Men are the biggest givers of evil eyes which is why i get so scared when right wing/incel men get a hold of “day of my life” vids of professional women. You’re gonna lose your job and start getting stomach cramps and a variety of chronic health issues. Also my neighbour back in Kenya had black magic done on her because she rejected a man’s proposal. Be very wary and alert these men are spiritual terrorist.
You see, friends? Anyone can become financially set-for-life like Kyle if you just take a few simple tips from him:
-make sure your first job Senior Project Manager at your father’s hedge fund. Put 25% of your $250,000 salary into a savings account. I know that it’ll be hard getting by on just $187,500 a year, but if Kyle could do it, anyone can! -Why waste money paying for housing? Just live for free in your grandparents’ vacant vacation home. In Monterey. For a few years. -Getting a mortgage to buy a house is a classic mistake. Instead, just get your uncle to give you $500,000! -Be sure to really tighten your belt. That means no vacations to Italy or Japan! You’ll have to stick to vacationing in your own country instead!
“Managing your spending is difficult, but if I can do it, anyone can!”
Does anyone have any good books set in medieval Europe they can recommend? I’ve recently read the brilliant The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey and then coincidentally watched The Last Duel (pretty good) and Catherine Called Birdy (extremely enjoyable) this week and am in a medieval mood.
On top of my head I can think of The Midwife of Venice and the sequel The Harem Midwife. Just saw there is a third book as well 🤔
I have (unsurprisingly!) Deserving its place as a genre-transcending classic is Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose. It is brilliant and humane and funny.
José Saramago’s The History of the Siege of Lisbon alternates between the mid-twelfth century and the late twentieth in the same city, and it is tender and wise, with a lovely tentative romance in the contemporary setting, and beautiful, haunting encounters in the medieval one.
Omaima Al-Khamis’ The Book Smuggler is absolutely brilliant, and set in the Islamicate world in the eleventh century; it stretches around the eastern and southern Mediterranean, ending up in Cordoba.
Barry Unsworth’s Morality Play is set in what Umberto Eco might call a ‘pretextual’ Middle Ages; the novel itself is very much a novel of ideas, dependent on a certain idea of medieval England, but it’s very interesting.
Rafael Sabatini’s Bellarion the Fortunate is almost a hundred years old now, and uses a highly colored version of the medieval past, and it is also addictively readable and extremely romantic and I love it unreasonably.
The detective series set in medieval Europe are of highly varying quality, both of research and prose, but I can confidently recommend both Ellis Peters’ Brother Cadfael books (12th century, lovingly detailed setting in Shropshire and Wales, worldly, tolerant, Benedictine ex-crusader sleuth) and Caroline Roe’s Isaac of Girona series (14th-century Spain, delightful blind Jewish doctor sleuth.) Indrek Hargla’s Apothecary Melchior books are also fun, and set in Tallinn.
Roberto Tiraboschi, The Apothecary’s Shop, is a gorgeous, gorgeously weird novel set in 12th-century Venice. If you can imagine noir magical realism as a style, that is it.
Bill Cosby and Chris Brown, the public and the media are always quick to protect the abuser and accuse the victim(s) of lying for attention—with Bill Cosby, almost forty women accused him of rape, but it took a confession from him for people to even entertain the idea that Cosby was an awful person.
People cite “innocent until proven guilty” as their reason for not believing victims, instead of employing the societal mindset that would actually be helpful for victims of rape and domestic violence: always believe the victim first.
Chris Brown is proudly touring again, btw.
Bill Murray has a LONG history of misogyny and homophobia in addition to this and yet is beloved by Gen X and Millennials. I have a special hatred for him and seem to be the only person in the world who despises that man.
I’d also like to add a special place in hell for Ringo Starr because he’s universally thought of as just this lovable weirdo, even by people who hate John Lennon for hitting his first wife. Ringo beat his ex-wife Barbara many times, once hospitalizing and almost killing her.
A 7000-6000 year old burial of a young woman (aged around 20 at the time of her death) and her newborn baby from Vedbaek, Denmark. By her head, 200 red deer teeth and a bone hairpin, as well as red deer hooves which came from a skin that was wrapped around her. The child is cradled in the wing of a swan with 2 flint knives at its hip, suggesting the baby was a boy. It’s thought the pair died together in childbirth.
