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Corner bite - a balance of crust and content, a display of delayed gratification

Good bite - because you did so well delaying your gratification

Corner bite - because you hope the richness of The Good Bite will transfer somewhat

Navigating the last corner:

• Rotate for a heavily crust>content corner bite - the build up

• Deliberately smaller, last of the crust bite - the set up

Last Good Bite - smaller than The Good Bite but, equally, aren’t you clever

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Barjory Buffet: The Cruise Detective

Relisten-able because it has the highest joke per minute ratio and tightest comedic writing you’ll ever hear.

One part Beyond Belief, one part Wooden Overcoats, and one part Clue.

It balances nimbly crafted wit with camp absurdism, and the cast all nail the patter delivery. It has such a strong capable tone you know that you’re in safe hands and your time will be well spent.

Am happy to concede that I’m just a dumb dumb, but to say that I was confused by both what to do and how to do it would be a wild understatement.

For the curious, this is from the dropout.tv show SmartyPants where comedians present lectures and it’s amazing

The Song of Achilles - Madeleine Miller

Might be controversial, I apologise, but in it’s soul and bones it is the straightest “gay” book I’ve ever read. Straight people keep heralding it as a Queer Classic™®© in a way that queer people don’t.

A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara

At first you give it your good will and chapter by chapter the creeping horror sets in that the emperor has no clothes.

Trash in lit’s clothing

I…I um…