Mucha na Dziko

Though mine looks like this:




The thing is mighty interesting, and actually inspires some thought, especially compared to the one I’ve just finished:



They both have basically the same idea behind them („the world isn’t that bad, y’know?”), but when I’ve found Rosling to be a collection of only the „Sweet” and no „sour”, written like it was for some corporate investors, Bregman seems like more of an actual intelectual who had thought things through and wants to share with you some great piece of knowledge.

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I could read those out of nostalgia, but the ones after would probably be a slog. Nothing really happens and it turns into fanfic basically. Can't read any of her other stuff cause literally all of her characters are versions of her who like the same music and art and won't shut up about them. Even her descriptions of what it's like mentally and emotionally to be a vampire are just descriptions of bipolar disorder which I'm sure she has.

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rostasi

I can certainly see how some Brits were mighty pissed off about this report - especially when it comes to Churchill’s part.

Interim Report on the Connections between Colonialism and Properties now in the Care of the National Trust, Including Links with Historic Slavery.

Honesty is a bitch. Just ask a right-wing American!

Trollheart

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Yeah me too. I never read anything through after MTD: I tried Violin, bloody hated it, so depressing. Pandora didn't interest me, never bothered with Marius or Armand or any of the others. Never read her witch cycle or mummy cycle, and have no interest in her "life of Christ" books. So like you say, those five and that's more or less it. I might at some point read the "new" Lestat books, but I wonder what is left after you've met God and the Devil? Got to be a comedown after that?

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rostasi

The Batlord

I'm curious about Atlantis but I'm also assuming the new Lestat books were cash grabs to try to get in on the Twilight hype. She just run out of ideas with the vampire books and even ended them with a lame crossover with the witch novels.

Which introduced me to her unsettling views on ****ing children. A very underaged teenage girl from the witch books had ****ed the very much adult dude protagonist but it was just framed as him cheating on his wife, who was related to the girl btw, but the wife forgave him cause he was a good guy or whatever the **** and the girl was a ho who ****ed everyone.

Then later I remember an interview with Anne Rice where she said something about how age is just a number and some kids are just mature for their age which gave me the impression she'd been molested when she was younger but thought it was fine.

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I devoured Firesign Theatre's catalog in my teens. The Bozos LP is one of my all-time favorite albums. And I have 25 of their records on my server and The Big Mystery Joke Book in PDF format, but I wasn't familiar with this text. Looking it up I see it was just published on December 6th. I do, however, have Pink Hotel Burns Down, the liner notes of which state that it is a recording from October 29, 1967 - The First Firesign Theatre "Magic Mushroom" Live Broadcast.

I'll have to pick up the new book!

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rostasi

Been a fan for over 50 years and have all of the books and recordings available when they were originally released (including many, many hours of Radio Free Oz and the "...Joke Book you mentioned. Behind me, are even VHS tapes of their early work). Drove some people cRaZy in school back then, but most of them would come over to the house just to listen to them again and again. This is just the latest release you can get. I think I have everything they've ever offered on their webpage: t-shirts, bumper stickers, license plate holder, books, various collections, etc - incl. some that aren't even there anymore. If you consider buying just one thing, then I'd recommend their "Duke Of Madness Motors" collection! Also, the ...Magic Mushroom book comes with a DVD-ROM too. Check Bandcamp as well.

innerspaceboy

Marvelous! Thank you! I remember having an epiphany walking home from class one summer afternoon when I was suddenly struck by the solution to the riddle about the porridge bird.

The operative word in the riddle is, "HIS egg..."

The answer to the riddle is, male porridge birds don't lay eggs. The logic bomb of the question is what crashed the President.

At least that's my interpretation.

I've always revered Firesign for their old time radio studio techniques and surrealist humor. Brilliant stuff.

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Clem was a hacker from way back.

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