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Holberg

@Holberg@mstdn.social

Hollywood liberal, Bollinger bolshevik, choose your favorite pejorative. Turn-ons include film/TV, music, civil rights, architecture, cars, travel, food, gin martinis. Turn-offs include broccoli, bigots and spectacularly awful people like some billionaires who come to mind. He/Him.

Avatar: Selfie of middle-aged white guy with salt-and-pepper hair and beard, and rectangular tortoiseshell glasses, in Connaught Place, New Delhi

Header: Ministry of Beer, a restaurant in Connaught Circle, New Delhi

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Holberg, to random
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Totally fine with all the grey on my head and face. But not coping well with the fact that my chest is now more salt than pepper.

Vanity, all is vanity, getting the better of me haha.

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What cracks me up is when you go to a restaurant, and they ask if you've been there before, and then they say, "Well, we do things a little different here", and then it's exactly like every other restaurant, but more expensive.

Holberg,
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@RickiTarr Haha I almost always lie and say I HAVE been somewhere before to preempt that nonsense.

Even in those super-rare cases something IS actually different, the menu always spells it out. Like not being able to get a chef’s tasting menu unless that’s what the entire table orders.

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Wondering how many wedge salads I’ve had over the years when I’m meeting friends for drinks, realize I haven’t had dinner and am not particularly hungry but and should probably eat SOMETHING.

This of course happened tonight.

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Another board meeting, another martini.

I have to do some political jiu-jitsu again and as much as the drink is because I just want a drink, I also think it’s helpful in making me look a bit like a harmless dilettante.

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The Scarlet Pimpernel Principle

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You guys, I’m SO good at this haha. Got exactly what I wanted in a new policy with enthusiastic buy-in from the person it’s meant to rein in.

Holberg,
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@AdaraAstin Always for good haha. This was about someone who regularly treats other board members very badly indeed. (I won’t tolerate it so she knows it won’t work on me and leaves me alone. But still bullies others.) I was proposing a code of conduct to formalize our standard of behavior when interacting with each other and anyone else in the organization. I used an example I had observed outside the board. And in the process got my most enthusiastic support from the problematic board member.

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Especially chilling because the image in that story is from Huntington Beach’s central library. A wondrous brutalist Neutra building that was my holy of holies as a kid. I made my mother take me there because it was not only huge but an absolutely magical space. At its core, an open four-level structure with stacks—surrounded by floating platforms with fountains.

The interior of the library from the stacks shows multiple platforms linked by short staircases. With fountains. Encased by tall curtains of glass with a park beyond.
A view that show the stacks connecting to the various platforms with short staircases.
The interior of the library from the stacks shows multiple platforms linked by short staircases. With fountains. Encased by tall curtains of glass with a park beyond.

Holberg,
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I was allowed to read ANYTHING as a little kid. My parents monitored what I watched on TV but never what I checked out of the library. I was left to explore to my heart’s content. And it makes me incredibly sad that so many American kids are now being deprived of that experience.

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The confederate flag is a traitor's flag.

I won't tolerate them in my presence and I except whatever consequences come with that.

Holberg,
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@Adam_Cadmon1 I remember being in Mississippi—where my godparents owned an old mansion—during the referendum on the state flag, which incorporated that loathsome confederate design.

And sitting in the courtyard with the actor Gerald McRaney, who’d dropped in to visit, as he insisted it was a lot of fuss over nothing—that no one was actually offended. I was utterly nonplussed and pushed back. A lot. But I think they’re so deep into that heritage farce that they’ve convinced themselves it’s true.

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Diss tracks are so funny to me. Like, is this still high school?

The only one I’ve ever really enjoyed was Timbaland, Nelly Furtado and Justin Timberlake because there was something absurdly sublime about using an album’s slick lead single for a group of popular kids to talk trash about multiple rivals.

Holberg,
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@Jonathanglick Haha truth!

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Sitting down at the bar. ‘Did you want your martini?’ Music to my ears.

Holberg,
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And I continue to serve as an uncompensated Monkey 47 ambassador.

I hear the bartender tell some woman on the other side of the bar: ‘The gentleman down there is drinking Monkey 47. With a twist.’ They both order the same.

(Might not have told you this joint started ordering more of the stuff on account of me haha.)

Holberg,
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I’m liking the women down the bar. When asked if they want another round, the zaftig blonde who looks like she summers in Edgartown says: ‘We’re toast.’

Holberg,
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I have a weakness for blondes who vibe like they might’ve prepped at nearby schools in my era haha. Furtive glances to see what if there’s a wedding ring haha.

Holberg,
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I know you’re all on tenterhooks. Started chatting her up, got a few minutes into conversation and then she mentioned a husband. Of course.

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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Last boost: so what was the point of calling the cops??

Holberg,
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@samhainnight @Adam_Cadmon1 @WuMargaret An irony—and I know I’m really drifting from the original point!

I’ve only ever called the cops on drunk drivers. Almost every time I drove home after midnight when I lived in Malibu because I usually encountered someone weaving all over PCH. I’d even stay behind them and narrate what was happening for 911 operators—at their request, once over 30 minutes all the way from Sunset in Beverly Hills—but NOT ONE cop ever showed up when one was really needed.

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I still can’t figure out why white supremacists think Northern Europeans are so supreme.

While all the great civilizations were building pyramids and aqueducts and empires, we were living in sod huts and raiding richer neighbors.

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@Jonathanglick WAIT WHAT

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@Jonathanglick Christ.

Holberg, to random
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Saw a man in a t-shirt last night that read ‘Noah was a conspiracy theorist until he wasn’t’ and referenced some Bible verse. Oh, wow dude, you got us, total checkmate.

(Literalist belief in that story has driven me crazy since I was a little kid. Terrible logic on seventy-hundred levels. An obvious one: No one else in the entire world had a boat? Noah only needed a cruise ship because it was a floating zoo. Out at sea with constant rain? You’ve got fresh water and fish for 40 days and nights.)

Holberg,
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More serious logical problems I have with that story—and, really, the general mindfuckery of Genesis—include: You actually believe the guy who committed the cold, calculated, premeditated murder of almost everyone on earth is the GOOD GUY?

I’ve always considered the snake to be the most sensible character in that book.

Holberg,
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@Jonathanglick Haha right? Maybe it’s true and all that inbreeding of some Paleolithic kooks explains humanity.

RickiTarr, to random
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Y'all, I'll never get over this still from my husband's Workplace Harassment Seminar. They knew what they were doing, no way they didn't!

Holberg,
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@RickiTarr Back in my 20s, I thought I was going to get in so much trouble in a training session with those absurd scenes because I couldn’t keep myself from riffing on everything with jokes. At which everyone was laughing. Fortunately, it seemed the HR chief—in the room!—was okay with it because I was only mocking HOW we were being shown what’s not okay haha.

Alice, to random
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The worst thing about having a birthday the day after Cinco de Mayo is that everybody is always like "Here's a present for both Cinco de Mayo AND your birthday."

Holberg,
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@Alice And I’ll bet those jerks use the left over Cinco de Mayo wrapping paper!

(Happy birthday!)

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