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bilbo, meaning a sword made in Bilbao,
Bilbo Baggins is the hero of The Hobbit, which every true lemmy user has tattooed on their left thigh.
Crime novelist Jim Thompson [Pop.1,280] wrote a novelization of the TV show Ironside.
If that’s not esoteric, I don’t know what is.
https://quicksilvertranslate.com/2554/basque-words-in-english/
Sorry for the delay
44·17 hours agoTrump insults the police and military on a daily basis.
Be interesting to see how they stand when the time comes.
One more thing…
5·1 day ago[off topic]
https://bookshop.org/p/books/wild-seed-octavia-e-butler/11019356?ean=9781538751480&next=t
Wild Seed by Octavia Butler.
Shape shifter meets a body thief. If he inhabits her body, she will die and he’ll never be able to get more children from her.
That’s the first chapter.
It gets even worse.
He inspired a science fiction writer named John Brunner. Brunner’s book, "Stand On Zanzibar’ won the 1969 Hugo award for best science fiction novel. It’s set in the early 21st Century and features such crazy ideas as middle class adults needing room mates to make the rent, wide spread homelessness, AI, endless post-colonial wars, the internet, and music videos.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/stand-on-zanzibar-john-brunner/7252770?ean=9781250781222&next=t
2·1 day agoMECHA SHEBA
Now I know how Brock feels, having to do all the work while these lammos get top billing.
Sheeesh!
Read a book called 'Future Shock" by Alvin Toffler. He wrote it around 1970 and pretty much predicted everything that happened since. “Future shock” was his term for the madness that people would embrace when they realized they couldn’t/wouldn’t deal with the changes that the shift from the Industrial Age to the Digital Era would bring.
Castro is still winning…
John D. MacDonald
https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-flash-of-green-john-d-macdonald/11739897?ean=9780812985283&next=t
I’m pretty sure it’s from this novel, but I could be wrong.
MacDonald was talking about the environment long before the first Earth Day.
8·2 days ago“Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven, But Nobody Wants To Die.”
A Florida native once wrote that that the people who most want to stop Florida overdevelopment are the ones who brought their house last week.
Wandering off topic, but if you can find it, watch the special edition DVD of Buckaroo Banzai.
There’s a special on screen commentary track that makes the movie even funnier. At the start, Buckaroo carries a briefcase into the JetCar. The commentary lets us know that he’s got a tunafish sandwich and Einstein’s brain with him.
Venture Brothers beats them all.
Your comment blows, dude…
That’s your nose!