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I'm coming in late to this fray, but I can assure you I've never had a $20 burrito. Y'all have heard of Chipotle, right?

#14 > NO! #20 > Words, pictures.....

#18 > Not always, but lately 19th century American, civil war, etc....

#5 > Mainly independents, or used, or library. Relatedly I am in the midst of a Great Book Purge, and my goal is to own 100 books moving forward.... #BookSky

Richard Thompson wrote a song titled "Bank Vault in Heaven". I guess that's my cut will be waiting.

I see the phrase Overton Window here and there. It sounds like the name of a British carpentry firm and that's good enough for me.

Electric Nasturtium 🌞 #garden

#12 > H.S. books were probably about 50/50 for me. Would've been worse, but I realize now my H.S. put some good materials in front of us. I spent a lot of time reading on my own anyway (thank you Mr.Vonnegut) #BookSky

Baseball Hall of Fame Stories of Champions was also a very early purchase ⚾

Runaway Slave - The Story of Harriet Tubman was another early purchase via my grade school. The Underground Railroad is one of those topics that has interested me since childhood. Reinforces my suspicions about re-incarnation 🤔

#8 > I remember this book was the first book I ordered through my grade school (1st grade maybe?): Star of Wild Horse Canyon!

Friday

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Who is ‘Authentically’ Working Class?Most politicians pledge to work for the working class, or sometimes for working families, a less Marxist-sounding label. Meanwhile, scholars strugglewww.counterpunch.org

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Counter-Liberation: How People Without a Culture Might Get One Back...the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines. –Wendell Berry, Lifewww.counterpunch.org

Any day I get new galoshes is good day 😎

Are we getting more wildfire smoke around here, or is it just me? #ilwx

#6 > presently reading Kindred / Octavia Butler for #BannedBookSkyClub . Also grazing through The Omni Americans / Albert Murray & No Straight Line Takes You There / Rebecca Solnit....

#2 > Not easy to select five, but these would do: * Grendel / John Gardner * Slaughterhouse-Five / Kurt Vonnegut * 1984 / George Orwell * The Social Conquest of Earth / E.O. Wilson * Song of the Dodo / David Quammen

Lordy, this should be fun. Frank Zappa's old band playing King Crimson!

Well, why not. They're not using it. (HT "Oh Brother Where Art Thou")