Look, everybody makes Freudian slits now and then.

A friend of mine had something similar happen, and covered it by saying she had inadvertently sent her shopping list: peaches, bottled water, eggplant, Hershey's Kisses...

I’ve sent plenty of cringeworthy texts, but none of them makes me as uncomfortable as the one I almost (but didn’t) send. It’s not even particularly a good story, but it makes my stomach jump just to think about it.

A couple of years ago, I was at a function for my wife’s family, and somebody wanted to get everyone together for a photo in the backyard. The plan was to get it framed as a surprise present for Grandma, and it was surreptitiously coordinated behind her back while she was cooking.

I couldn’t find what you were referring to until I searched their store for “napkins”...

I dunno, man. You’d think that this would’ve come up in the cursory research an actor does for a role but he is Australian (meaning that he comes from a hemisphere with no native wolverines, not that he doesn’t do research). It’s not like Australians give us a hard time for not knowing about (*Googles “australian…

I live in Madison, Wisconsin, and there are a few celebrities who have homes here. I know lots of people who have truly-Lynchian stories about meeting David Lynch around town.

“Total package” ...of tools?

Ooh.  Saving this one for...  IDK, sometime other than Thanksgiving.  This sounds fantastic and my in-laws (who wouldn’t touch it anyway) don’t deserve it.

The thing is, I might actually buy a ticket to The Adventures of Big Yoda & Pony.

Now in 2018? Definitely not. But back in the ‘90s when things were relatively prosperous, Bill—a centrist, no matter what his opponents claim—pulled a lot of right-wingers closer to the left (if only temporarily).

Right? The final chapter contains so many wonderful surprises. It’s always hard for me to contain myself when I read it out loud.

My wife and I read this one a chapter a day every October, though we start fudging the schedule toward the end when the chapters start getting much longer. That and as much as I love H.P. Lovecraft’s Dreamlands, we sometimes skip ahead in *that* chapter.

I came more or less to say this! When I first learned that he’d started recording music for kids, my reaction was “well, that makes sense. Hope he cleans up his language.”  I feel bad for parents whose kids were young while children’s music was still artistic exile for professional musicians; children’s music is…

That would make sense, but this is their own description of their method: “This is the date of the earliest recorded use in English, as far as it could be determined, of the oldest sense defined in the entry.”

I was initially impressed (really? “Gridlock” is only as old as I am? How about that!), but after glancing through a few years I’ve decided that there’s a problem with whatever criteria they’re using. “One-trick pony”, “done deal”, and “smoke and mirrors”, for example, definitely predate 1980 in popular American speech…

I hate to be the guy who unhelpfully says that we wouldn’t be in this mess if the stuio had just let William Castle direct the movie as originally planned, but we wouldn’t be in this mess if the stuio had just let William Castle direct the movie as originally planned.

Definitely check out the backwards message in You’re Not the One (I Was Looking For) by Blue Oyster Cult.

I’ll grant that its appeal is much narrower than Wookieepedia’s, but isn’t TMBW.net the gold standard of fandom-maintained Wikis?

The packaging is so much classier than the rotini I usually buy.