When a DJ plays out on your feelings, it's always a deep cut.

That's amazing! I'm going to keep my eye out for that now (ah ah ah ah ah). Also reminds me to consider an escape room with other friends. They started popping up like weeds around here a year or two ago.

A bit over a year ago, I took a return bus trip from SW Ontario to North Carolina. On the way back, the Greyhound dipped into Lexington KY for a stop. It was around midnight on a Monday, and the only thing that I could see happening in town was a fairly well-attended lightsaber duel in a parking lot. One makes…

What is "ghost minigolfing"? Is that a typo or a sport that I need to have started playing yesterday?

Though you might dance to their beat for a while, you'll never stay long with someone whose heart is a playlist. Just wait for the drop.

I ducked out the one time I was invited to one (bachelor party; I had the excuse of holding the fort at my place so that they could come back afterwards). As far as theoretically "fun" places go, I can't think of anywhere I would less like to be than a strip club. My only consolation would be getting quickly kicked…

That was the most interesting one, in a way, because of how much it left out. I want to know if and how LOVEME has worked this into his/her sex life. Seeing how it would work for masturbation is easy enough, but has he/she been able to get someone who was into roleplaying that particular scenario?

Got any inexpensive date ideas? Context: more of a friend vibe than a romantic vibe, taking place in an urban centre of just under 400,000. Limitations: no dinner or drinking (neither applies in this case), nothing that requires a car, not just going to the cafe and talking (we already do that), and pool, jigsaw…

The main reason that I give Herbert a lot of credit about stuff like this is that further thought pretty much always reveals an interesting way in which the stuff he wrote reflects on reality. Like, I'm just now ruminating on how the Bene Gesserit are the ninja master versions of historical Christian imperialists…

Now that's interesting. I remember interpreting this as a kid as his prescience getting linked up with genetic memory so that he could construct/reconstruct using the minds of everyone in his genetic line (I wasn't close to being able to express the idea even that clearly, though), but now I see that there's no real…

I wouldn't disagree that it was more concerned with the broader picture than the individual characters. It's sort of like a fake history/legend instead of a character-based novel. Like, I have a close friend to whom I would never suggest Dune precisely because she's more into characters than anything and she'd…

As I recall, Paul's prescience was characterized as being basically an impossibly precise ability to understand the odds of every single possibility at a given point. So it doesn't violate causality or anything; rather, it's just something people can already sort of do operating at an implausibly high level. Bene…

I have to question the "clumsily missing computers" line. The absence of computers was a key part of one of the overarching themes of the whole thing. If you figure that the stuff that happens in the book would be impossible or far less plausible without computers, then OK, but it's not like Herbert just forgot they…

He's the voice of the father in Inside Out.

I had a friend who's familiar with it with me when we watched Red Cliff, which helped greatly in sorting out the characters at the beginning (as there are a lot of them and they get into the action pretty much immediately). One of the best movies of its type that I've ever seen, really. Make sure that you see the…

It's hard to pick out songs from Trick of the Tail. It's really one of those albums that you may as well listen to in its entirety if you're going to listen to any of the songs. That said: "Robbery, assault, and battery" is probably the most fun vocal performance on the album and one of the livelier tracks in…

The only problem with that story, for me, was that Batman's eventual argument seemed instantly obvious to me from the beginning. Like, how could people live in the DC universe (you know, the one absolutely crawling with non-human heroes) and get so caught up in this seemingly near-universal condemnation? I guess the…

What's the classist angle? I don't know much about One Direction.

GENIUS!

If he can, sure. If he can't afford to do that, though, then there isn't much he can do but hit the road again. It sucks how little space the world affords people to deal with trauma.