a very big job

"A Very Big Job," January 6, 2022 (#6)

title from epigraph "from Lila" in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig (1974)

Home Alone (1990)

Die Hard (1988)

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr (2019)

A Very Big Job


Somebody pick up. Pick up!

You know my name, but who are you?

Philosophes regarded him as man.


Are you afraid? Come on, get out here.

I told you what kind of people you're dealing with!

Readers of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie.


Something ain't right. Go check it out.

What's it look like? We're going in.

We win this war.


We do not want your help. Is that clear?

So let's take it one step at a time.

Haul out eight tons of earth.


We got to make some calls.

We got a crisis ourselves.

Champagne on the dirt floor.



Better than being caught with your pants down, huh?

We lost our tempers, and I said I didn't care.

With time, the issue retreated.

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Viva Las Vegas (1964)

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