seriously NEVER LEAVE US WE LOVE YOU

i'm so glad bargain bin has a home at the toast! i've been reading this since yr days at the hairpin and it's always a highlight of my fridays.

butting in just to say I LIVED IN ONE OF HIS MISTRESS' CASTLES IN ITALY FOR A SUMMER AND IT WAS AMAZING. I fell in love with a farmboy and rode donkeys through the vineyards every day and studied Renaissance literature when I felt like it.

His daughter is delightful and still lives there and hikes up a very long hill every morning to get into town, despite being 90 years old. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_de_Rachewiltz (that's her) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunnenburg (that's the castle)

It was a bit odd how much in disarray all his papers there were (although the entire place is definitely a shrine to Pound). Anyway, that's my story.

Is signalboosting allowed in the comments section? If not, my apologies!

Friends of the Toast Mikki Kendall and Jamie Nesbitt Golden are raising money to support Hood Feminism! If you'd like to help, you can go to this link: http://www.youcaring.com/other/help-hood-feminism...

It's such a great site, and those two are amazing writers with really important things to say-- consider supporting if you can!

DYING. I work at a UU seminary-- I'm not UU personally, but they're a lovely bunch of people!-- and I'm trying so hard to not forward this joke to everyone.

I may just do it anyway.