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Jan 30 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
To be fair Ohio has a lot to answer for by promoting Cincinnati Chili as a valid and responsible life choice
Also to everyone saying WHAT ABOUT YOUR BURRITOS YOU STINKING HYPOCRITE I am perfectly willing to acknowledge my burritos as the second worst food atrocity to come out of the Buckeye State
HOWEVER to soothe the hurt feelings of Cincy folk regarding their cinnamon meat gruel, I will acknowledge this food fact: goetta is the objectively superior "pork leavings + binder" food compared to any other. Sorry scrapple fans, scrapple is perfectly fine, goetta is just better
And for everyone daring me now to make a Cincy Chili and/or goetta burrito, I will consider doing it in the future, tied into some charitable endeavor, like, "at $25K for The Foundling Kittens Society, this unholy burrito is created." But not right now. I have to work up to it.

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1. Lol, no. I show off piles of books to show people what's coming out; I also give authors space on my site to promote their latest books. But the number of books I actually *blurb* - give a quote for their cover - is actually pretty small, limited to books I've read and liked. "Follow John Scalzi and you'll see him get a pile of bo
2. Nor do I (or the authors I know) engage in simple logrolling. Do I endorse the books of friends? Sure - if I like them. I don't endorse books of authors I know if they're not to my liking. And I endorse books of authors I don't know when they come to me and are amazing.
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3. Second novel I went in to a bookstore to see what was selling in SF; MilSF it was!

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