Well well well, what a cosmic coincidence. I picked up “The Dain Curse, The Glass Key, and Selected Stories” by Dashiell Hammett from my local library. I only picked it up on a whim that short stories are suitable for story time before bed; I didn’t know anything of Hammett before.

So far I’ve only enjoyed The House in Turk Street. I’m impressed how he can make 30 pages pretty engaging. The characters aren’t too deep, even going so far as being stereotype characatures, but it allows for a more fast paced plot from being bogged down with backstory and motivation.

What I’m saying is, it’s creepily weird (in a good way) to hear his name drop on Lemmy and that his short & sweet, if also shallow, stories are so far helping me get back into reading after a college curriculum of textbooks and impenetrable classics (I love your ideas Kant, but God what a snooze).

Tbf they tried with Soylent, right?

I, for one, enjoyed your rant. And long as it was, the paragraph separation helped a lot and is appreciated.

All hail Homo Economicus

“Ok I’m there” - Nuclear Nadeen

Fashion police? In my Nazi party? More likely than you think.

Better by fire than by ICE.