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Jun. 26th, 2018 07:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
1) Was up until 3 in the morning because I HAD to finish Hideo Yokoyama's Six Four. You guys, I loved this book. Like I said before, it takes a while to get going, but once it did, I was hooked. This is a book about cops and missing kids, how to be a parent and how to conduct yourself with honor, the role of a free press in a modern society and what to do when nothing is as it seems. Potential readers beware that this is a LONG novel -- my hardback copy is something like 566 pages. A LOT happens, and A LOT doesn't happen, and you're in the POV of one character the whole time, and sometimes, you know what? HE'S confused as to WTF IS GOING ON. All this led to a twist ending that I genuinely never saw coming and which was the sort of surprise that actually made me think "Oh my god WHAT?" This was just such a great read for me; I can't recommend it enough.
2) Made (another) donation to the ACLU this morning. :-P
3) There was a woman on our local Next Door site who called CNN "the Communist News Network." She wasn't joking. And this was before the woman who said her husband was a Vietnam War vet who respected the flag so much that he'd "corrected" people he saw who were flying Old Glory upside-down, and the guy over the weekend who would not accept that "G-d" was a spelling some folks adhered to. There are some scary folks out there, chiclets. :-(
2) Made (another) donation to the ACLU this morning. :-P
3) There was a woman on our local Next Door site who called CNN "the Communist News Network." She wasn't joking. And this was before the woman who said her husband was a Vietnam War vet who respected the flag so much that he'd "corrected" people he saw who were flying Old Glory upside-down, and the guy over the weekend who would not accept that "G-d" was a spelling some folks adhered to. There are some scary folks out there, chiclets. :-(
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Date: 2018-06-27 03:06 am (UTC)And man, people.
We had a customer show up a couple weeks ago sporting a t-shirt which read, “I PROUDLY KNEEL FOR THE CROSS AND STAND FOR THE FLAG.”
I didn’t say anything, because professional. But I kept thinking, “Thanks for letting us all know you’re an ignorant racist, dude!”
Edited to add that this sort of shit is why I have negative interest in getting onto NextDoor.
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Date: 2018-06-27 04:32 am (UTC)AS A WISE MAN ONCE SAID. :D
See my reply to Jackal, though. Next Door can be an awesome site for people helping each other out and locating lost puppers and kitties and answering questions like hey what is this snake I found in my garage, but SOMETIMES ... the guy who habitually wears a colander on his head and thinks fluoridation is a Communist plot and chemtrails are real shows up. I don't know if there are really more of them or I'm just noticing them more. And there are folks who try and steer them straight on occasion, but honestly, there are people out there that you just Do Not Want to engage.
I think you (and Corgigirl!) would like this book! It is a Deep Dive, though, and one of those stories you have to consciously decide to stick with. And like I've been saying, omg it is long.