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Louche left-wing nerd. Words, food, music, beverage alcohol. MA linguistics, PhD theatre. jamesharbeck.com, sesquiotic.com
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I think I love the movie so much in part because I really wanted to be both the hero and the heroine.
When we were in Florence on our honeymoon I certainly kept an eye out for the locations.
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I like country gravy, what can I say
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Della Roose
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Once out of jail, it took Mesplet another three years to get back to publishing his Gazette. The reason for this delay is not clear. But this time around, Mesplet started publishing under the simpler name of La Gazette de Montréal, and with content in English as well as French.
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It didn’t take Franklin long after arriving in Montreal - and meeting with French-speaking and English-speaking civil and religious leaders - to conclude that the “Inhabitants of the Province of Quebec” had made up their minds to stick with the British.
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Start except --
.. it was 250 years ago this month, on June 27, 1775, that George Washington was given orders by the Second Continental Congress to begin planning the invasion of the British Province of Quebec and bring it under the American revolutionary fold...
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“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes.”
- Anne Frank (January 13, 1943)
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shitposting > schizoposting
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“I gave a concert once. In Lower Edmonton.” —The Birthday Party, Harold Pinter
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Fuck it o’clock Friday comes an hour earlier in Summerhill
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Now is when I remember that Ebenezer (name of at least two of my ancestors) was once as trendy as, say, Phoenix is now
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I think Jennifer and Trevor, while altogether plausible, would throw me
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This is what the Republican Party is - a group of losers who never left high school and think “drama” substitutes for “political knowledge and empathy.” You hated those people in high school for good reason, and it’s no different now.
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FACTS 😂
Many witchy books I've read follow the formula:
For centuries long ago, many [mystical sounding title of people] practiced [rebranded new age topic] to connect with the [over simplification of complex relationship with spirit]
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My favorite is the night of the Long tweets (I think from schooley here)
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I'm sure I'm not the only one rooting for MAD: Mutual Asshole Destruction.
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"gigas" OOOOOOKKKKKKKKKKK
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(Half of everyone wants to live in a place just like where they grew up, and the other half want to live in a place nothing like where they grew up. I’m in the second set.)