Pamela Galli
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Yes. I like them both tho.
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15 minutes ago, ItHadToComeToThis said:
What I would say to anyone is this. If it doesn’t have sources, if it seems woolly, if you are unsure, if it’s not advice from WHO, CDC, NHS etc etc. Ignore it, pinch of salt etc. There is a lot of misinformation around and if you believed even a small amount of it you would be soaking in a bath of brine, but fully clothed to insulate you with a rock salt crystal up each nostril gargling bleach.
My two Med Cram posts I got from a segment of Rachel Maddow, whose team’s vetting I trust more than the current American govt agencies groveling to keep their jobs.
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8 hours ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:
Oh, where to start? A lot of the time, it depends on mood.
Let's see, novelists in the last 100 years or so . . . they're mostly British, although I read a smattering of American and Canadian. Waugh, Woolf, Forster, Wodehouse, Graham Greene, Muriel Spark, Kingsley Amis (but not his annoying son), Barbara Pym. I think my two favourite contemporary novelists are Jeanette Winterson and Julian Barnes. Ian McEwan traumatizes me too much. Nicholson Baker is funny and weird. Neil Gaiman. Andre Alexis and Thomas King (Canadian). I'm actually not a huge fan of Atwood.
Pre-1920 is a whole other bag.
I'm sure I've missed a ton, but that's a start!
You have hit the Jackpot again: I have read one book each from Waugh, Forster, Pym, Amis, and Barnes, looong ago, several Wodehouses, but GRAHAM GREENE is one of my very top favorites, and I think I have read everything of his in all genres! His gift is supernatural.
I will look into the others you named — I have a hard time finding things I can stand to read.
I can’t think of any I have read from the same era besides mystery writers like Dorothy Sayers and Agatha Christie.
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1 hour ago, Mollymews said:
according to NIWA our (NZ) national science institute, traffic nitrogen oxide levels have gone way down where I live in just a week. Down 50% in the central city and over 90% down in the west of the city. Some days the monitors out west have recorded effectively zero
so this is something good that is coming out of all this
I have been hoping that this catastrophe would have this exact silver lining, that the environment and get cleaned up at least. Of course Trump just removed a lot of regulations of pollution.They are other positive possible effects. I never saw so many people out in my neighborhood before. And I think there is a realization that capitalism, unregulated, it’s not gonna solve our problems. Isn’t it crystal clear now that survival depends on cooperation? I am also suspecting that a lot of what Has seemed carved in stone might be open to amendment for the better. If the unimaginable happens, then anything can happen.
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Maybe search terms such as Optimization for tips. There are a ton. I don’t know any because my iMac does fine.
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I reported, too. The problem is that when the Lindens are not at work there is a flood of spam that the rest of the world has to deal with.
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13 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:
Me too! How very U of both of us!
Well, actually, I've only ever read The Pursuit of Love, which I took up many years ago when I was going through a Waugh phase (as one does). I never got to the sequels -- I'm not sure why not.
It'll be interesting reading her in ebook format, rather than a battered old Penguin. For some reason, I really associate Waugh and that generation of comic novelists with battered old Penguins. They just seem "right" . . .
Pursuit is the best, I think. What are some of your other favorites? It’s like we share some of the same best friends 🙂
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13 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:
I've been slogging through a whole bunch of Henry James recently, and the poems and other bits and pieces of Dorothy Parker.
I've decided a need her biography, or perhaps a book about the Algonquin Round Table. I need to be more fabulous and glamorous and witty.
(I'm thinking about dipping into Nancy Mitford soon, too. Because I also want to be a Bright Young Person. (Well, one out of three isn't bad.)
I like James a lot, but I LOVE Nancy Mitford! Let me know what you think of her.
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10 minutes ago, Rolig Loon said:
Thanks, @Madelaine McMasters. I use a bag balm that I get at the local Fleet Farm store. It's full of lanolin and other good stuff that makes it hard to sneak up on anyone with a decent sense of smell. Even with that, though, my hands are chapped. It may be a side effect of having been fooled into doing more house cleaning than usual. I should know better.
Lanolin (from sheep) doesn’t smell good but it really is the best moisturizer. Other oils can even draw oil out of skin.
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52 minutes ago, Seicher Rae said:
And?
Oh nothing. Just a footnote.
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She’s a mother of four.
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So very sorry Alton.😔
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4 hours ago, JaJanna said:
Whoever reads this thread will decide not to use SL as alternative reality to meet. There is plenty of choice in platforms with less drama.
OK
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15 minutes ago, Seicher Rae said:
I've been wondering how the dahling photos from the photo thread came about. Shheeez, Canadians getting all uppity with their reading. You reading Parker, my BFF reading Proust... god knows what all the rest of you are reading, Eco, Goethe, Shikibu? Me, I'm reading the BDSM Club Series box set.
I am reading Ulysses, Canterbury Tales, and Beowulf.
Oh and the Iliad. In Greek.
Just kidding!
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36 minutes ago, Maryanne Solo said:
Just stop it you guys! 😝
Forum legends bickering over some irrelevant ->💩<- 😷🙄
I h8 when this happens. 😖So how do you feel about insulting people for their deeply held beliefs, Maryanne?
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Just now, Selene Gregoire said:
How is it not the opposite?... Oh... That's not quite how I meant it. lol
I think you'll be glad you did.
That's even better. How much do you keep frozen? It's what my mom used to do. Maybe when things calm down a bit we can get a deep freeze if we can figure out where we can put one that isn't outside.
I make a lot, give to family, freeze a quart. Put in plastic bags to cram in freezer. It’s so easy,
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Projections by state.
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13 minutes ago, Selene Gregoire said:
It was opposite with my family. A good hot soak then warm jammies and don't let your body cool off too quickly.
Tiger Balm is better. If you haven't tried it, consider it.
How many cans of chicken noodle soup (without carrots!) do you keep on hand? At least 2 right? lol
That’s not the opposite. I will investigate tiger balm. I make chicken noodles soup, with carrots.
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Could not believe this — my family jokes that I think any ailment can be treated with either a hot bath or Absorbine Jr.
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Floodgates open now.
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42 minutes ago, Selene Gregoire said:
I feel like I should stop posting since all I ever do is "chime in at every opportunity". Apparently my trying to help makes me an attention hound. Who knew.
On top of that our internet connection is going loopy. Fug it. I'm taking my ball and going home.
It’s a feature not a bug.
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OMG I love swing music! I can’t listen without gushing tears. What is a greater testament to the human spirit and what used to Be America’s, than the most exuberant music imaginable while the world burned to the ground?
Glenn Miller is my favorite. He died piloting a bomber. (This is from the bio pic.)
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36 minutes ago, Selene Gregoire said:
ok. So now my trying to be helpful and clarify something is just me chiming in for the fun of it and I have no clue wtf I'm doing. No wonder I've become so jaded, cynical and misanthropic.
But we love you just the way you are!
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Price Reduction for land ?
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My business has picked up considerably since lockdown. And it may be that lockdown is going to last a lot longer than we wish. If so, LL could be well positioned. So it would not make sense for them to cut prices, esp since they just recently did so.