I don't think any reasonable person could deny you that joy.

I'm not going to lie, the fact that I get to live such an iconic bit is pretty satisfying.

That's been my general take on the prospect of marriage in the context of an actual relationship that is supposed to last until one of us dies. We're not talking about a marriage in that context though, we're talking about it in terms of a beneficial legal agreement between two people who love each other.

We had three months of living directly across the border from one another, meeting once or twice a week, with pretty constant correspondence. Longish distance since then.

Okay, so I'm going to ask a pretty big question here. Background: I'm an American citizen, my girlfriend is Chinese living in a Canadian border city, about 9 months from getting her permanent residence. It's been a little long distance for the last year, but not terribly so. Basically, we spend all our weekends…

My girlfriend likes pop music, so I end up listening to a lot of the stuff I usually ignore. She really likes the song Rude, by a band that I know isn't Coldplay, but which I'll just call Coldplay. I have conflicted feelings about this music, but hey, fuck it, like I'm so hip right?

Ugh, seeing Japanese written out in English makes me want to shake you down for lunch money.

I'm actually a drummer who loved RB drums, but at least part of that is because I was never going to be in an actual band.

I think the movie corrects a lot of the issues I had with the book. The book by its nature was kind of an exposition dump (which, come on, why we bought it, right?), and there wasn't a lot of room to explore the expanse of Mars as a place the way a more traditional novel could have. The prose in the book is punchy,…

He's snakin' the bacon

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I hope you enjoy it!

There's a lot to dig into re: how allegorically we ought to read Seveneves, especially in the first half, which culminates in a literal creation myth for the future races. The Eves make it clear what qualities they want to drive the development of their ideal descendants, and it's hard for that to not color how we…

Hot Bodied Oldworlder?

I didn't need to google that name, who told you I did?!

Feather Noah?

I wouldn't know the difference (I guess that much is probably obvious).

You and Libket both make good points about the Malala character. Do you think it's maybe better to read her not as a stand-in for Malala specifically, but maybe for well-intentioned/high-achieving young people in general? Certainly, the first half of the novel constantly revisits the idea that behaviors which have…

I have trouble with song lyrics, sometimes. I dunno, maybe it's brain cancer. I've had worse lyrics than that. You know the Coldplay (EDIT: I've been told it's actually Onerepublic) song where the guy sings "It's too late too apologize"? Until about two months ago, I just assumed he was saying "It's too late to…

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