Author: Serene Sargent

I make jewelry and try to read everything on the US Civil War and Reconstruction that comes out, (thereby knowing many smart people.) I know a bit of law, care about Beatles historiography and love the Nagras. Jane Austen whispered her Emma secrets to me across many miles and 200 years. ✨ My father was Bill Sargent, the Pay Per View Beatles guy. #DYRBRY

amazing women

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make the world glass

  fight like a girl we hear everyone saying instead of an insult the hope of all nations      

Mr. President, explain yourself

Right now there are people all over America who were “lucky” enough to get through customs at our airports, in our country  – you know, land of the free and home of the [chickenshit CHEETO–headed buffoon]   brave who know that whoever they left behind in the country they left behind – parents, children, grandmothers grandfathers, aunts, uncles, grandchildren,…

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For 24 years people have been trying to kill me. People who know how.

The incomparable Phillip Seymour Hoffman – Charlie Wilson’s War – (SCREENPLAY: Aaron Sorkin) The Helsinki Job Yeah, the 3,000 agents he fired – each and every one of them first or second generation Americans – is that because they lacked the proper diplomatic skills or did Turner not think it would be a good idea to have spies that speak…

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Регина Спектор

“It’s like, you can’t divide yourself up.” (Despite the interviewer annoying me) this is a really good interview with an awesome translation —          · thanks to the très bon translation by fromRUwithsubtitles · — so I’m going to post it. Even if you are unaware of who Regina Spektor/Регина Спектор is, this interview seems so important right now. So…

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