people as things, that’s where it starts

if you really internalize this one it will keep you on the right track

As a former serious but now happy ex-smoker, Oscar Wilde said it best, “You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?” — so addictive, harder to kick than…other things.

I’m sorry for your loss. May her memory be a blessing.

This is nicely colored. I appreciate how you stayed within the spirit of the original work. I’d vote FF. And followed to see more.

Muwahahahahah! Practicing my evil laugh. I’d get better. In time. Muwhaha— that’s not it either.

That’s about as far back as I’d go too. But to bop around time-travel style— Jesus, I’m evil. Okay, no, I wouldn’t charge a penny a polio shot… 1/4 a penny, maaaaaybe. -- I would create ‘an anti–Heritage foundation’ but it would have a better name then that. Other evil deeds would be time specific.

Hi. You may know about this but if not, Patrick Stewart read them, I believe all, on YouTube, recording one each day during covid. It’s a wonderful journey. (Which I might retake.) thanks for sharing this. I watch it anytime it shows in my feed.

…from the university level, grant money, RFK jr misinfo, big pharma is a monster that slithers on with a forever memory. They created the billion dollar a year fuck Hillary Clinton machine when she was 1st lady. Limbaugh, that sphere, pharma ad dollars (at first at least).

True to a degree, but losses are losses. I know a few people in commercial real estate—a couple with absurd fuck you (fuck them) money—everyone is taking a bath. Trump’s been great for the billionaires tax wise, but his tariff nonsense is killing business. And he’s fucked with big pharma-

Bond comes out of the water. New guy. Same shorts.

Q: I’d heard you died.
BOND: I got better.
Q: Right. Now look here…

Q: “I heard you died?”
Bond: “I got better.”
Q: “Right. Now look at this.”

Exactly. BOND sips his martini. It’s perfect. “I got better.”

Sir, I find my self writing an also-known-as for a character name, what is Dreyer approved: aka, a.k.a., or AKA?
If it’s on a specific page of Dreyer’s English, I’ll rush to it.
Also, side question for the players at home: where do you stand on bending page corners, dog-eared or nay?