Pretty sure that Americans feel about Bruce Springsteen the way that medieval peasants felt about the local saint.
Especially when holding big loud rallies is basically *the* defining feature of a candidate's campaigning style.
So it's probably not helpful here, because I'd imagine even fewer people have read it than Canticle, but if you like the latter I recommend checking out Habitation of the Blessed by Catherynne Valente. It's a fever dream of gorgeous and bizarre Catholic/Orthodox myth and imagery, I love it so much.
There's a book called A City on Mars (www.acityonmars.com) that covers the situation very well. I think "it's absolutely never going to happen" is an overstatement; the technology is at least conceivable, so on a long enough timeline who knows. But it definitely ain't happening any time soon.
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no war, no Twitter—beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp. Or is it? Critica...
There are SO MANY effectively legal ways to do corruption! The smart people just hire an accounting firm and some lawyers and let ‘em cook.
Apparently they started filming the show before they were done filming Roadhouse, which is why he looks like that.
in college, someone showed me Audition and would only tell me it “had a big twist” beforehand, so this is basically what I thought the movie was for the first 30-45 min or whatever. and tbh I’m not even mad, it made for a *wild* viewing experience.
mods are asleep let’s have a cadaver synod