this old Edmund Burke “Letter to the Sherrifs of Bristol” (1977) ( https://assets.cambridge.org/97811076/45714/frontmatter/9781107645714_frontmatter.pdf pdf) essay arguing against the laws declaring american rebels “pirates” and the war generally has some bangers in it but i’m so glad people don’t write like the first two lines here anymore

the crow (slow) is rrrl nice

it always feels like

somebody’s watching me

and i get no privacy

heading to lunch with co-workers like it’s 2019

acab people stay the heck away from my toddler

100 years of trying to finish 100 years of solitude

i was on a pub crawl the morning that billy mays died, which we learned from this website, and we dedicated the rest of the crawl to him, RIP

cool rocket to nowhere, dummy… not

my ny review of books book sale haul just arrived, yikes at the instant unread pile double!

thai birds keep just fine and are simpler to handle (as are the other peppers that only one place nearby sells, like ajis) frozen

every time i pull these out i congratulate myself for having them after years of tiny bags of molded ones in the fridge, i am slow