akmskylarking.bsky.social
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I finally finished the devastating, revelatory "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" (Rebecca Skloot) from my Read It Someday stack. Just starting "Demon Copperhead" by Barbara Kingsolver (holiday gift).
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Yay!! Thanks for posting — It's been a minute since I visited the Baphometronome channel. They're SO good. 🤗 Now daydreaming of Baphometronome At The Beer Garden.
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(Reposting 'cause I got the scale mixed up) This is *fascinating* to me. I think I've always been a 1— I also dream and recall scenes in vivid detail. On the flip side, it's harder for me to come up with a succinct description of anything.
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Oh, ITC Avante Garde, was there anything you *couldn't* do? These are excellent.
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The Doublemint reminds me of my grandpa, who chewedit constantly after he quit smoking cigars.🥹 Also, I adore those wrapper designs. Thanks for posting! Now I want to use some of them for design inspiration this week.
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I'm so glad you posted this. I was home sick this afternoon and looking for something good to watch. I loved it!
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My indoor cat, escaped and drinking from the birdbath
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Sure! It'd be a fun exercise.
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Wood type will *always* be better, but also: InDesign pro here (do comms for a living). If you want to make annotations less arduous, I can show you how to make layout templates w/simple stylesheets. Or, there's a nice subreddit (r/indesign) if you're teaching yourself through experimentation.
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And of course, "Gilda, are you decent?"
I had somehow missed Gilda until 2021, and now I'd watch it any old time. I also really love John Ford's first scenes as the casino manager.
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As you were saying, it's really hard to choose just ten! I remembered so many books that made a huge impression when I was younger, but that I wouldn't return to now (probably). I went with those I've read many times.
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I just had to *vacuum* that space in my kitchen; thanks for this excellent tip!
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Moby-Dick, Melville
The Annunciation, Gilchrist
Also-rans:
Anything Walter Mosley
A Prayer for Owen Meany, Irving
The Good Lord Bird, McBride
Anything Toni Morrison
Anything Erik Larson
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These are the next generation of the low-level staffers that used to come into my bar, get almost instantly drunk on garbage beer, get loud, demand free drinks, get cut off, and then yell "Don't you know who I AM‽" I work for [A Congressional Representative]!!
Just the best and the brightest.
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I was buying the popcorn and snax for them anyway. ❤️
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Logistically impossible spinoff idea: We just get to drop in with our Bake Off favorites through the years, as they travel and trade off hosting dinner parties.
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Exactly! I would trade the [personality-free lady] for Abbi without thinking twice. I also really wanted to see more from Amos.
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Just watched, and 😭😭😭. I didn't want either of them to go, baking results be damned.
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I'm green with envy! Now I want to make something like this for design work.
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Although it's contrary to your fine point, this thread reminds me of one of my favorite McSweeneys articles of all time:
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/on-...
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Man, I wish we were less than 1,443 miles away. Any one of those drinks, rainy day or no, would be spectacular right now.
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never get high on your own supply?
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I'm not playing this right, but *this* from GR: "There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery."
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Same! It's one of the first movies I bought on [old media].
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Because the plague cheated the Nats out of a big celebration year in 2020, I'm still cranky about the Astros and their nonsense cheatin' ways. Plus they got Dusty. As you say, not rational, but... 😭😡
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Smarter than me. 😋 To be fair, my last attempt was a few years ago, when muscle memory still occasionally overrode my instinct for self preservation.
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Ugh, I also discovered this the hard way. Plus I thought I could still do a back walkover but chickened out halfway through, straining several muscles. Ow, ow, ow
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