That or you’re Claudius getting Messalina’d. 

I’m offended that they didn’t do “Mummy Shark.”

Agreed. The show is superficial and creatively bankrupt in ways that actively undermine the message of the books, but at the same time the show can’t make a clean break with the books — it comes back periodically and robs them for random elements (Stoppard, Push, the blackbird). I would be less annoyed by the abuse if…

Nnnnnnnnope. I love the books.  I find the show superficial and meandering, and wish they would just take the plunge and do their own thing instead of picking random beats from the books out of a hat. 

I tried contacts for the first time for a costume. I had never worn them before and couldn’t get it out, freaked, and made my roommate (a lifelong contact wearer) take it out for me.

Wow.

#HastaMignogna 

The Flying Key jewelry hooks are pretty clever, tbh.

Fatburger >>>> all Cali burger chains.

This bear can replace Samson, the hot tub bear of the 1990s.

The Wall Street Journal has a writer who’s really into Macross.  It’s strange.

There are people who closely follow both Batman and the NYT Style section? 

Counterpoint: I watched Paper Chase a year after graduating and think that if I had watched it before law school it would have made me a nervous wreck.

I’m so sorry.

It depends on the con. Katsucon is pretty lax about it. Things that you can bash people over the heads with (wooden swords, giant props) are fine. Anything that can actually shoot (including kids’ prop bows) or has an edge has to get tied up so it can’t be used. Things that look like they might shoot or have an edge…

The Hocus Pocus trio was TOP FUCKING TIER.

Her serious programs are such a bizarre contrast to her expo performances, where she skates as Sailor Moon.

Combination of both. I went to undergrad with her and she interned in the Bush White House PR department, so there’s definitely some amount of True Believer.

I was also never particularly grabbed by this book and remember nothing about it.

They should have just called it Penis in the Vagina tbh.