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@KurtVonneguys If the graphic novel left you hankering to podcast, an all time Kurt Blurts episode sure would be great. Could also have a deep cuts section. Doubt I’d of read this story if y’all hadn’t mentioned it, and it’s such a beautiful, unusual, breath of optimism. Image
I realize this is not a content request service. But for whatever reason I started making my own list this morning. Just took a few minutes to hit 12.
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Bluebeard. Image
"Please write that down" Image
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I honestly don’t remember what this is from. One of the essays, I believe. Image
“All that is required is that we become less selfish” I believe this is from a speech at Bennington college. Image
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I want to say this is From “Man Without a Country” Image
Breakfast of Champions. ImageImageImage
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Breakfast of Champions. “Adapting to chaos there in the cocktail lounge” might be my No. 2 Kurt Blurt all time just on the writing. Image
The beginning of Deadeye Dick. “Watch out for life. I have caught life. I have come down with life. … Nothing they said could be appealed.” Image
“The economy is a thoughtless weather system.”
One more from BOC. This is absolutely worth looking for in hardcover. ImageImage
“No damn cat, no damn cradle.”
I've quoted here at least 16 "Kurt Blurts" from at least a dozen works. Fewer than I thought! I'll simply defer to @SWAIM_CORP on Sirens, other than including this: ImageImage
Palm Sunday: "Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time. ... The Sermon on the Mount suggests a mercifulness that can never waver or fade." ImageImage
Alright ONE MORE from Breakfast of Champions. “So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind. … What else is sacred? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, for instance. And all music is.” Image
Hocus Pocus: “As history shows, as history yells: They have never been numerous! Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.” Image
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Mar 5, 2022
ROUGH transcript from Friday's arguments in Cawthorn v. Circosta, where US District Court Judge Richard Myers blocked a state-level challenge to investigate Rep. Madison Cawthorn on insurrection allegations, which could have kept him off the ballot #ncpol drive.google.com/file/d/1WVPLjA…
If you want the basics, read this piece from yesterday, after the decision. But I'll excerpt from the judge's explanation in the transcript, which he went through very quickly yesterday from the bench. wral.com/judge-blocks-e…
The judge on whether the 1872 law removed the 14th Amendment's bar on insurrectionists serving in Congress just for insurrectionists at the time, or for all time. ImageImage
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Feb 26, 2022
I'm doing the family taxes, and two things stand out. First, I don't know that we needed $13,000 stimulus from the federal treasury last year. Second: The $9,000 in INTEREST ALONE we paid our mortgage company doesn't quite feel like a crime, but it is upsetting.
I'm including the advance child tax credit in the stimulus figure. Without it, the stimulus was $10,000, which also feels excessive, since we didn't see our income suffer due to the pandemic. But congrats to the banks, for the debt paid down and the interest collected.
Also this is the first year I've had to take my glasses off to read the tiny print on tax forms. I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear my trousers rolled.
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Feb 24, 2022
Here's video from Mar-a-Lago yesterday of former President Trump saying Putin is "pretty smart" to invade Ukraine. @TedBuddNC's campaign confirms he was in the audience, as American Bridge's tweet noted, and I'll drop a campaign statement in this thread. #ncpol #NCSen
From the Budd campaign: Image
The "minor incursion" reference is to something Biden said in January: latimes.com/politics/story…
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Feb 24, 2022
I’ll do a thread here of #ncpol elected officials and candidates statements on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The first I saw last night came from ⁦@ThomTillisImage
From @MarjorieKEastmn. Have not seen anything yet from other GOP US Senate candidates. Image
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Apr 15, 2020
I have been back and forth with @raleighpolice about this tweet and they stand by it. I've reached out to the governor's office, and to Wake County re: the intention of both stay-at-home orders. I'm going to post emails w/ RPD in this thread. #ncga #ncpol
This is RPD's full statement, following my phone conversation with their PIO.
This is my follow up to that statement.
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