A major housing bill that would discourage building rental homes “reflects a peculiar type of American populism that combines a right-wing fetish for suburbia’s homeowner society with a left-wing distrust of investment capital,” Henry Grabar argues.
These people will put absolutely everything into an inter-office memo.
“Yeah, you tell him, Phyllis,” I whisper in the reading room.
Yeah good recommendation thanks. It’s like a hole in the ground that they poured books into. Like, there’s no mathematical way to get more books in such a small space and still be acceptable to human sensibilities.
My catte ys a chaos ball
A mess of mischief makinge
But everye daye thys litel guy
Doth keepe myne hearte from breakinge
I’m knee-deep in multi-decade office politics with back channel letters and notes and warring publications and meeting minutes. These people are “Industry” but with three-digit budgets and carbon paper.
footnote 17.
everyone out here comparing Senator John Fetterman to minor Universal monsters, but of course I do need to point out that he is actually Detective Vernon Holley, partner of Detective Ed Norris, played by Brian Anthony Williams on 19 episodes of The Wire (2002-2008).
I just assume all you bros are the same bro, a timeless, ubiquitous every-bro to end all bros forever.
I’ve heard lawyers saying that the best part of their jobs is reading all the office gossip that gets turned over in discovery emails and I’m just like, you don’t have to go to law school to get that experience, come be a historian, they put the drama in organized acid-free folders for you.