The culture has always been geared towards Boomers, and men in particular. I tooled around with my dad on his ‘71 Sportster in my youth, but the thing was broken more often than it ran. (Typical Harley) As an almost 30 year old, I would love to have a used Sportster to really learn on, but like most people my age, I…

Yeah. It’s worse with trains, but there aren’t as many train overpasses here.

Really, though. I am a very new Jalop, and every one of my friends has rolled their eyes at me for bringing up your Jeep at every opportunity. Climb some rocks knowing that we’re all cheering for you, man.

I shiver every time I go under an overpass. I always imagine the weight of the road and the other cars collapsing on top of me. Ugh.

My ex drove for his job as a regional salesman, and as such, he had a reliable little Ford Focus. I hated that car. Sure, it was well maintained, but I could not get comfortable anywhere I sat, there were squeaks and rattles everywhere, and on the rare occasion I actually drove it, his grandma foot had conditioned it…

Most places with an adjacent river have a “River Road” but the one outside our hometown was pretty crazy. It was a twisty barely-two-lane that followed the river bank, that in some places, was bordered by an 8 to 12 foot drop directly into the water. It was heavily wooded on the other side.

A typical day at your public library.

I loved Oryx and Crake. True, it's not a twist in the same sense as the rest of these, but the suspense leading up to the reveal of how humanity gets (mostly) wiped from the earth was amazing.

It's amazing if you're fighting acne!

Is it bad that when I heard about this a few years ago, it inspired me to write a short story about an abusive marriage where the beekeeper wife poisons her husband with rhododendron honey?

This time of year, crows descend like a plague on my city, and as much as I would love to make friends with them like this, there are literally thousands here at one time. I would hate to try and befriend two or three, then come into the backyard and find hundreds.

Nah. It was fallen angels, then this summer it was all mermaids, trolls, and fairies. Any mythological creature is hot nowadays, as long as they are drop dead gorgeous, mysterious, and brooding. (I'm a teen librarian, so I know these things.)

Yeah, I was shocked that io9 wanted to run FFF, but not because of the content. (I am a long time reader of TR, and I laugh and vomit along with everyone on Fridays) io9 just seems more...academic? Is that the word I'm looking for? Whatever adjective I want to use, I didn't think that FFF would appeal to the io9…

Of course, Monaco has a relatively small population of people who can afford freaking cyborg implants if they wanted them, so the stats are a little off.