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Bitch. Ph.D. —
Dutch at Sweet Juniperr has a beautiful and moving plea for the saving the Big 3. Given the debate here about the original bailout, I don't expect everyone to agree with him, and I am not sure how squarely I agree with him on all points. But the piece is gorgeously composed and the comments are just as illuminating. The post and the thread get at so many of the intangible and irreplaceable aspects of American culture - our stories and mythologies, our past, our indebtedness to that past, our seething snobbery about the working class. I'm interested in reading what you all ...
Desolation
Political Animal —
... buying some of them (they sell for next to nothing), just to fix them up -- not as an investment, and not to live in, but because someone ought to. It's odd, I know. And I have no idea where it came from. Home repair did not figure in my childhood: I imagine someone must have done work on my parents' house at some point, but I have no memory of it. As far as I can recall, it might as well have been done by elves. And yet, for some reason, here I am. So I found two stories by Jim at Sweet Juniper almost unbearably tragic. I'd never read Sweet Juniper before; I found via ...
Desolation
Obsidian Wings —
... (they sell for next to nothing), just to fix them up -- not as an investment, and not to live in, but because someone ought to.
It's odd, I know. And I have no idea where it came from. Home repair did not figure in my childhood: I imagine someone must have done work on my parents' house at some point, but I have no memory of it. As far as I can recall, it might as well have been done by elves. And yet, for some reason, here I am.
So I found two stories by Jim at Sweet Juniper almost unbearably tragic. I'd never read Sweet Juniper before; I found it via ...
Psssst, ya wanna buy a local hardware store?
Corrente —
From the awesome Sweet Juniper , a beautiful story about a local gem . An excerpt: "While I wait with my notebook, Roy opens the door for a man in a wheelchair who needs a key made. An elderly woman needs a new rubber stopper for one leg of her walker (75 cents) and Ted treats her like she's a Hollywood starlet in a Rodeo Drive boutique. She puts down a few more dollars in layaway towards the crock pot they're holding for her behind the counter. Another woman comes in to exchange some jigsaw puzzles from the big pile right by the door. These people know and care about ...
