It's called a "letter of marque".

I am trying to weave the belief that this part is real into the collective unconscious of Wolfe fans, I post it whenever I have an opportunity and hope others do the same.

I can get you a toe, believe me. There are ways, Dude. You don't wanna know about it, believe me.

if i eat the balls of the tiger it will make me strong like the tiger

Two sigils per chamber is well within acceptable sigil density limits.

Okay obviously that makes him sound extremely bad but have you considered that he was a "diamond trader".

Other than Brooks (who sucks so bad he might serve as a negative model of some kind) I genuinely can't think of a more worthless columnist. Representative of the opinions of no actually existing constituency and personally a total dullard in thought and style.

I predict this will be visible in 100% of objective measures of consumer behaviour and in 0% of anything poll/survey-based.

Tea Party organizers wrote guides distributed through Google Groups on how exactly to interrupt town halls and get irate. It only took a few people acting inappropriately to get the crowd moving. They moved clips quickly to outlets. These people were coached and encouraged and eventually funded!

I bought it on vinyl when it came out but I didn't really think much of it beyond "Side 2 of this is in my 'stuff I can fall asleep to' pile". It's taken me a while to internalize how distinctive Kranky's stuff in general and SoTL/Labradford in particular really are in that ambient space.

When that Aix Em Klemm album came out I was like "This is a neat little diversion" but it's gradually become a classic to me.

Every single time I have to do anything at work I wish this would happen to me.