#Huckster

[diana-andraste]

Nova nosographia ophthalmica, John Taylor, 1766

"John Taylor, commonly known as the “Chevalier” was a notorious itinerant oculist. He studied under Cheselden and spent most of his life traveling throughout Europe and even into Asia, couching cataracts (often with disastrous results) and selling his miraculous ointments and eye washes. Chevalier Taylor’s false and bombastic claims, his surgical blunders, and his shameless pursuit of money earned him the loathing of honest ophthalmologists."

[thedaily-beer]

Topa Topa Huckster Double IPA (Picked up at Windmill Farms). A 4 of 4. Bright tropical fruit and white wine-like notes dominate in the nose, and this is a big fruity presence in the body, too. You can tell this is big and robust with a bigger malt presence and alcohol/bitterness towards the finish. A relatively non-standard DIPA profile, and quite enjoyable.

[unscramblerer]

Todays Word Of The Day is: Shill

Shill originates from early 1900s carnival slang in the United States. The word describes someone who pretends to support something to trick others.

[evilhorse]

Eternal Warrior #6

[hang-on-lil-tomato]

Grifters is also a perfectly good word

These Jezebel commenters are right and they should say it

[creaturefeature1975]

[sspacegodd]

Just got my new pair of Trump rightwingtips -- but they're missing a sole.

[bor-zeeo]

Space hawk

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[drgaellon]

I don't want anyone to be harmed by this utter fuckwit - but if someone is, I hope to Ghu they sue her for everything she's got.

DO NOT PUT ESSENTIAL OILS IN YOUR EYES.

[womansfilm]

The Hucksters (1947)

[itspileofgoodthings]

actually my favorite thing is when Taylor low-key speaks on the apocalypse

[tenderlady]

truly no one has ever wanted to be in a cult more than john lennon wanted to be in a cult. frankly astonishing he was never really in one considering he might have been the most Ideal Cult Mark in the History of the World.

[sweptawaybyadhd]

Would you take the trip to Mars?

[burningvelvet]

reading about edmund curll, an important figure in erotic literature, and didn't know i was about to stumble across the most chaotic wikipedia page ever... i love historical literary drama

critics have always been the same

and of course where there is 1700s literary drama, alexander pope is always involved. no wonder byron idolized him and was involved in a seven-year long public debate concerning him... honoring him the way he'd like to be remembered (see: the pope-bowles controversy). don juan rly was a tribute to him. we need a series about the restoration era (behn/wilmot/dryden/etc) & of course the young romantics (byron/shelleys/keats/etc) and now we also need the augustan era (pope/montagu/now curll, etc.). someone please pplease please let me do an anthology series (in the vein of ahs or black mirror) about literary communities throughout history already!

cartoonish levels of opportunistic behavior. manipulating every situation to work in his favor like a sitcom character...

the most informative thing i've learned from edmund curll's wiki page is that in the 1700s, the name of the U.S. state "maryland" inspired a whole genre of erotica novels based on puns of the idea of a "[woman's name]-land," as evidenced by "bettyland." staples of the genre included colonization as a metaphor for patriarchal sexual conquest, & erotic descriptions of the female body which borrow from descriptions of natural landscape. much to think about re: postcolonial feminism - this quite literally proves the idea that colonization is inherently patriarchal

[creature-wizard]

who is joseph smith?

Dude who founded the Church of Latter Day Saints, AKA Mormonism. He claimed he'd been visited by an angel, who gave him these golden plates containing additional Bible books to translate. The "translated" books were literary vomit, and the take on Christianity he came up with was really, really racist.

More info: CES Letter: My Search For Answers To Mormon Doubts Joseph Smith and the criminal justice system The Mountain Meadow Massacre Mormons and Native Americans Mormons and Black People