Kip Manley @kiplet@social.tchncs.de

COPS

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"I spoke with Jake Angeli, the QAnon guy who got inside the Senate chamber. He said police eventually gave up trying to stop him and other Trump supporters, and let them in. After a while, he said police politely asked him to leave and let him go without arrest."

[ slaps the word "arc" out of every critic's hands ]

"Bear in mind as you write that the subject of the novel is what happens between people’s faces when they talk to one another."

"To put it another way, a small percentage of a very big number can easily be much, much bigger than a big percentage of a small number."

(And um. Well. Buzz the elevator operator? Also Pryzbylewski. From, y'know. The Wire.)

And of course Peter Gallagher's exquisite turn as Vic Tenetta.

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Amy Archer: legendary.

(He pays 45% of cover price when he buys a copy wholesale, or $8.10 on an $18 paperback. So he's still clearing a buck and change on the deal, but still.) http://www.longstoryshortpier.com/2020/08/09/semi-annual-report

Gol dang, Bezos is drastically undercutting me today: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1734945230

Folks still out there using the birbsite for good. https://twitter.com/mountain_goats/status/1344846091095842816

(King of Swords.)