Welcome to Douglas Wilson's Blog and May Blog, presented by Can't Impress.

Since nearly years, November, December 1, 2021, I would like to thank all of you for

your robust participation as our fourth no-quarter in November, and this includes all of you.

From those who left comments, to those who obtained free books, to the editors of the Guardian

who's Cracker Jack reporting, discovered that people in Christchurch have paying jobs.

Down to the poor environmental officer for Washington State, who had enough people

complained to him that he had to conduct an investigation regarding what happened to

the boat, and whether or not it was at the bottom of one of their waterways.

As per my usual custom, I would like to give you a brief post-mortem.

As with most awards ceremonies, I would ask you to hold your applause to the end.

We successfully gave away a lot of books.

The giveaways from the May block shop here came in at over 12,000 units moved.

All the condemnation around 1900, theology of Christmas presents, 1600, skin and blood,

1500, song of Shulamuth, 1500, Parliament, Supatz, almost 1500, scripture stories, 1400

letters of Marital Council, 1400, Bono My Bones, 1300, and a review of Johnny Cash

and the Great American Contradiction, 1200.

That's a lot of ones and zeros.

Well done.

This was brisk at Canon also.

This year they gave away over 14,000 e-books.

This was down from the almost 50,000 books they gave away two years ago.

But that was when we first did anything like this, and I suspected it was when a bunch of

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