Lynda Carter sends her regards.

You send her the mating photo you've prepared in advance, of course.

Violins are for wusses. We're bringing out the teeny-tiny electric guitars on this one.

But someone accidentally added an extra ingredient to the concoction: way too much investment in superhero movies.

I mean, I didn't read nonfiction books for years because I didn't realize there were long-form options besides textbooks and navel-gazing memoirs, so I understand the reflexive "nope, not for me" impulse. I just wouldn't recommend sweeping pronouncements on the merit of something I haven't read in a genre I'm…

These days, I only bother with physical copies of stuff I really cherish. Which means my bookshelf does slant more toward YA and classics than my casual reading habits.

Except that if her phrasing here's an accurate reflection of how she's doing it in real life, it's the kind of connection between an anthropologist and a member of the remote tribe they're studying. Just say, "Oh, that's not really my thing. Have you read X?" and move on. Don't ask the other person to find the hook…

As a former teen Potterhead (and still a fan), I can confirm the books are pretty popular with humanities PhDs. More so while they were still being written and those folks could project their favorite theories about how Harry and Hermione represented the Platonic theory of eros or whatever, but there are still enough…

To paraphrase C.S. Lewis, a good story is a good story. If it's been labeled a children's story because the protagonist is young and it doesn't contain explicit sex or violence or other shallow markers of adulthood, that doesn't mean adults can't find things of value in it.

Donald and Jared at Covfefe. Twitter, its memes open.

Oh. I was expecting this: https://m.youtube.com/watch…

I wasn't trying to frame it as a positive thing, but it fits here.

The Deaf community (which, disclaimer, I'm not a member of, but I have had some exposure to) is particularly sensitive about this kind of stuff. Which is understandable, to a point: there's a long history of hearing people assuming that deaf=stupid and acting accordingly, and a lot of fear of Deaf culture dying out…

My cats also have the "Heads up; I'm about to barf" meow. Which is occasionally useful in terms of getting them somewhere they'll make less of a mess, but mostly just results in a lot of "Oh, God, no, not there!"

What's Sarah Chalke up to these days?

The subliminal messaging was a bit of a cheat.

I think it's obvious Missy's going to be on the good guy's side for some portion of the episode. I also think it's equally if not more obvious that won't last long.

To be fair, if he'd done the latter, he'd probably have wound up with one that was also blind or otherwise unhelpfully incapacitated.

All I can say is, it didn't land for me. It felt contrived, it felt clumsy, it felt…well, impure.

Fair point, but I don't feel like that was part of the calculation here.