Speaking of books, I just bought used copies of the Norton Anthology of English Literature, 1974 edition. These are volumes that I threw away when I graduated 45 years ago. I want to look at them again.

Jean Merrill‘s “The Pushcart War” has been re-issued a number of times in order to keep the story being presented from a future point of view, looking back at the past. The most recent edition has it happening in 2026. Welcome to the ultimate story about overcoming bullies. Read it to your kids.

“What did we do wrong? We were supposed to fight for people who can’t fight for themselves.” And that’s why you don’t disband ice, you melt it down.

If you scroll fast enough, you can watch Willy Wonka and the Half-Blood Prince.

Happy 1983!

Most appropriate Christmas present ever.

Merry Christmas. Here’s to the wonky pancakes of the world, just as tasty as all the others.

Just so we understand each other, if you use the R word in front of me, I will probably TKO you. Apologies in advance.

A little mountain climbing…

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Strange that Quentin Tarantino accuses Susan Collins of ripping off Battle Royale in her Hunger Games. Don’t they both rip off Stephen King in The Long Walk?

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"We have always been against Trump", they said. Someday they’re going to take of the uniform…

What’s up? “Paradise Rot” by Jenny Hval.

1. I can get a swastika tattoo. 2. I can get a hangman’s noose tattoo. 3. A self-admitted 300-year-old Vampire is “the world’s greatest human”. 4. Telling US armed forces personnel not to follow illegal orders is Sedition and is Punishable-by-Death. 5. Fifteen will no longer “get-me-twenty”.

If you are still asking after 10 years, “what is wrong with him?” my question to you is what is wrong with you? He is never going to act any other way than the way he is right now.

OK. I’m on page 42 of Hernan Diaz’ “Trust” and I’m totally in for the duration.

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Rereading Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried” and I don’t know why I’m weeping this time. Because I’m older? Because I get it? I don’t know.

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If someone is stealing from you and you’re not in a position to do anything, what difference does it make? If someone has stolen from you and you are in a position to do something, and you don’t take the loot back, what is wrong with you?

In a world where a lot of things really suck, Shohei Ohtani is not one of those things.

Hurrah to Glenn W. LaFantasie for his brilliant volume “Twilight at Little Round Top.”

The more I read about Abraham Lincoln, the more I realize that Donald Trump is a gibbon; feces flinging, barely sapient.

I did not know that being “elderly with poor balance” would mean something financial, not physical.

Band of Brothers gets it right in three words: Aryan servile scum. (And there you have white supremacy defined for you.)

I’ve been giving this plot some thought: the rich man from Shitsburg is on the sinking ship Teslanic - he survives that but blows his brains out later.

With a rebel yell, she cried Moa, Moa, Moa!

I think Blue Jay Kevin Gausman was in The Equalizer with Denzel! Prove me wrong!

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You know if the Bluejays win, he’ll stroke out.

I love my neighbors!

You know who doesn’t want to see the Epstein files? Epsteinphiles.

“Everything is Tuberculosis” by John Green. Read this book.

It’s Shohei’s game and everyone else is allowed to play.

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Sleepy bumble…

SRO

I am reading Tim Queeney’s book “Rope” and it is fun, brilliant, and I feel so much smarter already.

Quem deus vult perdere, prius dementat.

Thank you Earth Wind and Fire for 47 beautiful years of September 21sts

Nice late summer bloom.

Canna lilies dunking it out with weeds at woods’ edge

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Tea Olive blooming. Whole neighborhood smells heavenly.