They changed how links work now? It wouldn't display my href code or anything after it but auto-linked just the url.

You all know about me and the Hobbit by now so I'll tell you about Ai Wei-Wei on Alcatraz instead.

Perhaps distracting them with Star Trek for a few years might work?

!! I admire Vollmann and adored Europe Central and had NO idea he did this series. Now I know what I'm doing over winter break.

Ooh, I'll do Middlemarch with you guys.

Upvote especially for Krazy Kat. She's great!

I thought for sure the scientists were getting the "they're about to break so it's a mercy to send them home" edit.

Founded in 1922…
Жил да был / Once upon a time
Крокодил. / There was a crocodile.
Он по улицам ходил, / He walked in the streets
Папиросы курил. / Smoking cigarettes
По-турецки говорил,- / Speaking in Turkish,
Крокодил, Крокодил Крокодилович! / Crocodile, Crocodile Crocodilovich!
(Chukovsky, 1916, although some people say…

I reported it. Screenshot and all. While I read the Times, the ad stacked up six times!

I enjoy them and I have a very short list of things I think are funny.

That's great! Too bad I already made a huge deal about non-denominational year-end celebrations only at work or I would do the same. Maybe I'll bring something in and not say why. I'm such a hypocrite.

I get it and I think you might be on to something. Star Wars is exciting but I don't know if it spurs us on to greater things as a people. It seems like more of an internal healing thing. Ramble ramble ramble.

I've told this story before: when I was a small child, my next-door neighbors were teenagers. One day, one of the girls, perhaps already out of high school, sat a bunch of us little kids down and told us the story of Star Wars. We circled her as she told us the story and it wasn't just a story but a saga and that this…

Ok, all good answers. Kiddo insists it's "ground beef," however. Let us know if you still need entertainment. She has more jokes. Also a song she made up about a chicken who stopped laying eggs and is now very hungry.

That sounds like a good holiday: Thanks, now go.

Ha! I love complete opposites! I think there were some sweet parts to the story, although I admit I was in it more for the time travel. And I was subconsciously primed to criticize it because my friend's voice was in my head. Apart from all that, my problem was with the dad, what he knew, when he knew it, and why he…

Oh, hey, are you my friend that I am not friends with anymore? She hates Love Actually with a passion and thinks it is virulently anti-feminist. I see her point, although it didn't really hit home until I saw About Time. Then I saw how Curtis doesn't give the women any real agency. I'm still going to watch Love…

Yeesh. I wouldn't have imagined that scenario. That is sad.

Sauteed sounds nice. A little snack before the sun comes up.

I like to find at least one new record to add to my holiday playlist. This year's (so far) is The Smoking Trees' "'Round Christmas Time." Soundcloud