Atomic Empire in Durham, North Carolina is the bee's knees and where I source all of my comics. There is a huge space for gaming in the back of the store and they serve beer. Good beer I'm told!

You've got me on Fayetteville :)
If you ever come back through, the smallish city of Asheboro has an awesome zoo and the best regional variation on the waffle house in the world, the Golden Waffle.

I'm sorry but there are awesome people across my state, not just in the big cities (like the one I live in.)

My mother owns an independent bookstore a town of around 4000 people. She has multiple gay, lesbian, and trans* friends who live in town as well as feminists, college professors, and "lib-ruhls."
While a lot of…

Did the ending remind you of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind?

Exactly!
If future peoples can't figure out how to source water for themselves, I doubt they'll be able to stock a Forever 21. Just ask Tank Girl.

I couldn't put this book down (or more accurately stop listening to the audio version) but I found myself really frustrated by it.

It wasn't that I needed to know the exact mechanics of time travel in this universe, specifically how or why the house worked but I wanted to feel like the author had an inkling of the…

I didn't notice any out of place slang in the book so I think this was taken care of.

I couldn't resist.

http://io9.com/about-io9-4523… Because:

Don't ask me how I know but there is a Precious porn parody.
Yes Precious. From the novel Push by Sapphire.

I get ear worm barbershop quartets in my head (fragments of songs piecing together.) This song kills all ear worms but doesn't stay in your head:

This is unfortunately going to make doctors feel even more entitled to state the obvious.
I'd really like to be able see a doctor about a health issue that isn't directly related to me being fat and not have them bring it up as if its a gasp!shock!awe! revelation.
For example, when I go to the gynecologist for a…

I'm in the middle of that chapter right now. I'm looking forward to discussing with everyone here when I get done!

"Hog Tits!" to you too, good sir.

I clicked through to see who else had commented CARNIVALE in all caps to realize that the fan art here had already done my job for me.

I got misty reading his post. Patton gets it and I can't wait to see where he goes with it from here.

I couldn't get far enough to see if anyone has mentioned The Apple but I''ll just throw it out there. A dystopian version of 1994 where the police state is run by a corrupt music conglomerate and apparent gold lame manufacturer.
Oh yeah and it's a musical.

I wonder if they will stay close to the original illustrations in animation style or if we'll get something closer to the 80's anime.

I loved Dracula enough to see it 3 times in the theater as a kid and become completely obsessed with the idea of drinking absinthe at 13 (mildly overrated.)

The local independent theater is going to be showing this with the Shining as a double feature for a week next month.
I'm torn over whether I think the feature should be first and then the documentary or the opposite. If the doc is first, people can watch the feature with renewed clinical interest but if you haven't…