Thank your lucky stars it wasn’t your first name.

Loch Ness is a dinosaur who escaped extinction!

I was with you until the end. Everyone knows Jesus died being beheaded by a fellow Highlander who absorbed his Quickening intorder to obtain The Prize.

Our AP European History textbook said of Catherine the Great that “she wore out a long series of lovers”; a friend of mine in the class declared that it was now her goal that the same would one day be said of her.

Grade nine history. Teacher quips “An ancient Greek goes to a ­tailor to get his trousers mended. The tailor asks: “Euripides?” The professor replies: “Yes. Eumenides?”” I didn’t get it at the time, but it did stick with me.

It’s POP! Soda pop, if you really want to fight aboud it, don't you know.

Firefly: it’s a very quick binge

Who else but BRIAN BLESSED?

Finishing off the sequel to The Drowning God, a paranormal thriller from Harper Voyager (got a two-book deal following an io9 link (from a Charlie Jane Anders post) to Harper Voyager’s digital portal for unagented manuscripts.

I’m currently working on a compilation of poetry, trying to find my groove. There’s been a few I’ve catapulted out of the window, but I’m particularly fond of this one (I wrote it years ago, but I’ve been refining it for a while)

How many times do we have to tell you? WATER BASED LUBRICANT. Do not use oil-based lube. At least, don’t use oil-based lube anywhere near a vagina.

You are absolutely correct. It’s the children that are important here. You have to use free-range, corn-fed children to make the best burger. Wait, is that not what you are advocating?

Don’t forget to turn particularly mean-spirited critics into characters for your next story...and kill them.

I can see a scenario where they would be used as cheap slave labor in developing countries by unscrupolous corporations with their corporate lawyers arguing against their eligibility for human rights (“they aren’t strictly speaking humans after all!”). Maybe even trained as foot soldiers and used in regional conflicts…

For some reason I can’t post pictures but...

Not quite the same thing, but there are also the shows and books you deliberately avoid revisiting because you loved them dearly once and don’t want to tarnish those golden memories by discovering that they haven’t aged well or that your tastes have changed over the years.

Hello, Dark Shadows, Doc Savage novels, Edgar…

It is just a fun, somewhat subversive, Christmas story. I loved it when I was younger, I was a Bloom County fan to begin with, and I read it with my kids.