So Post had to rush this out because Reuters was about to beat them to it? And then in order to damage-control it someone in the White House leaked to the Times that the secret backchannel was just for secret patriotism? Suggests that the Post, which got a letter about the backchannel meeting right in December (same month it happened) has either ( Read more... )

There aren't enough :s or Ds.

After a while, and I know I'm not the only one, I started having conversations with the manual. I'd say something, flip to a random page of its vast middle, read a line, then respond aloud to that response, usually mentioning how inappropriate it was. And after another while, as you must also know, I stopped bothering to do that, instead tugging ( Read more... )

Relatedly, 'O' was pretty much my face watching the show last night. (I went to bed after three so don't spoil nothin'.)

Me, talking about the book "In a People House": "People" has an 'O' in it but I don't know why.

Maddy: I think they didn't know how to spell it. I think they probably wrote this book in the '80s.

While I grimly graded and desultorily dissertated a new Bloom book emerged, I unknowing ( Read more... )

Yesterday I learned we'd be going to Victoria Day fireworks with another family tonight and I was like "damn it" but then (Bowie voice) "the r-rai-ains set in" so looks like (Rick voice) FOUR HOURS OF NEW TWIN PEAKS TONIGHT LUMBERFUCKAAAAZ ( Read more... )

I was never permitted to say, to even think, what I am or what I have seen, but then I caught you running by, thinking you were someone else, and finding you were instead you it all started to come out and this happened for weeks, for months, the saying making me real, my past real, as real to me as I'd for some unknown reason been real to you, who ( Read more... )

So my noir definition boiled down to something like: the story of someone coming to realize how wrong everyone is. In lighter noir the discoverer can maybe then make things a bit better, in, er, dark noir they pretty much just learn all are screwed ( Read more... )

The lucky boy. The boy in love. The wise boy ( Read more... )