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Wondering if anyone on here can beat the other site.
November 29, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Wondering if anyone on here can beat the other site.
Not going to be the easiest read.
July 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Not going to be the easiest read.
Well good news Ma'am, people still love those books like, a hundred years after you wrote this, thanks to the time-honored technique of casting a bunch of beautiful people in a good movie.
July 9, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Well good news Ma'am, people still love those books like, a hundred years after you wrote this, thanks to the time-honored technique of casting a bunch of beautiful people in a good movie.
Yes it seems like mental institution populations skewed old, I wonder if they weren't more replaced by nursing homes than by enlarged prisons...
April 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Yes it seems like mental institution populations skewed old, I wonder if they weren't more replaced by nursing homes than by enlarged prisons...
Incredible find in "The Port Of London Murders" (1938), apparently "influenza" was considered a fuzzy term for a while like "neurasthenia". The influenza virus was actually isolated in 1933 but maybe the writer (or character) didn't know that.
March 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Incredible find in "The Port Of London Murders" (1938), apparently "influenza" was considered a fuzzy term for a while like "neurasthenia". The influenza virus was actually isolated in 1933 but maybe the writer (or character) didn't know that.
Well you can get people with subject matter expertise involved.
February 9, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Well you can get people with subject matter expertise involved.
Truly sold me in the first paragraph.
January 15, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Truly sold me in the first paragraph.
Just finished this odd, rather affecting book that's a history of jigsaw puzzles but also a memoir? "The Pattern In The Carpet", I don't remember where I found it.
January 15, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Just finished this odd, rather affecting book that's a history of jigsaw puzzles but also a memoir? "The Pattern In The Carpet", I don't remember where I found it.
Oh I didn't read "Ripley's Game" but I did feel this way about "Deep Water". Good book anyway. I also stumbled across this odd book that's like, Ripley self-insert fanfic?
December 29, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Oh I didn't read "Ripley's Game" but I did feel this way about "Deep Water". Good book anyway. I also stumbled across this odd book that's like, Ripley self-insert fanfic?
Relatedly, I love this story about how a Donald Duck fan in the army was among many able to recognize Carl Barks as "the good duck artist" even though it was all anonymous. Like a RCT for art.
www.cbr.com/donald-duck-...
www.cbr.com/donald-duck-...
December 25, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Relatedly, I love this story about how a Donald Duck fan in the army was among many able to recognize Carl Barks as "the good duck artist" even though it was all anonymous. Like a RCT for art.
www.cbr.com/donald-duck-...
www.cbr.com/donald-duck-...
Hm those do win the apparent LetterBoxd ranking except for the "Signed Sealed Delivered" franchise.
December 25, 2024 at 4:00 AM
Hm those do win the apparent LetterBoxd ranking except for the "Signed Sealed Delivered" franchise.
Literally "can we give James Bond a hip with-it sound like the movie 'Beat Girl'?".
December 23, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Literally "can we give James Bond a hip with-it sound like the movie 'Beat Girl'?".
Like there's the UK. Clearly, ~80% of MPs in their 60s aren't around by their 70s. Do they get defeated? Do they retire by choice? Do they get leaned on formally or informally by their parties to retire?
December 23, 2024 at 2:06 AM
Like there's the UK. Clearly, ~80% of MPs in their 60s aren't around by their 70s. Do they get defeated? Do they retire by choice? Do they get leaned on formally or informally by their parties to retire?
On the Other Site, I talked about a curious paradox, there's actually a lot more turnover in Congress than you might think, but US legislators really are pretty old. What's the mechanism?
December 23, 2024 at 1:59 AM
On the Other Site, I talked about a curious paradox, there's actually a lot more turnover in Congress than you might think, but US legislators really are pretty old. What's the mechanism?
"Day Of The Jackal" (2024)
December 15, 2024 at 6:00 PM
"Day Of The Jackal" (2024)
100% agree, oh man did I slog through Gorr.
December 13, 2024 at 4:48 PM
100% agree, oh man did I slog through Gorr.
"The Simpsons" has a lot of these, of course, because it's so old. Krusty is a parody of what used to be an actual thing, local access clown shows.
December 13, 2024 at 1:52 PM
"The Simpsons" has a lot of these, of course, because it's so old. Krusty is a parody of what used to be an actual thing, local access clown shows.
People say "the existence of individuals rich enough to effect the political system is proof we need to return to 50s-era marginal tax rates" without quite admitting that there were also people like that in the 50s.
December 7, 2024 at 3:12 PM
People say "the existence of individuals rich enough to effect the political system is proof we need to return to 50s-era marginal tax rates" without quite admitting that there were also people like that in the 50s.
Ooh that's a good way to end a first chapter.
December 4, 2024 at 10:13 PM
Ooh that's a good way to end a first chapter.