I’m sad that the movie adaptation of Ted Chiang’s Nebula and Hugo award winning short-story Story of your Life isn’t out this year.

It was being phased out when I was a kid, but I remember using the system efficiently.

Your comment hit me just right. Genuine lol over here.

Yeah, it's hard. I already was losing a day with Christmas, and so I didn't want to throw out another lecture by telling them to screw off on Christmas Eve. I agree, the school shouldn't have scheduled the curriculum how they did.

Their classes end at 12:30 pm every day. I figured they could make it.

Dec 24th it was the opposite: I had 7 outta 9 absent. I got some bashful apologies today.

I almost had full attendance today. Only 2 out of 9 absent.

Why is fraternization between the players and cheerleaders not allowed? Aren't they all grownups?

Did you see the Twilight Zone episode called Hocus Pocus and Frisbee? I absolutely loved that one. And of course, anything by Charles Beaumont is good.

Hazel and Filbert.

Seinfeld really should have been called “The George Costanza Show”. Without George the whole thing falls apart.

I’ll read anything that Ken Liu had a hand in.

It's true. You gotta run for a long time just to burn off a glass of egg nog. Way easier to not drink it.

Don’t miss Hocus Pocus and Frisbee. It’s one of the funniest pieces of sci fi you’ll ever see. I love that episode.

I can tell you what I’ve found preferable to all that excercise when trying to lose weight: Eating less.

Oh, you can't stop the story there!

I tried really hard to like Laurie Anderson because I became enamoured with the infamous “jukebox scene” from Wong Kar Wai’s Fallen Angels.

That’s what’s causing the injuries? I would have thought the bigger danger was the pan falling apart while lifting it off the stove after the rivets fell out; not the rivets blasting off at just the right time and trajectory to be hitting the cook!

Neil Gaiman had a fan ask him once what was taking GRRM so damned long with the next book:

In a nutshell? I wrote a story that went through about nine drafts over the course of seven months. It took up ALL my headspace. I read tons of books on writing craft. In the end I finished, but could not make my plot arc match my character arc. One day I might return to the story and fix it. I really hope I can. But…