#curioser and curioser

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

David Rowe

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

A number of people telling me we all need a night off had almost convinced me not to write tonight. 

But then Trump spoke at a rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, where he told a long, meandering story about golfing legend Arnold Palmer that ended with praise for Palmer’s… anatomy. 

He went on to call Vice President Kamala Harris—whose name he deliberately mispronounced—“a sh*t vice president. The worst. You’re the worst vice president. Kamala, you’re fired. Get the hell out of here, you’re fired. Get out of here. Get the hell out of here, Kamala.”  

As Trump’s remarks got weirder and weirder, the Fox News Channel cut away and instead showed Harris being cheered at a packed, exuberant, super-charged rally in Georgia. 

Trump’s speech comes on top of his repeated backing out of interviews and his bizarre appearances. Last night, his advice to an audience in Detroit to vote took its own wild turn: “Jill, get your fat husband off the couch,” he said. “Get that fat pig off the couch. Tell him to go and vote for Trump, he’s going to save our country. Get that guy the hell off our— get him up, Jill, slap him around. Get him up. Get him up, Jill. We want him off the couch to get out and vote.” 

Trump’s performances over the past few days seem to confirm that the 2024 October surprise is the increasingly obvious mental incapacity of the Republican candidate for president. 

It seems clear that a vote for Trump is really a vote for his running mate, Ohio senator J.D. Vance, who if he becomes president will be the youngest American president in our history. At 40 years old, he is two years younger than Theodore Roosevelt was when he took office in 1901 at 42. Vance would also be one of the least experienced presidents ever. His 18 months in the Senate has given him only slightly more experience in office than Chester Alan Arthur, who succeeded James Garfield in 1881. Arthur was a political operative who had never held elected office at all before becoming vice president. 

I’ll be back at the wheel tomorrow.

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

[lavellaned]

That one set of armor Davrin was wearing in the release date trailer had a certain Orlesian flavor to it. Rotating the idea in my mind that he’s somehow connected to the Orlesian wardens from dai

[hopelessgingerbread]

having a pessimistic outlook on life is weirdly comforting.

it doesn't have to get better for me to keep going. it might always be slightly bad, or else I'll be pleasantly surprised for a short period of time. I take medication, I go to the gym, I meet up with friends, have pizza and delicious pastries—this is system maintenance. there might never be doplhins and ranbows, and that's okay.

[purple-link]

WARNING ENDWALKER, SHADOWBRINGERS, AND PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING ELSE SPOILERS

I wonder how the dragons fit into all this.

Aether is malleable, the Ascians learn how to control it.

It gets out of control, the Final Days happen.

The World get sundered, Zodiark and Hydaelyn are created.

Etheirys gets split 14 ways.

And that's when Midgardsormer arrives.

The dragons are not part of the Ascian's efforts with Aether, they weren't created, they were pretty much aliens from outer space. Hydaelyn, Norvrandt, and much of the recent population have been effectively "created," but the Dragons are not part of that equation.

[megahorous]

This time, I did the Alice in Wonderland missions in Power Wash Simulator; it was my first time doing them. I wondered if Alice herself would host any of the missions, but no

This Frog reminded me of PaRappa the Rapper's hat. Actually, someone suggested PaRappa DLC for Power Wash Simulator--that would be wild, but probably not likely

[edmy]

Well, well, well...

Who do we have here? 👀

[christiwhitson]

While I may have reached at least a temporary dead end on the issue of James Fraser, there was a veritable mountain of information to be found regarding nearby stone circles.

Granted, most of it was a mixture of speculation, superstition, and local folktales, but the legends had survived for centuries. That had to mean something. Uncle Lamb had often said that such things--no matter how impossible they might seem--often had some measure of truth to them. Or, at the very least, a logical explanation.

Jamie had implied that by visiting a certain henge and touching the central stone, I could ‘come back’ to him, but damned if I knew how such a thing could even work. These ancient sites had been the subject of intense academic speculation for centuries, with theories ranging from the plausible to the downright absurd. Might this be the answer that had eluded scholars for so long?

Time travel?

[ansatsu-sha]

The boy + Maura / 1899 S1E4

[romance-club-daily]

Now that I realized that on the YSI Facebook page for the Narrative Designer/Scriptwriter vacancy, they asked for prior knowledge of the history/universe of Heaven's Secret and the ability to work with a concept from other writers (more or less that)...

It is a helper for Alice to expand the HS universe or...

This was posted February 1st/2023 btw

[aeonfvx]

Maura / 1899 S1E5

[kxbznxwton]

Just a shameless self promo for my Valentine’s Day sale! 🦷 💖🪦

[amemoryofwot]

“Pent had remarked a little cagily that she had already moved them on.”

🧐

[nymphoutofwater]

And why? Cultural norms? Personal schedule? “Cause I’m always late to everything”?

Bonus points: Region and/or ethnicity?

[afrofeministe]

People can be very odd, I must say. I followed a cute blog a few days ago, then today I log in to find out they've blocked me.

Our blogs have (had?) very similar vibes so I'm not sure what caused them to do it. Like I said, very odd.

Wishing you well, random person who apparently doesn't want any new followers on here.

[gayyvamp]

Feels like my hair gets curlier and curlier