Our college dining hall had several rooms separated by dividers that left a gap of two feet or so before the ceiling. A group of us staged three puppet show performances utilizing this gap as a stage and silverware as the players.

The first “show” was an incoherent spur-of-the-moment improvisation. The
second and third…

Is telling your abusive husband that you're going on a two week trip to visit your parents and celebrate your pregnancy but then never coming back considered a prank? Because it felt like I was pranking him and it was definitely some of my best work.

“But then I remembered how much money I make off of them!”

Gotcha—and I hear ya on the self-worth thing, for what it’s worth. I also can’t imagine myself doing work other than academic or academic-adjacent work, and this is central to who I am. I took a year off between my MA and PhD and it nearly gutted me. So I know you know this, and I know it too, and you’re working…

Apologies to everyone who replied with lovely baby sling advice last week; I posted in SNS Saturday night but couldn’t stay up to catch any of the replies, usually I get to them on Sunday when that happens. On Sunday I got up miserable and spaced-out and I’ve been more or less miserable and spaced-out all week. I read…

It’s an ‘X’ for no and a ‘circle’ for yes. That’s why older games and some JRPGs use circle to confirm and X to cancel, instead of the other way around.

I love carnival games. Always have. I know many of them are indirectly rigged against winning, even if not intentionally so by the operator.

Guys, fellas, my dude, bros, brochachos...we gotta talk. Woman to man.

NextDoor in Nightvale is straight wild.

Tie Fighter. Not only was it an overall improvement over the already stellar X-Wing, it also told a very interesting story from the viewpoint of the Empire.

That whole story feels like there should have been J Walter Weatherman moment after the kid got stabbed. If you don’t know who that is, look up arrested development.

People’s problem with the economics of EGS shows a complete misunderstanding of how capitalism works today and how their idea of how capitalism should work (free market ideology).

That spin does make it sound uncomfortable, doesn’t it? But it doesn’t engage with the ways that monopolies develop in the internet age.

Many years ago, when I was but a young idiot in Gap wide-leg trousers and Steve Madden pointy-toe flats, I hooked up several times with a guy who my college friends referred to as Sketchy Dave. This was an accurate and not fondly bestowed nickname. The first time I went to his apartment, he insisted that we watch Blue…

Blame It on the Rain

Three quick and glib responses to your post:

I see no issue with breastfeeding while streaming. Babies demand to eat when they are hungry, and feedings can last anywhere from 30 minutes to over an hour. It’s hard to schedule around, which is one reason why breastfeeding in public spaces is legal. Furthermore, there is nothing gratuitous about the activity -…

“YOU’RE USING BOOBS WRONG!!!”

Sidestepping the whole legalisation-of-surrogacy thing, which is a topic that’s very interesting but which I am not qualified to speak on (except maybe to say those payments seem low for the work and risk, and that especially in the States the prospective parents should definitely have to pay for serious health…

Altbiers!!??! Fake brews!!!