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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Seems to me the problem is more the people who can't imagine leaving the Hut, than the people who actually prefer it.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    I can find you the ruling if you want/need. My wife works for MD's courts as the Assistant Reporter of Opinions, and putting such things online is part of her job. (That's how I heard about it, she told me.) They ended up with a whole section of the decision about that, before they got to the...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    The state of Maryland just had a ruling come out today on this. If the AI gets it wrong and the attorney doesn't catch it, the attorney gets to face disciplinary proceedings. At least, that's what it looks like to me--but it's the way I think it should work, so I have a bias here.
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    What are you reading in 2025?

    I'm in my mid-50s now, and I first read it somewhere between late high school and dropping out of college after two + years. So, it had been something like thirty years for me. Obviously being that much older made Charles' acceptance of his age hit in ways it wouldn't have when I first read it.
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    What are you reading in 2025?

    Fortunately it's possible to read at least a lot of Howard via the Gutenberg Project, so no one benefits, monetarily. The comparison to Lovecraft is apt, though the Spook of Providence has his charms--mostly an ability to change his authorial pitch, and some occasionally vivid imagery; to...
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    What are you reading in 2025?

    Yes about his attitudes, no about his prose. The story I read kinda gallumphed unsubtly along on the prose level, and on the story level, and was soaked in bigotry. I can't say I'm interested in reading more.
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    What are you reading in 2025?

    Can't comment on Lieber (much, I've read some Spiders and Snakes stuff, and Conjure Wife ages ago, but I have a handful of Lankhmar books on my shelf) or Moorcock (at all--it's a thing I keep meaning to correct but there's a lot, and finding a starting point is hard, and there's a lot of new...
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    What are you reading in 2025?

    I recently reread Something Wicked This Way Comes and I was surprised how important Charles Halloway (Will's dad) was in/to the novel. Also, it hit a lot harder than when I read it in high school or college or thereabouts, possibly because I was still young enough then to look down on Jim and...
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    What are you reading in 2025?

    What did it for me when I reestablished my reading habit a bit more than a year ago was posting about it. I have a couple of discords where I post my little paragraph notes after every book, and I copy-paste those onto a little blog as well. Even if the vast majority of the time there's no...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    1927. I checked the dates before my comment. I am not a movie nerd, but I didn't want to be mouthing off contradictory to facts.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    He might have had more of an accent than American filmgoers were going to accept.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    I thought it was because he died before talkies came in, but I'm not really a movie nerd.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    That must have been especially satisfying if you were also riding street bikes.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Maybe someone should try making cars out of concrete ...
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