I feel like I could go scream in a bog. I think I need that.
Hamsters on a Plane!
Professor Oddfellow’s just released a new Grave Mood RIngs episode!
Minus the potential violence this could almost go into the Unicorn Chaser thread.
Second one is paywalled, so it’s here too:
It does a good job of pointing out how poorly the first one imitates McCarthy overwrought style.
As for him and his relationshipwith a teenager, Christ, what an asshole! I imagine Matt Gaetz would be a fan of his novels, if Gaetz were the sort to ever read a novel.
Rebecca Solnit on FBook:
Completely overwritten Vanity Fair story about Cormac McCarthy taking up at age 42, while married, with a 16-year-old foster child who’d been abused, both story and exploitation so gross I feel liberated from ever having to read another McCarthy novel. I read one a long time ago in which a blue-eyed white boy goes and shows Mexicans what horsemanship really is, which did not sit well with me. The article calls her his “secret muse,” and while I’m at it, “muse” usually means woman (or girlchild) whose ability to be in the world is defined and delimited by some guy who wants to make sure she stays quiet so everyone listens to him. “I loved him,” she told Vanity Fair. “He was my safety. I really feel that if I had not met him, I would have died young. What I had trouble with came later. When he started writing about me.”
Imagine if this assignment was given to someone who thought the story was “middle-aged guy abandons adult wife to groom child.” Humbert Humbert humbuggery. The Woody Allen of J.D. Salingers. Apparently Vanity Fair didn’t fact-check the story it ran, since it says she recognized McCarthy from his picture on his paperback book, which did not have a picture of him on it.
Lord have mercy! That “writing” is more overwrought - and waaaaaaay less useful - than New Orleans decorative iron!
I am liberated from ever bothering to try any of that disgusting jerk’s works. /shudders
…as he blatantly steals all her ideas, and gives her no credit when she makes suggestions or repairs.
Stay classy, VF!
Cormac McCarthy
Name is not familiar to me, i guess seeing the posted info about him i guess it’s a great thing that this writer was barely in my periphery. I know of The Road (never read it) and i saw the movie No Country For Old Men (thought it was fine), but beyond that i was barely aware of his existence at all. After this i will go back to not knowing he’s a thing again 
You’d think that at $6.2M this banana was the most costly banana in history, right?
But this week SpaceX spent about $100M on a rocket launch that had a solitary (stuffed) banana as its only payload, so maybe that one takes the title.
Both of these bananas are now associated with rich techbro assholes. They’ve already ruined my enjoyment of much of the internet and of spaceflight, but they’d damn well better not ruin the enjoyment of bananas too. 
This headline has everything.
Actual,footage:
Mmm! I do like a little tea with my tea.
How to keep your coffee warm.