I often tell people that if I stare at someone for 5-10 seconds without responding to some ridiculous statement/question, it means that I’m cycling through all the answers that would get me fired/punched/disowned before I settle on something more ... polite.

The good thing about Seven of Nine showing up is that the last half of the season running up to her appearance is when the writers really started putting some effort into the story, and they also started investing a lot more into character development - not just in Seven but how everyone else reacted to the most…

I just finished all of Voyager last week. The first 2.5 seasons were hard to get through - I enjoyed the characters but the writing was a snoozefest - and then it got a lot better in 3. Consequently, I’m giving Discovery a couple of seasons to figure their shit out, unless they jump the shark so hard it’s not worth…

As much money as these people are rolling in, you’d think they’d at least get their teeth fixed.

I know, that was poorly phrased. Should have been “just” instead.

Dear Director Riker: please hold the damn camera still. The nonstop tilting and panning is incredibly aggravating.

I might not have lasted either, but I have a trip next month, and I didn’t want to put brand new cats through a week-long absence and strange people feeding them right away. Still deciding if I want a pair of kittens, or older cats that need a home with someone who knows how to handle them (strays, owner…

I have anecdotal evidence too! I haven’t had the flu in 20 years, and I don’t get anything communicable except hay fever! And I sure as shit don’t fast.

23 is an amazing age. The one who died last month would have been 20 in a few weeks, and she probably had hyper/hypothyroidism and probably impending heart failure, but I discussed the situation with my vet in May when the other one died (oral sarcoma - she went from fine to dead in three weeks, and that was a hell of…

I avoided looking into both of my cats’ eyes because I expressly didn’t want to be haunted by the sight of their little faces going blank. Once they were gone, it was okay (well, as okay as one gets with it), but I didn’t want to watch the transition. One of them was done in the belly - it was the first one I’d ever…

Straight, but I often say that just because I’ve never met a woman I’m attracted to doesn’t mean I never will. And I mention this because I just had an argument recently with a woman who snottily declared that this makes me bi, and I’m bi-phobic for identifying as straight and ... why the fuck do people think they can…

I still can’t listen to All Along The Watchtower, because the intro was my ringtone for quite a while about ten years ago, and I associate it with my LDR and quite a few painful calls...

I put the radio on the country station. I friggin’ HATE country, and it makes me roll over to slap it off rather than dozing another few minutes listening to classic rock.

I CAN draw to save my life and much of it looks silly - the whole tiny head HUGE TITS TORSO THIGHS and tiny ankles and feet. The orange jumpsuit shoved down to the woman’s lower hips should be puddled off her knees with all the stuff on there.

The ONE major perk I have at my job - due to seniority - is a ton of PTO, although they frown on me taking more than two weeks in one go. I always take an extra 48 hours when I get back from a major trip, in part because I can, and in part because nobody wants to deal with me directly after two weeks of gallivanting…

Sagan died just as consumer-level internet access was taking off, and well before social media was A Thing. After the surprises just of the last couple years, You Never Know.

(but I’d like to hope not.)

I’ve been making my own version of daal for the last year or so (not even pretending to be “real” Indian food, but an adequate facsimile for my wants) and have been using chicken broth/stock, just because that’s what I had handy the first time I made it and it came out fine, and it doesn’t taste chicken-flavored at…

I attend an annual festival where on multiple occasions international bands (or some of the individuals in bands) have been turned away once they land in the US for visa complications. The promoter’s hired a professional to dot the i’s and cross the t’s and it’s been far less of a problem, but every couple of years it…

Huh. I’ve always gotten the 3-6 month warning when booking international travel, and it’s almost always been by Delta.

Half Italian, grew up in a Sicilian town in western NY, and you know what? Sometimes the stereotype is true... which doesn’t make it any less of an eye-rollingly stupid joke. Fungu, motherfucker. Instead, I’ll go find a little hole in the wall restaurant that barely passes FDA regulations, run by an…