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I mean, we can't have tall standards.

Currently reading Personal Effects by Robert A Jensen. He's headed up recovery efforts for natural disasters, plane crashes, mine collapses, and terrorist attacks; the kind of events that have between several hundred and several hundred thousand bodies. It's a neat look at how those things are dealt with, and he's an incredibly compassionate person.

Also reading Honeycomb by SB Caves. Won't know how I feel about it until I see where it's going, but it's a very tense read.

After winning popular reality talent show Searching For A Star and a subsequent record deal at the age of 19, Amanda Pearson was the hottest thing in the UK. But as her short-lived fame started to fade, the cracks began to show stumbling on stage slurring during live TV interviews suspicious photos of her nightclubs with powder around her nostrils. The dream was over Amanda Pearson would forever be a one hit wondersix years later, after cleaning her act up, but failing to re-establish her career, her ex manager, informs her of an unexpected opportunity that will help alleviate her dire financial situation and potentially thrust her back into the spotlight. The proposal is simple, six strangers alone in a mansion, under constant observation for the duration of a week. Every day they take pill five people are taking a placebo, but one person will be taking an experimental drug, which they are assured has no adverse side-effects, the other participants, a dinner lady who moonlight as a comedian and eccentric theatre, actor, a popular YouTuber a dance choreographer and a car salesman all seem normal at first, however, as each day goes by that changes paranoia leads to violence who is taking the real pill and exactly doesn’t do it do. Amanda realises that this is no normal experiment she is trapped. The old mansion is rigged, and there is no way out.

Of my recently finished books, I recommend Dry by Neal and Jarrod Schusterman.

The drought--or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it--has been going on for a while now. Everyone's lives have become an endless list of don'ts: don't water the lawn, don't fill up your pool, don't take long showers. 

Until the taps run dry. 

Suddenly, Alyssa's quiet suburban street spirals into a warzone of desperation; neighbors and families turned against each other on the hunt for water. And when her parents don't return and her life--and the life of her brother--is threatened, Alyssa has to make impossible choices if she's going to survive.

Watched the first one multiple times with my cousin as kids. Apparently it made such an impression on him, this sequel made him reach out to me after not speaking for 20+ years.

Weird I was just thinking about this last night. A lady I worked with very briefly,years ago. I dont even remember her name. We spent maybe one short shift together. She was charismatic and beautiful and got my Key & Peele reference immediately. I wish I could have been her best friend, but she was one of the busiest people I ever met. I hope she's still living her best life.

That urinal is dirty.

In Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness, Jamil Zaki talks about two small villages (in South America?). One on a lake where people tended to be mistrustful; because of the limited fishing resources they were in competition. Versus an ocean village where everyone had to work together so they were more trusting and open. I wish I could remember more details of what the specific outcomes were, but this article made me wonder if it's at all related.

I did it not.

Switched to GoodReads when Shelfari went down. Now I've moved to Storygraph. It's fine.

Fan4stic

Like biting into a whole raw onion and chasing it with a huge chunk of dry bread.

Surgery is probably the exact time I'm ready for my health insurance ceo to be taken out.

I absolutely adore this man and I'm happy for him and hope he kills it. But I haven't loved the cameos he's been doing on the show. It feels so forced and different from his stand-up persona. Kind of like the difference between Taylor Tomlinson's stand-up persona and After Midnight.

I have library cards in three different states.

Everything. Except the things I quickly lose interest in.

Thanks for sharing your experience. I'm in a small town in the US. We do not have a bakery outside of grocery stores like Walmart, so I'm jealous of your options. I don't mind making/eating food that I'd inauthentic as long as it tastes good. I like finding recipes to use up my sourdough discard

Omg I haven't had canned water in 20+ years, that shit was amazing!

Edit: well fuck, it's sparkling water.

And mixing the scent of an apple with the scent of cat hair doesn't give you coconut scent.

Why ... would i think it would?

Irrelevant. This guy was not the love of your life, he was an experience. You can't find the love of your life if you're hung up on him. Block him, learn from and appreciate the experience for what it was, move on.

What's the purpose of the label? Usually it's to find mates of the appropriate gender. If you're not going to date women, why do you want the label?

I burn my LIFE to make a sunrise I know I will never see.