One of my cats was allergic to the clay litter (possibly only the scented version, but I didn’t bother to do the experiment), so I switched to the stuff made from recycled newspaper. The pellets are big enough that they don’t get tracked anywhere.

My immediate thought was that he’s holding out for a (bigger) bribe, but I have no idea how important women’s soccer is to anyone in Iran.

Back when I decided to learn about screenwriting, I actually did an adaptation of Faro’s Daughter because I think it’s one of her most filmable books. (I was picturing Joan Plowright as Lady Bellingham, that tells you how long ago this was.) The scene between Kit and Ravenscar in the cellar would be worth the price of…

That doesn’t strike me as Elizabeth Banks’ style, but stranger things have happened.

Isn’t it supposed to be backwards and in high heels?

Is she refusing to issue any marriage licenses whatsoever? If so, I’d like to see her get sued by a straight couple and let that be the contempt finding that they send her to jail for. Makes it harder to play the martyr card, which is what she’s going for.

The thing people miss is that it’s not a free pass: You really have to repent. You really have to be sorry. You really have to mean it. Not just, “Oh, wait, I could be going to hell, that was a bad move” sorry.

Courtesy of Leverage 2.05 The Fairy Godparents Job:

Someone is unclear on the concept of “gift.”

And now for a completely different kind of paladin story...

I agree that Flynn tends to suck all the oxygen out of the room. However, he spent 10 years battling the forces of evil on his own, and now he has help, so maybe he’ll calm down a bit. But yeah, I’d rather not have him supplant the team dynamic.

I was going to nominate Jhereg by Steven Brust, but then I remembered Cowboy Feng’s Space Bar and Grill.

Hence the field of historiography, which is the study of how history gets written.

If it’s the swashbuckler thing that gets you going, why choose Zorro over D’Artagnan or the Dread Pirate Roberts, or even Errol Flynn?

Remember reading about a similar situation in an Oliver Sacks book — a surgeon with Tourette’s who would use meds when he was working to control tics but would go off them on the weekends to feel more in touch with his creativity.

It’s a navel-gazing question: A media person asking about media behavior. Sanders has little patience with narratives constructed by the media.

I am puzzled: What updates to pronoun usage have been made since these characters debuted?

I’m pretty sure that purchasing people is going to be illegal, regardless of what you make them do after taking ownership. As for pimps, acting as an agent wouldn’t be illegal, but beating up your workers would be — and your workers would be able to file a police complaint without having to worry about winding up in…

It’s highly entertaining without being in any way actually good, if you can get in the mood for some earnest sentimentality and retro production numbers. Plus aging Gene Kelly is still Gene Kelly.

She’s stuck a feather in her hair. Shall we call it macaroni?