I've got a History degree and work at an environmental testing lab: my resume sounds like something Verbal Kint would make up. Rich in cats and books. Mandolin player. Crocheter. DFTBA. He/Him
The part that got me was her casual description of going home to New Jersey and finding a 1st edition William Faulkner novel at a thrift shop, and that paying her rent for a month.
Unless you think you'll be coming to the Savannah, Ga area anytime soon, I'd really like to get one shipped. Is letter the only size you do? 11x17 is probably the largest that works in my space. Let me know when you think you'll be ordering and we can hash out payment and all. Thanks!
I'm rereading Space Opera by @catvalente.bsky.social for the 10th? 12th? moreth? time for a book club this weekend. I *just now* noticed that the five sections of the book are Earth, Water, Air, Fire, and Heart; aka the Captain Planet rings, and literally lolled. What a delightful book
Interesting article! I've wondered for years how the "Hello CD listeners..." monologue on Full Moon Fever was done, turns out it's a pre- or post- gap track between tracks 5 and 6
This is basically how I feel about Del Toro's Nightmare Alley. Gorgeous film, harrowing decent into madness. One of my first thoughts after it ended was "that is the best movie I will never watch again."
There's a story Mark Hamill told on a late night show (I can't find the clip) about how he was worried by continuity errors during shooting ANH and asks Ford if he should mention it. Ford's answer was "Kid, it's not that kind of movie."
Hey, thanks for posting this. Bluesky thought I should see it, so I tried it out and have been having an easier than usual rebuilding of my adhd routine house of cards
What are some numbers in your field that anyone else in it would identify without even thinking about it, but folk outside may have no idea.
Just the numbers, no explanations. Yet.
105 148 210 297 420 594 841 1189
I know this one! Both place names come from a Native American language family. But in the early colonial period, French speakers, who carried French's silent final -s, entered Arkansas. Later, in the westward expansion of the US, it was mostly English speakers with a voiced -s going to Kansas.
I like this take, and it fleshes out my theory that Han Solo may be something of a linguistic genius; he has conversations with Rodian, Huttese, and Wookiee speakers. It's a nice (if probably unintentional) counterpoint to Galactic Standard/fascism that the independent rogue is a polyglot.
