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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2013-07-02 11:51 am

Ecclesiastes 1:9

Tough problems demand tough-minded solutions! LIFE BOAT RULES! LIFE BOAT RULES!

Inexplicably not titled "I have a totally original idea nobody has ever had before and that I will not research to see if there are known pit-falls! Let's pay undesirables to get vasectomies!"

My favourite line?

While I have not crunched the numbers to support this hypothesis,

[identity profile] harvey-rrit.livejournal.com 2013-07-04 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
It'd be no later than 1985, when the Upstart Crow bookstore and coffee shop near us was gentrified along with its shopping center, but no earlier than 1983, when I first found the place.

And now I suddenly desperately want some Sumatra Mandheling.

Somehow this is your fault.

Or maybe Starbucks'.

I'll blame Starbucks. I don't like them.