It’s a terrific book - not fantasy, but grounded in what could be reality, like Mary Renault, or John Gardner’s Grendel.

Yes, and he turned into females more than once, though his fellow gods weren’t supposed to mention it. If any of the MCU characters were to be bisexual it certainly ought to be Loki, the trickster-shapeshifter.

That looks better than my own mental image.

This series is why I subscribed to HBO.

When I was about seven years old and a reader of everything, I began puzzling over words like “a few”, “many, “several”. “A couple” of days later must mean two days; but “a few days”? “Many kinds”? “Several”? How many was a few? How many was several? At the dinner table one evening I kept asking “How many is several?”…

No, that was RuPaul in the big Afro and tight white outfit.

I have always mused about the bra and panty set I saw in their catalog some twenty years ago, which were decorated with sapphires. The bra alone cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. I wondered, which Arab sheik is going to be the purchaser? And how carefully would you have to wash those panties?

And here I was hoping that it was Robert Silverberg’s Nightwings.

Hey, people lie about their weight, lie about their age -- why not lie about your height?

Y’all eat that rice all the time, right?

Big article in the New Yorker. I would still watch the documentary though.

And he’s UNscrupulous.

The even weirder thing is that it looks like she spray-painted the symbol for women’s liberation. Like a child who thinks she’s writing a dirty word.

Just as well... It was terrific the way it was. Just enough hint of Hurricane Karina and internet conspiracy theories, and I didn’t even notice that it was a version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

At least as a dancer you get some exercise.

I haven’t read the original novel but it is supposed to be excellent.

I really liked “Lou Grant” back in the day. Thre were a lot of issues-of-the-week , many of them broaching subjects for pretty much the first time. Such as, drunk driving is bad; if a public figure tells disparaging ethnic jokes in a private setting, does the public have a right to know about it? If someone dies tragi…

I’ll be optimistic and say, if that was many many many years ago, maybe this Chinese generation doesn’t see it that way anymore? We can hope.

I first encountered Loki in a Superman comic in the early Sixties. He was tricked into being sent back to wherever he came from his asking for his likeness to be on the largest coin offered - the nickel - which caused him to say his own name backwards.

As long as the checks don’t bounce...