“Battleship” is really one of the best nicknames ever for an enormous Kentuckian.

Bravo!

She’s got the hair about right...but needs longer fingernails.

Thank you!!

Thank you for this! One of their best songs languishes on the NTW single release, its called “Eclipse This,” do check it out if you’re a fan. Or, I can probably dig up a copy from the source.

I fondly recall the absurdity of this book. Reminded me a lot of Beast (I had that on audio tapes!), in places.

I’m apparently your body twin and you are totally right - he’s more like 330+. If I could just get back down to 215 again....sigh.

Be careful, it appears you care about baseball. Its a treatable condition, seek professional help.

Helllooo wallpaper!

I used to work with Matt Persons, when he postdoc-ed at MiamiU. He’s still at Susq. U I believe...

I worked with hundreds of wolf spiders for two years, and I never got “bit” once. Pinched by a juvenile female’s chelicerae yes, but it didn’t hurt.

I love me some Salticids!

How about a never-was: Brock Forsey.

Baby neuropterans and baby odonates are equally nasty to small bugs!

They got hosed on that call.

That process has a great technical term - lyophilization but alas you probably hear it more commonly as “freeze-drying.” I use one at work to remove moisture from fish tissue I’m going to analyze for contaminants!

As a paperback Sci-Fi devourer at my local library, her novel “Grass,” remains one of my favorite works. I never got around to finding the rest of that trilogy - Arbai was it? But, yeah what a book.

Winners Never Quit! Meanwhile, the rest of us stumble along. I hope things stay well for ya.

Not Jesuit now, its C.S.C., but they do have an Irish Studies Department, which is pretty much unique in the Midwest.

Thanks, that’s exactly the context I needed to appreciate its scale. Red = don’t go there. :)