Since they’re Asian ...

Gorbaduc Raymond. I think it has a nice ring to it ...

One of my favorite series finales ever.

When scientists from the Joint Genome Institute published a paper (here’s the link), describing the characteristics of a mouthless, gutless worm (Olavius algarvensis), I was inspired to pen the following:

All of my worst game sessions have been at conventions. I got stuck in a 6 hour Fate game with a player who wanted nothing more than to channel her alter ego as a Janis Joplin cover artist through the whole damn thing, and I spent a good two hours of the game desperately trying to have my character commit suicide so I…

Add a few tampons. They’re sterile, can be placed in wounds, and absorb a LOT of blood.

I am here to speak in defense of the lowly bone folder. I studied fine hand bookbinding for many years, and a bone folder is the absolute BEST tool for folding paper. Nothing else compares. And they’re only like $6, so it’s it’s not a giant investment for something that will save you both frustration and the cost of…

I've taken to making my own deodorant. It works, it's cheap, and it doesn't make me cry.

As a person who has super sensitive underarms, and for whom razors and most deodorants are a source of deep suffering, I would SO do this. Sign me up!

Hey, who ISN’T down for some tater-tits?

I so hope they wear respirators when they’re doing this stuff.

A white person can look great with curly hair. Lots of white women have super curly hair. But that does not make their hairstyle an afro. Do not call it an afro. You simply have curly hair.

She was a server at a hipster diner in Pasadena, so ... Pretty much spot on!

I once met a woman who named her children Granite and Cougar. I made non-committal noises as she told me ALL about why she had done so, as I mentally added up the cost of all the therapy they were going to need. I thought those were the worst. names. ever. But I have been proven wrong!

YESSSSSSSSSS.

When I make buttercream, it’s eggs and butter and sugar and vanilla (or espresso if I’m feeling fancy and it’s a better flavor for the cake). Perhaps “buttercream” means something different in different parts of the world?

The future looks rather a lot like the past ... specifically the 80s, in a weird Day-Glo punk pastiche kind of way.

I use that one on planes all the time.

I love that one too, but TDM has “Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun,” and for some reason that has become one of my go-to mantras.

Alfred Bester was pretty seminal, and I thought pretty well known, but almost none of my friends have ever heard of him or read anything by him. My favorite of his is “The Demolished Man.”