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Dad»Writer of fiction&poetry»🦻🏻»Utopian socialist»Catholic Woke Marxist»Chicago boy»I seem to doing a lot of crummy drawings and posting them on my website now»He/him
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It’s a long time since I’ve been in college, but I remember there was one girl who was a 16-year-old freshman and guys left her alone until she turned 18 (and then they got all creepy around her). Schiff is 6 years older than me. I don’t think mores changed THAT much in those six years.
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This got resurfaced by someone liking it & looking at the list, I’m embarrassed by the fact that it’s all white folks and mostly dudes too.
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My bedroom window is at telephone wire height looking out at the alley and my cats LOVE this view. 🐿️ 🐦 🐦 🐦
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I feel like I died in 2016 and everything afterwards has been the torments of hell.
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a millimeter above the ground?
I checked an English translation, just to be sure. He really was saying that the outhouse was floating a millimeter above the ground.
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The fold-out map wasn’t bound in so you might not have had it.
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The Thomas Guide had a fold-out map of L.A. and Orange county included that was wall mountable. Less than 4x6, but not by much. The index pages gave a good overview of most the counties on single pages or two-page spreads.
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Ashland and a block south of Diversey.
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1. “hunnert” being Chicagoese for hundred, used primarily when talking about addresses. It was essential knowledge to know at least the mile streets, and ideally the half-mile streets as well to get around the city.
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Chicago folks would memorize the streets in their neighborhood and you needed to know your hunnerts¹. With the exception of Madison south to 31st street, every 8 hunnert was a mile. You could give your address as, e.g., 15 hunnert west, 27 hunnert north and people would know that’s a block
east of
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I remember when they were younger and I would read books to them, I had to pull up pictures of landline telephones to explain “slamming down the phone”. They were really confused that you could only make phone calls with a phone and it was attached to the wall with a wire.
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I asked my kids (just turned 11) about a number of things from the olden days (including the yellow pages) to see if they knew what any of them were. No idea.
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It had grid indications as well. It was always useful to know the page you lived on for when you gave people directions to your place.
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Or perhaps, bears:Bigfoot::humans:dogs
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It is. I love that the drivers of the trucks had no idea about what was going on.
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Dude, alt text. Who’s the guy on the left. I know center is Jesse Jackson and right is Rod Blagojevich, but dude on the left—not ringing any bells. Slobodan Milošević perhaps, guessing from context (but this was an era when I didn’t have a TV so I missed out on a lot of visual info).
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24 years ago I shaved my head thinking I’d look like Ben Kingsley.
I didn’t.
I looked like me without hair.
Or, in more relatable terms, I looked like Uncle Fester.
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I was using em dashes before they were cool.¹
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1. As an early adopter of TeX in the 80s, getting an — in my text was as simple as typing ---.
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FBI_Surveillance_Van_8647
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Thus the name, one presumes
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When I first read Green, I don’t think I got him, but returning to him decades later, it was like reading a whole different author.
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And I just now noticed that my complete short stories of Graham Greene is a penguin classics edition.
Writers whose lives overlapped with mine should not be in Penguin Classics. Hell even my D. H. Lawrence isn’t a penguin classic
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Ugh I hadn’t realized the did penguin classics like that too. The white bands at top and bottom look like printer errors.
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In over a thousand volumes, these are the only aqua penguin paperbacks I own.
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The brown makes it look like it’s hiding porn inside.
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I can’t imagine that they’re saving enough money on 1-2 color vs 4-color printing for this to make sense financially.
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Ugh, I hated when Penguin moved from the orange spines to the aqua spines (with black and white stock photos in place of the commissioned artwork they used to have), but this is ridiculous, especially since Penguin Classics have traditionally had public domain artwork on the covers.
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One ringe to rule them all
One ringe to fynde them
One ringe to brinde them all
And shake it off, shake it off