I thought it meant both of those things? Comic book nerds have been a thing for a pretty long time now, long predating the current comics popularity boom.

One of my cousins is a doctor in the air force, and she was complaining about how the military maternity uniforms don't have any pockets - I knew that normal maternity wear was worse than even standard women's clothes on the pocket front, but that's just ridiculous.

Or maybe he celebrates nerd culture? What exactly is ruined here? The way you word that implies that he's just faking his nerd-dom as some sort of insidious plot, but really he's just a big fan of things that a bunch of other people are really into also. I don't get the outrage, and nerd culture seems pretty strong…

I really don't get why some people are so worked up about "fake nerds" and places like Hot Topic. It's a store in my mall that sells stuff for shows & movies I like? Why isn't that a good thing, instead of something to be outraged over? There are so many other things more worthy of crusading against, especially…

I really liked how diverse their booking was - it was almost definitely a deliberate choice on their part.

Definitely sounded like a threat to me. But, clearly the killing spree will occur after someone moves/removes some of the clowns and he goes into a murderous rage.

Windows 10 does have much better security, but I 100% agree with everything else you said. So, all that effort to turn it back into Windows 7 does still leave you better off than if you just had Win 7, at least.

Elizabeth Wein wrote a good (fictional) book that takes place during the Ethiopian occupation. Not as good as her other books about WWII aviatrixes, because nothing can top Code Name Verity, but still…

Well, now, some people do get an "I support the troops" magnet to put on their car…

Black Adder's WWI season is clearly the best WWI depiction, right?

Totally agree. I don't read this series, but there's a couple other authors I like who can't keep to the more industry-standard 1 book a year schedule, and I always just remind myself that if it takes 4-6 years for Megan Whalen Turner to write books that awesome, then that's how long it takes. I will admit that I…

My favorite writers just keep getting better and better as they continue in their careers, but Charlaine Harris is definitely on a different trajectory. Her Lily Shakespeare series was fine, although very dark - it deals a lot with the main character working through the trauma of a past assault. But, the Harper…

Wait, do they have Men In Black mind-wipe technology? That'd be an exciting escalation in the strip mall espionage game.

I was pretty sure there was an implied "in their work as a musical therapist" in that statement.

It's one of those many things that's really only a thing in TV land. It always makes me wonder if the lives of the writer are that different from mine, or if they're just so wrapped up in the conventions of their field that they don't notice how strange it is.

This is an entertainingly pedantic discussion! I think that the (a) meaning is the one most likely to be a restaurant name. It would be odd, for example, if the restaurant's name were a command, which is what I'd interpret "Moo." to be.

It's not that uncommon, although you'd think someone who did it as frequently as Spicer would pick a career that involved less high-stress public speaking. I don't see how he could have expected it to be anything but high stress, given Trump's track record going into the presidency.

Well, the first one was actually in an old Quaker State and Lube station, so it made sense then.

There was a place near where I lived in Virginia (DC area) that was just called "Vegetarian Restaurant" as far as I could tell. They never had any cars in their parking lot, and they were right next to a print shop that appeared to be some sort of a front, based on my one time going in there, so I liked to pretend…

Did Quaker Steak and Lube make it into their contest? Could be punny or distressingly sexual, I suppose. They're primarily a wing joint, so the name doesn't even make sense in that respect.