I wouldn’t have thought it was possible to talk about three minute pop songs for twenty minutes and remain both relevant and interesting, but Todd in the Shadows does it every time:

Best of luck to Grimes in vanquishing her self.

And unbelievably, that’s just the shortlist of nicknames.

If you’re ready to be a hero but an outcast—Batman—then next time you’re on a crowded escalator, move to the “walking” side, and stand still.

I’m just hoping it’s not written in ochre by firelight.

Yep.

But corn has ears...

. . . I did not expect to type a headline today that included a scientific study . . .

Have a bunch of used razors lying around your bathroom?

It’s not easy to make a San Franciscan feel provincial, but that did it.

Obligatory Stephen Fry, on Diana Mitford, from QI season four episode four:

“Would you like to know more?”

NOT ENOUGH. I want a Jimmy Dean bock, a Bar-S stout, a Foster Farms Hefeweizen, and a Spam cream ale.

Yes. She offered to consume some of his time, without providing a reason he should give it to her.

But is this just a physical version of a hip youth minister?

Per Deborah Tannen, You Just Don’t Understand: turns out there are two basic strategies to express sympathy: “You don’t have a problem” (“At least you still have your other arm”) and “I’m like you” (“I know just how you feel; I broke a nail last week.”) You can screw up either one, and someone who’s kinda expecting…

With the hide feature toggled on your phone will add a black bar to the top of the screen so the front camera is no longer visible.

That still leaves me with, “What was so interesting about the water bottle?” I mean, I’ve had to try to get a mouse away from a house cat before...

Wilkerson’s mother distracted the big cat with her water bottle

Since the dawn of video games—and possibly even the dawn of man—human beings have been creating city-building games.