Just don't forget to punch holes in the box, or it won't help!

Can I just say how sad I am that I listened to Serial after everyone else (I consumed it start to finish on my drive home for the holidays, about a week after the final episode aired)? I was literally jabbering away to my car about it as I listened, and was so pumped to talk to people about it, only everyone already…

Do it. Better yet, pick up Persona 3 and 4 and play those while you wait for P5 to come out. The games get off to a slow start — be warned — but then they hook you hard. The social link concept is great, especially as those links have direct impact on game-play in both the "real world" and dungeon-crawl aspects of the…

Jeez, you make ONE little corpse monster, and people just won't let it go. . . .

Huh. I remember her getting married, I think, but I thought it was a pretty simple outdoor ceremony with few people in attendance. It wasn't extravagant, was it?

I'm relieved my awful Saints didn't make the playoffs so I don't have to agonize on their behalf. On the other hand, I did make the playoffs (in my picking league), which means I now have to agonize over teams I don't care about. Actually, at this juncture it doesn't matter who wins today (though an Indy win gives me…

Yeah, both my biological grandfathers died very young (in their 50's), while both of my biological grandmothers are still alive and relatively kicking (my mom's mom is in her late 80's). Here's hoping these things sort by gender!

Ah I don't think my mom and I have fought since I was a teenager. I can't even imagine fighting with her these days. Thanks for the advice re. seeing her as often as possible, though. I tried to bail on Christmas (it's a long drive, and I only had a few days off) but caved and then was glad for it.

Man, I am fully aware that my mom's death will be a major crisis in my life — possibly irrecoverable. She's pretty much my only anchor. When I saw Hermann died, I was sad, then doubly so when I saw he was only 71. My mom's 65. I don't generally worry about someone dying in her 60's, but when she hits 70? Yeah, people…

But did you not regret it when confronted with Varric's epic sad face?

You hush your mouth! He was a GOD at sea!

Oh my God, he WAS in Overboard! Now I'm even sadder.

Nonsense. It's because his default expression looks like he's constantly on the verge of saying something sensitive and respectful to me. Er, I mean to you.

Oh God, I had a Beckett-esque conversation with a Comcast customer service representative trying to convey the very simple and obvious concept of being billed separately for a channel that is included in my package (it's listed, on the bill, as part of the package, then listed, on the same bill, as a separate,…

I literally just said, aloud, to my office (there's no one here but me, y'all; I'm such a sucker), "It can't be Harriet Beecher Stowe; that's too easy!" I might have over-thought and missed that one if I'd been able to come up with any possibility but HBS. That's like a $400 question, not a Final Jeopardy!

Child of Light has been on my to-buy list for awhile. I'll move it closer to the top now!

That's actually my biggest fear about being robbed — not losing my stuff, but that the culprits will leave the door open and my cats will get out and lost. For this reason, I choose to believe that your burglar, while in every other way a monstrous jackass, was careful not to let the cats escape.

A chaste romance option! I'm still bitter.

When Morrigan first joins, Leliana tells the Inquisitor to use her, even trust/befriend her, but never to forget that she has her own agenda. That's something, anyway.

Stroud or Hawke was a no-brainer for me (who the fuck is Stroud?). I set it up to have Alistair from the first Dragon Age be the rebel Grey Warden for my current play-through, though, and I'm actively avoiding completing that mission because I don't want to have to make the choice. (I'd pick Alistair in a heartbeat…