Talk at Me (Prefarably Naked)
Last night I went to this:
wherein I saw this man:
I would like to lick his brain. Three hours of politics, travelogues, tales of woe and wonder from rocktown and positive vibing on the future.
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I also finished this book:
You know you run a phenomenal brothel when your name becomes synonymous with sex. That phrase "getting laid" originated out of the Everleigh Sisters who ran the infamous brothel the Everleigh Club in Chicago's Levee District from 1900-1911.
HOLY EF people have always been kinky. Yes, obviously people throughout history have always had sex or pornographic images, but I never really thought of dudes sitting around in turn of the century clubs watching two chicks whip each other bloody and wrestle. Karen Abbott collected a ton of sexyfun stories about Ada and Minna Everleigh, their club and the era they operated in. I do believe that I would have been on the Everleigh's whore waitlist were I to live back then. Three options: stay at home wife = $0/week, seamstress or secretary about $7/week or Everleigh "butterfly" $100/week. Um yeah, my morals are out the window and I'm talking Balzac with the rich fellas that come to the club.
Karen Abbott certainly widened how I think of Chicago history. And her next book is about Gypsy Rose Lee in prohibition era New York. Um, yep. Buying that one as soon as it's out.
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Also this book:
Which was 512 pages and I read about 250. I skimmed the rest and read the epilogue. I know. I know. But I just couldn't finish.
It's good, it's just really gd thick. There's detail upon epic detail. David Kirby shows the awful beginnings of factory farms and the damage that mass production of animals can have not only on the environment, but people.
Re: imagine not being able to BBQ in your own backyard because the pollutants from the pig farm four miles down the road make your eyes water or your asthmatic kid vomit or stop breathing.
It's a battle between big business farms and small the welfare of small communities and the environment.
It's a scary fight.