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EdStern

  1. @mfascia Aw no : (
  2. @mondoagogo Gaffer tape : (
  3. Scratch that. Probably doesn't count if the ironing occurs while merely underpanted. Hey, ladies, my eyes are up here, yes, thank you.
  4. Both procured and used wholegrain mustard. Am about to iron a shirt. Several shirts. Is this this "grown-up" thing I've read about? : /
  5. @MrCraigL I've been downloading it long enough, lord knows.
  6. @davidhepworth And that they, and only they, wear the garment known only as the book jacket author photo jacket.
  7. @davidhepworth My usual line is that authors usually resemble their book jacket photo's elder, duller sibling.
  8. @SamWroteDown Nope, haven't seen a frame of it.
  9. ...which still seems to be our standard response to apparently mindless brutality occurring elsewhere in the world.
  10. "…She saw in them a comedy of naive pretences, but hardly anythign genuine except her own appalled imagination."
  11. "…exasperation at not being able to take the public affairs of the country as seriously as the incidental atrocity of methods deserved."
  12. It contains a haunting line from Conrad's Nostromo (set in Sulaco, Alien[s] fans)...