I would have liked to have seen Ursula K. LeGuin or Octavia Butler, another two game-changers, win a very big prize. The former is still alive, but I can’t see the Nobel people recognising her.

I do get why people love her, I’m just more or less meh on her.

who doesn’t sleep naked and why?

Oh yeah!

Oh, I love/hate this conversation, because I (personally, subjectively) don’t like to read Atwood’s books, but I agree that she has the stature and deserves the recognition.

On the one hand, there really are a large number of writers who make more sense (to me) as Nobel prize winners, many of them women. On the other hand, the Nobel prize for literature is so fucking random sometimes (Patrick Modiano? really?). These two issues are pretty orthogonal.

needs more stars

I love Alice Munro. I keep thinking “that’s it, I can’t imagine that another one of her stories will surprise or move me, and then boom! she does it again.”

noice

I think it would be close to literally impossible, from a chemical point of view.

This is what parliaments are for!

The end of Richardsonian sentimentalism.

“Honey, do you mind doing the dishes?”

Nah, they got too soggy in milk.

it really is

The 70s had some pretty great stuff. Pink poos, Harold & Maude, and velour.

I love Aimee Mann, she is really one of the very best.

You seem fed up.

Dear Martians,

The shirt under the sweater, and the colours, it’s amazing. Only thing that could have made the cosplay - and the original - better?