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Read Like a Gilmore

All 339 Books Referenced In “Gilmore Girls”

Not my original list, but thought it’d be fun to go through and see which one’s I’ve actually read :P If it’s in bold, I’ve got it, and if it’s struck through, I’ve read it. I’ve put a ‘read more’ because it ended up being an insanely long post, and I’m now very sad at how many of these I haven’t read. (I’ve spaced them into groups of ten to make it easier to read)

1. 1984 by George Orwell 2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 3. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon 5. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser 6. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt 7. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 8. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank 9. The Archidamian War by Donald Kagan 10. The Art of Fiction by Henry James

11. The Art of War by Sun Tzu 12. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner 13. Atonement by Ian McEwan 14. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy 15. The Awakening by Kate Chopin 16. Babe by Dick King-Smith 17. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi 18. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie 19. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett 20. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 21. Beloved by Toni Morrison 22. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney 23. The Bhagava Gita 24. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy 25. Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel 26. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy 27. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 28. Brick Lane by Monica Ali 29. Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner 30. Candide by Voltaire 31. The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer 32. Carrie by Stephen King 33. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 34. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger 35. Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White 36. The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman 37. Christine by Stephen King 38. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 39. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 40. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse 41. The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty 42. A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare 43. Complete Novels by Dawn Powell 44. The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton 45. Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker 46. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 47. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 48. Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac 49. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 50. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber 51. The Crucible by Arthur Miller 52. Cujo by Stephen King 53. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon 54. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende 55. David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D 56. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 57. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown 58. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol 59. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 60. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller 61. Deenie by Judy Blume 62. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson 63. The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx 64. The Divine Comedy by Dante 65. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells 66. Don Quixote by Cervantes 67. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv 68. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 69. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe 70. Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook 71. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe 72. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn 73. Eloise by Kay Thompson 74. Emily the Strange by Roger Reger 75. Emma by Jane Austen 76. Empire Falls by Richard Russo 77. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol 78. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 79. Ethics by Spinoza 80. Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves

81. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende 82. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer 83. Extravagance by Gary Krist 84. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 85. Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore 86. The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan 87. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser 88. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson 89. The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien 90. Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein 91. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom 92. Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce 93. Fletch by Gregory McDonald 94. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 95. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem 96. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand 97. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 98. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger 99. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers 100. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut 101. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler 102. George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg 103. Gidget by Fredrick Kohner 104. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen 105. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels 106. The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo 107. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 108. Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky 109. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 110. The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford

111. The Gospel According to Judy Bloom 112. The Graduate by Charles Webb 113. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 114. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 115. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 116. The Group by Mary McCarthy 117. Hamlet by William Shakespeare 118. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling 119. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling 120. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers 121. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 122. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry 123. Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare 124. Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare 125. Henry V by William Shakespeare 126. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby 127. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon 128. Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris 129. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton 130. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III 131. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende 132. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer 133. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss 134. How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland 135. Howl by Allen Ginsberg 136. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo 137. The Iliad by Homer 138. I’m With the Band by Pamela des Barres 139. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 140. Inferno by Dante

141. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee 142. Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy 143. It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton 144. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 145. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan 146. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare 147. The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain 148. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 149. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito 150. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander 151. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain 152. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 153. Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D. H. Lawrence 154. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal 155. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 156. The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield 157. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis 158. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke 159. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken 160. Life of Pi by Yann Martel

161. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens 162. The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway 163. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen 164. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 165. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton 166. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 167. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson 168. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 169. The Love Story by Erich Segal 170. Macbeth by William Shakespeare 171. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 172. The Manticore by Robertson Davies 173. Marathon Man by William Goldman 174. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 175. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir 176. Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman 177. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris 178. The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer 179. Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken 180. The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare 181. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 182. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 183. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson 184. Moby Dick by Herman Melville 185. The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin 186. Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor 187. A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman 188. Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret 189. A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars 190. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

191. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 192. Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall 193. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh 194. My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken 195. My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest 196. Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo 197. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult 198. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer 199. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 200. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri 201. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin 202. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen 203. New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson 204. The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay 205. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich 206. Night by Elie Wiesel 207. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 208. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan 209. Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell 210. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski

211. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (will NEVER read again) 212. Old School by Tobias Wolff 213. On the Road by Jack Kerouac 214. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey 215. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 216. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan 217. Oracle Night by Paul Auster 218. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood 219. Othello by Shakespeare 220. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens 221. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan 222. Out of Africa by Isac Dineson 223. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton 224. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster 225. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan 226. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 227. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious 228. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 229. Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington 230. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi 231. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain 232. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby 233. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker 234. The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche 235. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind 236. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 237. Property by Valerie Martin 238. Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon 239. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw 240. Quattrocento by James Mckean

241. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall 242. Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers 243. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe 244. The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham 245. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi 246. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 247. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin 248. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant 249. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman 250. The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien 251. R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton 252. Rita Hayworth by Stephen King 253. Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert 254. Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton 255. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 256. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf 257. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster 258. Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin 259. The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition 260. Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi 261. Sanctuary by William Faulkner 262. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford 263. Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James 264. The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum 265. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 266. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand 267. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir 268. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 269. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman 270. Selected Hotels of Europe

271. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell 272. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 273. A Separate Peace by John Knowles 274. Several Biographies of Winston Churchill 275. Sexus by Henry Miller 276. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon 277. Shane by Jack Shaefer 278. The Shining by Stephen King 279. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse 280. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton 281. Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut 282. Small Island by Andrea Levy 283. Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway 284. Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers 285. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore 286. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht 287. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos 288. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker 289. Songbook by Nick Hornby 290. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare 291. Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 292. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron 293. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 294. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov 295. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach 296. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller 297. A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams 298. Stuart Little by E. B. White 299. Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 300. Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

301. Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett 302. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber 303. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 304. Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald 305. Term of Endearment by Larry McMurtry 306. Time and Again by Jack Finney 307. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 308. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway 309. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 310. The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare 311. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 312. The Trial by Franz Kafka 313. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson 314. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett 315. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom 316. Ulysses by James Joyce 317. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath 318. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 319. Unless by Carol Shields 320. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

321. The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers 322. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 323. Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard 324. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides 325. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett 326. Walden by Henry David Thoreau 327. Walt Disney’s Bambi by Felix Salten 328. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 329. We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker 330. What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles 331. What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell 332. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka 333. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson 334. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee 335. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire 336. The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum 337. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 338. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 339. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

#books in Gilmore Girls #reading list #booklr #have you read?

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fratboykate · 2 years

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You know... here's the thing... I get with you on the whole "defend the underappreciated and underpaid cre members" what I cannot get behind is you using them to spin your privileged POV... and yes! I called it privileged because the fact that you are on the other side defending the right of the author to be an entitle fuck and kind of defeats the whole purpose of having people that are supposed to be like us on THAT side. What's the use of having an LGBTQ/POC person on the power side if they end up being like Clarance Thomas / Herman Caine/ Candice Owen / Caitlyn Jenner? And don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that you are at that level of self hate, but it is evident that with the pass of time you have gone from being an "Afro-Latina Filmmaker" to a "Filmmaker who happens to be Afro-Latina". Your priorities are shifting and with every new discourse that happens we see it more and more... it was mor3 than evident on the Will Smith debacle. You were oh so scandalized and offended for something happening during an awards ceremony that you completely missed the point of some guy violently mocking a woman for her illness.

NOT Y'ALL LITERALLY FUCKING COMPARING ME TO HUMAN SCUM REPUBLICANS WHO ARE FUCKING MISOGYNISTIC, HOMOPHOBES, TRANSPHOBES, RACISTS, NZIS, WHITE NATIONALISTS, AND EVERY OTHER FUCKING DISGUSTING THING IN THE BOOK BECAUSE I FUCKING SAID "DON'T ATTACK CREW MEMBERS" AND "ASSAULT IS BAD".

You guys have actually lost your entire goddamn fucking minds. Comparing a queer woman of color to THOSE people over this is fucking vile. These people are out there actively taking away the rights of women, LGBT, and people of color. They're harming the communities I'm a fucking part of and you came in here and told me I'm comparable to them because I said "Don't harass people who had nothing to do with this" and "Will Smith shouldn't have fucking slapped Chris Rock and he needs to face consequences for it." The internet has literally made you guys lose any semblance of touch with reality.

I also said..."you can hold THE ONE PERSON responsible for this accountable without being fucking childish". How is that me "defending the right of the author to be an entitled fuck"?

#'violently mocking' MY GOD y'all are so fucking dramatic #also the gall of you telling me i 'hate myself'#fuck out of here #i take a lot of pride in being black latina and queer #you should literally be ashamed for even thinking about this ask and thrice as much for typing it out #rants #anonymous #answers

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thealogie · 4 years

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me when RBG died: look at my hand. do you see my hand? steady as a rock. it’s not shaking. I am not only calm, I am calm with a vengeance. Let this moment be a catalyst for all of us rallying around the ultimate goal of dominating all three elected bodies of the federal government and not just reforming the judiciary but the entire electoral structure

me when Trump is little a infected but isn’t on a ventilator: crying, refreshing the news every two minutes,googling the percentage of COVID patients that get better before getting worse to comfort myself, listening to his tired raspy voice on those propaganda videos just to feel something, looking at the herman cain timeline to comfort myself, bargaining with the god I don’t believe in like “ok ok can you take stephen Miller though?”, feeling terrible and guilty for celebrating when I think about all the ordinary people these goons have put in danger, bargaining with the god I don’t believe in “just make him a little more sick, he doesn’t even need to die”

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ramrodd · 4 years

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What do you think of the following statement: If Trump said chickens could plow they would be out in the field hitching them up?

COMMENTARY:

Of course, they’d hitch up the hens and put the rooster in the lead position and tell’em “Giddy-UP” and gee and haw their way around their trailer park flower beds until the chickens either learnet to enjoy plowing in trace or dropped dead.

You are dealing with really stupid people who have the right to vote because they have birth cirtificates that assures the republican authorities that they are eligible by species to vote. And the really clever pick of the litter in every generation Newt Gingrich has gone out of his way to recruit as glorified telemarketers elected to promote Steve Bannon’s Free Market Fascism and to blow up America like John Galt and/or Earl Turner. These are the same stupid people who put their hearts and souls into the southern rebellion led by the same greedy people who were making too much money from slavery to kick the habit. They are still running things in all the Red States as Jeff Davis in Richmond VA.

There is no question in my mind that Trump said exactly what he said about the military. He is typical of the Copperhead wing of the GOP. They really don’t belong to anybody except as honary members of Galt’s Gang, alleged libertarians who devise a personal system of values based on an infinitely small point of law or western ethics that justifiees their avarice, selfishness and, in the case of the Copperheads, political treachery. These are the people Newt Gingrich recruited as pawns in his political strategy to make him Speaker of the House and, currently, to re-elect Trump.

Every Republican but Mitt Romney in Congress falls into this category. Tim Scott is like J.C. Watts, Herman Caine, Ben Carson and Clarence Thomas, an equal opportunity bigot and actually belongs in the adult leadership of the GOP with Mitt Romney: they are authentic Conservatives in close to the Juan Williams mold of Conservative: Juan Williams has always been a BLM Conservative, which is why the Koch bothers threatened to withhold their grants to PBS unless Diane Rehm fired his ass from WAMU for being uppity.

In Indiana, when I was growing up, there were Lugar-Will Rogers Repubicans and Lee Hamilton-Walter Ruether Democrats and Dan Burton-Henry Cabot Lodge-KKK-Copperheads, the people who vetoed the League of Nations and largely had other priorites than military service during WWII, which might have been avoided if the League of Nations had been ratified. Dan Burton Copperheads are all in for the Military Industrial Complex and, like Marxist, consider lethal conflict to be a natural feature of capitalism. They all believe, like Trump, that people are suckers and losers to enlist in the US military and that a military career is like being a counselor in a summer camp that you do before you grow up and get a real job.

And that’s who Newty recruited to fill up the Republican Study Group and the House Freedom Caucus in order to advance his agenda of political treason and economic coup. Gingrich’s axiomatic discription of his political strategy, “Politics is the continuation of war” is Trotsky’s formular for violent revolution he, Trotsky, was teaching in Mexico when he was killed. Castro’s Cuba was one legacy of Trotsky’s evangelism and Newty has been using this formula to gain power since he went into poltics during the 70s.

Newty claims he adopted the political strategy of the anti-war movement, which is partially true, as the model for his political strategy. Newty and I are both Army brats and, at the time we were growing up, Counter-Insurgency was the sexy career path for West Point graduates, especially before JKF was killed. I had read Petreaus’s core bibliography for his CO-IN manual before I graduated from high school and I had a ring side seat to the cultural revolution on campus without belonging to either the liberal fascism of the anti-war draft dodgers or the conservative fascism of the pro-war draft dodgers (who were, essentially, the rising generation of Dan Burton Copperheads).

And they are all, basically, the paradox of the very clever and dumber than a box of rocks small town white businessman and/or politician. Like Mike Pence. People who avoided the draft during the 60s and were the corporate gate keepers when combat vets came looking for work after killing the Viet Cong for Christ.

Their attitude, the people Newty recurited, was that, if you were too stupid to avoid military service, it didn’t make much sense to put you on the pay roll unless you were a rabid ammosexual and/or a Tom Cotton wannabe (Tom Cotton isn’t anything new, either: I was scared out of a military career by a senior officer my dad’s age and rank with the same crypto-Nazi cognitive organization as Tom Cotton and Mike Pompeo and represent another catogory of Conservative Copperhead.

Trump is just like all these guys. As I say, they are a paradox: they usually have very strong practical talents in business and management and not necessarily authoritarian, but their horizons generally stop at the end of their peckers in predictable ways. Trump’s attitude about the military is one typical variation. They didn’t want to be held accountable by the League of Nations and they were perfectly happy becoming filthy rich and locally powerful from equiping the sacrifice of American citizen soldiers and feeling nobel in the process: the Arsenal of Democracy and all the rest. Trump really believes he’s a patriot in spite of the fact that he committed treason with his Moscow partners in the 2013 Miss Universe Pageant to get elected and hopes to do it again.

Putin has nothing to do with it. For Trump, business is business and treason is just another tool in his lie, cheat and steal “Art of the Deal” crime family business model. And, by and large, the Dan Burton Copperheads don’t have any problem with the practice: it’s nothing personal, Uncle Sam: it’s just business.

And all these Dan Burton Copperheads are the people who supply the harnesses for chicken plowing, partially because they don’t know any better, themselves, but recognize an emerging market when it surfaces.

For various reasons, the military has been content to allow themselves to be pulled around by their collective peckers by these people, the Dan Burton Copperheads, because they, the military, sustain the misapprehension that what “Honor” means to them means the same to crime family businessmen, like Don Corleone. And it doesn’t. And they, the active military, have been voting for Don Corleone “Honor” since at least the Democrats failed to finance the last death throes of the Republic of Vietnam on basically they same justification that Moscow Mitch is holding up Speaker Pelois’s $3.5 trillion capital budget for stopping COVID-19 in its tracks in 90 days and bringing the Green New Deal up to speed in 18 months.

Because, in the final analysis, as clever as the Dan Burton Copperheads like Moscow Mitch are in running a family bucket shop, they are dumber than dog shit when it comes to plowing with chickens.

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anotiondeepinside · 7 years

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Bruce Springsteen’s Most Springsteen-iest Song Ever

Buckle up, kiddos. We’re about to figure out which Springsteen song is the Bruciest of them all. (Thanks to this tweet for the inspiration)

Right off the bat, I can think of a dozen or more contenders. How can you pick just one? The Springsteet-iest song isn’t necessarily the “best” song, is it? Is Springsteen-iest a synonym of quintessential? Are we looking for the song that a Springsteen caricature would be playing? All good questions.

Rather than try to single one out, we need to list the criteria that would make up the Springsteen-iest song ever and eliminate songs that don't fit until we're left with one.

1. The Springsteen-iest song would come from one of his defining albums.

We're eliminating songs from Greetings and everything after Tunnel of Love. The Rising is great, Magic is vastly underrated, and Greetings has some gems. Still, the stretch between The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle and Tunnel of Love is when Springsteen made himself Springsteen. This also means anything from Tracks and other archival releases are out. This puts us at 79 possible songs.

2. You'd want to roll down your windows and blast the Springsteen-iest song.

We lose everything from Tunnel of Love and Nebraska here. They're both phenomenal albums that showcase the brooding side of Bruce. This side of Bruce plays well because it contrasts with the exuberance of classic Springsteen. The Springsteen-iest song will draw from that classic period, not the subsequent zigs and zags, as great as those are. 57 songs left. (Hey, that's a familiar number...)

3. The Springsteen-iest song would be one of the Top 50 most played songs at Springsteen concerts

This makes sense, right? Does he play them often because they’re so Springsteen-y or have they become Springsteen-y because he plays them so much? The chicken or egg doesn't matter in this case. They’re Springsteen-y either way. The top 50 most played song list was taken from Brucebase. We lose 23 songs here. (To be honest, we're not losing too much firepower. Incident on 57th Street goes, but besides that, we're not sacrificing much else). 34 songs left.

4. The Springsteen-iest song can't also be the go-to cover song for indie rock bands

Goodbye, I'm on Fire. This article details the phenomenon and gives a plausible reason for it: the song is "recognizable enough to appeal to audiences even if they’re not huge Springsteen fans, but it’s also not overly hallowed ground" We want hallowed ground. 33 songs left.

5. The Springsteen-iest song can't have been misappropriated by famous politicians and still widely misunderstood today.

See ya later, Born in the USA 32 songs left.

6. The Springsteen-iest song would feature someone driving.

I'll take common Springsteen tropes for $200, Alex. We're gonna eliminate some great contenders on this one, but rules are rules. Springsteen has done as much for car metaphors as Herman Melville did for whale metaphors. There were some judge's rulings for this criteria.

- Adam Raised a Cain: "keys to your daddy's Cadillac" Verdict: Eliminated

- Out in the Street: Is he walking Out in the Street or driving Out in the Street? Verdict: Eliminated

- You Can Look: He and Dirty Annie are at the Drive-In Verdict: Eliminated - Backstreets: the characters "catch rides" and "huddle in [their] cars" Verdict: Still alive

We lose 14 songs total, including these heavy hitters: 10th Avenue Freeze-Out, Badlands, Glory Days, and Dancing in the Dark. 18 songs left.

7. The Springsteen-iest song wouldn't be very, very similar to another song on the same album.

We lose 4 total here. Cadillac Ranch and Ramrod. Darlington County and Working on the Highway. Can't be just me who sees those pairs as essentially serving the same purpose, right? 14 songs left.

8. Clarence Clemons would be prominent on the Springsteen-iest song.

The Big Man's sax is the key ingredient that makes classic Springsteen what it is. It's like the Thousand Island on a reuben. The sax also plays a major role in distinguishing Bruce's sound from other classic rock bands. Try starting a Bruce Springsteen cover band without a sax player and see how far you get. We gotta be tough here. A few of the songs we're cutting have a sax moment, but compared to the one’s we’re keeping, it's just not enough. We lose 4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy), Backstreets, Racing in the Street, Darkness on the Edge of Town, The River, and My Hometown. Wow, brutal. That’s a great set of songs. 8 songs left. See them and the winner under the cut

Before we get to the remaining criteria, here's a look at the final 8 songs. One of these is the most Bruce Springsteen-iest song ever.

1. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) 2. Thunder Road 3. Born To Run 4. Jungleland 5. The Promised Land 6. Prove It All Night 7. Sherry Darling 8. Hungry Heart

Well, well, well. That's a just about a greatest hits collection right there! This criteria is really working, except...

9. Is there any song left that seems out of place?

Sayonara, Sherry Darling. It was a Cinderella run for this enjoyable little ditty, but it's time to let the big boys play. 7 songs left.

10. The Springsteen-iest song wouldn't be a song that was almost given to another band because Springsteen didn't want it

Springsteen wrote Hungry Heart for The Ramones but was later convinced to keep it for himself. 6 songs left.

11. In concert, the Springsteen-iest song would usually raise itself to another level.

There's two types of people in life. Bruce Springsteen fans and those who haven't seen him in concert. When Springsteen's legacy is discussed, his live performances will be mentioned in the lead paragraph. We need the Springsteen-iest song ever to be one that showcases the passion and fervor of his live performances. Rosalita was the band intro song for many years. It stays. Thunder Road is a thrill to hear, but I'm not so sure Bruce ever found its definitive live arrangement. It's out. Born to Run and the house lights stay on. Jungleland is tough, but I have to eliminate it. Because it's such a precise work of art on record, the live version is somewhat handcuffed. You can't reinvent it. You can't really improve it. You just do your best to recreate it. The Promised Land stays. Not only is the straightforward version kicked up a notch live, but the solemn acoustic arrangement shows the song’s versatility and the power Springsteen has with just a mic and a guitar. And because Prove it All Night is the poster child for a song raising to another level in concert, it stays. 4 songs left.

12. When Hollywood makes a biopic, it might name the movie after the Springsteen-iest song.

Born to Run: definitely possibility. The Promised Land: absolutely. Prove It All Night: and the Oscar goes to... Rosalita (Come out Tonight). Sorry. 3 songs left.

13. Lets not kid ourselves here, the Bruce Springsteen-iest song is kind of about sex, and not just subliminally if you twist the subtext enough, but there’s some overt sexual tension.

It's the biggest reason young boys become rock stars, and it's the muse behind some of the greatest songs. Bruce wouldn't tell you any different. Despite a name that horny English majors could have a field day with, I have to eliminate The Promised Land. 2 songs left.

14. The Springsteen-iest song would fit a certain lyrical mode that champions blue collar grit while still romanticizing the notions of faith, hope, and love as catalysts for a better life.

Does it start out with a guy just doing his best to make it in the world? Born to Run: “In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a Runaway American dream” [check] Prove it All Night: “I've been working real hard trying to get my hands clean” [check]

Does the idea of leaving coincide with improvement? BTR: “We're gonna get to that place where we really want to go / and we'll walk in the sun” PIAN: “We'll drive that dusty road from Monroe to Angeline / To buy you a gold ring and pretty dress of blue”

Is there a line about dreams? BTR: “I want to guard your dreams and visions” [check] PIAN: “This ain't no dream we're living through tonight” [check]

Is there a line about love? BTR: “I want to know if love is wild, girl, I want to know if love is real” [check] PIAN: “I prove it all night for your love” [check]

Hmmm...Stalemate. Let's try something else.

15. Does it have Night in the title?

Seems arbitrary, but chew on this.

There are 64 songs on Springsteen's first 6 albums. Of those, there are 7 whose title contain some form of 'Night' (we're counting Tonight in Rosalita). That's over 10%! And we haven't even included the outtakes. (Restless Nights, Bring on the Night, Because the Night, Night Fire, City of Night). If you write a song and put Night in the title you're more than 10% on your way to recording a classic Springsteen-esque song.

Want more? There are 18 songs on Born to Run and Darkness on the Edge of Town. 17 of them have ‘night’ in the lyrics! 94%!

So, to recap. The Springsteen-iest song has to be a rocker from one of his defining albums. It has to get played often in concert and the live performance has to add something to the song. It can't be misunderstood, covered too much, or be too similar to another song on the same album. Someone needs to be driving in the song, Clarence needs to be featured, and the lyrics need to hit the basic Springsteen themes. And it needs to include his favorite word: night.

The Springsteen-iest song: Prove it All Night.

Post script: I think it's a perfect choice. We're not looking for the best song. Best songs take an established template and do something unique and special. Prove it All Night is the template. It's the archetypal Springsteen story prompt. Thunder Road, Incident on 57th Street, Born to Run, Jungleland, The River, Atlantic City. Insert any number of great Springsteen song. They're all basically the fleshed out short story version of characters trying to "Prove it All Night."

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Dream quotes Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. Lanston Hughes The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt Not to dream boldly may turn out to be simply irresponsible. George Leonard Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer. Marcia Wieder Dreams are the touchstones of our character. Henry David Thoreau ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Happiness quotes Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go” Oscar Wilde “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” Marthe Troly-Curtin “Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon” Winnie the Pooh “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” Herman Cain When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” Helen Keller “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” Aristotle “It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.” Seneca ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Life quotes Art Buchwald The best things in life aren't things. Arnold H. Glasgow Make your life a mission - not an intermission. Arthur Ashe You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing. Alfred A. Montapert In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might. Alexis Carrel Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kindness quotes Miguel de Cervantes Great persons are able to do great kindnesses. Ralph Waldo Emerson You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. Washington Irving A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity into smiles. William Wordsworth The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. Plato Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Goal quotes Your goal should be just out of reach, but not out of sight. Denis Waitley and Remi Witt I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done. Rachel Carson Purpose is what gives life a meaning. C. H. Parkhurst The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain. Kahlil Gibran ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Personal growth quotes He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty. Lao Tzu The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself. Thales Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakes. Carl Jung He that will not reflect is a ruined man. Asian Proverb Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow. Doug Firebaugh Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still. Chinese Proverb God ever works with those who work with will. Aeschylus Insist on yourself. Never imitate. Ralph Waldo Emerson Heaven never helps the man who will not act. Sophocles

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(ThyBlackMan.com) With the government, the courts and the local law enforcement of this country painting targets on the foreheads of African Americans, are we aware of what is happening and how? A better question is how are African Americans contributing to our own demise as a people? Those who seek to oppress and destroy us realize they can sit back in many cases and watch us do it to ourselves. That is the worse tragedy of all.

Why do you think they allow the crime in Chicago to continue? Because they hope as many of “us” will wipe out as many of “us” as possible. All this country had to do is plant the seeds of suspicion, division, individualism and self-hatred into the African American community, water them then stand back and watch them grow. And for far too many unsuspecting African Americans, that is exactly what has happened.

Many of you like Herman Cain, Steve Harvey, Omarosa, Ben Carson or Jesse Lee Peterson are dumb enough to overtly participate in the degradation and demise of your own kind in exchange for a few extra turkey necks from your master’s table and the pseudo-respect he gives you. But Massah has no real respect for those who turn on their own because he knows they can never really be trusted.

African Americans far too often play into the stereotypes set for us as traps. We promote modern day Babylon type whores on stage like Beyoncé and Nikki Minaj then allow our daughters to emulate them. We commit so much crime against each other that the police and Caucasian people can now follow our examples and use our playbook. We allow the degradation of our women and the emasculation of our men and laugh at it. That includes Tyler Perry, Chris Rock, Martin, Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Chris Tucker, Terry Kruse and the list goes on. Character, morals, spirituality and values should never be for sell or we lose ourselves.

We don’t check our kids homework, participate at their schools or monitor their music and video games. We allow them to be raised by the music, the media and the hellevision while we abdicate our responsibilities as their teachers, disciplinarians and role models. Too many African Americans are either so full of weed or too busy to be real parents. Our role models are athletes, unfaithful comedians, entertainers and talk show hosts. Give me a break.

As a whole, our people pay more attention to Beyonce’s pregnancy or the Super bowl than the election that will impact our health, our finances, our jobs and our safety. We expect the government to do for us what we should be doing for ourselves and we continue to ignore the fact that the government does not care about us. When has it ever been of the people, by the people and for the people – especially our people? Wake up and know than millionaire Hillary does not care about you any more that billionaire Donald Trump does. Your success has always been up to you, your family, your support system and your God – not the pastor, not the President and not your employer. The African American community wants to scapegoat the blame for our problems on everyone else when our people are often at least partially to blame. The rest of the blame should be placed on the judicial system, the racist agendas of this country, the politicians at every level, the corporate greed, the bad police officers and departments and district attorneys who lack balance, focus and fairness, to name a few.

If you want to argue with me or flex your intellect, stop reading now!

Sadly, African Americans (not all but most) only work together when it furthers personal agendas, when we can profit from it or when we can take credit for it. And even then we half step and make excuses for accountability Umar Johnson. We think marches and rallies will fix things but what are they fixing today? Those who oppress our people have learned how to neutralize our approaches of the past but our civil rights leaders keep using the same old methods anyway. What is being accomplished?

Many of our so called leaders (esp radio personalities like Rashad Richey) are opportunists, using our suffering to make a name for themselves in the media. And far too many of our churches are filled with homosexual pastors who lives contradict the Bible they preach from, pedophiles and materialistic pulpit pimps with their own agendas. We make excuses for them and drink the Kool-Aid gallons at a time. You want names? Creflo Dollar, Eddie Long, Juanita Bynum, T.D. Jakes, Dale Bronner and Carlton Pearson, to name a few. You buy their books, attend their conferences and hear their sermons while they get rich from selling you the very hope and knowledge that was available for free in your Bible all along. Wake up! Don’t be so gullible.

Then there is the issue of COLOR. It is ironic that we so readily accept “Black History Month” when our color has never been black. Look at your hand and overstand that it is powerful brainwashing to get you to deny what your eyes see. It is powerful indoctrination to get you to call yourself something you are not, something that others defined you to be and a label that has negatives like dismal, gloomy, evil and devoid of moral character. All you have to do is look up “black” in the Oxford, Webster’s or Merriam Webster’s dictionary and see for yourself. Perception creates reality for most people even more that the truth does. And how you are perceived determines how you are treated (Hint: Police Brutality). Yet some of you will still argue against what you just read and dispute what your own eyes see because you do not realized you have been brainwashed.

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#News – African American Self-Sabotage. (ThyBlackMan.com) With the government, the courts and the local law enforcement of this country painting targets on the foreheads of African Americans, are we aware of what is happening and how?

#African American Self-Sabotage.

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What do you think of the following statement : If Trump said chickens could plow, Trump supporters would be out in the field hitching them hens?

COMMENTARY:

It’s absolutely true.

What else can you possible add? It has absolute metaphysical substance.

Because, in the final analysis, as clever as the Dan Burton Copperheads like Moscow Mitch are in running a family bucket shop, they are dumber than dog shit when it comes to plowing with chickens.

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