I’m Fed Up With Amazon

...(which has always been very generous to Kelly and I as authors–placing our books prominently and hosting a book launch event for us). Right now I’m left with a problem. I’ve got hundreds of Amazon links embedded on this site and need to ponder what I’m going to do about that. When Amazon dumped California-based affiliates a few years ago rather than pay their taxes I switched to Portland-based Powell’s partner program but nobody used it. I’ve also...

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We All Have Our Triggers

...ading the complete list of all the folks in Jeffrey Epstein’s leaked black book. One positive aspect of that list is that it’s a convenient roster of all the folks that, unlike Epstein, I’d least like to be stranded on an island with. It turns out that Epstein’s buddies include the new atheist gang and their promoter along with pseudo-intellectual publishing phenomenons such as Steven Pinker and Jared Diamond and, as a topping to the crap sundae,...

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A Brief History of Cat Art

...oot Simple reader Annie tracked down Burbank for me. She says, I believe “Burbank” is J. M. Burbank: “A Favourite Cat” “The Gourmand” There is a bit about “A Favourite Cat” here: And this book has a section on Burbank Thanks Annie! Beyond the cat-centricness of this post, if you’re looking for a few hours to kill I can’t recommend The Studio enough. You can find the whole shebang here. Notable is how seriously the editors considered the art of cas...

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Saturday Tweets: Parsley Poodle Sandwich

...https://t.co/AQdn2mRYWB — Alissa Walker (@awalkerinLA) July 9, 2019 A new book I contributed to is out today! It’s an update to the 2006 book Vegetarian Sports Nutrition- which if you know me you know I recommended it often. Honored to have worked on this updated version. It’s PACKED with all the info you need.https://t.co/ow1PV9zdKv pic.twitter.com/XU5xwKrRUs — Matt Ruscigno (@MattRuscigno) July 12, 2019 The Pentel Graphgear 1000 Mechanical Penc...

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Le Phone Freak

...Rainbow this spring after one failed attempt to read it in the 1990s. The book is full of loom metaphors such as this one, “While the great Loom of God works in darkness above,/And our trials here below are but threads of His Love.” The loom represents for Pynchon a way to evoke the sinister command and control of the punch card operated looms of the industrial revolution and, ultimately, the semi-autonomous V2 rockets of the Nazis. As novelist a...

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