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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • i read it just a couple of years after it came out, it took me several reads to get into it but has become one of my favorites. That said, some of it, like the opening line, probably doesn’t make sense to younger people… “The sky above the Port was the color of a television tuned to a dead channel” evoked a completely different mental image in the days before digital TVs.






  • once. but it was so obviously a biased poll, in that they were asking very leading questions like “do you believe candidate X wants to destroy America and that candidate Y will protect the country?”… along those lines.

    My sarcasm kicked in immediately and while it was 100% obvious what answer they wanted, I just gave them the exact opposite. The person calling was getting very frustrated and would even ask me follow ups like “really? you want candidate X to destroy the country?”.

    I thoroughly enjoyed myself.