A few years ago Aminder Dhaliwal published a graphic novel titled “Woman World” (pub. by Drawn and Quarterly) with the same theme of a plague killing off all males. (Not sure about animals.) It’s a wonderful meditation on how an all-female society would construct itself, as well as addressing the melancholy of knowing…

The cringey sample letter cited in the article sounds like the cringey ads that couples (who were probably a whole lot more desperate) used to place in the personals seeking a baby to adopt. If I were selling my house I would be more emotionally swayed if I actually met the prospective buyers and their bouncy children.…

Campbell’s tomato soup is definitely a win. I usally stock up on soups that don’t need added liquid, like Progresso and Campbell’s Chunky, for those apocalyptic times when you are one can away from starvation. Or I’m too pressed for time/depressed/sick to make anything that requires preparation.

So I made this for dinner last night, leaving out the meat (yes I know that’s the best part) and figuring I would just eat the cheese on the side. It’s pretty soupy but of course you can just keep throwing more stuff into it. Pretty tasty, even though I went light on the hot pepper. I mean, kimchi and starch, what’s…

It’s the serendipity!

The public library! And it’s free!

There was a wonderful adaptation of Dante’s Inferno from 1911. It’s on YouTube.

As with many other things in our modern world, this has been foretold in the movie “Network”.

“Take me now, Your Grace!”

The good thing about watching it on my small DVD player was that I could skim through the romantic bits and thus missed the entire “taking over someone else’s body” thing. I also saw it on HBO and I still missed that part.

We’re still waiting for the most recent James Bond movie, which was supposed to have come out a year ago.

Only now do recall the September 11 anthology you mentioned. I’ve forgotten all the films except one from Iran (I think), and the one with Ernest Borgnine directed by Sean Penn.

It’s not native to the Bronx!

I don’t think that’s mathematically possible.

Surely there is an actual, experienced, professional game show host they could have found somewhere?

I’m not suggesting this to be snarky, but the director of the Green Knight could do a great job with the Book of Revelation.

I’m not suggesting this to be snarky, but the director of the Green Knight could do a great job with the Book of…

The Free Amazons of Darkover by Marion Zimmer Bradley, and other Darkover books. Leave out brutality and downbeat endings.

The Free Amazons of Darkover by Marion Zimmer Bradley, and other Darkover books. Leave out brutality and downbeat…

Happy Women’s Equality Day!

Cotton lint is also compostable.

I haven’t tried refrigerating flour but it seems rather moist in there. Keeping it in a jar or other air-tight container is preferable to leaving it in the bag, if you have a container large enough.