Stephen King knows his craft enough and has a sly delight in his Richard Bachman pseud that I enjoyed when Desperation/The Regulators were released together. If there is a modern author who is both prolific and meta enough to release a novel and its remixed fanfic and make it work, that author is clearly King. Yeah,…

And as I replied to another response: it all comes to the same. If you want fewer taxpayer dollars spent on fewer cleanups, there must be better regulation of and consequences for the businesses in the industries that cause these disasters. Contact your state and federal representatives and let them know this issue…

Finnegan (the cinnamon mitt welcoming baby sable Mili in the first pic) is such an adorably huggy guy. I flipped back the polka dot throw the other day and nearly melted when I saw him asleep with Sadie:

Comes to the same: those contracts were with businesses in industries the government can better regulate and fine. It won’t fix everything that’s wrong with the military industrial contracts but it would be one hell of a good start.

That land was a former toxic dump site. I worked as the lab director at an environmental chemistry lab and I personally went to the field to test grounds that had previously been used to dump toxic waste. The billion dollars that paid for this would have come from the private business that did the dumping. The very…

This is my little Sadie Moriarty, who cleverly disguised herself as a polka dot in her sleep. (I was shaking so hard from suppressed giggles, I still don’t know how this pic turned out in focus.) The olive green fabric? That’s the bottom of the flipped bed the other three were sleeping under. Mama’s little rocket…

My little boops and I* will sleep that much better knowing this.

My guess is no, but only because the feet aren’t impossibly tiny. (Miller’s writing doesn’t belie the sort of cunning needed to think to cover the feet with PostIts and I’m dubious his ego would allow him to seek a consult.)

Bring on the hurricane. My ferrets and I are in a safe place, and I have plenty of reading and booze topping off my emergency supplies.

I can buy him as a threat as a surgeon because of the patients the algorithm could identify him as likely to take (enemies of Hydra) and the surgical techiques and even technology he might develop. Again, for me, because the whole point of Project Insight was to identify then kill individuals before they could become…

The algorithm was described in such a way that I had the impression it could identify Strange as a threat to Hydra while he was still a practicing surgeon. That was the whole point: to identify then kill individuals who could be a problem before they became a problem. I won’t care what the timeline ultimately is, but…

A washing machine filled with ice makes an excellent back-up cooler in a pinch, too.

No, it doesn’t count. It was nice that Maurissa Tancharoen rightly cringed that they had done it twice, but it’s better still that they’re moving toward actual representation.

Lucy Lawless’ character was a member of the LGBT community, too. I remember one of the EPs remarking on how much she dreaded that AoS would become known as the series who kept killing off their queer characters before those characters could even come out as queer. Glad to see they’re figuring out how to fix that…

This actually made me happy the way ordinary house keys used as TARDIS keys made me happy. Little kids can pretty easily get a hold of a cheap pair of shades or an old key to put (safely) to use, and I know I loved having ‘real’ things like that to mix into my make-believe. It’s silly writing but excellent for…

I saw a very reasonable tweet informing JJ that if he screws this up, he will henceforth be known as Jar-Jar Abrams.

Ray using his suit to bring a recliner to a rooftop meeting would be the greatest use of the character. Not exaggerating.

I don’t know if you just explained how to give Superman a handjob but you definitely reminded me that one time I found a story where Lex used a Taser as a vibrator on Clark. Smallville, man, Smallville.

I think that was the original plan. DD was so unholy adored by everyone that the production and airing schedules for everything was shifted to accommodate a second series for DD. Rarely do we as an audience win on every possible level like that.

I love the image of the silhouettes of Jessica and some big guy behind the glass in the Alias Investigations door, and how it flows into the dude being thrown through the glass. So perfect.