It was originally going to be John Waters, but halfway through filming the first poop scene, Kathleen Kennedy sent them a firm “Nope.”

I was a smug child prodigy. I was annoying. Still annoying, according to my sister.

The current studies focus on hospitalized patients, and those who have had symptoms for roughly 7+ days. If you’re in the hospital, it’s generally too late for Remdesivir to make a significant difference. Your body’s already mounted a defense, and according to some sources, it’s this defense (see “cytokine storm”) that…

Having air quality ranging up from the 300s (“Hazardous”) to 906 (“WTF”) on a scale that normally tops out at 500 has definitely made enjoying nature a bit of a challenge. Today we’re at 269 (“Unhealthy”) and it feels good. Just a nice Assertive Campfire™  smell instead of Apocalypse Nigh™. The clipping plane is being…

I *knew* Adric was still alive!

In the late 1800s, few would really have thought twice about a seventeen-year-old mother, even in the upper classes.  Cavill’s 37, Carter’s 54.

There was more?

TIL io9 is now a “B-list blog.”

That’s the beauty of the Star Wars universe: it can give us the variety we need. Rogue One was a classic War Mission movie (like Guns of Navarone, or Where Eagles Dare). Solo was a Caper flick (The Italian Job, The Thomas Crown Affair).

Oh yes, our names are on all the accounts. Like you, it’s not about who “owns” the money, it’s about having a degree of freedom to spend without having to discuss. It makes surprises so much easier. We’re both prone to impulse spending, so having our own mini-budget keeps our OOH SHINY impulses from affecting the…

Yeah - other than the scrunchies, this could be me on vacation!

Leaving aside ownership and who gets what in the event the relationship ends, the best way we’ve discovered is to have a joint checking account that gets the bulk of the funding. Each of us has our own checking account into which we get a stipend. Anything from the household account is consensus-driven. We can spend…

Girls pretty much dressed like this when I was in high school (mid 80's). What goes around, comes around. Only really new thing is the Hydroflask. The 80's girls had metal straws, too. (They were much, much, smaller, though.)

Wouldn’t it be nice if Thrawn came back and just made everybody grow the hell up?  

how often do you think NdGT grabbed some dude and started investigating his tattoo, or the pattern on his t-shirt, or otherwise got grabby??

But where is Dandelion?  Every series needs a comedic stereotypical bard sidekick!

An elegant design that also fits nicely with recent thinking about what warp fields and drives might look like: https://phys.org/news/2017-01-alcubierre-warp.html

Everything is cyclical for this mythos, isn’t it? It isn’t the first time there’s been a Zion, so let’s look at some of the key younger figures as elder roles in this version:

I wonder why more people don’t apply for a redress number or a Known Traveler number. I kept getting pulled for screenings, applying for redress helped them figure out who I am. I later applied for Global Entry, and now have a Known Traveler number. It pretty much takes the “OMG HE LOOKS BROWN GET HIM!!!111ONEONE!MAGA!…

I refer to this as “La Paloma Cheapa.”  It’s a staple here.