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It's stunning, to me, how much our early reading choices impacted our later life. Grade 9 was a pivotal year for me, as the English teacher gave us choices as to what books we had to read. And give book reports on them. In front of the class. I didn't like school and i hated homework. Hence, when of...

holy shit, TA! That looks real.
I hope you and yours are good.
Exciting stuff, eh?

yeah

If i was more paranoid and thought i needed a defensive weapon, it would be a blow gun with hypodermic darts. Used with stealth and distance, they wouldn't know what him. No sound alert; no position give away. Depending on the threat, i'd have a variety of darts. But mostly just knock out meds. If y...

i got started with Mark Twain.

I've been thinking of getting a decent cheap electric. I've got an old acoustic neglected in my spare room, but I've never played much with an actual electric guitar. Not that I'm all that good. I can bang out chords pretty well, but that's about it. It's a whole different thing, electric. I also p...

thanks for the education, g-man.

Kurt Vonnegut wrote a novel about a banned religion that everyone secretly practiced.
It involved putting your soles together with another person. It's done barefoot. Not a bad ritual, really.
Helped that it was illegal. Gave it some punch it wouldn't have had otherwise.

the moderation here is appalling.

seriously?

Holy shit, Arth.
That barely computes.

What about pea shooters?