Here’s a link for any Canadians out there: https://etcanada.com/news/461359/paul-rudd-matt-damon-and-the-snl-cast-crack-up-in-season-44s-blooper-reel/

I can usually muster up a bit of a chuckle at a meme, but I cannot figure these out. Like, at all. Have I officially become too old for the internet?

YES. I don’t even like green onions or chives, which are routinely used as garnish and which I have scooped out of many a dish where they were very much not listed nor welcome. I am extreme in my hatred of raw onion flavor, though. 

That’s how I’ve been describing it to people! A true-life horror movie.

 I knew absolutely nothing about Chernobyl, since I was 10 when it happened, so this has all been very eye-opening for me. As well as riveting. And listening to the podcast discuss how true to life this actually is makes for even more astonishment. I agree, probably my favorite show this year. 

No kidding! Chernobyl is so good, especially if you chase it down with the podcast where Peter Sagal and Craig Mazin (creator, writer, exec. producer) discuss the episode. Fascinating and harrowing. I wish someone at AV Club would write it up, it deserves it.

You have the right guy, but the wrong movie. I will never forget this review: https://film.avclub.com/contract-to-kill-isn-t-just-bad-it-s-steven-seagal-bad-1798189772

Most chainmail in movies is just a loosely knit sweater.

That’s my question! I’m guessing sugar cream pie is essentially a kind of chess pie, since they sound identical. The very best pie I ever had was a sugar cream pie from an Amish bakery in Ohio. I still dream about it. 

Everyone seems to be taking this as “The last book in a series is always terrible” where it instead seems to say “The last book in a series will always disappoint the fans of the series.” That last point makes perfect sense to me, meant in jest or not. People develop their own ideas and theories as to where something…

“Do you know what a ‘boner’ is?”

His full body shake after that scene kills me every time, like he is trying to physically rid himself of the seriousness of it and get back to his goofy self.

Alan Arkin is and will always be Yossarian for me. Love that movie. 

I love early Lackey, like Arrows of the Queen and its follow ups, and the Last Herald Mage trilogy, which has a gay protagonist and was very enlightening for 15 y.o. me. I’ve reread both series over the years, and they seem to hold up, although I haven’t read them for a while.

Illusion is great! 

YES. I loved Uprooted. One of those books I started and then couldn’t stop until I was done. Kids had to make their own dinner.

This is the absolute truth. Robin Hobb’s Soldier Son trilogy is unrelenting. 

I am so mad that nobody has made a Miles Vorkosigan movie or tv show with Peter Dinklage, and now he is getting too old. He’d be perfect. 

Lois McMaster Bujold is my favorite author (excepting maybe my avatar’s creator!) and I am so glad she is first on this list. Paladin of Souls, the second novel in the Chalion series of books, is one of my favorite books, ever. I also love Robin Hobb and Naomi Novik, and I read Nimona back when it was still a web…

I have moved internationally three, count ‘em, three times. The first time was the worst, as my fiance and I decided to box up our stuff using a shipping company that built a custom crate for your belongings. So, they picked up our stuff, built the crate sight unseen, and shipped it (literally) over the ocean. When we…