Dark Chocolate, Moby Dick, Books and Such

There are two days and 15 hours until Tuesday, election day.

At 109 years old, Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Lessie Benningfield Randle voted for Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris during early voting in Oklahoma on Friday.

Over a century after surviving a city-sanctioned racial domestic terror attack at just 6 years old in Tulsa’s historic Greenwood District, “Mother” Randle chose Harris in what she described as her potentially last election. (source)

What I am most looking forward to about the upcoming Harris/Walz administration, is not having to read about that miserable fuck’s deranged spewings every single day. Sure, he’ll whine, cry, complain and moan for awhile but, I think, even the mainstream media is beginning to recognize that the man is seriously unwell and worse, he’s boring. He doesn’t have any new material. If he wasn't so hateful, dangerous and vile, he'd be pitiful.

I don’t want to see Musk and RFK jr’s fawning fellating every time I open a news app. I don’t need to read any more from the woman hating, micro dicked, quadruple+ named, easily bought VP candidate, J.D. Couchfucker.

They all need to disappear into the Bermuda Triangle. NOW please.

I do not wish to seem inelegant, but this unsightly whale looks much like an amputated sow.
~ Herman Melville, Moby Dick

I just finished Richard Osman’s latest, We Solve Murders. It’s the first of a new series and it’s awesome.

A few outstanding snippets:

Anytime you feel your unhappiness turning into bitterness, you have to check yourself. You can live with unhappiness, but bitterness will kill you.

I never take offense,” says Tony. “Saved me a lot of time over the years.

Have you ever shot anyone before?’ Rosie asks Steve, while snapping through Amy’s cable ties. ‘No,’ says Steve. ‘But the Coldplay T-shirt made it easier.

The only way anyone can afford to buy a house these days is to have bought it fifteen years ago.

If you have any sort of personality, someone will eventually want to kill you.

It’s witty, suspenseful, wise and I couldn’t put it down. I need more books like this to keep from dissolving into a pool of anxiety between now and when Kamala Harris is inaugurated.

Also, I need cannoli. Dark chocolate peanut m&ms would hit the spot too. 

I only mention it BUT the only other contemporary male author who writes women this well, this real, strong and unclichéd is John Scalzi.

FYI, from what I’ve read, Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series is continuing with the fifth book due out this next September. Also, the movie made of book one will also be out in ’25. YEA!