Oh yeah, it's very HBO. It's basically Game of Thrones in grunts. Lots o' forbidden romance, lots o' forbidden knowledge,

My writing partner and I just finished a full episode script and a season treatment on the very same theme, the last Neanderthals trying to figure how to survive the encroaching Cro-Mags. We also center on a young female Neanderthal protagonist captured by the Cro-Mags. Dammit, now I have to read this.
Neanderthals.…

Just read Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, it's the most Murakamiest. Or, Norwegian Wood - it's the most straightforward read.

You are such an Archmage! I can't support enough the idea that EVERYONE should do a 10-day Vipassana retreat, whether for spiritual reasons or empiricalist-motivated investigations of consciousness and identity. Meself, I have given up on spiritual investigations (I mean, as a means for personal insight) but getting a…

And generally more of a rural or working class marker. For example, the only time I hear eh in the 416 (metro Toronto) is from someone who grew up outside of that area or when when someone is trying to use it as an affinity tag when speaking with someone who looks like a total fucking hoser, eh?

Yeah, and vodka works great as a disinfectant and as a… no wait, maybe you're right.

more of a garbage bag filled with room-temperature ground beef.
The AV Cl … I can't.

"seminal musician" Heh.

Nah, I'm at the point now where I think we need to give AI software a chance. Down with carbon-based units!

Upvoted to the max. This is exactly true.

I'm gonna go ahead and disagree with you here Archmage, and say keep the vowels and replace the initial and final consonants. Something like "LeekingTorgo" has a great ring to it.

Voting on the basis of emotional response has a corollary among progressives: hope. The point is whether a significant portion of an electorate can overcome decision-making on the basis of emotional response since it is so readily manipulable. Considering our primate and reptile wiring, probably not. Sad!

This is doubleplusgood news. After loathing Atwood's sci-fi work for a long time, I have come around to a real deep appreciation of her detail work in creating dystopias. I can't imagine what has changed recently in the world to cause me to re-evaluate her work.

Life just don't work that way. Like, how did Dog Eat Dog with Cage and Dafoe directed by Paul Schrader get a B-? None of it makes any sense, man.

Hey, it was a huge improvement over the travois.

You'll be wanting to see The Night Manager then.

Yeah sure, then you go and post an internal firstie - in your second list. This is an outrage!

Totally agree, and more than just a weasel word, it is often used in public writing as a hedge in the event of controversy. In defense of the average article writer though, it's often just an issue of space or making a point which digresses from the main idea of the piece. In other words, when it can't be followed by…

That's so problematicist!

So, in point of fact, you have, as a point of order, underthought the matter. Good day to you sir!