In the most perfect example of irony I know, Farenheit 451 is indeed on a number of banned books lists every year.

Seriously, how many families in Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma, etc... have a family legend about such-and-such great-grandparent who was part or full Native American? I’ve been told of at least three in my family tree, but without a shred of actual documentation. And no way am I sending a private company my…

The now-defunct GameTap service had the sequels to that game. They were released episodically, with all of them telling one really funny story. If memory serves, they saved the world from a demon by ceding the US to Canada...

A lot of it probably was. I’ve fortunately never been in that position, but the salt water is supposed to allow for better buoyancy, so if you spread your arms and legs out, and let yourself float, that 11 hours is completely possible (if terrifying and exhausting). I’d be curious to know what kind of PFD the guy was…

You didn’t waste ANY money. You aren’t actually buying cookies, you are donating to a Troop. Your cash translates into funds those girls can use for things like STEM courses, and trips to cool places.

I think I still have most of a bottle of Laphroaig 10-yr in my cabinet. I found the smokiness too overwhelming for my tastes (which is leaning heavily Irish lately), but I might dig it back out to try it with this combo...

Mrs. Copperpot and I indulged our daughter shamelessly in this arena. Her first doll was Elizabeth (Felicity’s English friend from just before the Revolution), and received Felicity a year later. In the long-ago days when my children consented to let me read to them, my daughter and I went through a ton of those…

I can’t even get my head around how arrogant and repugnant you must be to sue the parents of the young man you murdered. For, like, anything. But then I took another look at the name of his lawyer, and realized I’d seen it somewhere before:

The Razor Crest actually kinda looks like a VW Microbus even.

Thank you. That makes perfect sense, and I’m glad they listened to him, then.

I feel like I need more context here. Were Favreau and Filoni trying to hide the puppet from Vanity Fair and other press/photographers to keep it a secret? I mean, ‘Coward’ is a really strong word to me, but maybe Herr Herzog just tosses that off whenever?

The latest entry in the millennia-old line of snake oils... 

Why even use a ship? Just strap a hyperdrive onto an asteroid and point it at the target. Take that a step further, and you can install one in an actual small moon and now you don’t even need the financial boondoggle of the Death Star. No crew, no finicky khyber-dependent superlaser, just pure mass colliding with a…

And we have our Winner of Internets for today. Nicely done, sir.

I’ve still never watched the original. I LOVED the 1990 remake with Ben Cross as Barnabus Collins, and it’s very possible that my mom still has the Dark Shadows joke book somewhere in her library...

I was fine until Shannen Doherty showed up. And then I was very not fine...

I am appalled at how far down I had to scroll for this. I was ready for the first post to read “I want 5 megawatts by mid-May”...

Anymore, I’m pretty much in the “You do you” mindset. Who am I to dictate what pleases someone else, or when they want to be pleased by whatever that may be?  Mrs. Copperpot busted out the Christmas romance novels ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT, and there will be one in her hand probably through Valentine’s Day. So, do what…

Mrs. Copperpot was nice enough to get me some Staghorn when she was in Door County a couple weeks ago. I’m trying to save at least one for Thanksgiving, but not sure if I’ll make it...

I’ll go ahead and take this opportunity to recommend New Glarus brewery’s ‘Totally Naked’. It’s just about the purest, clearest tasting beer I’ve ever had, and I buy it every time I’m in Wisconsin.