It’s so hard to imagine having so few legitimate things to worry about in my life that I would actually write to a columnist about something so petty.  

I think the ways I’ve dealt with this in the past varied - at one of my first jobs, when it seemed like my manager was starting to target me as his next office scapegoat (he’d periodically rotate the honor) I went to HR, and he promptly cycled to someone else, which fixed things for me, but not for anyone else. But,…

I’ve been in a real reading slump for a while, but been getting out of it lately, reading some of T Kingfisher’s (Ursula Vernon’s) fantasy romances, and now the latest book in the Tuyo series from Rachel Neumeier.  Focusing on things where the main characters are good people, trying to do good - not that nothing bad…

Holy cow, that’s some really f***ed up stuff he did - does that sort of behavior still count as “school bullying”? When I read that headline, I wasn’t picturing anything this extreme.  It sounds like assault/abuse.

I love a lot of covers of Dylan songs - he is legitimately an excellent songwriter.  Don’t listen to much of his own albums, though.  

I’m kinda confused who would?  I don’t really get who this is for

There’s so much wrong with startup culture, and even well meaning startup owners don’t always understand how their investors’ incentives don’t line up with their own. I knew someone in Silicon Valley who was buying crazy expensive office chairs for his employees and throwing a lavish Christmas party, and when I…

I’m not.  A bit too early to say about the kids - the older one’s 5.  But, Lola Bunny’s walking onto the court scene was evidently her favorite part.  

It’s a perfectly serviceable kids’ movie, but nothing more. But, since this movie’s characters are the current happy meal toy line, at least I can show my kids Space Jam instead of Space Jam 2 when they ask to see the movie that Lola Bunny is in. 

Busy Phillips (played Kim Kelly) is really great at lending extra depth to her characters. She did an interview on AV Club recently where she was talking about how she goes out of the way to add depth that isn’t necessarily on the page, and how women have to do that more than men, because female characters don’t tend…

It’s pretty weird, because based on what I know of his work, he’s certainly done other things that would get him sideways glances from the orthodox crowd - unclear on how he views this as being so beyond the pale in comparison.  I think hanging out too much with hollywood people/skewed perspective sounds right.  

I really enjoyed his New Frontiers Trek series. It was pulpy as heck, by design, complete with cliffhanger endings like “this was five minutes before the ship exploded,” but it was a lot of fun. It took all the bonkers stuff from the original series like an alien race that are actually the inspiration for the Greek…

It’s pretty over the top (although over the top is basically his brand, I suppose). I mean, does anyone who smokes pot recreationally do it because it’s a Healthy Choice? On the other hand, there *are* definitely legit medical uses for it which are very under-researched at the moment because of all those byzantine…

I get really distracted by pop culture references in books that are set in alternate versions of our world - I start thinking about “would Star Wars have existed in a world where X exists?”  

Yeah, but I don’t need to see all that “realistic” hard drug use.  I know it happened, but I’m ok with glossing over those elements.

Same - the music. the humor, and the great performances sweep me along, but if I think about it very much, it’s a problem.  More of one the older I get.  

There’s multiple replies I can see in my notifications that I can’t view in their entirety or reply to myself - it’s super annoying.  

Funny enough, I was at some point a person who walked around with a chihuahua (or a chihuahua mix, anyways) in a shoulder bag.  I was fostering one, and she was a real “velcro dog” - always happiest with her person, just wants to be wherever you are.  

Yeah, I did - it’s a little different, in that the main character *is* the outsider to traditional femininity who learns that caring about those things doesn’t automatically make someone shallow, but I see a lot of overlap. As someone who doesn’t wear makeup most of the time and is in a field that’s male-dominated, I…

Cool! I hope you enjoy it -it’s one of those movies that I don’t seek out often, but I get sucked into easily when I find it’s on, because it just makes me happy when I watch it, like That Thing You Do.