Interstellar Patrol setting is great fun. And Pandora's Legions is also a wild ride of enjoyment, as Earth is taken over by bio-similar beings that are not as smart but better organized than the plucky Earthlings.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 07, 2021 09:48 AM (u82oZ)

128 Dreher shouldn't be associated with the pedos at Lincoln Project, as I think he rightly avoided their mental illnesses. But I haven't seen him give Trump any credit, and he is disdainful of the man and those that like and endorse him. Maybe I've missed some stuff, but that's my impression.

Posted by: Catherine at February 07, 2021 09:48 AM (89Sgd)

129 I'm currently reading Ghost Soldiers - The forgotten Epic Story of WWII's Most Dramatic Mission.

About Allied prisoners in a Japanese POW camp.

And its pretty depressing.Death from starvation / disease is an every day occurrence. Lt, Col Henry Mucci is given the assignment to rescue them.

Posted by: JT at February 07, 2021 09:48 AM (arJlL)

130 Publicly burning Hunter Biden's waste of paper would get the same response from the media as burning a Koran.

Posted by: Northernlurker, surgite at February 07, 2021 09:48 AM (lgiXo)

131 I would think that being fired for having a Parler account would be grounds for a wrongful termination suit.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 07, 2021 09:48 AM (QYoFn)

132 At least MP4 isn't reading Why NOT Hitler?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at February 07, 2021 09:46 AM (Dc2NZ)


I remember mentioning a book years ago called Hitler's Thirty Days to Power and remarking that the title sounded like a home-training fitness book.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 07, 2021 09:48 AM (2JVJo)

133 >>> 131 I would think that being fired for having a Parler account would be grounds for a wrongful termination suit.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 07, 2021 09:48 AM (QYoFn)

It's a tax!

Posted by: J. Roberts at February 07, 2021 09:50 AM (TK8Ry)

134 They are "Browning Luger 9 mil". Will these port through typical 9 semi-autos? Will repost in gun thread if no one here knows.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at February 07, 2021 09:43 AM (7Fj9P)

Yep..."Browning" ammo is made by Winchester...I think.

Posted by: BignJames at February 07, 2021 09:50 AM (AwYPR)

135 Rod Dreher is kind of a crusty crank, but he does make the point that you don't have to participate in the culture surrounding you. It's so pervasive in this technological age that you have to "opt out" of the culture at large and focus on the good, lasting things.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at February 07, 2021 09:40 AM (Dc2NZ)


When I was in Alaska a couple summers ago I thought that would be a great place from which to do so. Then the more I thought about it I'd probably be online fucking around here like usual. Although the time difference might minimize that. Still my television time has shrunk a great deal and I mostly read and listen to cds.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 07, 2021 09:51 AM (y7DUB)

136 I remember mentioning a book years ago called Hitler's Thirty Days to Power and remarking that the title sounded like a home-training fitness book.

-
I'm Adolph Hitler And So Can You!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 07, 2021 09:51 AM (VVEnO)

137 -
I'm Adolph Hitler And So Can You!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 07, 2021 09:51 AM (VVEnO)

Sounds like the left's sort of reading.

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest at February 07, 2021 09:52 AM (ONvIw)

138 I've noticed in the past few years that every new release, even by formerly politically neutral authors, includes insulting jabs to conservatives and gratuitous references to, and inclusion of, "woke"characters and themes.

I've drawn the conclusion that even popular authors are required to include these if they want to be published.

It's infuriating.
Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at February 07, 2021 09:42 AM (TdMsT)

It turns everything they write into Chick Tracts for the woke. Which makes them repetitive, unoriginal, and flat out boring. Critical Drinker had a great explanation of how this happens in a recent piece on "What Happened to our Villains?" His these is that the current political climate forces everything that comes through "the system" to follow pre-ordained story lines, with strict limits set for what any character is allowed to be and do. He goes into it much more deeply, I thought it was one of his best pieces.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 07, 2021 09:52 AM (V2Yro)

139 I haven't turned on the TV since November, but I do spend too much time here. I could be reading books instead!

Posted by: Ziba at February 07, 2021 09:53 AM (S1hrL)

140 I left the book to visit Ace's Gainz Thread. And people were saying things like "I don't eat bread, I don't eat this or that."
Meanwhile, I'm reading a book about guys fighting over who gets to eat the next maggot.
Talk about when worlds collide.

Posted by: JT at February 07, 2021 09:53 AM (arJlL)

141 I'm still casually enjoying my stroll through a stack of Elmore Leonard books This week is a book called Touch. I think it was written in the '70s and Elvis dies during the story. It's about a faith healer/con man type promoter who comes across an actual stigmatic healer.

The con man is a standard Leonard trope, but the stigmatic is different. He (so far) has played it at face value, implying actual miracles and works of God. It's an interesting juxtaposition against all the scammers and the only thing that would disappoint me now, would be to reveal it all as fake in the culminating action.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 07, 2021 09:53 AM (Wm5SB)

142 Have a great day, everyone.

May you find solace is good books.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 07, 2021 09:53 AM (u82oZ)

143 >>> 134 They are "Browning Luger 9 mil". Will these port through typical 9 semi-autos? Will repost in gun thread if no one here knows.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at February 07, 2021 09:43 AM (7Fj9P)

Yep..."Browning" ammo is made by Winchester...I think.
Posted by: BignJames at February 07, 2021 09:50 AM (AwYPR)

The manual for the gub will specify the correct ammo, and even if your friend needs to buy something else, friend could wait a few months and make a profit re-selling the "wrong" kind.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 07, 2021 09:53 AM (TK8Ry)

144 The giant Martian chicken reminds me of "A Fish Out Of Water" which was my favorite book as a four year old. Too much fish food resulted in a fish that grew too large to fit in the community swimming pool.

Posted by: SMOD at February 07, 2021 09:53 AM (yCVvA)

145 CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest
Hmmm, you seem to have "forgotten" to append "of all time" to the end of your name. That's hardly speaking with a voice of unity. Some time in the camps should fix you right up.

Posted by: Jennifer de Chiara Literary Agency at February 07, 2021 09:54 AM (v16oJ)

146 The byline on that buff ball piece says Greenwood. A quick search reveals Greenwoods in Missouri, Indiana, Louisiana, So. Carolina, Pennsylvania, et cetera. A total of 37 in the U.S.

Which one has the Buff Ball? A fellow has to make travel plans early these days.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 07, 2021 09:54 AM (m45I2)

147 Ahh yes, Urban Dictionary, the site most likely to make you sorry you googled something you didn't understand on the HQ.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 07, 2021 09:55 AM (6XLoz)

148 Posted by: BignJames
==================
Thanks.
Anyone looking for ammo should check MiWal Corp. It's bulk, but /round prices are tolerable.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at February 07, 2021 09:55 AM (7Fj9P)

149 We still have Buff Balls today. They are called orgies.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at February 07, 2021 09:55 AM (NQIhp)

150 Now he's mainly an annoying NeverTrumpe

I thought he's a Trump is icky person but not necessarily neverTrump.
Posted by: Northernlurker, surgite at February 07, 2021 09:44 AM (lgiXo)


Am I the only person strangely amused at the lengths people go to distance themselves from a President who left office with a high approval rating? Unlike Preznit Cock Curious...

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 07, 2021 09:56 AM (y7DUB)

151 144 The giant Martian chicken reminds me of "A Fish Out Of Water" which was my favorite book as a four year old. Too much fish food resulted in a fish that grew too large to fit in the community swimming pool.
Posted by: SMOD at February 07, 2021 09:53 AM (yCVvA)

I think I remember watching Captain Kangaroo read that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 07, 2021 09:56 AM (V2Yro)

152 130 Publicly burning Hunter Biden's waste of paper would get the same response from the media as burning a Koran.
Posted by: Northernlurker, surgite at February 07, 2021 09:48 AM (lgiXo)

Wait 'til they see the bonfire of the masks. That's inevitable at this point.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 07, 2021 09:57 AM (Wm5SB)

153
I'm Adolph Hitler And So Can You!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler


Who do you think gets the royalties from sales of my meat tenderizer, schatze?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 07, 2021 09:57 AM (pNxlR)

154 After I finish Eumeswil I think I'll read Notes from the Underground. I found a copy in our non-mansion library (which is still a roomful) so I don't even have to buy it. I also downloaded a free kindle version of Under Western Eyes by Conrad.

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest at February 07, 2021 09:57 AM (ONvIw)

155 "He came inside the restaurant without a mask, the cashier told him he needed a mask, he told the cashier 'if I don't put on a mask what you going to do' and then pulled out a gun," said general manager Angela Prieto.

"She said the cook refused to give up the chicken so the suspect grabbed a few orders that were sitting on the counter and left."

-
Dude, if your going to rob a store at gunpoint, you really should wear a mask.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 07, 2021 09:57 AM (VVEnO)

156 139 I haven't turned on the TV since November, but I do spend too much time here. I could be reading books instead!
Posted by: Ziba at February 07, 2021 09:53 AM (S1hrL)

Same here! I reduced my AOSHQ time this week so I could read more, and I actually finished a book!

Posted by: April at February 07, 2021 09:57 AM (OX9vb)

157 69: Everything "Big" is evil (which once again indicates Americans lie constanly and cannot stop lying: American claim to love success and achievement when the reality is that Americans HATE success and achievement and are part of a society where envy, hatred and resentment are seen as great moral virtues) and everything "small" is pure and virtuous. Maybe we should pass a law that mandates that no business can hire more than 20 employees and cannot expand for ANY reason?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 07, 2021 09:57 AM (49Dnm)

158 Publicly burning Hunter Biden's waste of paper would get the same response from the media as burning a Koran.
Posted by: Northernlurker, surgite

Or a Karen.

Posted by: JT at February 07, 2021 09:58 AM (arJlL)

159 131

This is the problem with a lot of people. You are still stuck in Old America where we had things like freedom of speech and courts that interpreted laws, instead of being a rubber stamp for the deep state. Those days are over.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at February 07, 2021 09:58 AM (NQIhp)

160 That is a beautiful library. Probably full of tons of banned texts.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2021 09:58 AM (lmikk)

161 Hitler's Thirty Days to Power and remarking that the title sounded like a home-training fitness book.

*******

Nazzercise!!

Posted by: Muldoon at February 07, 2021 09:58 AM (m45I2)

162 From Astronaut love triangle to fired Literary Agent. There's a book in there.

Astronaut Love Triangle: Colleen Shipman Says of Her Husband: 'They Were Making Him Out to be Something Horrible'

Https://tinyurl.com/5bscmkso

Posted by: Mad Italian at February 07, 2021 09:59 AM (/nZ1h)

163 Thanks, Jen!

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest pf all time! at February 07, 2021 09:59 AM (ONvIw)

164
Nazzercise!!
Posted by: Muldoon at February 07, 2021 09:58 AM (m45I2)

I like that! Dr. Jill's first exercise video!

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest pf all time! at February 07, 2021 10:00 AM (ONvIw)

165
We still have Buff Balls today. They are called orgies.
Posted by: Joe XiDen


I KNEW the House of Windsor was chock a block with perverts! Elizabeth isn't taking on any more corgis, my ass!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 07, 2021 10:00 AM (pNxlR)

166 Morning everyone!

Reading Gai Jin by James Clavell.

Posted by: Secret Squirrel, author of Outward Frontier at February 07, 2021 10:00 AM (PhAPW)

167 Van Jones proclaimed on Friday that the Newsom recall is all a QAnon conspiracy. So there you go. If you dare question the guv in CA you are a QAnon wack job.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at February 07, 2021 10:00 AM (NQIhp)

168 Am I the only person strangely amused at the lengths people go to distance themselves from a President who left office with a high approval rating? Unlike Preznit Cock Curious...

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 07, 2021 09:56 AM (y7DUB)
-------------------
Jane Austen would probably have had something to say.

Posted by: Ziba at February 07, 2021 10:01 AM (S1hrL)

169 We still have Buff Balls today. They are called orgies.

Indeed. But it's good to see a reminder once in a while that (contrary to a lot of pop culture) sex was not invented by the Boomers.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 07, 2021 10:01 AM (6XLoz)

170 167 Van Jones proclaimed on Friday that the Newsom recall is all a QAnon conspiracy. So there you go. If you dare question the guv in CA you are a QAnon wack job.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at February 07, 2021 10:00 AM (NQIhp

In Cali no less. Ha

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest pf all time! at February 07, 2021 10:01 AM (ONvIw)

171 (which once again indicates Americans lie constantly and cannot stop lying: American claim to love success and achievement when the reality is that Americans HATE success and achievement and are part of a society where envy, hatred and resentment are seen as great moral virtues)

remember that it's not quite fair to say that this is a purely American problem; I think part of real maturity is to finally realize that this is true of most people at all times, in all places, in all cultures. And always has been. It's fundamental human nature, it wrecks everything.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 07, 2021 10:01 AM (V2Yro)

172 Nazzercise!!
Posted by: Muldoon at February 07, 2021 09:58 AM (m45I2)


Goosestepping. It works the quads, the hamstrings, and the core!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 07, 2021 10:01 AM (PiwSw)

173 CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest pf all time!

Hmmm, you seem to have "forgotten" that Barack is the greatest of all time. That's hardly speaking with a voice of unity. Some time in
the camps should fix you right up.

Posted by: Jennifer de Chiara Literary Agenc at February 07, 2021 10:01 AM (v16oJ)

174 Browning Luger 9 mil
---
Browning is the brand/manufacturer.

Luger 9mm is the actual round.

A typical 9mm handgun takes 9mm Luger or Parabellum rounds.

Posted by: lin-duh 27-4 at February 07, 2021 10:02 AM (UUBmN)

175 >>>We're now taking bets on whether the so stunning, so brave Jennifer De Chiara & Company peruse their clients' social media presence for Bad Think, too.


He's an angry elf.

Posted by: Roy at February 07, 2021 10:02 AM (Ti+Tv)

176 169

Heh. Boomers invented sex and Millenials are totally revolutionizing it ( along with everything else) if I were to believe the MSM.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at February 07, 2021 10:03 AM (NQIhp)

177 I remember mentioning a book years ago called Hitler's Thirty Days to Power and remarking that the title sounded like a home-training fitness book.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 07, 2021 09:48 AM (2JVJo)
--

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at February 07, 2021 10:03 AM (Dc2NZ)

178 Indeed. But it's good to see a reminder once in a while that (contrary to a lot of pop culture) sex was not invented by the Boomers.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 07, 2021 10:01 AM (6XLoz)

No...but you're lucky they discovered it.

Posted by: BignJames at February 07, 2021 10:03 AM (AwYPR)

179 Hmmm, you seem to have "forgotten" that Barack is the greatest of all time. That's hardly speaking with a voice of unity. Some time in
the camps should fix you right up.
Posted by: Jennifer de Chiara Literary Agenc at February 07, 2021 10:01 AM (v16oJ)

No, I'm sticking with Joe. My grandma (who died in 197 said that Obama was the anti-Christ, so I can't go there.

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest pf all time! at February 07, 2021 10:03 AM (ONvIw)

180 Currently reading "The Most Dangerous Enemy" by Stephen Bungay about the Battle of Britain. Pretty good read actually. He gets into the technical details for each side's aircraft, different command strategies, and personalities on each side. Next up is "Tower of Skulls".

Posted by: Old Blue - Round Headed Bald Kid at February 07, 2021 10:03 AM (VNmG1)

181 I imdb-'d Mary Roberts Rinehart, and found that scores of her stories were filmed as silent movies. The number dropped off a little after sound (although The Bat is out there), and then first and second-generation TV theatre sort of rediscovered her. So she's due, and we should be having a MRR film festival right after the book reports are done.

She did a lot of things in her life. Look up her biography. Can't believe she never had a postage stamp.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 07, 2021 10:04 AM (zMFmR)

182 Van Jones proclaimed on Friday that the Newsom recall is all a QAnon conspiracy. So there you go. If you dare question the guv in CA you are a QAnon wack job.

As the Empress says a lot, literally the only time I hear about QAnon is from leftists trying to make me defend it. The corporate media sure is defensive about a theory that DC and corporate America are all pedo all the time.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 07, 2021 10:04 AM (6XLoz)

183 91 - the same Dana who Stanton used to spy on Union generals during the CW.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 07, 2021 10:05 AM (PpU3N)

184 Fixed

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest of all time! at February 07, 2021 10:05 AM (ONvIw)

185 the literary agent thing is very troublesome. The wokeness is beyond ridiculous and has traveled into laughable territory. I suspect Parler will have a fight on its hands to get back to normal and Gab is probably not long for this earth- even with buying their own servers (which I think I read that they did).

Which, my fellow Moron writers, self publishing on Amazon has (so far, knock on wood), works.

Posted by: Secret Squirrel, author of Outward Frontier at February 07, 2021 10:05 AM (PhAPW)

186 I see VDH is on the "Trump lost the election because tweets" train.
----------

I knew there was a reason I never liked that gasbag.

Posted by: ... at February 07, 2021 10:05 AM (uEbPt)

187 The giant Martian chicken reminds me of "A Fish Out Of Water" which was my favorite book as a four year old. Too much fish food resulted in a fish that grew too large to fit in the community swimming pool.

******

Pffft! Hold my kibble.

Posted by: Clifford The Big Red Dog at February 07, 2021 10:05 AM (m45I2)

188 Was looking for a heavy WWII book, but as said didn't get any.
Was a couple on Japan which is a weaker subject of my knowledge, not unknown just lesser read.

Posted by: Skip at February 07, 2021 10:05 AM (Cxk7w)

189 I saw Innocent of Clothing open for Kiss 30 years ago. Their encore rendition of "Stimulated with Raw Whiskey" brought the house down.

Posted by: Roy at February 07, 2021 10:06 AM (Ti+Tv)

190 Fixed
Posted by: CN

Tutored ?

Posted by: JT at February 07, 2021 10:06 AM (arJlL)

191 186 I see VDH is on the "Trump lost the election because tweets" train.
----------

I knew there was a reason I never liked that gasbag.
Posted by: ... at February 07, 2021 10:05 AM (uEbP

Tweets must be code for "shit ton of fraud"

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest of all time! at February 07, 2021 10:07 AM (ONvIw)

192 Fixed

Posted by: CN

Tutored ?

Posted by: JT at February 07, 2021 10:06 AM (arJlL)

Nutored.

Posted by: BignJames at February 07, 2021 10:07 AM (AwYPR)

193 Should libraries have windows? Really now.

Posted by: johnnyjava at February 07, 2021 10:07 AM (JktDe)

194 Was looking for a heavy WWII book, but as said didn't get any.
Was a couple on Japan which is a weaker subject of my knowledge, not unknown just lesser read.
Posted by: Skip

Grab aholt of a Cob, get my e-mail, gimme your address and I'll mail you this one.

Posted by: JT at February 07, 2021 10:08 AM (arJlL)

195 LOL, I'm listening to the classical station and the next piece was recorded at the "Boroque on Beaver Festival" on Beaver Island in Lake Michigan.

I SO want a concert tee.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at February 07, 2021 10:08 AM (Dc2NZ)

196 Youtube video showing up on my front page: 'Need a new country? 10 easiest places Americans can immigrate to!'

801k views.

*sigh* yeah, those places are a lot better. Outside of Eastern Europe no one seems to know the score.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2021 10:08 AM (lmikk)

197
From Astronaut love triangle to fired Literary Agent. There's a book in there.


Dare we think ... Hallmark Christmas movie?

Dare! Dare!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 07, 2021 10:09 AM (pNxlR)

198 189 I saw Innocent of Clothing open for Kiss 30 years ago. Their encore rendition of "Stimulated with Raw Whiskey" brought the house down.
Posted by: Roy at February 07, 2021 10:06 AM (Ti+Tv)


I saw them open for Barenaked Ladies at Red Rocks back in the day.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 07, 2021 10:09 AM (PiwSw)

199 Off to grope the day. Love you, my bookish peeps!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at February 07, 2021 10:09 AM (Dc2NZ)

200 195 LOL, I'm listening to the classical station and the next piece was recorded at the "Boroque on Beaver Festival" on Beaver Island in Lake Michigan.

I SO want a concert tee.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at February 07, 2021 10:08 AM (Dc2NZ)

There was an interesting quilt writer who used to live there. I miss her ideas.

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest of all time! at February 07, 2021 10:09 AM (ONvIw)

201 112 - "standard" 9mm ("Parabellum") is often known as 9mm Luger

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 07, 2021 10:09 AM (PpU3N)

202 Skip, try "Shattered Sword" by Parshall. It almost reads like a textbook, but I really liked it. It's about how Japan actually lost the Battle of Midway. Another good read on the Pacific War is Ian Toll's trilogy.

Posted by: Old Blue - Round Headed Bald Kid at February 07, 2021 10:10 AM (VNmG1)

203 Baroque! Not Boroque.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at February 07, 2021 10:10 AM (Dc2NZ)

204 *sigh* yeah, those places are a lot better. Outside of Eastern Europe no one seems to know the score.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2021 10:08 AM (lmikk)

The Eastern Bloc countries have seen the likes of AOC and her ilk before. The writing is on the wall, so to speak, and they know it. I'm not ready to run anywhere. As Reagan said, there is no where else to go. We make our stand here.

Posted by: Secret Squirrel, author of Outward Frontier at February 07, 2021 10:10 AM (PhAPW)

205 JT, what book are you talking about? I may want to add that to my collection.

Posted by: Old Blue - Round Headed Bald Kid at February 07, 2021 10:11 AM (VNmG1)

206 I don't recall reading any of Mary Roberts Rhinehart's books. If I did, it was so long ago that I don't remember. Of course - I don't remember things that happened last week, so...

Anyway, any suggestions of 1 or 2 that I should start with?

Posted by: grammie winger at February 07, 2021 10:12 AM (45fpk)

207 If it isn't Baroque, don't fix it.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at February 07, 2021 10:12 AM (7Fj9P)

208 booken morgen horden

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 07, 2021 10:12 AM (nUhF0)

209 The Eastern Bloc countries have seen the likes of AOC and her ilk before. The writing is on the wall, so to speak, and they know it. I'm not ready to run anywhere. As Reagan said, there is no where else to go. We make our stand here.
Posted by: Secret Squirrel, author of Outward Frontier at February 07, 2021 10:10 AM (PhAPW)

IMO AOC is a comic bit player in this fiasco, I am more concerned about the likes of Norm Eisen

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest of all time! at February 07, 2021 10:12 AM (ONvIw)

210 Good Morning.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 07, 2021 10:13 AM (89T5c)

211 I see VDH is on the "Trump lost the election because tweets" train.

I actually don't totally disagree. The wine moms were absolutely weaponized by the "mean tweets", and that was a factor in not beating the fraud this time.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 07, 2021 10:13 AM (6XLoz)

212 As Reagan said, there is no where else to go. We make our stand here.
Posted by: Secret Squirrel, author of Outward Frontier at February 07, 2021 10:10 AM (PhAPW)

Absolutely.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2021 10:13 AM (lmikk)

213 CN, you could just shorten that and say that Biden is a GOAT.

*I know, off to the camps for me. But I couldn't help myself! *

Posted by: Old Blue - Round Headed Bald Kid at February 07, 2021 10:13 AM (VNmG1)

214 Speaking of concert tees, has anyone seen the Dunkin at Home TV commercial where the alien is wearing a King Crimson t-shirt?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 07, 2021 10:14 AM (PiwSw)

215 IMO AOC is a comic bit player in this fiasco, I am more concerned about the likes of Norm Eisen
Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest of all time! at February 07, 2021 10:12 AM (ONvIw)

I agree, but I would give her a bit more credit simply due to the stupidity of her district voters, the complicity of the media to fluff her endlessly, and whatever backroom deals Pelosi has made with her. As much as it pains me to say, we will be stuck with that tick on the body politic until she dies, resigns, or the Republic collapses. And if it collapses, we either go Thunderdome or she becomes Admiral-General AOC of the People's Struggle Army.

Posted by: Secret Squirrel, author of Outward Frontier at February 07, 2021 10:15 AM (PhAPW)

216 I actually don't totally disagree. The wine moms were absolutely weaponized by the "mean tweets", and that was a factor in not beating the fraud this time.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 07, 2021 10:13 AM (6XLoz)

I think the mean tweets bullshit is bullshit. The wino moms just wanted Hillary and they used that excuse. I hope they blow out their livers

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest of all time! at February 07, 2021 10:15 AM (ONvIw)

217 Well, this day isn't going to get any better. I ought to write, but I'm too depressed. Think I'll go find something light and comic to read.

Hope you all have a lovely day.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 07, 2021 10:17 AM (2JVJo)

218 I think the mean tweets bullshit is bullshit. The wino moms just wanted Hillary and they used that excuse. I hope they blow out their livers
Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest of all time! at February 07, 2021 10:15 AM (ONvIw)

I suppose the silver lining of the Covid thing is that it revealed who are truly the Karens in our various circles. And therefore, who goes Nazi first.

Posted by: Secret Squirrel, author of Outward Frontier at February 07, 2021 10:17 AM (PhAPW)

219 Posted by: Secret Squirrel, author of Outward Frontier at February 07, 2021 10:15 AM (PhAPW)

All in all, she's a young, latina Maxine. She will vote how she's told and mouth off, as she gets older she'll just look crazy and the 'rons will find someone else's tits to admire.

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest of all time! at February 07, 2021 10:17 AM (ONvIw)

220 I set aside "The Scarlatti Inheritance" because of the arrival of a coffee-table book, "The Art of Hanna-Barbera." It's part of my time-travel excursion, which consists of going through DVDs of H-B shows of my childhood. Some are holding up; with others, I see why they lasted only one season.

The book itself is OK. A few factual errors stand out, such as multiple references to the show "The Space Ghost" when the title cards themselves show it's just "Space Ghost." And a mention of the "Star Trek" character "Dr. Spock"??!!

**************

But I won't do much reading this week, owing to the death Saturday of my mother, who just turned 81. She suffered an apparent stroke Tuesday.

She had been in failing health for years, so this is a matter of "no more pain." Still, I'm worried about my dad, who is without his life partner of 60 years. As I live in an adjoining state, I'm thankful for my sister, who lives just a few miles away. She's been Janey-on-the-spot for them.

Prayers for both would be appreciated.

Posted by: Weak Geek at February 07, 2021 10:17 AM (rYZAP)

221 I actually don't totally disagree. The wine moms were absolutely weaponized by the "mean tweets", and that was a factor in not beating the fraud this time.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 07, 2021 10:13 AM (6XLoz)

From my view of things, Trump DID beat the normal fraud- which is why they had to go full on coup at 3am.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2021 10:17 AM (lmikk)

222 Prayers for both would be appreciated.
Posted by: Weak Geek at February 07, 2021 10:17 AM (rYZAP)

Prayers up.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 07, 2021 10:18 AM (PiwSw)

223 Hugo Gernsback started a lot of magazines. In the 20th century, starting magazines for whatever interested them was something that some people just did. Wayne Green, for example, I knew from 73, his ham radio magazine, but he also byte Byte magazine, which I got every month for years.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at February 07, 2021 10:18 AM (qDSku)

224 I see VDH is on the "Trump lost the election because tweets" train.

I actually don't totally disagree. The wine moms were absolutely weaponized by the "mean tweets", and that was a factor in not beating the fraud this time.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 07, 2021 10:13 AM (6XLoz)

I think that's bullshit....dem's had 4 yrs. to plan and 1 yr. to implement..."mail in voting" was the plan and covid was the catalyst.

Posted by: BignJames at February 07, 2021 10:19 AM (AwYPR)

225 Recommended by Mary Roberts Rinehart:

Circular Staircase
The After house
The Astounding Interlude
The Man in Lower Ten

These are the ones i've read (lately, if i read any in the distant past, that's where they stay). All but Astounding Interlude are mysteries, told more as an "after action report". Astounding Interlude is a combination war story, romance, coming of age. I liked it the most

Posted by: yara at February 07, 2021 10:19 AM (oPRky)

226 Dauman's built the mansion above in 2004. 19k sq/ft, 86 acres, with its own lake.

The estate was first listed in 2010 for $30+ MM. It was last put on market in March 2019 for $13.75 MM. It was auctioned in May 2019, subject to US Bankruptcy Court approval.

Secret library door shown here around 2 min mark of video.
https://eliteauctions.com/
48-haights-cross-rd-chappaqua-ny/

More pics / info here at Forbes:
tinyurl.com/dd82hofr

Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at February 07, 2021 10:19 AM (ju2Fy)

227 Keep putting one foot in front of the other Mary Poppins. Feel better.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 07, 2021 10:19 AM (45fpk)

228 I'm about 2/3 through Lolita. I'd forgotten about how much of a willing participant she was initially, assuming you could assign that term to someone underaged. But I'd forgotten how little effort Humbert had to exert to get what he wanted from the get go; not that he wasn't a sick piece of shit.

With all the pedomania infesting conversations and the enemedia's complicity in preventing an honest discussion of it, I'm kind of surprised the book hasn't had a resurgence in popularity. Then again maybe I'm not...

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 07, 2021 10:19 AM (y7DUB)

229 Some of these guys just do not want to see or believe the country was totally screwed by a communist takeover.
Sure it's every election has the winner with the highest vote count ever with the lowest won counties by a big margin ever.

Posted by: Skip at February 07, 2021 10:19 AM (Cxk7w)

230 Weak geek,

**prayers**

Posted by: lin-duh 27-4 at February 07, 2021 10:20 AM (UUBmN)

231 Thank you very much, yara.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 07, 2021 10:20 AM (45fpk)

232 I suppose the silver lining of the Covid thing is that it revealed who are truly the Karens in our various circles. And therefore, who goes Nazi first.
Posted by: Secret Squirrel, author of Outward Frontier at February 07, 2021 10:17 AM (PhAPW)

Yeah, I reread that the other day. When I first read it I was a bit pissed at the author's view that Jews could "go Nazi". I see now that she's correct and that no group is immune from choosing an oppressive regime that suits its goals. This has been very rough on me and mine, but we saw it blossom under CRT and BLM. It's truly a terrible portent.

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest of all time! at February 07, 2021 10:20 AM (ONvIw)

233 201, 112 - once you start looking them up, turns out that there is/was a "Browning 9mm Long", the original round for the 1903 Colt semi-automatic pistol. It was nominally 9 x 20, actually 20.3, so will not chamber in a 9 x 19 and there used to be warnings to watch out for it in other 9's. Also, don't leave out reference to "9mm Kurz," which just means shorter than some other 9, but has a nice Joseph Conrad overtone.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 07, 2021 10:20 AM (zMFmR)

234 Will the be a BUFF BALL at the TexMoMe in 2021?

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 07, 2021 10:21 AM (yrol0)

235 /sock

Posted by: Muldoon at February 07, 2021 10:21 AM (m45I2)

236 Prayers for both would be appreciated.

Posted by: Weak Geek at February 07, 2021 10:17 AM (rYZAP)


Oh geez, Weak Geek. Will do.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 07, 2021 10:21 AM (45fpk)

237 Sure it's every election has the winner with the highest vote count ever with the lowest won counties by a big margin ever.
Posted by: Skip at February 07, 2021 10:19 AM (Cxk7w)

What was it? He won a third of the counties that Obama did, but got 15 million more votes?

Yeah.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2021 10:22 AM (lmikk)

238 So, they got to Hanson. I'm surprised. They must have threatened his vineyard.

Trump's tweets were the only way he could communicate to the public unfiltered. If it were not for the tweets there would have been no 70,000,000.

Posted by: Braenyard, Patriot dog at February 07, 2021 10:22 AM (rLvi3)

239 Trump's tweets were the only way he could communicate to the public unfiltered. If it were not for the tweets there would have been no 70,000,000.
Posted by: Braenyard, Patriot dog at February 07, 2021 10:22 AM (rLvi3)

I loved his tweets, I don't think calling out the donks and media is "mean".

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest of all time! at February 07, 2021 10:23 AM (ONvIw)

240 Yeah, I reread that the other day. When I first read it I was a bit pissed at the author's view that Jews could "go Nazi". I see now that she's correct and that no group is immune from choosing an oppressive regime that suits its goals. This has been very rough on me and mine, but we saw it blossom under CRT and BLM. It's truly a terrible portent.
Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest of all time! at February 07, 2021 10:20 AM (ONvIw)

Well, the positive is we can all begin to weed these Karens out of our lives. Or shun them or ignore them (hopefully). If we ever start opening up again and people begin to actually mingle and meet in restaurants and bars and other places, perhaps some of our sanity as a collective will return. Keeping us all inside, locked away from family and friends, keeps us isolated and online, angry and alone. And that is precisely their (Biden, Fauci, Pelos et al) plan.

Posted by: Secret Squirrel, author of Outward Frontier at February 07, 2021 10:23 AM (PhAPW)

241 Eliminating Facebook from my computer meant also eliminating Candy Crush and Candy Crush Soda, big timewasters. As a result, this week I read much more than usual. I started on a collection of Arthur Machen's works. The first one, 'The Hill of Dreams' was written in the mid 1890s, and it is from the "decadent" era of British literature that came to screeching stop with Oscar Wilde's trial and conviction. Living in a decadent age myself, I can see why people suddenly were sick to the teeth of the moony stuff, full of perverse self-flagellation and drug-addled fantasies. It's supposed to be one of his great works, but I didn't like it myself. Just enjoyed the final pages, when the landlady and her husband come in to discover the body of the poet, and we discover from their down-to-earth conversation that he was a hopeless drug addict who never wrote anything legible at all.

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at February 07, 2021 10:24 AM (TlUkG)

242 Also, don't leave out reference to "9mm Kurz," which just means shorter than some other 9, but has a nice Joseph Conrad overtone.

AKA 9mm Corto, or 9mm Court.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 07, 2021 10:25 AM (nsnF6)

243 Keeping us all inside, locked away from family and friends, keeps us isolated and online, angry and alone. And that is precisely their (Biden, Fauci, Pelos et al) plan.
Posted by: Secret Squirrel, author of Outward Frontier at February 07, 2021 10:23 AM (PhAPW

I was always a bit of a hermit. My problem is my husband no longer has his bridge club to keep him busy and he's turning to phoning his asshole lib sister. We have all banned him from discussing our lives and views with her, vile Karen that she is.

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest of all time! at February 07, 2021 10:26 AM (ONvIw)

244 Actually less than %17 of 3,000+ counties, 12 million more votes than Barky won in his first election.

Posted by: Skip at February 07, 2021 10:26 AM (Cxk7w)

245 My problem is my husband no longer has his bridge club to keep him busy and he's turning to phoning his asshole lib sister. We have all banned him from discussing our lives and views with her, vile Karen that she is.
Posted by: CN loves Biden
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My mom is playing bridge online now...constantly.it keeps her busy.

Posted by: lin-duh 27-4 at February 07, 2021 10:27 AM (UUBmN)

246 Mary Roberts Rinehart trained as a nurse, and married a doctor she met at the training hospital. They lost their shirts in the 1903 crash, and that's when she leaned in to the writing trade. Then they bought a used mansion, apparently not through the best realtor, because it turned out to be used hard and put away wet, requiring complete rebuilding. She acted as her own general contractor for the job, which may have given her some insight into circular staircases, and makes one wonder about hidden passageways in the library.

Tune in next week for the next thrilling installment in the career of MRR...

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 07, 2021 10:28 AM (zMFmR)

247 The second Machen story I read is from the WWI era, set in 1915 as the war was dragging on. England is being terrorized by a rash of inexplicable deaths - murders, suicides, explosions, stampeding horses. The resolution of the mystery isn't the greatest, but I really enjoyed the description of the authorities trying to clamp down on all news reporting. It's so like the censorship going on today - newspapers shut down if they leak even a hint of the crisis, soldiers and police stationed all over the country, cordoning off whole areas and people just dumbly going along with it, supposing it's part of the war effort somehow. Then there are conspiracy theories bubbling up everywhere. Really good read. It's not considered one of Machen's best books, but the circumstances have come round to make it timely.

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at February 07, 2021 10:28 AM (TlUkG)

248 I totally believe that bidementia

Posted by: lin-duh 27-4 at February 07, 2021 10:28 AM (UUBmN)

249 My mom is playing bridge online now...constantly.it keeps her busy.
Posted by: lin-duh 27-4 at February 07, 2021 10:27 AM (UUBmN)

He does a little of that, but sadly it has not become addictive

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest of all time! at February 07, 2021 10:29 AM (ONvIw)

250 I met a 70yo LI Trump voter. It's amazing a person just skimming the surface of information available knows something is wrong, something doesn't add up.
"That Chuck whatshisname is a crook"

Posted by: Braenyard, Patriot dog at February 07, 2021 10:29 AM (rLvi3)

251 Some of these guys just do not want to see or believe the country was totally screwed by a communist takeover.
Sure it's every election has the winner with the highest vote count ever with the lowest won counties by a big margin ever.
Posted by: Skip at February 07, 2021 10:19 AM (Cxk7w)


Welp since nobody wants to talk about books... I think we all let our guard down thinking that DJT was a decisive break from bidness as usual and the dogshit GOP would support him and us. That's been a hard lesson to learn and some pollyannas obdurately are in denial.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 07, 2021 10:29 AM (y7DUB)

252 Was more popular than scoamf

Posted by: lin-duh 27-4 at February 07, 2021 10:29 AM (UUBmN)

253 250: Gutsy to admit that on the guyland. My SIL lives out there most of the time and it is Karen central

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest of all time! at February 07, 2021 10:30 AM (ONvIw)

254 It's all the way up to minus 7 degrees. Heat wave. The problem of the day seems to be - do we leave the chickens in the coop, or do we let them in the house.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 07, 2021 10:30 AM (45fpk)

255 Secret library door shown here around 2 min mark of video.

More pics / info here at Forbes:tinyurl.com/dd82hofr

Wow, I really want that house. It's just spectacular. Makes me wonder why it hasn't sold, though. I mean, other than the combined nuclear waste repository / Indian burial ground thing.

Posted by: pep at February 07, 2021 10:31 AM (v16oJ)

256 254 It's all the way up to minus 7 degrees. Heat wave. The problem of the day seems to be - do we leave the chickens in the coop, or do we let them in the house.
Posted by: grammie winger at February 07, 2021 10:30 AM (45fpk)

Get their azzes to Mars!

Posted by: Ahnuld at February 07, 2021 10:32 AM (PiwSw)

257 211 I see VDH is on the "Trump lost the election because tweets" train.

I actually don't totally disagree. The wine moms were absolutely weaponized by the "mean tweets", and that was a factor in not beating the fraud this time.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 07, 2021 10:13 AM (6XLoz)
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I think you're on the right track there. VDH has always had a tendency toward looking for X, the Single Cause of an historical event. And that is BS. It is just plausible if you are dealing with a true autocrat, like Genghis Khan. But never elsewise.
But it's true about the fact that "mean tweets" hurt him with some. I play online bridge, and I'll see these nice old ladies fainting over what Trump said. (I ignore, and always answer "I don't discuss politics here, unless it's Caesar vs Pompey." That shuts it down.)

Posted by: Eeyore at February 07, 2021 10:32 AM (7X3UV)

258 IMO AOC is a comic bit player in this fiasco, I am more concerned about the likes of Norm Eisen
Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest of all time! at February 07, 2021 10:12 AM (ONvIw)

All I want out of AOC is a sex tape.

After that she can go off into oblivion.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 07, 2021 10:32 AM (R/m4+)

259 There is some confusion on the web re 9mm Kurtz vs 9mm Browning (.380ACP). Be careful.

Posted by: Jean at February 07, 2021 10:32 AM (Xih1H)

260 The problem of the day seems to be - do we leave the chickens in the coop, or do we let them in the house.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 07, 2021 10:30 AM (45fpk)

I am NOT letting chickens in the house.

Posted by: BignJames at February 07, 2021 10:33 AM (AwYPR)

261 Check out the Joseph Beth Booksellers photos from their store in Lexington, KY for a great bookstore photo. Awesome store that seems to be doing fine in these digital times.

Posted by: Rob at February 07, 2021 10:33 AM (TtxyY)

262 Welp since nobody wants to talk about books... I think we all let our guard down thinking that DJT was a decisive break from bidness as usual and the dogshit GOP would support him and us. That's been a hard lesson to learn and some pollyannas obdurately are in denial.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 07, 2021 10:29 AM (y7DUB)

Another books I recently finished was "A Kim Jong Il Production" about Kim's kidnapping of a married Korean actress and film director husband. He forced them to make propagana movies for his regime until they could escape. Enjoyable book as far as a telling story; terrible what happened to the couple but their treatment was with kid gloves compared to 99% of political captives under the Kim regimes.

To your point about the GOP: yes, it has imploded like a dying star. But what will replace it?

Posted by: Secret Squirrel, author of Outward Frontier at February 07, 2021 10:33 AM (PhAPW)

263 The problem of the day seems to be - do we leave the chickens in the coop, or do we let them in the house.


Posted by: grammie winger at February 07, 2021 10:30 AM

If you let chickens in my house within 30 seconds all you would have is feathers and bloody chicken carcasses strewn around the house from the dogs.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at February 07, 2021 10:33 AM (JUOKG)

264 My mom is playing bridge online now...constantly.it keeps her busy.
Posted by: lin-duh 27-4 at February 07, 2021 10:27 AM (UUBmN)


I should probably do that because every time I went to a duplicate get together I left with a diminished view of mankind.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 07, 2021 10:33 AM (y7DUB)

265 When I was in college at the University of Hawaii, I lived in an old house up on Tantalus. My bedroom had two built in bookshelves with rounded tops. If you pulled from the correct spot, the bookshelves pivoted out and behind them was two closets. It was very cool.

Posted by: Akua Makana at February 07, 2021 10:34 AM (YkUJb)

266 I am NOT letting chickens in the house.

Posted by: BignJames at February 07, 2021 10:33 AM (AwYPR)


They come in quite frequently. They like to sit on the couch and watch cartoons. Usually just one at a time though. Not the whole gang at once.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 07, 2021 10:35 AM (45fpk)

267 Last week, i made a comment using british slang for tema members in a platoon squad, 'squaddies'. Someone asked me where i got it from and i promised to post it here this weekend.

Andy Remic is a british author and he's got some reasonably middle of the road mental chewing gum scify. I've read most of his stuff. Some of it is repetitve, but still a good way to mentally check out.
Link goes to Andy's author page on goodreads. I used a new url shortener because tiny u r l has gone woke. Very basic interface, simple to use. Link to the new url shortener is at the very bottom.
Andy's good reads author page https://is.gd/TzROgU

New url shortener. https://is.gd/index.php

Posted by: BifBewalski AOS Moron at February 07, 2021 10:35 AM (VcFUs)

268 Our Joseph Beth here in Charlotte closed down years ago when the owners divorced, I think. It was a great place. Now the space is a Container Store. Spent time in the Lexington locale as a kid too.

Posted by: Nckate at February 07, 2021 10:36 AM (+6Fup)

269 If you let chickens in my house within 30 seconds
all you would have is feathers and bloody chicken carcasses strewn
around the house from the dogs.


Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at February 07, 2021 10:33 AM (JUOKG)


That would be my first guess too, but the ADD black lab just ignores them. Not even a glance.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 07, 2021 10:36 AM (45fpk)

270 Hello bookists! Nice change for me to make it in before noon.

I'm now half-way through Zafon's YA Prince of Mists en espanol. Very surprised and saddened to hear that Zafon died of cancer back in June 2020, age 55. His The Shadow of the Wind is a sensation and deals with bookish themes. It is on my TBR pile (in English!).

Also half-way through Andrew Klavan's The Great Good Thing. Autobiographical. Engaging style. About his path from secular Long Island American Jew to baptism in Episcopal faith.

But I haven't actually *finished* any books this week except for light-weight genre stuff. Really don't seem to have the internal fortitude for heavier stuff in these days and hours.

Posted by: sinmi at February 07, 2021 10:37 AM (A5IVt)

271 But on VDH, he's a good example of why we shouldn't use an "on/off" switch about what people say or do. His work on actual classical subjects is excellent*. E.g. The Other Greeks.

But he does tend to extend himself beyond his expertise, and often fails. Sure, he knows about California, and is good on that. But his "2nd World Wars" is feeble; at least, the naval parts (all I looked at.) 2nd hand rerun of the CW of the 60s. The usual mythology about "the cult of the battleship", and the context-free criticism of Germany's having too few U-boats in 1939. (There's no way they could have had more.) He really does not understand naval war.

*I do not accept his description of hoplite battle as a rugby scrum, though.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 07, 2021 10:37 AM (7X3UV)

272 261 Check out the Joseph Beth Booksellers photos from their store in Lexington, KY for a great bookstore photo. Awesome s
tore that seems to be doing fine in these digital times.
Posted by: Rob at February 07, 2021 10:33 AM (TtxyY)
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Lived in KY a couple of years. Joseph Beth was the Sunday afternoon/evening destination. Plenty of books to browse and the cafe had decent food and wine. Wish there was one here to replace B&N.

Posted by: Ziba at February 07, 2021 10:38 AM (S1hrL)

273 It's snowing like crazy here, very wet snow clinging to everything, lines, trees it could be a problem.

Posted by: Skip at February 07, 2021 10:38 AM (Cxk7w)

274 I've been enjoying Mary Roberts Rinehart books as well. Nice time capsules although the foreshadowing is WAAAAY overdone in some of the earlier books. But (other than being female) she is in no way similar to Agatha Christie. That must have been sheer marketing.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at February 07, 2021 10:39 AM (fTtFy)

275 I've had chickens before, but I wouldn't have let them in the house. They were fun, though.
Recently, on Instagram, I started following a person in Canada who has Bobert Quail. They are sort of white and black fluffy quails. They are hilarious and of course, cute. She lets them live in the house. They are quite tame and will jump into her hands for treats and sort of walk around, making quail squeeks.
This is what I am reduced to: quail videos and AOS online. I'm okay with that!

Posted by: Secret Squirrel, author of Outward Frontier at February 07, 2021 10:39 AM (PhAPW)

276 The problem of the day seems to be - do we leave the chickens in the coop, or do we let them in the house.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 07, 2021 10:30 AM (45fpk)

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Where from Grammie? Im from the upper midwest and chickens, or amy livestock NEVER cam into the house. And it got damn cold where I grew up.

Posted by: fixerupper at February 07, 2021 10:40 AM (EI5xb)

277 Vic Hanson does not have a vineyard! He's a raisin farmer.
Threats to his farm are what made him go public with his societal writings.
He was just fine with ancient military history, and his family were old-time Democrats for a century or two before the current manures hit the fan.

"Gasbag." You have never read one of his books for grownups.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 07, 2021 10:40 AM (zMFmR)

278 There probably won't be anything in there about him stiffing authors who wrote for him, I'll bet. Which is unfortunate. I like the name "Hugo the Rat", though. So much contempt in such a short epithet.
________
That's what editors' intros are for.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 07, 2021 10:40 AM (7X3UV)

279 Most of Mary Roberts Rinehart's books must be in the public domain by now. They'd be a good source for filmmakers looking for cheap properties to adapt, now that the era of the big budget blockbuster is over.

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at February 07, 2021 10:40 AM (TlUkG)

280 Other books I saw a used book store 2 books on military miniatures and one on making miniature sailing ships. Never know what treasures one finds that you weren't looking for.

Posted by: Skip at February 07, 2021 10:40 AM (Cxk7w)

281 Fun fact: Chickens regard many of our cooking shows as horror movies....

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 07, 2021 10:40 AM (PiwSw)

282 Since VDH came up, he gave an interview to a Greek outfit of some kind, started to read the transcript on his website. First answer was enough. Really pretty ridiculous. Trump's "legacy" may not recover from the actions of a few dozen idiots unconnected to him in any way and the incompetence of Keyston Capitol cops, you see. Contesting rather extravagantly dubious election processes (which were ipso facto constitutional in many cases, forget the complete lack of integrity) was being a "sore loser".

VDH is fine on many things but kind of jaw-droppingly stupid on other things, very disappointing (this goes back several years).

Posted by: rhomboid at February 07, 2021 10:41 AM (OTzUX)

283 Where from Grammie? Im from the upper midwest and
chickens, or amy livestock NEVER cam into the house. And it got damn
cold where I grew up.

Posted by: fixerupper at February 07, 2021 10:40 AM (EI5xb)


We're in Wisconsin. Their coop is well insulated and built better than some houses, so I'm thinking they should be okay. Daughter is concerned (they are hers) so they probably will wind up watching the Super Bowl all together.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 07, 2021 10:42 AM (45fpk)

284 Fun fact: Chickens regard many of our cooking shows as horror movies....

I remember Far Side cartoon of cows in a movie theater, watching as a HOOF emerges from a coffin. "Oooh, here he comes, to feed on the milk of the living!" squeals one.

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at February 07, 2021 10:42 AM (TlUkG)

285 VDH is fine on many things but kind of jaw-droppingly stupid on other things, very disappointing (this goes back several years).

Posted by: rhomboid at February 07, 2021 10:41 AM (OTzUX)


So, an academic.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 07, 2021 10:43 AM (PiwSw)

286
Leon Spinks died. Another old celebrity.

I wonder if he had a COVID shot recently.

Posted by: fixerupper at February 07, 2021 10:43 AM (EI5xb)

287 The WSJ paywall is worth paying to penetrate. The useful info overwhelms the occasional wokeries of the news section.

Posted by: Dr Wang at February 07, 2021 10:44 AM (YLRF6)

288 245
My mom is playing bridge online now...constantly.it keeps her busy.
Posted by: lin-duh 27-4 at February 07, 2021 10:27 AM (UUBmN)
________
Nidink? That's where I go.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 07, 2021 10:44 AM (7X3UV)

289 To your point about the GOP: yes, it has imploded like a dying star. But what will replace it?
Posted by: Secret Squirrel, author of Outward Frontier at February 07, 2021 10:33 AM (PhAPW)


Therein lies the problem. Here in Ohio there was some good news a couple days ago that state party chief Jane Timken has resigned with the presently unstated purpose of running for Rob Portman's Senate seat. She is an unapologetic MAGA supporter which should serve her well in state. Something has to exist to fill the vacuum and I think DJT will have a big role to play in that.

Back to books, I'm still progressing through Erin Morgenstern's The Starless Sea which is still an ill defined quest to find something related to story telling. She has a unique ability to draw the reader, or at least me, into sticking with a narration where you still have no idea what's going on, interspersed with unique little stories that are starting to reveal some common themes.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 07, 2021 10:44 AM (y7DUB)

290 Most of Trump's Tweets were anything but mean. They were lighthearted and upbeat. Even when going after his political opponents they were always half joking.

Posted by: lowandslow at February 07, 2021 10:45 AM (qH6FZ)

291 Wine Moms upset by Trump's tweets? Some of the meanest, most superficial women I've known have been Wine Moms in their bookclubs reading Jonathan Franzen to be in the know. LOL

Posted by: Ziba at February 07, 2021 10:47 AM (S1hrL)

292 no group is immune from choosing an oppressive regime that suits its goals.

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I don't know why they call it original sin when there's nothing original about it.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 07, 2021 10:47 AM (VVEnO)

293 They are "Browning Luger 9 mil". Will these port through typical 9 semi-autos? Will repost in gun thread if no one here knows.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at February 07, 2021 09:43 AM


The key word there is Luger. You're fine.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 07, 2021 10:47 AM (DMUuz)

294 well, time to find something to eat.

Going to make paella for the family today over a woodfire in our firepit.

For breakfast? I think a chorizo-egg-cheese-onion-pepper breakfast burrito.

Posted by: Secret Squirrel, author of Outward Frontier at February 07, 2021 10:47 AM (PhAPW)

295 I want to party with the good people who force a neo-logism for their antics (and know what that means)!

Posted by: GWB at February 07, 2021 10:47 AM (exmX5)

296 So, an academic.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 07, 2021 10:43 AM (PiwSw)

That's what I was going to say. They're not so eloquent outside their fields, but think that they are.

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest of all time! at February 07, 2021 10:48 AM (ONvIw)

297 I'd rather have someone mean tweet me rather than stab me in the back on the down low

Posted by: Nckate at February 07, 2021 10:48 AM (+6Fup)

298 We've got the buffest balls of them all.

Posted by: SAC at February 07, 2021 10:48 AM (yCVvA)

299 NCKate,

My first job was on Rexford Rd, across the street from Southpark.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 07, 2021 10:49 AM (PiwSw)

300 I continue to have a problem with inability to read continuously. So I've just been reading bits. A Hitchcock anthology, James on the HOF, Lewis On Stories, Gordon on Jutland. But also Feser's Last Superstition. For those with a taste for classic philosophy, I recommend it, also for those who wish to dip their toes in it. It is almost 20 year old, and is an attack on the "New Atheists" like Dawkins. It is also a very accessible intro to Thomism.

But none have been given a sustained reading. All but the Hitchcock is rereading. A lot depends on what comes out of the packing boxes. Unsystematic, but kind of fun.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 07, 2021 10:50 AM (7X3UV)

301 Cleaning out my attic store room I just came upon most of the Flashman series, Fraser's "Quartered Safe Out Here", about twenty or so Wodehouse, a bunch of Dick Francis and the complete O'Brian. Now, I guess, I own two complete O'Brian, one paperback and one hardback. Also, two Raymond Chandlers. Haha! A very good day.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Hey! You can't do that here! at February 07, 2021 10:51 AM (CAe3b)

302 Off to grope the day. Love you, my bookish peeps!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread

Mutual of Omaha, Baybee !

Posted by: JT at February 07, 2021 10:51 AM (arJlL)

303 Other books I saw a used book store 2 books on military miniatures and one on making miniature sailing ships. Never know what treasures one finds that you weren't looking for.
Posted by: Skip at February 07, 2021 10:40 AM (Cxk7w)

Recently watched an episode of How It's Made that showed the manufacturing of military miniatures.

Posted by: Mr. Meeseeks, Look at me at February 07, 2021 10:51 AM (2DOZq)

304 Chickens poop. A lot.

You can get diapers for them, though.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 07, 2021 10:52 AM (DMUuz)

305 VDH is great on explaining the Peloponnesian war (or more accurately, Greek civil war) but not so much interpreting current fluid things.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 07, 2021 10:52 AM (y7DUB)

306 I'm curious how Hans G Schantz will continue his "Hidden Truth" series, and how it compare and contrast with current events. The first three books were published in 2016, -7 and -8 so he's taken a bit longer to get to the next one.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 07, 2021 10:52 AM (TK8Ry)

307 For breakfast? I think a chorizo-egg-cheese-onion-pepper breakfast burrito.

Posted by: Secret Squirrel

I'll take 2, please.

Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at February 07, 2021 10:53 AM (ju2Fy)

308 JT, what book are you talking about? I may want to add that to my collection.
Posted by: Old Blue - Round Headed Bald Kid

See comment 129

Posted by: JT at February 07, 2021 10:53 AM (arJlL)

309 Well, a buff-ball sounds like fun!

Posted by: RalphF at February 07, 2021 10:53 AM (5FiEy)

310 I've tried to read a couple of books by Conn Iggulden as a substitute for Steven Pressfield but he just doesn't grab my interest like Pressfield's writing. Any suggestions for any other Historical fiction authors?

Posted by: Mr. Meeseeks, Look at me at February 07, 2021 10:54 AM (2DOZq)

311 Beautiful library.

If you enlarge and look closely you can see a copy of the Pathfinder 2nd Core Rule Book with the Special Edition cover upstairs, towards the back.

Posted by: Blacksheep at February 07, 2021 10:54 AM (6mvRv)

312 282
VDH is fine on many things but kind of jaw-droppingly stupid on other things, very disappointing (this goes back several years).

Posted by: rhomboid at February 07, 2021 10:41 AM (OTzUX)
________

Of whom is that not true? Let's not get carried away. I may have a small advantage here, in that it was very early (70s) that I realized that there was no one I agreed with completely. And also that that was probably as much my fault as others'.
Especially right now, we live in an era where we really don't know just what is coming. Oh, we know in a general way, but not specifically, how bad things are. Or how much hope there is. I keep thinking of the end of "Dover Beach". (A poem I cannot take seriously, until the killer ending.)

Posted by: Eeyore at February 07, 2021 10:55 AM (7X3UV)

313 There's a household three doors down from chez Hate that has four chickens who wander around the neighborhood looking for food in compost piles. For supposedly dumb clucks they're pretty good about staying away from cars. It's entertaining watching them.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 07, 2021 10:55 AM (y7DUB)

314 It's nasty cold here so I think I'll stay from church and maybe watch on livestream. I used to do be tougher about that sort of thing.

Posted by: N.L. Urker at February 07, 2021 10:56 AM (lgiXo)

315 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_mm_caliber

Posted by: Skip at February 07, 2021 10:56 AM (Cxk7w)

316 Just over half way through Richard Frank's "Tower of Skulls" about the Pacific war, 1937 - May 1942. It's serving his stated purpose of looking at the war's broader origins and events outside the familiar conventional US-Japan military struggle. China. All about China (in various ways).

Learning a lot about Japan's war in China - though still he's only giving an overview, and key battles and issues. The largest event of which I (and I think most) were totally unaware - the breaching of the Yellow River dikes in 1938 to stop a Japanese offensive. Biblical calamity and death toll.

For those interested in the war's origins and the truly astonishing failure/incompetence of Japan's elites in starting it, I highly recommend this book, along with Eri Hotta's "Japan 1941" which focuses entirely on the dysfunction of the leadership and institutions in Japan.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 07, 2021 10:56 AM (OTzUX)

317 Thanks JT! Must be the raid on Cabanatuan. I'll look for it.

Posted by: Old Blue - Round Headed Bald Kid at February 07, 2021 10:56 AM (VNmG1)

318 The problem of the day seems to be - do we leave the chickens in the coop, or do we let them in the house.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 07, 2021 10:30 AM


We had chickens for a while. I never knew they were so destructive. They'll eat anything they can get their beaks around. The part of our backyard around the chicken coop looked like a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at February 07, 2021 10:57 AM (l35q6)

319 Any gun nuts hanging around? I am afraid I steered a friend wrong yesterday. He has a new S&W( I think) 9 mil. He bought a couple of cases, like 1k of rounds. They are "Browning Luger 9 mil".

I think that those who guessed that Browning is just the brand name and "9mm Luger" is the cartridge are probably correct. If you have a caliper (just a ruler is probably precise enough) the definitive way to tell is to measure the case length (not the overall length including the bullet). A 9mm Luger, which I take it is what you want, is 19mm long. A 9mm Browning (a.k.a ".380 ACP") is 17mm.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 07, 2021 10:57 AM (qc+VF)

320 290 Most of Trump's Tweets were anything but mean. They were lighthearted and upbeat. Even when going after his political opponents they were always half joking.
Posted by: lowandslow at February 07, 2021 10:45 AM (qH6FZ)
_______

I usually enjoyed them. But not everyone reads them the same. And he did appall many. This of course was compounded by the Pravda Media. But it won't do to ignore this.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 07, 2021 10:57 AM (7X3UV)

321 Leon Spinks died. Another old celebrity.

I wonder if he had a COVID shot recently.
Posted by: fixerupper

Tooth decay

Posted by: JT at February 07, 2021 10:58 AM (arJlL)

322 Currently reading "The Most Dangerous Enemy" by Stephen Bungay about the Battle of Britain.

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If any of you watched The Crown, there were several segments about Princess Margaret's affair with RAF officer Peter Townsend. He was a real person and a Battle of Britain hero who wrote a history of it, Duel of Eagles. Although he was there, it's not a memoir but a history. I thought it was quite good.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 07, 2021 11:00 AM (VVEnO)

323 Anyway, I'm sure medical sites have more current info on ECT, probably even videos detailing the process.
Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest at February 07, 2021 09:11 AM (ONvIw)

Current info... ISWYDT

Posted by: BurtTC at February 07, 2021 11:00 AM (oQ94s)

324 I think we can all agree that it's long past time for 9mm Ammunition Nomenclature Control. The understandable confusion over it is kind of hilarious, and ridiculous.

Sure there are actually different legit calibers with their own designation - Luger, Makarov, Largo. But really something needs to be done about the 37 designations for 380ACP.

It's like the endlessly varied transliterations of the surname of Libya's late dictator, there's a limit here people.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 07, 2021 11:01 AM (OTzUX)

325 I recently bought "1969" by Rob Kilpatrick. I enjoy history and 1969 seems like a good Year Zero for when the world broke.

Ugh. A couple of pages into the introduction and he's sneering at "Trumpeteers" and praising Colin Kaepernick.

Deleted and refunded.
I second the recommendation for "Astounding." An excellent book.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 07, 2021 11:01 AM (l9m7l)

326 A couple homesteads around here have (or had) chickens. Some of the coops they have for them are very elaborate (as in thousands of dollars.)

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at February 07, 2021 11:01 AM (3H9h1)

327 Recently, on Instagram, I started following a person
in Canada who has Bobert Quail. They are sort of white and black
fluffy quails. They are hilarious and of course, cute. She lets them
live in the house. They are quite tame and will jump into her hands for
treats and sort of walk around, making quail squeeks.

This is what I am reduced to: quail videos and AOS online. I'm okay with that!

Posted by: Secret Squirrel, author of Outward Frontier at February 07, 2021 10:39 AM (PhAPW)
What's stopping them from crapping all over the place? Or are they naturally housebroken?

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at February 07, 2021 11:02 AM (l35q6)

328 we haz lotsa snow right now

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 07, 2021 11:02 AM (nUhF0)

329 Anyway anyone familiar with Under Western Eyes, by Conrad? The reviews are mixed, but I'm up for a challenge.

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest of all time! at February 07, 2021 11:03 AM (ONvIw)

330 VDH is great on explaining the Peloponnesian war (or more accurately, Greek civil war) but not so much interpreting current fluid things.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 07, 2021 10:52 AM (y7DUB)

===
I think he has been doing a great job explicating how the Left has destroyed California, so that the rest of the country can know what's coming.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 07, 2021 11:03 AM (EZebt)

331 Some of the coops they have for them are very elaborate (as in thousands of dollars.)

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at February 07, 2021 11:01 AM (3H9h1)


My son in law built their chickens a coop that a family of four could live in, quite nicely.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 07, 2021 11:03 AM (45fpk)

332 Thanks JT! Must be the raid on Cabanatuan. I'll look for it.
Posted by: Old Blue - Round Headed Bald Kid

Its a good, well written book.
He goes into great detail about conditions in the camp.

In my impatience, I'm thinking "OKAY ! I GET it; it SUCKS there ! Can we get to the rescue part ?"

Posted by: JT at February 07, 2021 11:03 AM (arJlL)

333 Current info... ISWYDT
Posted by: BurtTC at February 07, 2021 11:00 AM (oQ94s)

Yep, pun intended

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest of all time! at February 07, 2021 11:03 AM (ONvIw)

334 I was asking about the King novel, The Stand last week, and found a copy in my local used book store.

I asked the shop owner, because this paperback copy is "only" 800 and something pages. He told me that's how it was originally published, that the later versions were the ones in which King put another several hundred pages.

I think the current versions available are over 1300. So... based on his recommendation, I'm going to read the shorter one.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 07, 2021 11:04 AM (oQ94s)

335 Browning is one of the brand names out there the last few years, so probably that explains it. Have seen those boxes in stores. Have bought little ammo for years (reload), but on websites and in stores I did notice that as a "new to me" brand name a few years ago.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 07, 2021 11:04 AM (OTzUX)

336
My son in law built their chickens a coop that a family of four could live in, quite nicely.
Posted by: grammie winger at February 07, 2021 11:03 AM (45fpk)

I keep on reading that as co-op which is probably a sign of incipient communism. I'll head out for a round of flagellation.

Posted by: N.L. Urker at February 07, 2021 11:05 AM (lgiXo)

337 On one hand it's 81 F outside, on the other hand, Alcee Hastings is still my congress critter. But word on the street is the Grim Reaper is closing fast.

Posted by: Asscheeks of Saturn at February 07, 2021 11:05 AM (Js/7v)

338 I have a question and I am hoping someone knows the answer. I have been reading Carol O'Connell's Mallory series since the first book came out. As long as she's been writing, she's put out one book every two years. (And people complain about authors who only write a book a year!) But her last book came out in 2016 and there hasn't been a hint of a new one. Unfortunately, I have absolutely no contacts left in the publishing industry. Anyone out there know anything?

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- Bitterly clinging to the deplorable life at February 07, 2021 11:05 AM (yTN5S)

339
195 LOL, I'm listening to the classical station and the next piece was recorded at the "Boroque on Beaver Festival" on Beaver Island in Lake Michigan.

I SO want a concert tee.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at February 07, 2021 10:08 AM (Dc2NZ)

I heard a piece from that festival yesterday on 90.5 FM (WKAR I think)!

Me too on the T-shirt!

Posted by: sinmi at February 07, 2021 11:05 AM (A5IVt)

340 Leon Spinks died. Another old celebrity.

I wonder if he had a COVID shot recently.
Posted by: fixerupper

Tooth decay
Posted by: JT at February 07, 2021 10:58 AM (arJlL)

He was only 67 . As a brand new 60 year old I'm declaring 67 not that old.

Posted by: Mr. Meeseeks, Look at me at February 07, 2021 11:05 AM (2DOZq)

341 A Buff-Ball in 1880?

Must have been Unitarians.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at February 07, 2021 11:05 AM (2BZBZ)

342 Rhomboid, do you have any recommendations for books on the Battle of the Atlantic?

Posted by: Old Blue - Round Headed Bald Kid at February 07, 2021 11:06 AM (VNmG1)

343 >>> 323 Anyway, I'm sure medical sites have more current info on ECT, probably even videos detailing the process.
Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest at February 07, 2021 09:11 AM (ONvIw)

Current info... ISWYDT
Posted by: BurtTC at February 07, 2021 11:00 AM (oQ94s)

I'm shocked you would make a pun about this sensitive topic. I hope you get a lot of static for it.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 07, 2021 11:06 AM (TK8Ry)

344 I thought of VDH when the authors of The Thirty Tyrants started their article with some Athenian/Spartan history:

https://bit.ly/3jsZd8Z

It's about the rapid rise of "The China Class" and how quickly things have changed over here with respect to China.

Posted by: t-bird at February 07, 2021 11:06 AM (/2aWP)

345 I keep on reading that as co-op which is probably a sign of incipient communism. I'll head out for a round of flagellation.
Posted by: N.L. Urker at February 07, 2021 11:05 AM (lgiXo)

I lived in a student co-op as an undergrad. I can think of few places less communist than all those locked rooms, including my own. The sharing was strictly limited to rent and utilities.

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest of all time! at February 07, 2021 11:06 AM (ONvIw)

346 Current info... ISWYDT
Posted by: BurtTC at February 07, 2021 11:00 AM (oQ94s)

Yep, pun intended
Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest of all time! at February 07, 2021 11:03 AM (ONvIw)

And it whooshed on by the entire horde... supposedly the smaht ones.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 07, 2021 11:07 AM (oQ94s)

347
I'm shocked you would make a pun about this sensitive topic. I hope you get a lot of static for it.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 07, 2021 11:06 AM (TK8Ry

Buzzzzz off

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest of all time! at February 07, 2021 11:07 AM (ONvIw)

348 I usually enjoyed them. But not everyone reads them the same. And he did appall many. This of course was compounded by the Pravda Media. But it won't do to ignore this.
Posted by: Eeyore at February 07, 2021 10:57 AM (7X3UV)


I was just thinking this. Lots of people passionately *hate* Trump and that was a factor in the election. But I think the media is largely responsible for this, by ginning up the outrage against him 24/7. Before Trump became a political figure, I think most of people either admired him or were neutral towards him.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at February 07, 2021 11:07 AM (l35q6)

349 I'm here.
Better late than never as my father used to say.

It is raining snow here or snowing rain. Tempted to go to the farmers market anyway but, nah.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 07, 2021 11:08 AM (sd8p8)

350 341 A Buff-Ball in 1880?

Must have been Unitarians.
Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at February 07, 2021 11:05 AM (2BZBZ)


Shakers.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at February 07, 2021 11:08 AM (l35q6)

351
I'm shocked you would make a pun about this sensitive topic. I hope you get a lot of static for it.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 07, 2021 11:06 AM (TK8Ry)


Let's not get all amped up about this.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 07, 2021 11:08 AM (PiwSw)

352 Got about 3 or 4 inches of the white stuff last night. Already melting off. Funny thing this morning was watching a Crow try to figure out how to get to the hanging suet blocks on my bird feeder "tree."

Taking it easy for the next few days, healing from the heart procedure I had Fri. Can't lift more than five pounds for the next week so imma gonna need some help when I have to go to the bathroom.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at February 07, 2021 11:09 AM (R5lpX)

353 Before Trump became a political figure, I think most of people either admired him or were neutral towards him.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at February 07, 2021 11:07 AM (l35q6)

I think a lot of wine moms don't like his younger wives, wine moms LOVE the First Wives' Club

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest of all time! at February 07, 2021 11:09 AM (ONvIw)

354 @80
Late to the thread, but Tom is right. The agents are having a tough time, which is the fate of any gatekeeper who suddenly isn't a gatekeeper anymore. I imagine there are a lot of them now (travel agents, for example.)

Posted by: artemis at February 07, 2021 11:10 AM (AwPyG)

355 Let's not get all amped up about this.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 07, 2021 11:08 AM (PiwSw)


I get such a charge out of all the comments here!

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at February 07, 2021 11:10 AM (TlUkG)

356 Let's not get all amped up about this.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 07, 2021 11:08 AM (PiwSw)

I get a charge out of it all

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest of all time! at February 07, 2021 11:10 AM (ONvIw)

357 Posted by: Asscheeks of Saturn at February 07, 2021 11:05 AM (Js/7v)

81?! It just finally got over 50 here in Houston and, even though the sun is shining, there's enough breeze that it's unpleasantly chill.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 07, 2021 11:10 AM (1lKRm)

358 The smart set was appalled by FDRs fireside chats.

Posted by: Jean at February 07, 2021 11:12 AM (Xih1H)

359 Liz Cheney is FOS.


Posted by: Vic at February 07, 2021 11:12 AM (mpXpK)

360 We had three dog so if winter snow prevented regular pooper scooping, come spring it was a real mess and a real job. But this winter has been mild and I pooper scooped yesterday so spring melt won't be bad. And they say I don't lead a full life!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 07, 2021 11:12 AM (VVEnO)

361 https://tinyurl.com/y5yfbgaa

Posted by: Vic at February 07, 2021 11:12 AM (mpXpK)

362 I get a charge out of it all
Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest of all time! at February 07, 2021 11:10 AM (ONvIw)


Ohm all outta f***s to give.

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at February 07, 2021 11:13 AM (TlUkG)

363 81?! It just finally got over 50 here in Houston
and, even though the sun is shining, there's enough breeze that it's
unpleasantly chill.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 07, 2021 11:10 AM (1lKRm)


Minus 7 degrees here. Wind chill of 25 below. We do have sun however. That should extend the time in which your face freezes off by about 45 seconds.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 07, 2021 11:13 AM (45fpk)

364 Ohm all outta f***s to give.
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at February 07, 2021 11:13 AM (TlUkG)

Well, it is a polarizing topic

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest of all time! at February 07, 2021 11:13 AM (ONvIw)

365 Y'all need to be resistors to these puns.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at February 07, 2021 11:14 AM (R5lpX)

366 365 Y'all need to be resistors to these puns.
Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at February 07, 2021 11:14 AM (R5lpX

Watt do you mean by that remark?

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest of all time! at February 07, 2021 11:15 AM (ONvIw)

367 Next in the line-up is another door-stop book, Ian Toll's final of his Pacific war trilogy - "Twilight of the Gods".

And about Frank's book. It's fine, he's a very thorough and reliable historian, seems to me, and lays out his reasoning when tackling an issue with any controversy to it.

But this book could have used an editor to smack him a bit to stick to a simpler writing style. It's been years, but I recall his other big Pacific books (Guadalcanal, and Downfall) as being clearly and crisply written. This one, at points, forces me to re-read sentences just to make sure I know what he's trying to say. Seems like he wanted to take his stylistic impulses for a spin, and the book suffers for it.

One other depressing thing. Frank engages in what I call "defensive history" to pre-emptively address what today is standard, morally arrogant, historically illiterate "outrage!" at things long past which trigger today's dumbed-down Morality Police.

He notes FDR's and Churchill's views on race and nations at one point, and adds "but neither supported genocidal elimination of groups or nations" (paraphrased from memory). Jeebus.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 07, 2021 11:15 AM (OTzUX)

368 Snowing again in NYC. At least it covers up all the uncollected garbage.
So many people have been moving in and out of my building over the past year - we need a revolving door downstairs. The apartments next to mine and on the floor below are all empty.

Posted by: Dr. Vivi-Not my POTUS, FLOTUS, SCOTUS, FBI... at February 07, 2021 11:15 AM (USW1s)

369 I've been reading a few Georgette Heyer books after Artemis recommended them on a thread a while back. Entertaining for the most part but did not like the one I just finished Regency Buck. Way to much setting and not enough story. JT's comment above about just get to the rescue already seemed apt.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 07, 2021 11:15 AM (sd8p8)

370 I was just thinking this. Lots of people passionately *hate* Trump and that was a factor in the election. But I think the media is largely responsible for this, by ginning up the outrage against him 24/7. Before Trump became a political figure, I think most of people either admired him or were neutral towards him.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at February 07, 2021 11:07 AM (l35q6)

My assumption is virtually every human on the planet holds views they "know" are true/right/good, that are nothing more than constructs created by media, in some form or another.

It's a basic function of the human brain, to take shortcuts, and this function is exploited by all sorts of people, using all sorts of methods. An informed and well-reasoned opinion is the enemy of concentrated power... thus, TDS. It's real, but it's hardly unique.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 07, 2021 11:15 AM (oQ94s)

371 Thanks much OregonMuse and the Horde! I didn't realize my new release "Mars Needs Chickens!" would be mentioned today. The sales bump on Amazon was my first clue. Much appreciated.

Posted by: John Taloni at February 07, 2021 11:16 AM (/Nhc5)

372 doggeh just drooled on my tablet

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 07, 2021 11:16 AM (nUhF0)

373 I like the Urban Dictionary cartoon a lot.

Posted by: m at February 07, 2021 11:17 AM (Wpon/)

374 AHLloyd, if you show up later, comments on the Conrad book, Under Western Eyes, would be appreciated.

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest of all time! at February 07, 2021 11:19 AM (ONvIw)

375
Well, it is a polarizing topic
Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest of all time! at February 07, 2021 11:13 AM (ONvIw)

Shunting all the negative vibes to ground with a cap in that pun.

Posted by: BifBewalski AOS Moron at February 07, 2021 11:19 AM (VcFUs)

376 Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at February 07, 2021 11:07 AM (l35q6)

there is absolutely no reason for regular people to hate Trump
it's all brainwashing - via regular medua AND social media
they have a scary hold on people's minds

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 07, 2021 11:19 AM (nUhF0)

377 Hello, horde.

I (temporarily) have run out of Nero Wolfe books to read, so I started on the volume of Agatha Christie novels I picked up at the trusty used bookstore recently. I've seen movies based on Chrisite's books, but I've never actually read her. I was in the middle of "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" and became curious about Christie's life, so I looked up her Wiki entry - there, in the middle of entry, there is a quote from a critic which reveals who the murderer in "Roger Ackroyd" is! I was so annoyed, I nearly threw my phone at the wall. If I had been able to get my hands on the doofus who included that in the Wiki piece, I might be as guilty as one of Christie's villains. It's one thing to put spoilers in a plot summary and quite another to toss them into the author's Wiki bio. I still went on reading because I was curious to see exactly how the killer managed it, but needless to say, it wasn't as enjoyable a read as it otherwise would have been.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&V at February 07, 2021 11:19 AM (HabA/)

378 And yet another reason to not watch the Superbowl.

Watch: Bruce Springsteen's Superbowl Commercial Bragging How Biden United America

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I guess everybody in Bruce's neighborhood is united.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 07, 2021 11:19 AM (VVEnO)

379 I recently read a book of poetry by Joseph Massey called A New Silence. I learned about him via a quilette article, he had been in a relationship with another writer, who was jealous of his successes and basically had him cancelled through scurrilous claims of assault/harassment (so he claims). The resulting depression led him to basically become housebound, which is horribly relateable due to the lockdowns. The work itself isn't depressing, but with the context I did feel for the author/speaker. If you are into poetey, I'd recommend it, but it might seem a bit strange if you're only a dabbler. (Lots of blank space on the pages, book reads a bit like a concept album plays, some repetitiveness).

I'm glad I gave it a read.

Posted by: Funsize at February 07, 2021 11:19 AM (EiPf6)

380 44 and sunny here in Denver. Wind is gusting up to 35 mph.

Posted by: Old Blue - Round Headed Bald Kid at February 07, 2021 11:20 AM (VNmG1)

381 Anyway, I'm sure medical sites have more current info on ECT, probably even videos detailing the process.


Their are other parts of the internet with lots of fun electro shock videos

Posted by: Jean at February 07, 2021 11:20 AM (Xih1H)

382 Old Blue, no, not at the moment - I do have 2 Battle of Atlantic books on my enormous list, think they are well regarded, but haven't gotten to them yet (I don't recall the titles at the moment). I should see if I can find them and pass them on later.

I can toss out a title on one of my many areas of deep ignorance regarding WWII - the Mediterranean. "Struggle for the Middle Sea" by Vincent O'Hara. His "Torch" is also good.

And the latter book generates a good trivia question: what was the largest surface action in the Atlantic during the war?

Posted by: rhomboid at February 07, 2021 11:20 AM (OTzUX)

383 I still went on reading because I was curious to see
exactly how the killer managed it, but needless to say, it wasn't as
enjoyable a read as it otherwise would have been.

Posted by: DonnaV at February 07, 2021 11:19 AM (HabA/)


Yes. That's one that really relies on the surprise ending. Sorry it got spoiled for you.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 07, 2021 11:21 AM (45fpk)

384 @376

Yeah. Interesting, that he won the largest landslide in history and some commentators are trying to resurrect the "mean tweets" meme.

Posted by: artemis at February 07, 2021 11:21 AM (AwPyG)

385 I have the capacitance to read all the puns, but I have a fast memory discharge so I can't remember them all.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at February 07, 2021 11:21 AM (R5lpX)

386 304 Chickens poop. A lot.

You can get diapers for them, though.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 07, 2021 10:52 AM (DMUuz)

*******

Hop, hop, poop!
Hop, hop, poop!
Nose twitching, poop!
Hop, hop, poop!

Posted by: The Rabbits at February 07, 2021 11:21 AM (xxG/v)

387 Their are other parts of the internet with lots of fun electro shock videos
Posted by: Jean at February 07, 2021 11:20 AM (Xih1H)

Ahem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsYqPRIMzfM

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 07, 2021 11:21 AM (PiwSw)

388
On the reading front, I am halfway through "The Pebbles on the Beach", the followup novel to "The Sand Pebbles" ...

I kid, it has nothing to do with the latter. It is, in fact, a small book about pebbles on beaches and what can be learned from checking them out. Clarence Ellis, a Briton, is the author. The book was first published in 1954 and the beaches described in it are all pretty much in the British Isles.

One thing I have learned in its reading is that swash, that is, the angle, usually oblique, at which waves strike a shoreline (and only rarely perpendicular to the predominant direction along which the shoreline runs), combined with backwash, the nearly perpendicular angle to the shore along which water driven onto the beach retreats back to its source, is a prime factor behind the movement of beach material, both up the beach slope and in either direction along the shore. It all makes sense, but I had never considered the matter prior to now.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 07, 2021 11:22 AM (pNxlR)

389 I guess everybody in Bruce's neighborhood is united.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 07, 2021 11:19 AM (VVEnO)


Bruce is in the suburbs of Chicago. So, yeah.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 07, 2021 11:22 AM (45fpk)

390 354 @80
Late to the thread, but Tom is right. The agents are having a tough time, which is the fate of any gatekeeper who suddenly isn't a gatekeeper anymore. I imagine there are a lot of them now (travel agents, for example.)
Posted by: artemis at February 07, 2021 11:10 AM (AwPyG)

That's a good point. Probably lots of industries built up around some expert who can do for you, what you can't do for yourself. And now, with the internet, the number of those things is dwindling.

Hell, people unclog their own sinks these days. Not sure how? Watch any one of these hundreds of Youtube videos.

So yeah, wanna publish a book? Do it yourself. Heck, wanna make a movie? Who in the world would ever need to go to Hollowood ever again?

Posted by: BurtTC at February 07, 2021 11:22 AM (oQ94s)

391 @377

Agatha Christie's Roger Ackroyd was voted best mystery of all time, I think.

She wrote stories where the narrator did it, the protagonist did it, every single suspect did it, and nobody did it.

Posted by: artemis at February 07, 2021 11:24 AM (AwPyG)

392 It seems the work around for the WSJ paywall of googling the article title and then following the link still works. At least it did for me.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 07, 2021 11:24 AM (CAJOC)

393 Rhomboid, just off the top of my head, I'd say the attack on convoy ONS-5. But that involved subs.

Posted by: Old Blue - Round Headed Bald Kid at February 07, 2021 11:25 AM (VNmG1)

394 there is a quote from a critic which reveals who the murderer in "Roger Ackroyd" is! I was so annoyed, I nearly threw my phone at the wall.

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I mentioned Sophie Hannah's Poirot novels above. In one, Closed Casket, the murders occur in the country estate of a famous mystery writer. Poirot decides that one suspect is a fraud because he reveals the ending of a book and knew that no real mystery fan would do that.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 07, 2021 11:25 AM (VVEnO)

395 Damn beaver is hanging out in the pond again. Big wet hairy beaver. Don't want to kill it but it wreaks havoc on the vegetation around the bank. I've shot at it a few times but it is always on the move and much smarter than I am.

Posted by: TwentytwoLR at February 07, 2021 11:25 AM (rEAiC)

396 Their are other parts of the internet with lots of fun electro shock videos

Other. Parts. Of the Internet. You mean other threads on AoSHQ? Because otherwise, I don't know what you could be talking about.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 07, 2021 11:26 AM (qc+VF)

397 She wrote stories where the narrator did it, the protagonist did it, every single suspect did it, and nobody did it.

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Even Poirot did it.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 07, 2021 11:26 AM (VVEnO)

398 And about the book agents--the best way to approach them, if you want to be taken on, is to remember that they aren't selling a product to a consumer.

They are marketing themselves to each other.

They are all in NY, so you can go from there.

Posted by: artemis at February 07, 2021 11:26 AM (AwPyG)

399 Posted by: TwentytwoLR at February 07, 2021 11:25 AM (rEAiC)

At least it's not a muskrat.

Posted by: BignJames at February 07, 2021 11:27 AM (AwYPR)

400 I think the current versions available are over 1300. So... based on his recommendation, I'm going to read the shorter one.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 07, 2021 11:04 AM (oQ94s)



It's a bit of a mixed bag. Most of the material King put back in was worth it, particularly Trashcan Man's encounter with The Kid.

Other stuff like his vignettes on some folks surviving the flu and dying of other causes could and should have stayed out.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at February 07, 2021 11:27 AM (ZSK0i)

401 391: I liked that one and 4:50 from Paddington , as well.

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest of all time! at February 07, 2021 11:27 AM (ONvIw)

402
Ohm all outta f***s to give.
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse


Mhos of us don't care.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 07, 2021 11:27 AM (pNxlR)

403 Also finished Robin Hobb's The Assassin's Apprentice. Liked it a lot and now waiting for the second book to arrive from the library. It is a fun read and would put it in the YA category so perfectly appropriate for young readers.
Reminds me of Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 07, 2021 11:27 AM (sd8p8)

404 Even Poirot did it.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 07, 2021 11:26 AM (VVEnO)

That bastard deserved it, Good for Hercule

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest of all time! at February 07, 2021 11:28 AM (ONvIw)

405 Mhos of us don't care.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 07, 2021 11:27 AM (pNxlR)

Watch your conduct.

Posted by: BignJames at February 07, 2021 11:29 AM (AwYPR)

406 Their are other parts of the internet with lots of fun electro shock videos
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Other. Parts. Of the Internet. You mean other threads on AoSHQ? Because otherwise, I don't know what you could be talking about.
Posted by: Oddbob at February 07, 2021 11:26 AM (qc+VF)

Oh. Well here, I don't mean to shock you (heh), but there are places on the internet with dirty pictures. Not just the occasional fat man on an ottoman, or accidentally linked busty lesbian pron.

Whole websites and everything.

Or so I'm told.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 07, 2021 11:29 AM (oQ94s)

407 Old Blue, no, and I'd never even heard of it, much less considered it as a major battle.

The Naval Battle of Casablanca. No Germans involved.

Vichy France vs. the USN. With a little bit of bad luck, we'd all have heard of it, because the US might have lost some major units (including a battleship). A few French torpedoes just missed their American targets.

Aside from the odd cast of players, there was also the novelty of a dock-bound capital ship being involved (the Jean Bart, a French battleship undergoing major work, fired its main battery against our formation, and was itself the target of our big guns).

Posted by: rhomboid at February 07, 2021 11:29 AM (OTzUX)

408
Damn beaver is hanging out in the pond again. Big wet hairy beaver. Don't want to kill it but it wreaks havoc on the vegetation around the bank. I've shot at it a few times but it is always on the move and much smarter than I am.


Behold! the opening paragraph of the sleeper literary hit, "Licked by a Beaver"!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 07, 2021 11:29 AM (pNxlR)

409 I grew up reading all my mom's old Mary Roberts Rinehart books. They are absolutely classic American mystery fiction.

Posted by: Cal at February 07, 2021 11:30 AM (WJk+A)

410 405 Mhos of us don't care.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 07, 2021 11:27 AM (pNxlR)

Watch your conduct.
Posted by: BignJames at February 07, 2021 11:29 AM (AwYPR)

Joule pay for that remark!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 07, 2021 11:31 AM (PiwSw)

411 My assumption is virtually every human on the planet holds views they "know" are true/right/good, that are nothing more than constructs created by media, in some form or another.

It's a basic function of the human brain, to take shortcuts, and this function is exploited by all sorts of people, using all sorts of methods. An informed and well-reasoned opinion is the enemy of concentrated power... thus, TDS. It's real, but it's hardly unique.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 07, 2021 11:15 AM (oQ94s)


Gerbilopoulous looked like a crazy person hectoring Rand Paul that DJT lied about the election being stolen, which is pretty rich coming from the consigliere of Slick who's never told the fucking truth about anything. Rand did a good job of putting him in his place but he's an isolated point. I expect nothing more from the party of Liz Cheney and Dan Crenshaw.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 07, 2021 11:31 AM (y7DUB)

412 395 Damn beaver is hanging out in the pond again. Big wet hairy beaver...

Posted by: TwentytwoLR at February 07, 2021 11:25 AM (rEAiC)

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I just wanted to go for a swim

Posted by: Sandra Flook at February 07, 2021 11:31 AM (CAJOC)

413 Puns on the Book Thread??? Shocking!

Posted by: Adriane the Quaker Oats Critic ... at February 07, 2021 11:31 AM (LPnfS)

414 The Naval Battle of Casablanca. No Germans involved.

I knew a very little about that. I seem to remember the American's were shocked that the French were firing on them.

Posted by: Old Blue - Round Headed Bald Kid at February 07, 2021 11:32 AM (VNmG1)

415 I think the current versions available are over 1300. So... based on his recommendation, I'm going to read the shorter one.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 07, 2021 11:04 AM (oQ94s)

It's a bit of a mixed bag. Most of the material King put back in was worth it, particularly Trashcan Man's encounter with The Kid.

Other stuff like his vignettes on some folks surviving the flu and dying of other causes could and should have stayed out.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at February 07, 2021 11:27 AM (ZSK0i)

As of now, we're in the mode of an experiment, whereby I determine whether I can get through the 800 plus page version. If so, then I supposed it's possible to go find the extra "put in" stuff on its own somewhere.

Chances are good though, if I can even manage to make it through the 800, I'll be done with this story.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 07, 2021 11:32 AM (oQ94s)

416 Whole websites and everything.

Or so I'm told.


Huh. The things you can learn here on the Book Thread.

Hang on a minute....

I'm back. Nope, don't bother. You're sure to be disappointed. Just stay here.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 07, 2021 11:32 AM (qc+VF)

417 Oh. Well here, I don't mean to shock you (heh), but there are places on the internet with dirty pictures. Not just the occasional fat man on an ottoman, or accidentally linked busty lesbian pron.

Whole websites and everything.

Or so I'm told.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 07, 2021 11:29 AM (oQ94s)

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You're talking about the Victory Tits, right?

Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 07, 2021 11:33 AM (CAJOC)

418 Mhos of us don't care.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 07, 2021 11:27 AM (pNxlR)

Watch your conduct.
Posted by: BignJames at February 07, 2021 11:29 AM (AwYPR)


Shouldn't be an impedance to punny humor.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at February 07, 2021 11:33 AM (l35q6)

419 Chances are good though, if I can even manage to make it through the 800, I'll be done with this story.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 07, 2021 11:32 AM (oQ94s)



Don't prejudge it. Before King completely lost his shit, I'd consider it one of his best works.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at February 07, 2021 11:34 AM (ZSK0i)

420 Rand did a good job of putting him in his place but he's an isolated point. I expect nothing more from the party of Liz Cheney and Dan Crenshaw.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt


Tie ... i ... i ... i'm is on our side. Yes it is!

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/430788/

Posted by: Adriane the Quaker Oats Critic ... at February 07, 2021 11:34 AM (LPnfS)

421 Good morning all Hordelings.
Great content today OM. Thank you.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 07, 2021 11:34 AM (axyOa)

422 I am searching for a book I read when I was about 8, which I remember being called Time Brothers.

It was about a future dude who traveled to the past to help a present day dude and they became staunch allies in their fight against something.

That's all I remember. Oh, and the book cover was blue.

Hey! I was only 8 when I read it. Can't think I can still do a book report on it 49 years later!

Posted by: Sharkman at February 07, 2021 11:34 AM (i4vaF)

423 Posted by: BurtTC at February 07, 2021 11:15 AM (oQ94s)

Gerbilopoulous looked like a crazy person hectoring Rand Paul that DJT lied about the election being stolen, which is pretty rich coming from the consigliere of Slick who's never told the fucking truth about anything. Rand did a good job of putting him in his place but he's an isolated point. I expect nothing more from the party of Liz Cheney and Dan Crenshaw.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 07, 2021 11:31 AM (y7DUB)

What's interesting to me is, I don't watch ANY of these teevee shows, but I saw video of that exchange... and then I saw video of Mike Lindell's exchange with the Newsmax crew. The Newsmax people used THE EXACT SAME LANGUAGE as George Stuffadildoupmybutt.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 07, 2021 11:35 AM (oQ94s)

424 Another book I read when I was very young that I would love to find again involved an expedition into the jungle by scientists who discover a cave with an advanced civilization of monkeys.

Can't remember the book title. Or the cover color.

;-)

Posted by: Sharkman at February 07, 2021 11:36 AM (i4vaF)

425 Now it's snowing. Big, fat fluffy flakes.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 07, 2021 11:36 AM (sd8p8)

426 Posted by: BurtTC at February 07, 2021 11:29 AM (oQ94s)

You're talking about the Victory Tits, right?
Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 07, 2021 11:33 AM (CAJOC)

Ummm.... there's more.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 07, 2021 11:37 AM (oQ94s)

427 Oh. Well here, I don't mean to shock you (heh), but there are places on the internet with dirty pictures. Not just the occasional fat man on an ottoman, or accidentally linked busty lesbian pron.

Whole websites and everything.

Or so I'm told.


I stumbled across one of those once. All kinds of pictures of 4WD trucks kicking mud everywhere. Every single one in every picture was dirty.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not using Okta to secure logins (Unlike Parler) at February 07, 2021 11:37 AM (SchxB)

428 The Naval Battle of Casablanca.

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I happened across a Warner Brothers cartoon parody of Casablanca starring Bugs and all the usual suspects entitled.Carrotblanca. One thing surprised me. Yosemite Sam portrayed the Nazi character and Bugs maneuvers to have him incarcerated. Sam looks at his cellmate, a huge effeminate guy apparently wearing lipstick and shudders. I didn't think they allowed such jokes then.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 07, 2021 11:38 AM (VVEnO)

429 Hadrian the Seventh: Two Years Before the Mast is one of my favorites. After reading about how they had to climb the masts, barefoot!, in an ice storm with thirty foot waves in or near the straits of Magellan, I decided that the old time sailors were undoubtedly the toughest human beings ever.

Still reading Cultural Amnesia (in the "M"s now) and when it doesn't amaze, it satisfies. And he still makes me feel like a poseur.

Hit a used book store and added In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson, South by Ernest Shackleford, and a travel book about the Andes to my stack of books to read.

I also added Coming Home to Wisconsin by Robert E Gard to my Wisconsin collection. This one I've started and I'm really enjoying it although he hasn't quite gotten to Wisconsin yet.

Posted by: Who knew at February 07, 2021 11:38 AM (SfO/T)

430 Chances are good though, if I can even manage to make it through the 800, I'll be done with this story.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 07, 2021 11:32 AM (oQ94s)

Don't prejudge it. Before King completely lost his shit, I'd consider it one of his best works.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at February 07, 2021 11:34 AM (ZSK0i)

That's what I mean by it's an experiment. I'm a one person subject, going in with an open mind. We'll see where it goes.

I was a teen when I read The Shining, and I loved it. Then in my 20s I had a short story anthology of his and decided I couldn't read another word he wrote, it was so repetitive and predictable.

So this is my foray in, to see if there's anything else worth reading among the whole of his repertoire.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 07, 2021 11:40 AM (oQ94s)

431 I have to say, I prefer Rex Stout to Christie. I think I just enjoy Wolfe and Archie more than I enjoy Christie's sleuths. You don't read detective fiction for deep character development, but Christie's characters seem a bit more wooden and stereotyped than Stout's. The Christie critic who gave away the murderer in "Roger Ackroyd" noted that Christie becomes fairly obvious after a while - just pick the character who seems least likely to be a killer and you have your killer. I suppose that's true of detective fiction in general - having the obvious suspect be the killer would be boring - but Christie's reversals seem more implausible to me. Suddenly, the kindly old duffer is revealed as - drum roll- an evil Mastermind of Crime! And Christie's young amateur sleuths have been confiding in him all along! I prefer Wolfe's and Goodwin's more realistic cynicism.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&V at February 07, 2021 11:40 AM (HabA/)

432 The Dauman estate is in Chappaqua, New York. The same town Hillary Clinton resides. Another article is from Forbes magazine 2019 which describes the estate as being up for live online auction in 2019. Not known if anyone purchased the estate.

Posted by: Vincent at February 07, 2021 11:40 AM (SkHKA)

433 Regency Buck is definitely not one of the better ones. I'd recommend Frederica, A Civil Contract, and The Foundling as my favorite Heyers off the top of my head. I think about the only ones I don't really like are Regency Buck and Faro's Daughter.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel - Texas Morons, Support HB 1359 at February 07, 2021 11:41 AM (rWZ8Y)

434 Damn beaver is hanging out in the pond again. Big wet hairy beaver. Don't want to kill it but it wreaks havoc on the vegetation around the bank. I've shot at it a few times but it is always on the move and much smarter than I am.

Posted by: TwentytwoLR


Yer gonna need a bigger rifle than a 22LR to take down Wynona's Big Brown Beaver!

Oblig.:

https://youtu.be/aYDfwUJzYQg

Posted by: Sharkman at February 07, 2021 11:41 AM (i4vaF)

435 I stumbled across one of those once. All kinds of pictures of 4WD trucks kicking mud everywhere. Every single one in every picture was dirty.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not using Okta to secure logins (Unlike Parler) at February 07, 2021 11:37 AM (SchxB)

Also hi def videos. I forgot to mention those. You can see every nook and cranny into which the dirt goes.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 07, 2021 11:41 AM (oQ94s)

436 I (temporarily) have run out of Nero Wolfe books to read, so I started on the volume of Agatha Christie novels I picked up at the trusty used bookstore recently. I've seen movies based on Chrisite's books, but I've never actually read her.

I read all of the Agatha Christie books as a teenager because my mom is a big fan so we had them around the house. Poirot constantly being described as "ejaculating" is way funnier now than it probably was in the 20s and 30s.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 07, 2021 11:42 AM (6XLoz)

437 I looked up Carrotblanca on Youtube and that says the date was 1995. That makes more sense.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5NVX3U1thto

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 07, 2021 11:42 AM (VVEnO)

438 @423

for something really disturbing, there's a compilation of about 20 local newscasts on the same split screen from all over the country, right when the dreaded Covid hit.

All 20 are using the exact same script, including saying in synchronized, ominous tones that there are "33" cases now reported locally.

Posted by: artemis at February 07, 2021 11:43 AM (AwPyG)

439 Last week's book was a reread of The Abolition of Man by CS Lewis. Currently reading Emergence: The connected lives of ants, brains cities, and software by Steven Johnson. Interesting but at times he seems the type who savors the smell of his own farts. Also reading one of Walter Scott's Tales of a Scottish Grandfather. Mr Scott never disappoints.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * rise up Lazuras at February 07, 2021 11:44 AM (2UhCg)

440 @433

I like The Grand Sophia and The Toll Gate.

Posted by: artemis at February 07, 2021 11:44 AM (AwPyG)

441 All 20 are using the exact same script, including saying in synchronized, ominous tones that there are "33" cases now reported locally.
Posted by: artemis at February 07, 2021 11:43 AM (AwPyG)

Like Rush's "gravitas" compilation.

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest of all time! at February 07, 2021 11:44 AM (ONvIw)

442 What's interesting to me is, I don't watch ANY of these teevee shows, but I saw video of that exchange... and then I saw video of Mike Lindell's exchange with the Newsmax crew. The Newsmax people used THE EXACT SAME LANGUAGE as George Stuffadildoupmybutt.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 07, 2021 11:35 AM (oQ94s)


Newsmax first provoked my ire by spamming me with stupid unwanted shit. They have the integrity of an infomercial. Fuck those guys in particular.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 07, 2021 11:44 AM (y7DUB)

443 It is a fun read and would put it in the YA category so perfectly appropriate for young readers.
Reminds me of Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 07, 2021 11:27 AM (sd8p

Yes. To the first and maybe seconds books in that series. After that, they take a very dark turn. Would not let YA read that full series without them having a very healthy outlook on life in general and self worth in particular. That said. It's still one of my favorite series, and i've read them multiple times. When you're done with this set, try the other series Hobb has written.

Posted by: BifBewalski AOS Moron at February 07, 2021 11:44 AM (VcFUs)

444 Re. "mean tweets"... something something missing the forest for the trees. Didn't Churchill call Hitler "the lieutenant who jumped up to king overnight" or some such? How rude!

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Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 07, 2021 11:45 AM (TK8Ry)

445 444: Were Biden capable of tweeting, I'm sure every line he wrote would be "erudite and witty".

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest of all time! at February 07, 2021 11:46 AM (ONvIw)

446 That cunt cheney is still pushing impeachment and anti PDT horseshit and Jeep can also go fuck themselves.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 07, 2021 11:47 AM (85Gof)

447 >>> 438 @423

for something really disturbing, there's a compilation of about 20 local newscasts on the same split screen from all over the country, right when the dreaded Covid hit.

All 20 are using the exact same script, including saying in synchronized, ominous tones that there are "33" cases now reported locally.
Posted by: artemis at February 07, 2021 11:43 AM (AwPyG)

FFS, they were too lazy to pick random numbers? Idiots...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 07, 2021 11:47 AM (TK8Ry)

448 446; Didn't Wyoming GOPe suggest she resign?

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest of all time! at February 07, 2021 11:47 AM (ONvIw)

449 @433

I was at a large gathering of mostly middle aged women who were listening to various authors speak. One of them was a YA author, and she had chosen to read the scene where her middle school protagonist performed a sexual act on a boy.

So don't assume the YA rating means it's safe for the kiddos.

Posted by: artemis at February 07, 2021 11:48 AM (AwPyG)

450 "If you've heard this story before, don't stop me. I'd like to hear it again."
Groucho Marx - repetitionist

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at February 07, 2021 11:48 AM (HaL55)

451 Didn't Wyoming GOPe suggest she resign?
Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest of all time!

Yes, but she said no thanks.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 07, 2021 11:49 AM (VVEnO)

452
Yes, but she said no thanks.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 07, 2021 11:49 AM (VVEnO)

There'd be a lot of them out the door if people could do it.

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest of all time! at February 07, 2021 11:50 AM (ONvIw)

453 I was at a large gathering of mostly middle aged women who were listening to various authors speak. One of them was a YA author, and she had chosen to read the scene where her middle school protagonist performed a sexual act on a boy.

So don't assume the YA rating means it's safe for the kiddos.
Posted by: artemis

She put the "adult" in Young Adult.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 07, 2021 11:51 AM (VVEnO)

454 The Cheney situation is interesting. That state is the most Trump-supporting, I think, by the votes, and yet she's their only representative in Congress.

Obviously, she feels she doesn't need the consent of the governed.

Posted by: artemis at February 07, 2021 11:51 AM (AwPyG)

455 Would not let YA read that...

I had an acquaintance who is fairly well informed about bookish stuff tell me that publishers consider the "young adult" category to mean books in which the main characters are YAs, not necessarily books targeted to YA readers although obviously there is a lot of overlap. Can one of the Horde who is an actual published author clarify this?

Posted by: Oddbob at February 07, 2021 11:51 AM (qc+VF)

456 Watt?? Resist current riffs!

Posted by: f'd at February 07, 2021 11:51 AM (yCVvA)

457 I think the GOPe has plans for her, and its much easier to manipulate votes in a sparsely populated state.

Posted by: artemis at February 07, 2021 11:52 AM (AwPyG)

458 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 07, 2021 11:25 AM (VVEnO)

I wonder how much Agatha's family is making on her novels?

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest of all time! at February 07, 2021 11:52 AM (ONvIw)

459
Obviously, she feels she doesn't need the consent of the governed.
Posted by: artemis at February 07, 2021 11:51 AM (AwPyG)

She need not ask their opinion till 11/22, so she will not.

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest of all time! at February 07, 2021 11:53 AM (ONvIw)

460 @455

No, YA is supposed to target middle schoolers.

But note that a lot of YA books appeal to everyone. The Twilight series was YA, as was Harry Potter and the Hunger Games.

Posted by: artemis at February 07, 2021 11:53 AM (AwPyG)

461 Re: shock videos, I watched a part of a norwegian sports show once, called golden goal, where people played soccer with shock devices on their legs, low voltage, which were controlled by people on the sidelines. The result was hilarious, mostly as they kicked at air or fell swearing. Its probably on youtube!

Posted by: Funsize at February 07, 2021 11:53 AM (EiPf6)

462 The Cheney situation is interesting. That state is the most Trump-supporting, I think, by the votes, and yet she's their only representative in Congress.

Obviously, she feels she doesn't need the consent of the governed.
Posted by: artemis at February 07, 2021 11:51 AM (AwPyG)


She's from an at large district which covers the whole state. The state went nearly 70% for DJT. Maybe a really smart guy like Rove can explain her strategy.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 07, 2021 11:54 AM (y7DUB)

463 I wonder how much Agatha's family is making on her novels?
Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest of all time!

They must sell pretty well.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 07, 2021 11:54 AM (VVEnO)

464 462: Her strategy is LOLGF, voters.

Posted by: CN loves Biden, Biden is the greatest of all time! at February 07, 2021 11:54 AM (ONvIw)

465 438 @423

for something really disturbing, there's a compilation of about 20 local newscasts on the same split screen from all over the country, right when the dreaded Covid hit.

All 20 are using the exact same script, including saying in synchronized, ominous tones that there are "33" cases now reported locally.
Posted by: artemis at February 07, 2021 11:43 AM (AwPyG)

Worst. Conspiracy. Ever. They're not even trying to hide it.

If you aren't a conspiracy theorist in 2021, you aren't paying attention.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 07, 2021 11:55 AM (oQ94s)

466 455 Would not let YA read that...

I had an acquaintance who is fairly well informed about bookish stuff tell me that publishers consider the "young adult" category to mean books in which the main characters are YAs, not necessarily books targeted to YA readers although obviously there is a lot of overlap. Can one of the Horde who is an actual published author clarify this?
Posted by: Oddbob at February 07, 2021 11:51 AM (qc+VF)

Smash will only lable her stuff YA if she has no secks, no profanity, and no death.

Posted by: BifBewalski AOS Moron at February 07, 2021 11:56 AM (VcFUs)

467 Ahoy, bookfagz!

Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at February 07, 2021 11:56 AM (nakwk)

468 No, YA is supposed to target middle schoolers.

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The operative word is "target".

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 07, 2021 11:56 AM (VVEnO)

469 @463

Christie has outsold everything except Shakespeare and the Bible, they tell us.

Posted by: artemis at February 07, 2021 11:56 AM (AwPyG)

470 Even younger than YA, American Girl, the doll and book company. has gone LGQT- woke with this year's "2021 American Girl of the Year".
She's a budding ecologist who has two "married" lesbian aunts. They are not mentioned in the blurbs- so, surprise,
Mom and Dad!

Posted by: Sal at February 07, 2021 11:56 AM (KTdeA)

471 And I landed a couple of Schubert symphonies and a couple of his string quartets. Perfect to listen to while hiding from the below zero temps. I'm going to hate it when I have to walk the dog, although buy then it's supposed to get all the way up to 0.

Posted by: Who knew at February 07, 2021 11:56 AM (SfO/T)

472 Thanks much OregonMuse and the Horde! I didn't realize my new release
"Mars Needs Chickens!" would be mentioned today. The sales bump on
Amazon was my first clue. Much appreciated.

With a title like that, how could the Horde not be interested in your book? I mean, come on man.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at February 07, 2021 11:56 AM (HaL55)

473 Sex is basically mandatory in YA books. Not kidding: I know one author who pitched a novel as a YA because it had a youthful protagonist -- but the publisher declined as it didn't have enough sex in it. So it was published as a novel for adults instead.

Posted by: Trimegistus at February 07, 2021 11:57 AM (QZxDR)

474 Still snowing, for being just above freezing it's fluffy stuff, would pack well for a snowman. At about 4 inches, not on roads to bad

Posted by: Skip at February 07, 2021 11:57 AM (Cxk7w)

475 No, YA is supposed to target middle schoolers.

That certainly makes more sense to me that a marketing category would be defined by, you know, the market. But she (my acquaintance) was quite adamant that it was about the characters. Of course, she is quite adamant about a number of other things too that I'm 100% sure are BS.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 07, 2021 11:58 AM (qc+VF)

476 Mars needs, you know, trualinumpazure!

Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at February 07, 2021 11:58 AM (nakwk)

477 I also added Coming Home to Wisconsin by Robert E Gard to my Wisconsin collection. This one I've started and I'm really enjoying it although he hasn't quite gotten to Wisconsin yet.
Posted by: Who knew at February 07, 2021 11:38 AM (SfO/T)

Someday, I will send in a photo of Mr. S's Texana collection.
It's quite the accumulation.

Posted by: Sal at February 07, 2021 11:59 AM (KTdeA)

478 "Performed a sexual act on a boy"^^^

Aqua Vulva ?

Posted by: Saf at February 07, 2021 11:59 AM (/N+d8)

479 473 Sex is basically mandatory in YA books. Not kidding: I know one author who pitched a novel as a YA because it had a youthful protagonist -- but the publisher declined as it didn't have enough sex in it. So it was published as a novel for adults instead.
Posted by: Trimegistus at February 07, 2021 11:57 AM (QZxDR)

I see your problem. Eliminate the thief in the middle that takes >70% of your profit.

Posted by: BifBewalski AOS Moron at February 07, 2021 11:59 AM (VcFUs)

480 @475

I have a friend who thinks that "30% chance of rain" means that it will rain over 30% of the local area.

I'm not kidding.

Posted by: artemis at February 07, 2021 12:00 PM (AwPyG)

481 What's interesting to me is, I don't watch ANY of these teevee shows, but I saw video of that exchange... and then I saw video of Mike Lindell's exchange with the Newsmax crew. The Newsmax people used THE EXACT SAME LANGUAGE as George Stuffadildoupmybutt.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 07, 2021 11:35 AM (oQ94s)

Newsmax first provoked my ire by spamming me with stupid unwanted shit. They have the integrity of an infomercial. Fuck those guys in particular.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 07, 2021 11:44 AM (y7DUB)

It's probably not necessary to mention, those who are looking for alternative news sources, there are going to be more charlatans vying for your eyes and ears.

Fox managed to run the con for decades.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 07, 2021 12:00 PM (oQ94s)

482 My book thread perusal has been interrupted by a red headed three year old. As per normal, I will read the thread later, sans morons and pants. Going to take a look at Mars Needs Chickens.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * rise up Lazuras at February 07, 2021 12:01 PM (2UhCg)

483 Nood history

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at February 07, 2021 12:01 PM (R5lpX)

484 Cheney's just a very stark example because of the details (WY, and Trump). GOP not representing the views of their voters - or Dems, still, in many districts - is of course common. How many '18 Dems ran as Trump-lite, and said they'd be against impeachment? How many then did the opposite? How many were primaried or defeated this cycle?

I don't have the numbers (my fault, lazy). Willing to bet the number is very small.

How many Americans want an open border, millions (no exaggeration) of criminal illegal aliens on the loose with states/cities making sure they're not deported, MS-13 wreaking 3rd World havoc in high schools, human trafficking unleashed, unskilled/semi-skilled labor wages under pressure, etc? Almost none. But both parties can and do either actively or passively abet all of this, with ZERO political consequences.

It's dead, Jim.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 07, 2021 12:01 PM (OTzUX)

485 Read Past Due by William Lashner, about a lawyer with sleazy clients. It was ok. Better start to book than end.

Posted by: Charlotte at February 07, 2021 12:01 PM (L6lkG)

486 As I understand it, nearly all younger readers prefer stories about characters a little older than they are. They have more competence and autonomy but are still "relatable." So books for elementary schoolers are often about "tweens," while YA fiction is about teenagers and college students.

Posted by: Trimegistus at February 07, 2021 12:02 PM (QZxDR)

487 "That Chuck whatshisname is a crook"
Posted by: Braenyard

Woollery?

Posted by: SFGoth at February 07, 2021 12:02 PM (KAi1n)

488 Sex is basically mandatory in YA books. Not kidding: I know one author who pitched a novel as a YA because it had a youthful protagonist -- but the publisher declined as it didn't have enough sex in it. So it was published as a novel for adults instead.
Posted by: Trimegistus at February 07, 2021 11:57 AM (QZxDR)

By the by, it's been said, if you are an aspiring writer, the worst thing you can do is write a book and take it to a publisher.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 07, 2021 12:03 PM (oQ94s)

489 Just fielded a call from my GF's daughter who was vehemently against guns in her home as late as 25 December 2020. Changed her mind, all sudden like.

Ordered her a S&W 9mm M&P from Rural King for 4.49 Benjamins.

Posted by: AJ Duie at February 07, 2021 12:03 PM (qDDn4)

490 I have a friend who thinks that "30% chance of rain" means that it will rain over 30% of the local area.

That *is* the actual NOAA definition. 30% chance of rain means 30% of the forecast area will see rain.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 07, 2021 12:03 PM (6XLoz)

491 @490

:0

Posted by: artemis at February 07, 2021 12:04 PM (AwPyG)

492 I'm currently reading the book of Hosea. Been reading through the Bible for a year and a half now, one chapter a day. I've read through the Bible several times now, and had it read to me in my youngest years by mom and dad during nightly devotions. All four of us little boys sitting on the queen size bed as they read to us. Sometimes my older brothers would pitch in and read, too.

This time through I'm trying to read as if its just a novel, reading through without analysis or study, just the words and poetry and flow. Hosea is a bit less flowing and easy to read than some of the other prophets, but I am almost done, then on to Joel.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 07, 2021 12:04 PM (KZzsI)

493 Posted by: Sharkman at February 07, 2021 11:36 AM (i4vaF)

-------------------------

For many, many years now, I've been trying to track down a book I read when I was young. I first started looking for it when my son was young, and I thought he might enjoy it. It's been a long time since, and now it's basically just an obsession, as I have to convince myself I didn't just make the book up.

Anyway, it's a Thanksgiving book. A kid and his family go to the grandparents house for Thanksgiving. Turns out, the grandparents won second prize in a sweepstakes, which was upgrades to their house, including electrically-heated sidewalks. Disaster strikes, though, when a blizzard blows through, and power goes out. It ends with grandma having created a Thanksgiving turkey out of ice cream.

I know a few more details, including specific lines from the book, but I still can't find mention of it anywhere.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 07, 2021 12:06 PM (CAJOC)

494 Electric shock treatment fun for the entire family:
tinyurl.com/34xvqlen
tinyurl.com/1gkz7t6u

Posted by: Biden's Dog at February 07, 2021 12:08 PM (adWAa)

495 The New York Public Library has a resource that is supposed to be able to help you find a book if you cannot remember its name. I don't know how helpful it is, but here's the link

tinyurl.com/1jk91byr

When the Wuhan Flu started up, they extended their ebook lending nationwide, but it only works on phones, and I'm not reading a book on a squashed down little screen.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 07, 2021 12:12 PM (KZzsI)

496 In all this discussion of ECT I'm surprised nobody remembered the liberal Twitter-slur against Pence from 2016: "Governor Pence wants to give transexuals electric shock treatment!" Pence had changed the state's insurance rules so that people with gender dysphoria would qualify for coverage of ECT treatments. Some "journalist" had gone mining through every official act of his administration, trying to figure out how to twist it into an anti-Pence slogan.

Posted by: Trimegistus at February 07, 2021 12:18 PM (QZxDR)

497 I have a friend who thinks that "30% chance of rain" means that it will rain over 30% of the local area.

That *is* the actual NOAA definition. 30% chance of rain means 30% of the forecast area will see rain.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 07, 2021 12:03 PM (6XLoz)


Fairly frequently, the head weather critter of a local station will point that out. The best way to figure out "how does that impact me" is to look at a radar forecast.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 07, 2021 12:22 PM (y7DUB)

498 I know a few more details, including specific lines from the book, but I still can't find mention of it anywhere.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 07, 2021 12:06 PM

Very neat site here:

http://w1.loganberrybooks.com/stumpthebookseller/

Send in a synopsis of the book you're hunting and they'll help.

Sample: http:// www.loganberrybooks.com/solved-w.html (remove space)

Posted by: one of the quiet ones at February 07, 2021 12:36 PM (2k7BX)

499 Reading Larry Correia's Saga of the Forgotten warrior, Interesting World Building, Humans defeated Demons and drove them into the Sea, The Humans live on land and Demons in the Sea. I can't say much more without spoilers

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at February 07, 2021 12:57 PM (dKiJG)

500 Reading Larry Correia's Saga of the Forgotten warrior, Interesting World Building, Humans defeated Demons and drove them into the Sea, The Humans live on land and Demons in the Sea. I can't say much more without spoilers

I can say in the Book THE LAW is everything, no religion and if you do worship it's a crime that gets the Death Penalty.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at February 07, 2021 12:59 PM (dKiJG)

501 Started reading Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman as a result of someone here recommending At Swim Two Birds a few years ago, which still remains the most innovative stories within stories I've ever encountered. This is a much more straightforward narrative about an unidentified character clueless about everything going on around him, including his parents deserting him separately at two different times and leaving some shady character in charge of running the small farm and pub for him while stealing everything around him until setting up him to help murder a rich neighbor on his way to make a large bank deposit. This is much more a page turner than the previous book but still unusual enough that most of the lit crits gave it a wide berth and don't even talk about it. Anyone here read it including whoever recommended him initially?
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 07, 2021 09:37 AM (y7DUB)


That was probably me, Cap'n.

As a result of reading "ASTB", I read everything of his I could from O'Brien but that was pretty long ago.He's got a few more things, "TTP", "The Poor Mouth", "The Dalkey(?) Archives" and something else I forgetting.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 07, 2021 01:06 PM (dWwl8)

502 (con't)

I liked all of them and there's no denying his skill as a writer, but none of the others were a-

stake a flag in your brain masterpiece like "At Swim Two Birds".

Posted by: naturalfake at February 07, 2021 01:08 PM (dWwl8)

503 Does anyone have any good fantasy book recommendations? Either self published or normal publishing house. It seems like every one I pick up recently has been poorly written drek and I can't even get through the second page.

Posted by: Alex Hemsley at February 07, 2021 01:13 PM (vkSdb)

504 I went to that Loganberrybooks site and it locked up my browser.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 07, 2021 01:38 PM (l9m7l)

505 Amazon calls The Red Lamp by Rinehart a supernatural mystery; I read it years ago and that probably describes it well. That book is why I remembered her when it first came up here.

Posted by: Lirio100 at February 07, 2021 01:42 PM (uFOGo)

506 Thanks, naturalfake; I'm sure it was you. Thanks again.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 07, 2021 02:07 PM (y7DUB)

507 Does anyone have any good fantasy book recommendations?

If you have not read them yet, I have written three fantasy books

https://www.kestrelarts.com/books

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 07, 2021 02:08 PM (KZzsI)

508 Mary Rinehart's works are available for free download at gutenberg.org. I've read a few of them; they're fairly lame, and quite dated.

With regard to Hugo Gernsbach and the early days of pulp sci-fi, I strongly recommend "Men of Tomorrow", by Gerard Jones. The author's focus is on the birth of the comic book and of the superhero, but sci-fi, comics, and the pulps were all intertwined in those days. Jones' book is a delightful read, and a reminder that some of the most creative American publishing was done by seedy little operations, many of them run by immigrant Jews, that were just trying to turn a buck.

Posted by: Nemo at February 07, 2021 02:14 PM (S6ArX)

509 One aunt had a stack of Mary Roberts Rinehart books. They were some kind of publisher's collection, for they all had identical powder blue bindings. I read them all at around age 10. I can't say that I thought they were that good, because I was one of those "read the cereal box at the breakfast table" kids.

She also had the same sort of collection in dark red bindings by Ellery Queen, which I think I liked better.

Posted by: buddhaha at February 07, 2021 02:24 PM (0HqkV)

510 I was a teen when I read The Shining, and I loved it. Then in my 20s I had a short story anthology of his and decided I couldn't read another word he wrote, it was so repetitive and predictable.

So this is my foray in, to see if there's anything else worth reading among the whole of his repertoire.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 07, 2021 11:40 AM (oQ94s)


Once you've read The Stand, there's no need to read any other book by Stephen King.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at February 07, 2021 03:35 PM (l35q6)

511 Been a long time lurker. I am a shrink and the comments about ECT interested me. An excellent book about the subject is The Man with the Electrified Brain by Simon Winchester. It details his experience with depression and ECT. If I suffer deep depression, it will be the treatment I want. As an aside, when I did training in anesthesiology the procedure was known as the "shake and bake."

I credit the book thread with pointing me to a lot of good reads I wouldn't have otherwise seen. Among them The Warwolf by Hermann Lons and the "Soldier" Riley noir series by Michael Lister. Especially like them because I live in the area. Now listening to the 87th Precinct series while I walk.

Posted by: Molerat at February 07, 2021 04:44 PM (cnpy6)

512 Wait, the Hugo science fiction awards are named after THIS guy?

Huh.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at February 07, 2021 05:11 PM (4tiP2)

513 "That Chuck whatshisname is a crook"
Posted by: Braenyard

Woollery?
Posted by: SFGoth

Susan Stafford was HAWT !

Posted by: JT at February 07, 2021 05:50 PM (arJlL)

514 Mary Rinehart's works are available for free download at gutenberg.org. I've read a few of them; they're fairly lame, and quite dated.

I enjoyed The Man In Lower Ten, even if the mystery wasn't very profound

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 07, 2021 07:51 PM (KZzsI)

515 Couldn't get to the internet until this evening, but I wanted to recommend Twain's "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc." It was his favorite book of all he wrote.
I had to put it side two-thirds of the way through - too painful to read of the way she was railroaded and betrayed. Reminds me in some ways of Trump.
Ingratitude and treason are apparently the way of humanity.
I was saddened to learn that her standard and other artifacts were destroyed during the French Revolution, despite having survived for almost 400 years.
Lefties love to destroy history, don't they?

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at February 07, 2021 08:24 PM (f1Vqw)

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