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“Aficionados fret as Trump moves to make pasta great again”
p.s. I’d add… REAL ‘aficionados’ make their own pasta at home. 😉
All you have to do is start with a $300 Kitchen Aid mixer, and add $500 worth of pasta attachments (make sure you spend extra on the bronze ones for the best texture!) Then you can turn your $0.50 worth of flour and water into pasta!
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Bubba is an incredibly common nickname, especially in the South, it’s also often used in reference to prison rape.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubba
So when the guy who made the comment in the email says it’s not Clinton, I kinda take him at his word on that.
“Bubba” may not even be an individual given how some dudes give nicknames to their junk.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-blowing-bubba-message-epstein-emails-under-scrutiny-11046836
"Mark Epstein told Newsweek the individual was not Clinton. He did not provide any additional details about the identity of “Bubba” or the meaning of the emails. "
Clinton was being called Bubba back when he was President. He leaned into it.
I think they’re saying Epstein’s brother was joking in the email, but apparrently he has now clarified it was not Clinton.
1·2 days agoThat was what happened with Terry Pratchett. He ordered all his uncompleted works destroyed when he died. 😟
Then Gaiman went ahead with a sequel to Good Omens anyway… 🤬
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Omens_(TV_series)#Series_2_(2023)
It’s not “Illegal”, it’s that World was concieved and operates as a space free of US news.
There’s PLENTY of US news all over the rest of lemmy and we wanted a space where non-US news can’t be drowned out.
If we allowed it, it would rapidly become another US news echo chamber and at that point no different from [email protected]
First, image posts are not allowed, second, US news is not allowed.
Internal US news is not World. See [email protected] or [email protected]
Yup. I remember sending people the transcript when they were trying to say “Yeah, he didn’t mean violently…”
Uh… did you read the transcript? 🤔
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966396848/read-trumps-jan-6-speech-a-key-part-of-impeachment-trial
In fairness, the unedited speech urged violence…
Complete for now… Martin is the hang up at this point. 😉
But serious shout out to Folio for doing some of the best books in the business. I’ve spent way too much money with them. LOL.
It’s like illustrated editions are cursed or something…
Bloomsbury was doing gorgeous Harry Potter illustrated editions. They got through 5/7 and the illustrator burned out and stepped down. 😟 In theory they have a replacement and #6 will be out next year.
https://www.harrypotter.com/news/bloomsbury-announce-levi-pinfold-as-new-harry-potter-illustrator
The Folio Society was doing a fantastic illustrated sets of the original James Bond books, then their artist got caught stealing the work of other artists in their Wizards of the Coast work, that de-railed the final book in the series, but it DID finally come out.
https://commandersherald.com/trouble-in-pairs-accused-of-plagiarizing-cyberpunk-novel-cover/
https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/fiction/the-james-bond-collection
That’s how the Narnia books end funnily enough.
“And everyone died in a train crash, the end!”
Sorry if I spoiled the ending of a 70+ year old book series. 😉
The worst are the books that just don’t have an ending. I had that with Stephen King’s “Cell”. Fantastic premise, an alien information virus hijacks cell phone signals to turn people into mindless zombies building something.
What are they building? 🤷♂️
Were the heroes successful in stopping it? 🤷♂️
What the hell happened? 🤷♂️It’s like King went “Oh, shit, the deadline is today? Fine, pack it up and ship it.”
For the film version they had to invent a new ending because the book just doesn’t have one, it stops, but no ending.
I was wondering why he just doesn’t cut the manuscript in 1/2, publish the first as “Part 1” and re-set his publication clock.
Apparently he has somewhere between 1,100 and 1,200 pages completed.
But as he explained elsewhere, he doesn’t write linearlly. He focuses on one point of view “chapter” and then that informs other point of view chapters, so there’s a lot of back and forth.
So 1,100 to 1,200 finished pages doesn’t mean a cohesive narrative.
So here’s my story… Not a fan. I found the first book to be a slog with nothing happening for the first 400 pages. Lots of people sitting around in rooms talking.
I also didn’t care much for any of the characters and from that point on chose only to read the Jon and Arya chapters.
So when I hit Arya discovering the aftermath of the Red Wedding I was like “Well, clearly I missed something…” Backtracked and read that chapter and went “Well… glad I wasn’t invested in THAT character!”
From a non-linear creative process, imagine if he wrote the Arya chapter first. I don’t know that that’s how he specifically did it, but he’s describing a similar process on the new book.
Now he has to go back and write that whole thing that he described the aftermath of.
It wouldn’t be publishable without it.
I’m even being lenient giving them a shot at fixing it. 🤷♂️