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In times past, loyalty to the cause of the populace was to be found everywhere. The will of the Pear Mesa Budget Committee was the will of everyone.
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clicked on this from another source and scrolled down to tuck in without looking at the author. when i got to this i went "wait a minute," scrolled back up and grinned
Even though Beckert pays close attention to technological developments like the steam engine and the railroad, he says remarkably little about the European tall ship, the machine that powered the conquest of the world from the 15th through the 18th centuries, and even less about the sailors whose labor made possible the creation of the world market. Across years and oceans, commodities and people often seem to move themselves around the world as if by magic. The book is fundamentally terracentric.
November 28, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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lmao what a twist
WINECRISP APPLE BIO PARENTAGE Cox’s Orange Pippin x Rome x Jonathan x Newtown Pippin x Crab apple ORIGIN PRI – Purdue U., Rutgers U., U. of Illinois Cooperative Breeding Project YEAR 2008 AVAILABILITY Winter – Spring BEST USES Munching, Dessert OTHER NAMES Co-op 31
November 27, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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this is what happened to Harry Caudill, who wrote Night Comes to the Cumberlands and was one of the party legislator-slash-intellectuals backing up Johnson’s War on Poverty and the establishment of the Appalachian Regional Commission
August 26, 1974 Dr. William Shockley 202 McCullough Stanford, California 94305 Dear DI. r)hockley: My wife Anna and f are looking forward with much pleasure and real anticipation to your visit with us on Saturday August 31 and Sunday September 1. My son lames and will meet you and your party at noon at the Whitesburg air strip. (Kentucky is on Eastern Standard Time, not Daylight Saving Time.) We will bring you to out some for lunch. We can spend the afternoon in conversation and have dinner at The Tun at Wise, Virginia at about. 7:00 PM. The Drs. Hutchins have aE,eeee to come up from Berea and spend the night as our guests. They expect to arrive about noon. We can continua our conversation at my home on Sunday for as long as your party can remain. Mr. Columbus Sexton, Assistant Superintendent of our local schools has given tha standard-required intelligence tests to local school children for many years. He is keenly interested in the genetic decline I have written about and has agreed to join us. In a recent conversation he pointed out that almost all 10 test results will now run from a range of 60 to )0 points. On Ap;i1 18 I sent a letter to the editor of Intellectual Digest. It was sparked by Dr. Conrad Lorenz' article on Genetic Decay. I think you may find my observations of interest and a copy is enclosed. Copies are being forwarded to the other gentlemen listed at the end of this letter. I was in the Kentucky legislature in the' Os and in the 1960 session. in those years I believed very strongly that our educational shortcomings in the Kentucky mountains could be overcome with new and consolidated schools and better paid and better educated teachers. I was a leader in the prolonged fight to establish the state's Minimum foundation plan for schools. Since then Kentucky has poure enormous sums into the task o upgrading the mountain schools. Consolidation is now virtually complete and new libraries and new laboratories are commonplace. The "emergency" teacher who lacks a degree has almost disappeared from the scene. At the same time, the general environment has been improved immensely. The federal government has poured out lavish sums for food, repairing homes, welfare and pension grants of numerous kinds. To a laege extent the "War on Poverty" cantered here in east Kentucky. And yet, IQ scores have been declining steadily and the Appalachian poverty that was so widely written about in the 1 60s has persisted. The poverty that is associated with our region is accompanied by passivity and dependence and I see no present hope for allaying it. I have come full circle in my thinking and have reluctantly concluded that the poverty that called into being the Appalachian eegional Commission is largely genetic in origin and is Largely irreducible. I have read with tremendous interest the papers and books you, have sent to me end am each indebted to both of you for them. The Jensee article is simply tremendous. When I read the things you have written and then read the almost rabid comments that have been made about you, i am impelled as an American citizen, to offer my apologies for my fellow citizens. It seems thee most of your critics criticize before they read what you have said or written. In conclusion I will say that I know absolutely nothing about the issue of white vs. black intelligence. We have few blacks in this area and practically all my observations have dealt with whites. There is no doubt in my mind at the present time that our welfare programs and general humanitarian principles and practices have contrived to effectively repeal the first law of nature so that young and old alike survive to procreate. The dull, dependent and welfare-supported are outbreeding the intelligent and the ambitious. This has, in my opinion,
November 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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god those coin songs are terminally bad. 0.0 wasn’t low enough, they should have taken points from other things
the genius page for “get me off this coin b”
November 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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pictured: maggie and/or terre roche
"that's heavy metal, bob"
November 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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let's all imagine the world we could live in if little steven hadn't chickened out
Paul Simon had encountered Maggie and Terre Roche earlier, and asked them to sing on the song "Was a Sunny Day" on his 1973 album There Goes Rhymin' Simon. Despite further support, the Roches disliked the involvement of Simon's record company, particularly their advice that the sisters "wear hipper clothes." Terre Roche later said: We were humiliated... We wanted to get out of the whole situation. We had a friend in Hammond, Louisiana, who was running a kung fu school. We gave up our apartment and told the record company, ‘We’re not going to promote the record anymore; we’re going away for a while.’ This was two weeks after the record came out. Maggie wrote the "Hammond Song" about the whole experience.[2] They showed me that they have an assassination list, and Paul Simon was at the top of it. [In 1986, Paul Simon recorded tracks for his Graceland album in South Africa, in direct violation of the cultural boycott–Ed.] And in spite of my feelings about Paul Simon, who we can talk about in a minute if you want to, I said to them, “Listen, I understand your feelings about this; I might even share them, but…”
November 23, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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wait my birthday is at the end of the year and these all came out the year i turned sixteen (which i think was the original prompt i saw?) but not when i was sixteen. in which case
milk-eyed mender (march 23, 2004)
November 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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y'all ever see how crazy the plane on the city seal of Romulus is
seal of the city of romulus, wayne county, michigan
November 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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also one of my all-time faves
it's the constantines - shine a light
November 17, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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What perfect album (ok, albums) came out when you were sixteen?
Sufjan, Greetings from Michigan, the Great Lakes State Songs: Ohia, Magnolia Electric Co British Sea Power’s classic The Decline of British Sea Power Wrens, Meadowlands
November 17, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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there are any number of things you can say about mark kozelek but i don't think "greatest songwriter of the years after 2005" is one of them
twitter user describing koz as "the greatest songwriter of the past 20 or so years"
November 17, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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am i going gene wolfe mode or does the strict and hypercompressed timeline of eddington mean joe already had covid when the movie starts. it was generally a five-day incubation at that point, right. and thematically it makes sense. but i don't see anybody talking about this anywhere at all
eddington timeline night of Monday, May 25: 8:25pm mountain: joe watches youtube in sheriff’s truck on pueblo territory 9:25pm central (simultaneous): george floyd pronounced dead at hennepin county medical center confrontation with the drunk joe and lou talk about dawn’s printout of titanic secrets of the federal reserve Tuesday, May 26 [per vernon’s website]: grocery store joe decides to run for mayor teens party at dirt field lou and dawn in albuquerque first protests in minneapolis Wednesday, May 27 [per joe’s watch and external events]: lou and dawn return campaign truck first blm protest joe gets first symptoms dinner with vernon at house third precinct riot, major protests spread in nyc, la, memphis Thursday, May 28: second, larger blm protest joe has fever and cough fundraiser at paula’s greek and mexican restaurant lou leaves third precinct burned, boogaloo boys converge in minneapolis, major protests nationwide, albuquerque tear gassing incident midnight central: trump tweets “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” Friday, May 29 [also Tuesday, May 26 in joe’s phone]: joe watches lou on phone katy perry - firework joe shoots the drunk joe shoots ted and son riot near fifth precinct Saturday, May 30: joe drives to get covid test (positive) crime scene investigation joe sick in bed watching laptop much larger protests nationwide, in columbus this is the day they teargassed heaviest, partial national guard mobilization Sunday, May 31: joe frames michael butterfly clocks handwriting antifa supersoldiers/conclusion joe has 105 fever full national guard mobilization, quieter day
November 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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bustin bustin bustin bustin
ray parker jr being recut to say "a freaky ghost bed!" in neil cicierega's "bustin" (2015)
November 15, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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then in the 2010s it went to Mythology who did Altered Carbon, House with a Clock in Its Walls, Guadagnino's Suspiria, the Slender Man movie etc. then when that folded it went to New Republic (1917, AmbuLAnce, the recent Transformers)
Moorcock's Miscellany post 09-10-2014, 06:50 AM JohnDavey's Avatar JohnDavey JohnDavey is offline Eternal Companion Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 603 Thanks: 1 Thanked 552 Times in 185 Posts Default Elric movie re-optioned. Dear all, The following appears, so I'm told, in last month's 'Locus'... "Film rights to MICHAEL MOORCOCK's Elric series were optioned by Mythology, with writer/showrunner Glen Mazzara of 'The Walking Dead' attached, via [Mike's agent]." Best, John. ___________________________________________________________________________ Join The Nomads of the Time Streams, the International Michael Moorcock Appreciation Society Reply With Quote
November 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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looks like it was Chris and Paul Weitz at the time, coming hot off Antz/American Pie/Nutty Professor II: The Klumps/Down to Earth/About A Boy. instead they split and Chris did Golden Compass and Twilight: New Moon and Paul did... Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant?
CNN, 2/24/2003 NEW YORK (Variety) -- Universal Pictures has joined in optioning "The Elric Saga," a multi-part, Tolkein-esque fantasy series written by Michael Moorcock, for development as a potential big-screen trilogy. The literary series began with 1972's "Elric of Melnibone." Universal's option deal with production company Depth of Field covers 11 books -- the original six installments of the series and five subsequent novels that touch on the saga. The film adaptation, which will be produced but not written or directed by Depth of Field partners Chris and Paul Weitz, is conceived as a potential trilogy whose first installment will be culled from the series' first six volumes. The producers plan to shop the book to writers and directors. The novels are sensual and atmospheric sword-and-sorcery tales that center on Elric, a brooding albino warrior who presides over an unruly, decadent island nation. The novels follow Elric on a series of adventures, in which he is betrayed by his cousin, sent into exile and attempts to come to terms with his own humanity. "We have loved this series since we were kids and can appreciate it even more as adults. It's a sophisticated, literate, philosophically dense fantasy -- a sort of 'Matrix' of the sword-and-sorcery genre," Chris Weitz said. Moorcock oversaw the sci-fi magazine New Worlds and helped usher in the "new wave" sci-fi movement of the 1960s and '70s. He also performed in the British hard rock band Hawkwind and will co-produce the movie project. Empire, 5/29/2007 Exclusive: Weitz Brothers Making Elric Paul to direct fantasy adaptation? So his adaptation of The Golden Compass is already being hyped by studio New Line as the new Lord Of The Rings (rather inaccurately if you ask us, since the books share little in common). But that’s not enough fantasy limelight for the guy who, up until now, was best known for small-scale comedies like American Pie and About A Boy. Nope, along with his brother and former co-director Paul, Chris Weitz is going to take on the biggest fantasty-literature property as yet untouched by movieland: Michael Moorcock’s Elric saga. Elric of Melniboné, aka Elric Kinslayer, aka The White Wolf first appeared in print in 1961, and is the anti-hero of more than a dozen books. A physically weak, perpetually sickly albino who’s the outcast Emperor of a race of cruel, ancient decadent people, he’s no musclebound Conan-type, instead drawing his power from the spirit-sucking runesword Stormbringer, an evil entity with whom he struggles for his own soul. And he’s frankly one of the greatest fantasy characters out there – albeit one who’s going to be fiendishly hard to make work on screen. “Of the great classic fantasy series it’s the one that hasn’t been done yet,” Weitz tells Empire online. “My brother Paul and I liked those books growing up and we’ve met Michael Moorcock and he trusts us to take those books forward.” The Weitz’s Depth Of Field production company will be behind the adaptation, although no director is yet attached. Weitz does have one in mind, though: “I’d really like it if my brother directed them,” he says.
November 6, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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hate to admit it but it will probably end up xbiked
1986 schwinn mirada in maroon from r/xbiking. it's got all silver hardware, sweptback bars, a brooks, a front rack and the tiniest rear rack
November 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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it also came in eye-searing pink with speckles, or later, in the 90s, this:
1992 schwinn mirada sport (i think that might be the next step down in quality). it's teal and fluorescent chartreuse
November 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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got a new project bike for $20… but what should I do with it?
1987 schwinn mirada in teal. it’s an 80s “road bike geometry with extra heavy tubing” style all terrain bike with 26” tanwalls, a 24/34/44 triple and 12-28 cassette. the handlebars and stem are matching teal and the seat is silver vinyl. it was in a barn and smells like cigarette smoke
November 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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built a bike!
a crust romanceur, it's "atlantic salmon" pink
October 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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it’s stephen maturin
September 23, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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never mind, not inherited:
C.E. Yandle & Jim Barnett, "The Road to Ruin" The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC), 12/10/1991, 8A C.E. Yandle & Jim Barnett, "The Road to Ruin" The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC), 12/10/1991, 9A
September 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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the building was expanded to the way it was when the fire broke out in '91 by at the latest 1953 (you can see the original 1920 plant is the central core, with a new wing on the west and an additional building to the east) and it stayed an ice cream factory until '77
September 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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the Mello-Buttercup factory dated all the way back to 1920 per the Sanborns, so, yeah, I imagine it was inherited www.loc.gov/resource/g39...
Buttercup Ice Cream Co.-- Manf. Ice Cream & Later Will Make Ice Cream Cones (Hamlet NC 1920 Sanborn)
September 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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uk cover of The Wild Shore goes hard. also must have been nice to get that blurb from Gene on your debut
a cute little white house with a red roof sits atop the wreck of a freeway ramp over calm, reflective water in the midst of bombed-out San Diego. “Simply one of our best writers,” says Gene Wolfe about KSR’s THE WILD SHORE (Macdonald & Co, 1985)
August 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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August 28, 2025 at 1:57 AM