Bit torrenting is an example of peer to peer. Blockchain theoretically works this way too.

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Came here looking for this! I knew I couldn’t be the only fan of the Winchester. I first saw the movie playing at my neighbor dive bar, which was bunker like, and yep, could definitely get with the plan of holing up there until this all blew over.

All the scenes are great and hilarious no matter how many times I see this movie.

Fun fact: Have you seen Spaced? The old friend he comes across leading the group through the back fences is a character from a prior show they were both in together.

Bring back Firefly!

Same, I’m generally not a fan of seeing movies I’ve already seen, but Princess Bride, along with Moonrise Kingdom, are exceptions.

Wow, that’s an eclectic mix of rewatches! I’m with you on Alien.

Makes sense, they definitely have the hummingbird vibe!

I read some really old school Gothic Horror for a lit class in college. Here’s a list of what I can recall from that class. Though if you are open to new school recommendations, Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garciais superbly chilling and really captures the old school vibe.

Frankenstein (1818) Which I assume you’ve read but if not is really good!

The Monk (1796) considered to be the OG gothic horror novel. It’s definitely a creepy one.

Carmilla (1872) Predates Dracula, girl power vamp.

The Turn of the Screw (1898) Madness or malignant spirits? Dear reader, this one’s up to you.

The Heart of Darkness (1899) Recently re-read for a book club. While it works being taught as a gothic novel, it’s actually way more powerful in the context which Conrad wrote it, a scathing criticism of European imperialism in the Congo. Recommend the Norton Critical edition to add the important context. Otherwise, it has the classic gothic genre themes of self vs other, familiar vs strange, civilization vs savage, human vs monster, flipping those notions all on their head (in beautifully written prose) like a brilliant gothic novel should.

What a cool little bird! What part of the world is this in?

That’s so cool, they are usually more shy. I’ve seen one off a paved bike trail in South Carolina but it noped off as soon as I stopped my bike.

Wow, cool shot. It looks surreal! I love these little herons.

Great shot, that bird has an incredible wing span.

Merlin is the best! It will also help you narrow down the options based on a few characteristics such as color, size, location and activity. This definitely sounds like mocking bird behavior!

Well the only edible form I’ve heard of is kudzu jelly. There’s some at a small local shop in my town, though it’s dusty and I don’t know and never heard of anyone actually trying it. It’s draped over all the trees and bushes for miles and miles and miles in summer. In the 1800s Victorian era, people thought it looked fancy and planted it in their gardens. But alas. It’s a botanical terrorist and soon took over the world.

I loved this book! Such a fun read. Plus living in the South with kudzu EVERYWHERE, I was delighted it finally found a purpose besides choking all other plant life to death.

Yes! This experience has made me question a lot about what I think I ‘know’ and to really have an open mind towards new (to me) information.

All context, or lack of it, aside, the writing in Heart of Darkness is phenomenal. It’s prose poetically dense and I find myself lingering on each sentence to experience it fully.

I need to give Finnegan’s Wake a try! Years ago one of my friends composed a ‘sonic micro opera’ of Finnegan’s Wake. It was experimental theater in the extreme and made me curious to give it a read. Thanks for reminding me of this novel.

Well wow, your book experience here is incredibly profound! Mine doesn’t quite compare in intensity, but did rewire my brain a bit.

I am doing a re-read of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness for a book club. I read this book years ago in college in a Gothic Lit class, reading it in the context of gothic genre traits: self vs other, familiar vs strange, civilization vs savage- and the inevitable dread accompanying the dissolution of the ‘vs’ and realization that civiliity is mere patina on monstrosity etc.

I still had my old college copy, but sadly it was filled with underlines and highlights (I can’t believe I was so terrible!) so I got a clean copy, a Norton Critical edition. Omg. The amount of extra material included was vast. Essays on the history of the Congo, on Imperialism, letters to Belgium’s King Leopold, notes from Conrad’s own journey as a Congo steamboat captain, critical essays on the book itself.

As ridiculous as it sounds, I had NO IDEA this book was a critique of Imperialism. None. Zero. Reading this in college I thought it was purely a fictional dark gothic fantasy. I didn’t know about the actual atrocities in the Congo and that Conrad had witnessed them first hand. I didn’t know public sentiment turned against King Leopold after this was published, because they too didn’t really understand what was happening there. I even read in one of the essays that American kids were being taught this book as a ‘journey to the center of self’ and devoid of any mention of imperialism. Yes, yes we were! That spoke directly to my experience.

All of this suddenly coming into focus felt both enlightening and awful. How was this taught without context?? And how am I only realizing this now? I’m still reading through the essays, grateful I found them before reading the novella again.

The guy lived on the moon for a bit so… bound to be a little off. The whole show is a little helter skelter but I think that’s what makes it so great. Creative and unexpected with pinch of time travel, yum.

Great show.

Well, I get your general point though tipping at a restaurant doesn’t quite work like that. You don’t get crappy service as a result of not tipping; you tip at the end of the service.

I tip 20% no matter how dismal the service, which is not the norm here. People have bad days and I don’t want to financially penalize them on top of it. It just feels shitty.