I gave up on watching the show mid-this-season, and now I’m really glad. I LOVED Charlie and especially any time Charlie and Dean did their almost-siblings schtick.

I have a lot of friends who don’t like tomatoes, but I’m cool about because I then get their unwanted tomatoes. WIN WIN!

I was literally just wondering where they were and if they were still around what with all the things going on where a legit group of fair-minded citizen peacekeepers might come in handy.

That was my takeaway. My depressing, depressing takeaway.

One dad down...

My dad was a really great guy. He was grumpy and opinionated and impatient, but he never ever EVER made me feel anything but that he was my dad. He never sexualized any woman or girl (at least never ever around me or my mom and knowing how quiet and kind of socially shy Dad was, I doubt he ever did anything like that…

Well, I think we all know who the culprit is here...

That’s not an honor code — that’s multi-generational assholery and an explanation for how this douche thought he could get away with it.

Less taxes!! What utter assholes.

I think this is a pretty sick burn (via Jia’s article about Tidal earlier today)

I will never understand mean pranks like that at all but especially done by alleged “friends.”

No. No, there is not. I use Heinlein fandom to judge people the same way I use Ayn Rand fandom.

I was working third shift at a soul-killing job and during handover to the morning shift, we had to explain a minor mess-up which we were all staying to help sort out. It wasn’t a big deal and this was one of those completely pointless jobs where what we did was shift around data that had no bearing on anything in the…

I was working at the video desk at the library in the dark years before DVDs, blu-rays, or even streaming or digital downloads! It was a brutal time.

I can see it not being to people's taste, too (well, all stories, really), and yet this particular friend not "getting" this particular book was a real mind-blower for me.

The cover!

It is deeeeeply beautiful and original and heart-rending. I haven't read her 2nd (unrelated) book only because I'm a bit afraid to break the spell of this one.

Honestly, I recommend going back and reading some 18th and 19th Century novels. That's what this book most reminded me of. Not genre, but try Vicar of Wakefield (which is also quite funny).

I love this book SO MUCH I cannot even. One of my favorites published this century.

So much great Marvel cosplay! I loved Winter Soldier, Thor, and Captain and Ms Marvel especially.