I saw a show about Japanese mascots! Some of them are adorable but others make no sense at all! Do you like your school's mascot? Which is your favourite of all of them?

Diskwiss, you are onidiskwiss even when you aren't wearing a demon mask.

Oh, I hadn't thought of that! You told me before about baba! I knew oni, but I never put the two together. That is what happens in the movie, the woman who wears the demon mask is older and trying to frighten her daughter in law. I learned from that movie to never ever put on a demon mask.

Diskwiss, why don't you surprise us and leave every one of these posts alone?

Do you mean you've definitely decided to announce your engagement at Christmas? How will you do it? By Skype? By a letter? Will you wait until Christmas Day itself?

I don't see what's so fast and loose about that first cover. An enraged, hunchbacked Tim Roth, a giant green space robot, a crabby old hobo and good ol' Sarsaparilla Annie with her trademark ginger curls. Everything that makes Star Wars what it is, right there in one image.

Diskwiss, this is a one bite post.

Bright Moon Girl is a great name! The moon saved me yesterday. It was so dark on the way home I wouldn't have been able to see anything except there was a bright half moon. So I had just enough light to see my feet so I didn't walk off an embankment or trip over a root or something. I think I might have to add a…

Despite my having no particular interest in Star Wars, I did find the essays reexamining the prequels to be interesting. It has seemed to me in the last few months that AVC is returning to its old form, with more thoughtful essays and less industry gossip. I'm pleased with the direction AVC is taking lately! And…

What's the opposite of Star Wars? I've gracefully endured "Star Wars Week" because I am very fond of the AVC and I do want it to be able to pay the bills!

Diskwiss, I said my chores were over, I have no intention of fighting with you over a post, so spit it out right now!

Haha, yeah, I hadn't thought that our chimney sweep is kind of a rip off because he's not at all like Dick van Dyke! He is really covered in soot though! He's so sooty I can't believe it ever totally comes off. Wouldn't that be awful? Like mechanics who are handling grease all the time, their fingers are like…

Diskwiss, do you eat our posts as they are or do you pick through them and just eat the tastiest letters, like Os?

My sister makes the best skwash! She mixes marshmallows in with it! I don't know how she does it. It could just be she dumps a bag of marshmallows into the hot skwashed skwash and mixes it up, but she pretends its more complicated than that.

Diskwiss, do you ever stuff our posts with other posts to make dressing?

It doesn't surprise me that Stacey would want her wedding to be sheek! Do you think you would like a Laura Ingalls wedding? For EB to go away for awhile and then return with a team of horses and a wagon and take you off to your new home together? Which of course would be a luxury top floor condo in downtown Tokyo! …

Diskwiss, if you still have some room in your Halloween bag, I found a mouldy green pepper at the back of the fridge.

You don't still have a fever do you? Are you staying in bed today?

Diskwiss, you haven't already eaten all your Halloween rocks have you?

I'm sorry you were sick yesterday, I wish you'd stay home the whole day today even if you are feeling a bit better. I'm glad your cousin and EB are taking care of you! What did EB read to you? Isn't being read to the best? I like listening to books on tape, but its better when someone is right there reading to you…