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8 year old me: I can’t wait to be an adult, I’m gonna have so much money, and I’ll get to stay up as late as I want.

33 year old me: Fuck this nonsense, I wanna go back to watching cartoons without having to worry about everything else that’s going on in the world.

Since it's spooky season, I'm harking back to being at Bran Castle, Transylvania, last year, aka Dracula's Castle (even though the links to Vlad are actually very tenuous). They go all out with the Dracula myth in this glorious castle, however, a treat for any spooky fan 🤣🤣🦇🦇🦇

Reading Titus Groan again. I forget every time just how beautiful, brilliant and truly weird the Gormenghast books are

Finished reading Mary Jo Bang's "A Film In Which I Play Everyone: Poems."
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An exceptionally strong collection of from someone who's written a bunch of them.

Finished reading Simon R. Green's "Very Important Corpses: An Ishmael Jones Novel."
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Another wild and fun X-Files-ish / Hammer Horror-esque / Doctor Who-like adventure for Mr. Jones and Miss Belcourt.

How Capitalism is Making Us Sick
We need to better confront the economic and political structures that make us sick.
The book Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis (Atlantic, 2021) by Dr. James Davies, Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology and Psychology at the University of Roehampton, London, and a practicing psychotherapist, recommends a fundamental reorientation of our thinking about mental health.
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Every so often I give you a useless Russian phrase from my Duolingo. Today I give you this one:

Говорящий лев будет танцевать в среду.

The talking lion will dance on Wednesday.

Tech bros will try to sell us on AI’s ability to generate endless amounts of stories, while pretending like they aren’t stealing everyone else’s work.

Seriously, watching all these talented writers get their work stolen is heartbreaking.

Good! I cannot say this strongly enough: Fuck these people. My mom was a librarian. You do not come after books, around me. (This has been all the news, over here.)

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