Books

Heart of Darkness is one of the few books I enjoyed reading in school.   It is not fantastic, but I enjoyed it.  

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How to kill the elderly in 3 easy steps, by Andrew Cuomo.

This fucking cunt, another dickhead making money off the TDS. Better do it now I suppose. Will not be allowed to complain about those psychos in office going fwd.

Maybe the lessons he learned were to do the opposite of what he did, especially early on?

I finished John Brown Abolitionist this weekend, solid book about one of those historical figures that I've heard of but don't know a ton about. Very sympathetic to Brown, kind of glosses over the Kansas murders as proportional to what was going on from the pro-slavery folks on the other side. Lots of Calvinism and Transcendentalism talk, so you know it was a page-turner. Probably could have chopped 50 pages off the front and back end. At the end of the book the author started examining how influential John Brown was upon contemporaries and people after the civil war, and I was thinking "man, the author is going to say that Hitler wouldn't have existed if not for John Brown" and then in the last couple pages the author literally links him to the Timothy McVeigh and Bin Laden. Maybe would recommend to Jike or LDOTL but otherwise, pass.

He was supposed to have an event here but I think it's going to get cancelled because of COVID.  I believe you could win a bottle at said event.  

Turns out I actually read the e-mail more closely that I was sent and it's a virtual happy hour type thing with him, one of the guys from the distillery, and Nate Kaeding.  I bought a ticket.  $40, I'll get a copy of the book, $10 donation to a restaurant workers relief fund, and entry into a raffle to win one of 3 bottles.

Correct.

Read "The Things They Carried." Good Vietnam book. Not quite at Matterhorn levels (it's a collection of interconnected short stories versus one central narrative) but would recommend.