Even better!

So how does this work? Do I get CancerAIDS now or something?

You know, Star Wars turned into a hardcore sex franchise so gradually, I didn't even notice.

Wow. Thanks for writing that up. I didn't think I could hate the Klan more, but now I do.

I think Ben Carson would be worse. He would declare war on the Stargate aliens for trying to steal our grain supplies.

It would open up a whole new demographic for them if the Klan used D&D monsters as ranks. One could be the Grand Displacer Beast or the Imperial Owlbear.

There are a lot of people running right now who would be apocalyptically worse.

Once the rebels established a stronghold in Beverley Hills Post Office, it was all over for him.

James K Polk was the Napoleon of the Stump. If that doesn't tell you how down he got, nothing I can say will.

But most Scientologists are white, some are very wealthy, and the Org frowns on homosexuality. I think the GOP will give them a pass. It worked for Romney, right?

Hey, at least they don't have that Bill Murray Christmas disaster.

Same here.

I've been dipping into the Penguin Classics Edition of Thomas Ligotti's early short stories, but I'm about to get started on the Library of America Women Crime Writers 2 volume collection. That's eight shortish novels and that should carry me through to the Christmas book glut.

I read the complete horror stories anthology. Man, when that guy was on (People of the Black Stone, Pigeons from Hell), he was on.

It's always the right time for MR James. The Wordsworth Editions collection lives in my carry on and recently saw me through an extended sojurn in the Sunshine State.

Well, they both champion learning and empathy, so they're certainly not conservative indoctrination.

I think it will go past that into actively bad. And that worst kind of bad: odd but dull.

In the LA market, one of the blander radio stations starts with the nonstop Christmas music early in November, and runs it 24/7 until 12/25, if not a bit later. They kicked it off on the 15th this year.

Can't we just get beyond Star Trek?

So Frank Miller will be writing it.