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@tcboyle I’ll wait for other comments but you wrote the classic short story ending, meaning leave it open for the reader to finish. You know this, but it’s also a device used by many painters. It means taking a risk but if the viewer is willing, it works. Reading ‘The Inner Circle’ now.

Glad you enjoyed it, my friend. We leave the ending up to interpretation. Perhaps some of our fellow correspondents here will offer up their opinions? Just what does happen one beat after the end of "Tooth and Claw"?

@tcboyle Found it in a 2003 issue of the New Yorker. Nice set up: Something wild in a SoCal apartment. One is left wondering what happens after Junior closes the door. I’m going to close the gap and assume he becomes prey. A naïf in the wild. Thanks.

See my story, "Tooth and Claw."

@tcboyle Or “Nature, red in tooth and claw.” Who knows why she is so possessive?

The Peaceable Kingdom.

Tip: Secretly dose their flutes with some ecstasy and that’ll solve the problem.

@tcboyle No worries, there’s more…

Uh-oh.

I want to see these things with a rider in a post-apocalyptic movie so bad...

A little thanksgiving schadenfreude for you today…

This view is preferable to me over the Miami high rise canyons, but then I am a Left Coast Boi myself. And apropos of nothing, I just finished “Outside Looking In.” A fun read. Our brief exchanges here reminded me to catch up on your oeuvre.

Hey All: I’m shuttering my Xhitter account because it has become too toxic for even me – and that’s saying something. I’ll be moving over to Threads after this weekend, so if you want to find me over there use @thokitts. Perhaps I won’t feel the need to cuss so much.

Ok. So what is the strategy then?

Yes. It’s a bad idea. Although if half of us inflated a sex doll with helium and let them loose outside at the same time we might freak out those people. 😉

Dammit. What frustrates me to no end is that this was common knowledge at the time. And NOTHING was done about it when it could have made a difference. So why is it being raised again now?!!!

This explains so much…

Perhaps this is an argument for a redundant, layered approach to new space vehicle design. And I am all for getting humans off-planet.

It is interesting that we didn’t see this occur during the Apollo program except for the fiery horror of the first launch, or Apollo 13, which made it home, and then the Challenger shuttle. All three were disasters, but the majority of governmental launches when as planned.

Pretty simple.

Here’s some January 6th video for you.

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Dear Ma & Pa MAGA, I know that facts are about as useful to you as a dictionary and a 23andMe test, but that doesn’t make them any less true, so even if you can’t or won’t read this, I’m going to say it anyway, because unlike you, I don’t get my information from a QAnon chatroom, from a fake “prophet” who receives “messages from God”, or from my drunk uncle Billy Bob who is best known for walking away with three of his fingers still intact after the tri-county turkey fryer blaze of 1998, so here goes: Joe Biden won the 2020 election. It was stolen or “stollen” and the ones who did the actual interfering, were Republicans. The January 6th attack on our Capitol wasn’t “peaceful”, it wasn’t a “tourist visit” or “legitimate political discourse”, it was a violent, traitorous attack meant to overturn a lawful election. The top secret documents found in Donald Trump’s chandelier shitter weren’t “planted there”, he didn’t “declassify them with his mind”, and once again a private citizen, he was not allowed to show them to anyone else for any reason in any room of his gilded golf resort. The First Amendment does not give anyone the right to manipulate vote totals or to coerce elected officials into doing it for them. No one is being indicted “for you.” No one was found liable of sexual abuse or business fraud “for you.” And that “never surrender” mugshot t-shirt you “own the Libs” by wearing, features a photo of a person who has just been arrested… literally surrendering. You can “think” whatever you want, you can “believe” the lies you’re told, you can tell yourselves that a rapist is a family man, that someone who can’t remember the name of the person he ran against or the one he hopes to run against next is “sharp”, and that someone who attacks our POWs and praises dictators is a “patriot”, but it doesn’t change the fact that it simply isn’t true. None of it is true. It never was, and it never will be. Whether you like it or not.

I’m not crying, you’re crying! 😢