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(Me on the way to ruin Christmas Dinner) have you guys heard of the imperial boomerang

Why are you booing him (Grothendieck)? He’s right!

This translation has absurdly long sentences. Sentences were being written that had never been written before, folks

You can’t accuse Monkman of exaggerating the terrible things the europeans did let alone said. John a Macdonald is on record being a massive piece of shit

“Gender Splendour” (2021)
“I prefer their feathers for my adornment above all others, but trust me, your concepts of goodness and sin are lost on them, and be assured, they do not hesitate to take pleasures where they find them.”

Whimsical read so far but I just found out the employment lawyer who writes pro-employer content for the globe and mail especially during the beginning of the panny owns the cover painting AS WELL as a 2020 painting Kent Monkman did of justin trudeau on his knees who is about to be violated by Monkman’s two spirit alter ego Miss Chief?!

that is a crazy thing to write about your grandfather

This is fucking me the fuck uppppp

“Even if you pray every day, your god will not look after you. Now get out of my house.”

sanmao’s architectural digest house tour when…

On one hand I can understand the effectiveness of regulating access to addictive materials. How do you as a parent deal with peer pressure about tech? On the other, the author shows she is less discerning about what her children have access to and being like “how could they allow this to be downloaded?!?”

Ok ok she has points and she’s covering ground with tobacco, alcohol, etc. many of the reviews talking about personal responsibility are just bringing up shit she talks about.
However her saying “an internet in 1939 would have prevented the horrors of the holocaust that followed” is hella rich. Like hello????

I’m willing to hear this pearl clutcher (so far) out

“Seed of death” was a crazy story

“day after day, a black sheep like myself, who never even grew up in the desert, strives to dispel the misery of these long, leisurely years with artfulness and pleasure.”

This is actually so annoying

Hubris! Trying to negotiate policy relations in a country with a military junta where you don’t know the language, without looking up and printing some key phrases, is insane.

The pattern recognizer in a world where nobody read Ender’s Game in the eighth grade

a bath house/peeping jane story

Al Pacino responded only to women who made the first move
This memoir is amazingly candid especially about the search for more money

Al Pacino is a loverboy…

From the introduction: “one of the pleasures is loving [the man] is to write him down” I’m savouring it

Blessed to have been named after him

Had to listen to this one, narrated by Pacino himself.
his friends were named SALTY and SMOKED MEAT and they called him PISTACHIO because he liked pistachio ice cream
jesus chapter one has his most embarrassing moment he remembers to this DAY
his grandfather cheered for the yankees before they were the yankees — they were known as the highlanders at the time
we must ask our elders to regale us with their stories.

"What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?"

“He says, I’m Chinese.” So true

“He says, I’m Chinese.” So true